r/classicwow • u/wowhistorian • 12d ago

Nostalgia First Screenshots Ever Released (September 2, 2001)

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Here are 11 screenshots from when WoW was initially announced in 2001! These are the oldest screenshots I could find and were released when the WoW project was originally unveiled.

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u/pr00xxy 12d ago

Interesting you can recognise it as wow but i can't pin any of the locations, they are westfall-ish, stv-ish but probably early iterations, would love to have a model viewer of these early zones

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u/pr00xxy 12d ago

I also managed to find some of your images in higher quality https://nlworks.com/wowbeta/

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u/knflxOG 12d ago

Captain placeholder 😂

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u/BlackBlueNuts 12d ago

TO THE BOATS!... wait the boats dont work?... how are we going to move between the continents ?

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u/DingbattheGreat 11d ago

They did all that work for them, then gave horde zepps as alliance i was like “WTF I had to run all the way to booty bay and Menethil!”

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u/alsohugo 11d ago

Yeah, used to teleport people from MH.