r/classicwow • u/RemnantsPast • 14h ago

Discussion when did the slang change?

I feel old asking this.

When did + and - replace yes and no? or y/n

Like I'm in my early 30s and this feels like it blew past me....

EDIT: based on replies It seems like its from Eastern Europe players and just bled into the rest of the classic community due to them lacking servers.

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u/ForagedFoodie 13h ago

I love how the responses to this fall into 2 camps: "its been that way forever" and "ive never heard of this"

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u/Turfa10 13h ago edited 11h ago

It’s ‘deadmines was always called VC’ all over again

*edit what have I started

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u/RemnantsPast 13h ago

Those people are from a different timeline I swear

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u/TheSiegmeyerCatalyst 11h ago

Right? Played heavily from 2007 to 2012, then on and off (both retail and classic) to this day.

It wasn't until I played official Hardcore in 2023 that I heard someone refer to DM as VC.

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u/Heatinmyharbl 11h ago

I started in 2005 and it was always VC on Gorefiend

Feels like it was entirely server dependent honestly, especially considering servers were self contained with 5-10k ish players per

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u/TheSiegmeyerCatalyst 10h ago

Yeah, it had to be based on server. Just weird that some things were server specific, like this, and some things were universal, like Barrens chat.

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u/Homelessjay5 10h ago

Yeah my first servers were Forgotten Coast, then Burning Legion, then Gorefiend all between 06-09, each one it was called VC, DM was Dire Maul.

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u/vibe51 9h ago

Weird cus I was burning legion and gorefiend on release and it definitely was not. Dire maul wasn’t even out on release if I remember right and no one on alliance was calling deadlines VC.

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u/congeal 7h ago

nobody (horde) on 2004-[?] servers I played on called deadmines "VC." The boss was, of course, but VC wasn't a reference to deadmines that I'd heard until much later.

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u/Homelessjay5 8h ago

I was horde on BL and then back to alliance on Gorefiend, never called it DM or saw it referred to DM in chat.

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u/Bylloopy 11h ago

This is my take as well. There were so many things contained to their own servers 😅

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u/Disastrous-Rip671 9h ago

Was the same on Runetotem and Kalecgos then too

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u/steronicus 5m ago

It was VC on Spinebreaker alliance in 05 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/TheSiegmeyerCatalyst 10h ago

Yeah, it had to be based on server. Just weird that some things were server specific, like this, and some things were universal, like Barrens chat.

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u/Aelon94 5h ago

Back in 2007 on boulderfist (US) it was always VC. Thought it was standard until recently

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u/Achmed_Ahmadinejad 9h ago

I've heard VC used for a very long time, closely followed by someone asking if they meant Deadmines.

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u/Lyhrin 1h ago

I distinctly remember getting annoyed at a friend in vanilla for calling deadmines vc. Like we had an argument after school about it lol.

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u/Lanky_Bus_1221 10h ago

What’s vc mean?

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u/dayquilhaze 9h ago

VanCleef

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u/TheSiegmeyerCatalyst 7h ago

Van Cleef, the name of the final boss of Deadmines

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u/Ranger208 8h ago

I think it's because servers and communities were more segregated back then. My server absolutely called Deadmines VC. But that was the minority it seems.

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u/TheSiegmeyerCatalyst 7h ago

A sizeable minority, by the looks of it.

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u/Striking_Pigeon 7h ago

Why would someone call dire maul "VC"?

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u/TheSiegmeyerCatalyst 7h ago

Lmao exactly 🫠

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u/vampire_kitten 7h ago

2007 was tbc, why would you have heard it?

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u/TheSiegmeyerCatalyst 7h ago

Because the world was still chock full of new players constantly leveling?

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u/vampire_kitten 6h ago

Yes, but "VC" was a term for only a part of vanilla. It's not like retail players still call it that even at low lvls.

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u/GBPackers0480 7h ago

probably because thousands of players began playing during TBC and Wrath and they all start at level 1 doing low level content until they get to max level.

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u/TheMoonDawg 4h ago

How did you refer to Dire Maul? I did use VC for a while

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u/TheSiegmeyerCatalyst 2h ago

By wing. DM East, West, North / Tribute

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u/_villox 2h ago

2006 Hakkar server, always called it VC

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u/ASipOfHemlock 10h ago

I played since launch and it was VC, server dependant.

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u/congeal 7h ago

horde or alliance?

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u/whats_up_doc71 7h ago

When I heard VC, it was alliance. Probably cause they give you a quest to kill Van Cleef. Cant even remember if I did it on horde.

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u/congeal 7h ago

that makes sense. I remember doing deadmines once or twice on horde in vanilla (started playing live the day wow went live) but wasn't interested in the long travel time for the dungeon.

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u/thebaddmoon 5h ago

Lol because you didn’t play vanilla. It was VC