by Daniel Owens

Created on: May 27, 2009   Last Updated: June 03, 2009

When World Of Warcraft first launched I was a skeptic, I had played and loved every Warcraft game that came out in the RTS series. I knew what the game was all about but had no interest to ever play the game, I had never played an mmo and the idea of paying for a monthly fee disgusted me. One of the programmers at my old work that I had the luck of sitting in front of would talk all day while we worked about how awesome WoW is and how I should play. I always responded with remarks such as, "Yay updated content, I can play forever and never experience that feeling of accomplishment for finishing a game again!"

His response was just to tell me more perks and how much there was to do and explore. A week later though, I found myself curious about the game more and more. I read up online about the game and it seemed like the RPG's I had fell in love with, but with an ongoing story. A series of games rolled into one nifty client. I had known this all along but changing my whole perspective that progressing through content was your sense of achievement and that it really was something worth trying.

I went out the next day and bought a copy, it was about 3 months since the release of World of Warcraft and I was just freshly starting. I decided to roll a Night Elf Rogue. Logging in my jaw dropped, I looked at the environment around me and just awed at it. I thought to myself, if the starting zone is this great, imagine what the rest of the areas are going to be like! I accepted my first quest, played around with the UI, and was just amazed at how well they had put together their game. I hadn't even attacked anything yet and I'm already playing my dream game.

Five minutes later I was level 3 and thought I was levelling extremely fast, thinking I was so great at this game. Starting to learn more and more, I was fascinated by everything. I levelled through, doing every quest I could find and exploring every area I could find. Grouping with players was a great experience, doing the lowbie quests was a social event like no other. Meeting so many other players just starting out and discussing the game, sharing tips. Everyone was extremely helpful toward one another.

I met a ton of people and would log in to several tells greeting me each day, people telling me great things they found or wanting to do some more quests together. I was really enjoying myself. I started an alt, a Night Elf Hunter. I remember one friend as soon as I hit level 10 wanted to take me to get the

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