Merry Christmas! Thank you for the gift of love you've shown me over the years. Trust me, this year I needed it!(I think we all did). Here's to putting this year behind us. and a happy and safe 2021 for everyone

Although he quit WoW I still enjoy all of MadSeason's content. Well presented, well edited and always entertaining.

Anyone notice how their tank is called "Teq" and the clip at 23:14 shows a lvl 1 warrior called "Teq".... was it destiny? :D

I started classic hoping i would be able to once again be part of a great guild that adds ppl to your afk friends list aswell as ingame. And i wasnt disapointed! Everyone i play with now is also 14ish years older than the friends i gained during vanilla. We are "old" but the atmosphere is as wholesome as it was last time. We even have the class clown, the moody raidleader and most other personalities represented again, even though almost none are the same ppl from back in the day. Classic has been all that i hoped it would be. One of my officer friends dressed up as santa for my kids yesterday. First time i see the guy IRL :).

Did he just "what the hell" to a shaman chain lightening crit after he showed his own Whirlwind 6k crit montage?

The biggest thing I can say about Classic is that it reminded me why WoW is my favorite game of all time, after numerous mediocre/bad expacs, I had started to forget why I ever liked the game to begin with. Classic's game design, class design, community, zones and quests and dungeons and raids, the challenge of leveling the first time and getting your regular and epic mounts, your first purple, it all really revitalized WoW for me and made me remember why I've been playing it all these years.

Don't be sad that it's over. Smile that it happened at all. The dice was rolled and what we got was the Vanilla game, it was as close as would be acceptable today, even laggy servers. However it came with a retail playerbase, streamers with their zoomer fans, a boomer pay to win mindset and addons for everything on day 1. The world has changed, the game has been solved, we all knew what to expect before it arrived, there was nothing new. Except the oldschool gameplay, something that has been forgotten about so much, from the RPG mechanics, insane grinds and forced socialisation, to some they are amazing good old days and others they are ancient relics of the past. But atleast we got to experience it one last time in an official setting, a moment that may never be recreated again by the WoW playerbase, 15 years after it all started.

8:00 God I feel old for remembering that.

I definitely feel like it was a success. So many experiences and great times people will remember for years to come.

I miss the weather and night being dark. would love too see storms and snow storms back in retail again. even if its just in bgs like arathia with snow.

It's been great watching your videos over the past year. I think you are the only streamer I can think of that plays the game in the original spirit as much as possible, and actually enjoys playing the game as much as I do. Thanks for making the content and hopefully I'll run into you on a no WB fresh server soon.

I very much enjoy your take on things :-) I certainly had a few happy months in wow classic!

Classic was honestly more fun than I even anticipated

“I blinked” aka grinded r14 and zoned out months on end lol

I felt really lucky falling into a group of friends that I made this past year. I always said I made every social decision correctly. Recently, my friend transferred realms for unknown reasons and it tore me up inside. He was the first person I connected with and formed a bond in a long time. Seeing him leave made me really sad. We're still friends on discord and battle net but it's just not the same. I hope that he comes back for TBC.

flame me for this if you like.. people claimed to want vanilla wow, and the community turned it into retail wow. the amount of macros, add ons, and WEAKAURAS used in wow classic grosses me out. it has became a parsing simulator.

I dropped everything to watch this immediately. Love you, monotone god

This seems so silly to say but at this moment, I can't really imagine my life not ever having WoW classic in it in some way. I love levelling, however tedious it can be to some. I enjoy doing the dungeons over and over again with my friends. WoW Classic was/is a great game to me and always will be. I have yet to find a game that can hook me like this. Thanks for the great video! Always a joy to watch

The people shitting on Classic difficulty are the same ones who barely ever clear anything than LFR and normal raids in retail. Classic is not difficult in the sense of mechanics, but rather having a core raid team of 40 people show up every single week, consume out of their asshole and grab all necessary buffs. The difficulty in Classic is the fact that it takes a huge amount of people to be as passionate about the game as yourself, show up and know what to do and actually consume. This wasn't the case for previous tier raids and a lot of people have been carried all the way through to Naxxramas, that is why you see guilds disbanding all over the place right now too. In retail the raid mechanics are harder (for heroic raids+), but you don't have to do anything else than just be there with 20 other people and know the tactics. That's about all the effort you have to put in. As long as you know the mechanics, you will clear the content. I'd love to see a retail andy try to grab 39 other people for a Naxx raid, attune to Naxx, have to farm enough consumables for their entire 40 man raid, grab world buffs, and know every single mechanic, e.g. making sure to have 8 fucking tanks and offtanks for a specific boss and actually having EVERYONE use consumables on a lot of fights and clear it in the first week. It won't happen, because retail andys are not gonna put in so much effort into clearing content because they're used to just leaving when things don't go well and just re-queueing because their actions have 0 consequence. That's the difference. Classic is difficult in a entirely different way.

From a monetary aspect: Yes! Nostalgia: Yes. Fun: Yes. Community: Oh hell no.

Great to see you still remember even the small things like fighting through Stonewatch Keep in Redridge. That's what classic is all about. Hope to see you again in Outland. Keep doing what you do!

Never found a group that I clicked with or that didn’t break up. As a first time player I enjoyed the solo content and dungeons. Problem is after a certain point your experience depends on other people.

Loved every minute of classic. Tried retail for a minute but after two weeks of the maw and world quests, I came back for naxx and I’m already leveling another alt. Best mmo ever.

I'm looking at getting back into playing WoW and WoW Classic and I thought that I would watch your video about it. I got into WoW back in 2005 and enjoyed it. I really enjoyed the grind to lvel up and get the skills and gold that I needed to my Dwarf Hunter. This is what I really missed from the game.

After all is said and done, Classic WoW made me fall in love with this channel... success!

I don’t know if maybe I lost my soul to classic but I have a very hard time listening to “classic is over” talk. This game has been such a big deal for me that thinking of it ending makes me cringe. Thinking back to the first few months makes me wanna weep with how much fun this was. It was scuffed sure but i loved it all the same.

I feel so sad how someone's life is so miserable that you need to be so toxic to a person like Madseason, he is one of the chillest streamer

So I started with classic when I decided like a year ago to play wow .... and I bought shadow lands for Christmas and .... it feels very wrong I feel to op versus mobs and I can very easily pull 4 mobs at a time even at lvl 3/4 ... the items are at time useless and I played for a whole day without any item on and It was almost no difference ( I'm lvl 20 so IDK if it will switch later on ) the talent tree is gone :( the trainers have no point since you learn skills at lvl up and it makes no sense ,things like leather-working or skinning feel useless and don't really give me any reason to actually do them ( for now ) .... yes classic is at times unforgiving but it's so rewarding ... I shit you not I spent 3 hours in stormwind making guns and bullets for like 7 hunters and I had a blast

Great video Madseason, you’re a god damn light in a year of darkness.

I'm making a note here: "HUGE SUCCESS"

Classic has been one of the greatest gaming experiences of my life. From getting to compete in dueling tournaments, getting to experience what ranking is like to raiding with the boys to even meeting some of the guild IRL at Blizzcon. These are some memories I'll cherish for a very long time. Big thanks to you, Esfand, and the rest of the Crusade boys for making my time in classic more than amazing

Watching again a year later, being new to WoW for classic launch was incredible. Some of the best memories, this game is something special… way ahead of it’s time

Thanks for being a part of why Classic was great.

i started wow with 2019 classic and this game literly change my mind about mmos big time

MadSeason ... how nice to see your videos again after a year or so of not playing WoW. I got lost in the narrative and lost energy to continue with WoW sometime in the fall of 2018. Each month I would think I'm almost ready to dive back in, but honestly the story lines have lost me, I think. I won Invincible as a mount not long before I quit playing so I need to get back in there to enjoy my prize, but I'm finding difficulty finding the resolve to deal with all the STUFF. Maybe I can just free-roam a while. Ah, anyhow thanks for the video.

I leveled a Rogue to endgame, something I had never done before. Was very fun. Made Field Marshall in Vanilla and ran out of time for GM as i helped a gnome rogue friend make GM that last week. Vanilla and Classic are like that, community was so much more of the game than it is now. Sad to watch this now knowing you will leave WoW in less than a year. Such good content.

Even if it wasn't as great as we remembered. It still brought happiness to thousands of people to even get a chance to experience a sliver of what we once knew.

I just want fresh servers SO BAD, the classic launch was the most fun I think I've ever had in gaming

Was very glad got to pvp with ya such a awesome KZfaqr absolutely a pillar of wow thank you for your great videos.

Nice video dude. I'm just now getting back into WoW after 10 years for TBC, so I have been consuming a ton of content to get myself back in. Youre my favorite non-lore content creator.

Launch was fantastic and the leveling experience was a blast (warrior at launch, so I had the worst experience). I thoroughly enjoyed raiding, I joined a Guild that wasn't too serious but still challenged the top spot on my realm (we had the fastest cleared BWL time on our server at launch). I enjoyed raiding up until BWL, when the age of the game really started to show. I quit playing entirely not long after BWL, but I feel I got my full worth out of the game up until that point. I was one of the first to hit 60 on my server, one of the first Blacksmiths to complete their Armoursmithing quest lines, one of the first to complete Molten Core and I fought in Hillsbrad when World Pvp first released. I tanked dungeons and raids, I saved our Guild more times than I can count from wiping on Ragnaros and Netharion (might have made a typo) and I loved every second of tanking. I was reliable and thorough in my job, and if I might toot my own horn I was a bloody great tank on my server. I achieved what I set out to achieve on a game that I played when I was a child (I played vanilla, after the Gates had opened but before TBC launched) and I had so much fun. I really hope the next step is Classic TBC, as TBC was when I was old enough to really flourish at PC Games independently, and I have so many beautiful memories. I hope everyone has a lovely Christmas, and I hope you all have a wonderful new year. Fingers crossed we're done away with this Corona Virus by early next year.

A bit version of Dido "Thank you"? Wow, that's really time traveling! Back to 2000s!

So many ups and downs trying to find a guild that works for "me" and doesn't break up. off and on guild drama over loot, personalities that dont click, poor leadership. I went through a handful of prominent guilds on Deviant Delight. The guild im in is doing good now but a part of the MMORPG process is change, I'm sure something will happen and we'll evolve again. I was fortunate enough to meet a core team of 5 or so that i've stuck with for over a year now. As someone who played back in pre-BC, I can honestly say, so much of WoW Classic really has captured the original. Its such a broad, fun topic to nerd out over. Cheers to my fellow Neck-Beards!

Somehow I like stuff about Classic/Vanilla coming from fellow WoW players in their thirties the most. I always feel so disconnected when, for example, someone in their video goes like: "Back in 2005, when I was 7 years old..." These younger people must have had a completely different experience than I had back in 2005 when I was 19. Same probably goes for older people, but I very rarely come across those for some sarcastically mysterious reason. Also, those sweet '90s references coming from the now-thirty-something-year-olds just make me happy.

Great video, thanks. I love Classic and, given that it remains available, I will always play it. For me, Classic is the closest version that there is to Vanilla, which was the greatest video game ever made. If Bliz release fresh servers, then there are some changes which I would like: Disable all world buffs in raid instances, fix all 'smart' kiting paths and hiding spots in instances (or similar) to end the boosting culture, and increase raid boss damage a bit.

If EverQuest's "Classic Progression Servers" provide any evidence, then Blizzard will periodically release "Fresh Classic Servers" and millions of people will come flooding back every time to - not to mention the mostly-inevitable TBC and/or WOTLK servers which will also bring millions back.

My only complaint was blizzard not investing in the game. No GM interaction. Bots allowed for days on end. Gold sellers obviously practicing their trade with no concern of being caught. Great summary, happy new year.

The wave of calmness over me when I hear the intro is just.. Awesome feeling. Merry xmas Madseason!

I knew my girl was hooked when I caught her walking through sw park alone early one morning just to listen to the music.

"what role are you?" "Yes" Modern RPG 😂

Hey.. I'm that warrior "Strength" near the end =) was fun playing with you! Glad we could get you HOJ, I got mine like 9 months later LOL

As someone who is relatively new to WoW(only been playing since march ) its always dope seeing og players talk about the state of the game. I watched WoW grow around me through my teens and now being a part of something this big is amazing, but hearing the og's talk about classic makes me know how much ive missed out on by not diving in back in the day. looking forward to the next video dude.

I’m going to be bothered by that “female availability” spreadsheet for awhile...but man, an anecdote like that is pretty priceless. Great synopsis.

Before classic: wow Madseason never curses After classic: nevermind lol

I really wanted to enjoy classic, I find I enjoy it way more than retail, but after I fell into a toxic group it really threw a wet towel on the whole experience. Now classic is basically over, I am really bummed I missed out. I just could not find the right people for me and life kept getting in the way. Maybe I will do better in BC, maybe it is time to hang up my cloak and pointy hat and call it quits for good. Thanks Mad for always putting out the awesome content, hope you have an awesome 2021.

Your videos have been a joy. I saw your vids for the first time in the build up to classic and they helped stir up all the great memories I had from classic wow.

I'd say mixed success. Great start, good community at first but then modern players acted like modern players, min/maxing the fun out of it. Boosting, world buffs, no one questing, no one wanting to group up, I felt more alone than I did on retail.

"What role are you?" "Yes!" lol

I played on Hydraxian Waterlords, an RP server, even though I ever did any RP. The vibe there was so much more relaxed than on the regular servers - the spellcleave dungeon grouping and reported inability to find groups as certain classes due to inefficiency simply never happened. I was a boomkin all the way to 60, and even got to raid all the way through MC and BWL before the game lost my interest. It was a wonderful experience and I don't think I'll ever forget going through Darkshore with a rando in the early days of the server and rescuing poor Warriors who were having a hard time questing alone. I'm incredibly excited for TBClassic - it's a long journey I want to start again. :D

Hardcore is reviving Vanilla like madness right now. Bloodsail Bucaneers was so crowded last night that there were some lag spikes. Not wanting to die, everyone took to chatting in the inns. Must have been 50 people in the Xroads inn. Wonderful experience!!

I know I'm being a wuss, but I'm actually getting teary eyed watching this. Feels like the end of summer camp. Thx guys for the memories and fun.

I consider it a success just for the fact that alone that it brought me back to WoW in general. I started Classic in September of 2019, and slowly migrated to becoming a full Retail Randy by late December last year.

I have to thanks you Mad. When classic released, I didn't play because I wasn't attracted but one day I discovered your channel and I have watch all videos about classic and I finally played it. But even with your videos I was lost most of the time and I think I really experienced the classic experience and I loved it. Thank you, playing classic was one of my best experience in mmo. I'm french but your video are so easily understandable and useful. Merry Christmas and I hope you the best for 2021

As someone who started during the beginning of TBC /WOTLK around 08 , playing classic relaunch in 2019 was the most fun I’ve ever had in a gaming experience in my life, that inckudes, GTA, Saints row, Madden, super smash bros, RuneScape, zoo tycoon, command and conquer and many many many more. I had the pleasure of joining up with a PvP guild on discord more than 2 months before release and following them all the way through TBC classic with nearly 200 days played on only 2 toons. ( sad I know). But between the raiding, the world pvp, the attunements, etc, like I said.. what an experience.. and with the amount of people who came with it right when it launched with the surrounding hype.. we will never have something like that ever again.. really a nerdy moment to cherish ❤

the YTMND shout out -- A man of my own tribe.

I would actually enjoy going fresh classic with raids being tougher and after then having naxx for a while like we do now get a TBC release. Classic went by so fast with guilds clearing raids TOO QUICK

I love this channel. Havent played wow in a long time. But now and then I check your videos, it is enjoyable.

When i was a kid i didn't have money or a pc to play wow, later i could but i had so many responsibilities that playing wow wasn't an option. Merry Christmas and happy new year to you madseason cause even though i never played wow your videos and some from other creators have kept the desire to play wow alive through all these years. Now i have finally started playing

I enjoyed leveling up and doing the pvp grind again. Got Rank 13 on my warrior way back then and 13 this time as well. Felt like a bigger accomplishment this time being over the age of 40 and going solo. The PVE? Meh, I never came back cause I wanted to clear Naxx. But did I want to get a BRE and smash faces in AB again with 3 procs up on the sword? Heck yeah! Success in my book!

They need to invest in GMs and fix the botting and cheating.

Great video Madseason! I'm definitely thankful that I have had Classic to play during the mess that has been 2020.

I don't play WoW but your videos are great for the MMO experience in general, the way you talk about it reminds me of my first proper MMORPG expierences, and the knowledge you impart is very digestible and interesting for non WoW players. Plus you've got a cool monotone voice

that ytmnd brought me back lmao. Kinda suprised u didn't mention the leeway and batching

The ever present countdown that has plagued games is one of the most frustrating "modern" "features"

I started playing classic recently and its bringing back so many fun memories about leveling and raiding in vanilla wow. I had to quit the game in 08 because I went back to school, so its like another chance to experience WOTLK. I'm having a blast experiencing the game again, 15 years later!

Don't blink too much. Miss you're WoW vids man, really do. Hope you're doing well 🫶

even though ive been watching madseasons since well before classic, watching his videos was the best part of classic for me

Awesome, as always. I'm looking forward to BC.

Hey man. Just went back to Vanilla playing HardCore. You die = delete. It's amazingly fun, it really took me back to 2005. You can't trade ppl, you can't use AH, you can only do each dungeon once (while leveling up), you cannot ask for help. And we all go through it. Watch the HC deaths, it really is amazing.

Took way too much time. Everything up to Naxx was far too easy. Totally unbalanced. Loved every second of it.

I just love watching your videos about classic. I’m a Retail player and because I never played Classic I don’t think I would get used to it. So it’s nice watching you talk about it.

They need to do Classic+. I have too many ideas to list off so I won't go on a rant and list 'em and just say that I think Madseason always hits the nail on the head with talking about how the game is played via community and building relationships. I have my fondest memories of WoW when it was me and the homies playing the night before and coming into high school the next day to talk about some epic battle we had against horde or that Mara run seeing Princess for the first time. I think it still has that magic if done right.

Great video as always, crazy classic has been out for 1.5 years, feels like just yesterday I was looking up warrior levelling guides

what we really need is classic blizzard

Classic has been probably my favorite gaming experience ever and ive been an avid gamer for 25 years. Theres just so much to love about this glorious, broken game. Playing shadowlands really bring it home to me how much more i prefer classic. Its a goddamn timeless work of art.

I feel like MSS has some of the most agreeable opinions on Classic. I really hope Blizz Devs end up watching this video (as well as his others regarding TBC) and take these points of view into consideration. I'm one of the ones that fell in the middle on my Classic experience. Had a guild for a while, but eventually it disbanded (not loot drama related), met some cool people, met some horribly pathetic people, and made my eyes bleed grinding characters to 60. Always a pleasure watching your videos to remind me of the good times though, sir. Looking forward to the next one from my favorite Monotone Madman

And here we are in mid-2023. Classic WoW is crazy active and with a super-vibrant community. I love it!

I stopped playing when Blizzard decided to abandon my server.

I literally dropped my phone when this notification came up!

I've played WoW classic since September'2019. It was my first wow experience. Game was new to me, so i just tried different classes, different builds, both fractions, PvP, quests and stuff. Unfortunately i have no success in raids, just because i didn't know what to do, which way i should go and how to make a progress. I was just interested in different classes mechanics, exploring and getting better. In less than a year time period my realm became empty and i not even tried to kill Onyxia, never had a chance because of the dead realm. Only a couple times on Zul Gurub as a combat rogue gave me some feeling of mmo spirit. About a month ago I've created a new character for horde on a high pop realm and I'm still like to play the game with my friends, even when i understand that train is gone i always find something to do and enjoy my quarantine time. Thanks to you Madseason for your videos, good luck on TBC.

Hadn't touched WoW in a long, long time, but Classic brought me back. Didn't get to do much end game content, and certainly didn't spend the time I did the first time around, but I enjoyed seeing instances one more time, doing AV a few times although it was completely lopsided, having to interact to do quests, and all the profession leveling. Did a few things I somehow never did the first time around despite investing roughly 20 times more time. I really wish they would add new classic content with new quests, zones, starting areas etc. Not sure I will stay for TBC, but glad I got the chance to Classic one more time in a much more balanced way.

Ended my career a few days ago. We got our KT kill. But, honestly, since AQ opening it wasn't really fun anymore. I felt like i was too deep inside already to quit before Naxx. By this moment I sold everything that was on my bank if we keep our characters for TBC. Speedrun raiding was quite some fun but really after all with the min max meta it was mindnumbening. Getting WBs to complain about the content to be cleared so quick. I dont expect TBC to be hard either but i enjoyed the pvp way more. Looking forward to some kind-of casual pvp with TBC. Not sure about raiding every ID again. I dont think the time investment equals the joy it brings.

I ran in to you a few times during my own rank grind, won some and lost some, great games. love classic I doubt you remember me across all the horde you played against, but I was an undead priest on whitemane named Shinzalah

I don't usually comment but that intercept to avoid the mind control cheese got me hype as a warrior. Love the content Madseason

My guild had our hand of rag mats stolen and it went viral. After our reform and our new hand of rag, it eventually became awesome to have been part of history

I'm glad classic exists such that if I get tired of current I can always hop over to classic. Modern is superior to classic in many infinite ways, but classic does have the social aspect down to a science. You need friends and guild to get anywhere remotely powerful in classic.

I only just started playing again a little before shadowlands came out and played that for a bit but got bored. Decided to start playing classic and I'm having a blast, never thought I would have this much fun playing classic.

WoW Classic was the best WoW experience I ever had. I joined a guild and now I consider them all my legit friends

Happy to have you stay this monotone for 'ver Mad. See you in BC. Me, Shadowlands was a fun romp for 30 days, off-and-on, see the story, get a sense of the NPCs and the world. But BC ... that's altogether a different story.

This just makes me depressed... seeing how much the game has changed (for the worse). I really wish Blizz could see just how much they have butchered their product.