Thanks for watching this series for so long. I hope you enjoyed watching it as much as I enjoyed making it!

Hey man I’ve enjoyed all 8 episodes. I know you said Vanilla was a good place to end the series but idk bout everyone else but I wanna hear about your adventures in TBC. I wanna hear about your first steps thru the portal and what your guild was up to and what you all did when you hit 70. Please keep the series going!

This is by far, my favorite series related to wow its sad to see it end : (

don't lie madseason, it was you that peed yourself! this was a great series though, gonna miss it

I remember playing in vanilla in the barrens, leveling my tauren Shaman with friends. We were at the crossroads when a huge alliance raid attacked the town. I was invited to a raid group to fight back even though I was level 12 or something. I felt like I got sucked into a battle as a citizen more or less -- I was weak! But I attacked the enemies anyway. There were so many people, way more than 40 on each side. It felt epic. I didn't get any kills but it was a great moment that showed me how things could suddenly turn. It really felt like anything could happen at any moment.

Back in Vanilla I reached Duskwood and went to explore the zone. I noticed that I’d uncovered everything apart from this blob near the middle. It took me a while and eventually I found a way in and uncovered Twilight Grove. I explored the place for a few minutes, seeing the trees and the strange big portal, but no mobs or quests to find, it felt weird. So I turned to go on my merry way and was shocked to see about 40 toons stomping into the place. They caught sight of me and lost their shit. Chat filled with these angry messages telling me to get out. I had no idea what I’d done to piss these people off, but not fully knowing the rules of the game i didn’t want to stick around in case they killed me (didn’t know that you couldn’t pvp same faction).

Just seeing "The End" almost made me cry :(

Funny how I haven't played for over 10 years but watched your memories videos with a big smile on my face. When I first started WoW it was like 2006 or 2007 but I didn't play on a real blizz server but rather a private server (as a high schooler, felt bad asking my parents to shell out 15$ a month for a subscription). I played with my friends on a private server and it was pretty hilarious, none of the bosses had any abilities so you could have like 15 ppl downing Ragnaros. One of my biggest memories (and regrets) was rolling need on this one Ragnaros shield that was great for tanking, which one of our warrior tanks had been waiting for months. As a dumbass 15 year old shaman, I thought hurr durr I can use shields too and that was like the first legendary drop that I'd seen that was actually something I could use. So I rolled need, got it, and then immediately felt bad because I realized that the warrior needed it more than me. He was nice about it, but I knew he was crushed since he had wanted it for months. So funny how many memories get born from even private servers that had barely half-working mechanics, and how intense everyone felt about the game). Still everyone loved the game and enjoyed the shit out of it, and we had some real rivalries with the horde on our server (back then I was a shaman and on our server totems didn't work and neither did dual-wield so I literally just ran around with an axe and world-pvp'd all day in Booty bay (we didn't have battlegrounds either, so world pvp was the only pvp we got). Still, I loved every second of it. Went off to college after a year, but I still missed WoW so much that in sophomore year, after a summer of getting some internship money, I finally got a legit subscription and played on a real server. Still have my character to this day, a lvl 80 mage named Aur. I forget the server. I never really got into raiding after I went legit, I think did Wrath naxx a few times, just remember wiping over and over again, so frustrating but yet so satisfying once we finally killed a boss. I don't think I ever ended up doing any more raids after wrath naxx, I think one of my only friends stopped playing at the time and so I stopped as well. Leveled up some alts, but then eventually real life took over and I quit cold turkey in January of 2009. 10 years later, watching your videos, I feel so much nostalgia hit me like waves and it's just crazy how much WoW still connects with my heart. As a teenager going through high school I loved online gaming, I was one of those gamers who could play solo or with a group, I didn't mind if none of my friends were on because I just loved playing the game so much, exploring, questing, pvping. I miss those days but I know I'll never get them back. I'm 30 now and it's pointless to jump back into this game. But watching these videos gives me a small sliver of satisfaction and happiness of a time long past when my life was much more chaotic and I was just a nerdy teenager trying to find a home in life, and certainly found it in the World of Warcraft for close to a year.

Enjoyed the series. Here’s to more memories in this summer! =)

I played "Warcraft - Orcs and Humans" back in the day and every since played all expansions of "old Warcraft", followed the storyline and play World of Warcraft since Patch 1.x (I think .5, but I am no sure). I share many of the memories you talk about in your videos. Thanks a lot for bringing them up again. :-)

I'm so sad that this is the last one you are making man. I really enjoyed listening to each video, maybe more than one time, while I played and raided. I hope to hear your monotone voice over some WoW content again. Seeing your channel pop up a few weeks back and hearing your knowledge and the feeling you put into each video was very touching. I didn't expect at around 15:25 to actually kind of tear up about you talking through your experience of this game. Thanks for making this series! It was great to listen to, and I really want to see your channel make more content. It was so genuinely nice to hear you reminisce over your experiences. Might have said this before but I await the notification that your channel has uploaded a new video.

For some reasons, my favorite WoW experience was my very first one. The whole Durotar quest lines, back in Vanilla, here's the story and my thought on it: At the time, I still had fresh memories of Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos & Frozen Throne. It was awesome games to me. I liked them, too much charm. And someday in the school bus, I noticed a lot of my friends were talking about World of Warcraft, I didn't know what it was at the time, probably the next part of the RTS game franchise, where you've got to defeat the Lich King, Kel'Thuzad, Kil'Jaeden.. that kind of stuff. It was getting really popular. So, one day, I went to see a friend of mine, and he was playing WoW, I remember him playing as a troll mage, somewhere in the Barrens. I watched the gameplay, and I immediately liked it. So, what was the next step for me ? Trying the game myself. At first I got a 20 day free-trial, that's what we used to have instead of today with no time limit. Level cap remained at 20 for free-trial. The game proposed me to chose my faction, and...my memories from Warcraft 3 forced me to chose the Horde faction, because Arthas was a jerk and Thrall was the best guy. I shared the values of the Horde, and started as an orc warrior. I saw the introduction cinematic for my race, listening to the narrator, and saw myself spawning in Durotar. I noticed that NPC with the yellow quest mark on its head. It was intuitive for me that it was a Quest giver NPC, because it worked the same in Warcraft 3. and so I started questing, and did what everyone knows: killing boars. It wasn't that bad, and not as easy as today. But it wasn't boring actually. Then I remembered the Quasit mobs and their cave (the blue imps in Durotar), then I went out of the valley through that wall that stopped me from seeing what was outside...and I saw the Sen'jin village, and the echo Isles. I liked the reference to Warcraft 3, with that stupid witch-doctor that does ludicrous stuff...I remember that awesome struggle against Zalazane and the other mobs surrounding him. It was an awesome challenge at the time for a beginner. Then there was razorhill (I thought it was Orgrimmar at the first sight)...the Tiragarde Dungeon quest line was interesting, the harpies and razormanes in the canyons... I liked all of that, but here's my best memory about that: Seeing the Dranosh'ar Barricade for the first time, the Wall of Orgrimmar in all its majesty. A massive structure, a symbol of the strenght of the Horde. I knew I made it to the Gate of Orgrimmar, finally I knew what I had in mind now, entering the city, and meeting Thrall, my favorite character at the time. So I went through the gate, and entered the first valley of Orgrimmar, with the old bank and auction house, the zeppelin tower, etc... and I saw the chatbox with people selling their stuff (I thought blue and purple stuff was impressive at the time) Also, I spoted in the chat that before everyone's nicknames, there was written "General", and I thought ""holy shit, tons of people are Generals, so there must be Officers and Soldiers... this game must be overpopulated then... Yes I was clueless at the time. Pardon me I was young at the time. But I liked that experience. Seeing all these fascinating players running everywhere, some with mounts and shiny magic stuff... I wanted to be like them, so I continued to play. I really felt rewarded once I reached Orgrimmar. Durotar was a really nice memory for me.

Ive been binge watching these this weekend, so this is perfect timing

What a journey it has been. Thanks for these videos. Still remember seeing the first episode in my recommended feed, and thus finding your channel. Thank you for the memories

Just finished the whole series, you are brilliant. Everything about it from edit, humour,narration absolutely superb. Congratulations:)

What a great story. I listened to this at work and kept smiling as your descriptions took me back to my years playing through vanilla. Seriously, great job.

Thank you for making these videos, been listening and watching these at work when I can. Very enjoyable, brings back memories of a simpler time in life

Thank you for making this series. This was a TON of fun to listen to, and the effort you put in to editing the videos is absolutely evident! Hearing all of your memories throughout this series definitely took me back to all of the great memories I've had from playing this game throughout the years. This series was nostalgic, memorable, and hilarious. I'm sad to see it end, but I can't wait to re-watch it all over again. You've created something amazing here! Thank you, MadSeason.

Thank you Madseason for that amazing and entertaining series. This is my favourite WoW-channel, your work is always excelent! :)

I'm very sad that these series ended... Thought u were going to do BC ones :(

Thanks for all your hard work. This is one of my favorite channels for WoW content.

Just finished and all I can say is WOW! That was genuinely the best series of videos I have watched. Thank you so much for sharing your story with us.

I love you for making this series.... and all your wow content honestly. i wish there was enough for 100 of these. I didn't play classic but started right at the end of bc. I only played with 1 friend at the time but once he quit I started meeting new ones and even got other friends to join me. I remember me and him playing like 3 days straight with only a couple naps. One of my favorite memories. We had no idea what was happening those few days before wotlk when zombies were running around everywhere. It was so chaotic and confusing for us considering we didn't know any lore and were still learning the basic mechanics. Man i miss those days so much. Being younger and more carefree certainly helped. Thanks for making these videos.

Just finished watching the series, awesome man! Loved it, made me remember so many different people I played with and adventures we shared. I can't wait for Classic. Please keep the nostalgia flowing ;)

I found this series today and binged it all the way in one sitting. I started with WoW a few days after TBC release, so i´m very interested in classic content, as i never saw it myself. That´s why i found your account, and this series in particular made me even more hyped for the classic release. Got to admit, i wasn´t far from tearing up at the end there. Keep up the great content, it´s a blast and a pleasure to watch your videos.

I'm gonna really miss this series. This was great man. I love hearing about Gaming History, especially from people who experienced it first hand. Experiencing it vicariously through your stories is the closest we can get to ever living through it. We may get WoW Classic, but there is inevitably going to be something different, or absent, from its initial launch.

Ive watched all these videos multiple times, they bring me back to a time where wow was magical and every zone really felt like a new chapter. I started a classic character on lights hope and had a fantastic time! Meeting people, exploring the old zones, taking my time with the zones and understanding all the places with high mob density was super interesting to look back on, who could forget dying 50 times a session hahahaha. Once I logged I was level fifteen with at least five friends who I played with for the entire day! I know you’ve done so much content on Vanilla mad but they’re by far my favorite series thank you!

Hands down your best series by far I enjoyed it so much I’m sad to see it be over for sure. I personally still play on private vanilla servers today and it’s because of your videos that made me wanna try it because I wasn’t even born when it all came out but I played retail so now I love vanilla more than I did retail because it you feel so relatable to what your putting in your videos and it’s truly amazing how a video game unites people. Thank you for this amazing series.❤️👍

Just bingewatched this series, god damn i loved every minute of it! Everything is so relateable, and i just found myself always smiling listening to what you had to say! great job dude, and thanks for sharing your story

I love your vids. I started playing WoW Feb. 3-4 2007, just missed the pre-patch, but I did the WotLK pre-patch. Holy crap.... the memories are flooding back. Thank Very Much for you doing what you do..!

Madseason just want you to know I’ve played WOW for like 20 minutes round my friends house back in like 2008. Never showed interest in playing it. But after stumbling across your channel it’s really made me want to play the game so I’ve saved up for a PC. Keep up the great content. Gonna miss this series.

Just got done watching your series. So many great memories from that era. I can’t wait to experience the game again in classic!

I'm definitely sorry to see this series end. I've really enjoyed looking back at classic/vanilla WoW as I spend a huge amount of time there. Thanks for posting these videos. Lots of good memories were brought back.

Man just got done binge watching your wow memories series and it really brings back some old memories of my own when I first started playing (although it was in tbc rather than vanilla) I still play my old blood elf warlock which was my first character I got to max level, to this day. Although much more casually ; ) thanks for these videos and I look forward to seeing more of your other content. I can't wait till classic wow releases so I can experience some of these things as well.

Absolutely my favorite wow series on youtube, and up there with my favourite series in general, you just keep making us all this awesome content and ill gobble up whatever you throw our way!

I quit playing wow back in roughly 2012, and I've just started watching your videos, thanks for the nostalgic value! Really enjoying them!

I know you said you were ending the series here at the end of vanilla but I really think you should continue it into BC. This series has made me remember my own experences in vanilla as I watched along - such as from this video with the farming all the pre-naxx rewards mostly from Azshara that I still have on the shaman I did them on. Even if you have less memories from BC to share and only release a couple of videos instead of 8 - I'm sure I'm not the only person who would love to hear more about them.

by far the best video series on KZfaq! Thanks for sharing your memories

2:20, love the music, FFX temples ;) I like your taste

As someone who played these same events, raids and such, it’s great nostalgia for me as well and why I enjoy your channel. Love all your videos

This series was amazing. Thank you for this. I listened to the whole thing in one run through while i cleaned my house. 😊

Loved this series - it was strangely captivating and evoked many of my own memories from this period. Well done sir!

Such a great, nostalgic and awesome series, as is your channel. Great to watch and prepare for launch of Classic.

just like vanilla wow, your vids are timeless, i keep finding myself coming back to these

I love your videos so much, i was there from when you grew so big over the few months, i just cant stop watching your videos :). Thanks so much for keeping your channel up!

Such an awesome series this has been, you have made me so curious about classic wow and ur videos help me a lot. and sure will come handy for when classic servers launches. Keep it up madseason, you are doing great things on this channel!

Such a good and nostalgic series, love it man. Gonna miss this one. Keep up with the good videos!

all 8 episodes were great, I really liked them. thank you for making and posting these :)

Thank you for this series, its been a nice trip down memory lane :)

This series brought back so many memories for me, thank you for making these videos.

This was an epic youtube series madseason! Probably the best youtube series I have ever seen! Cheers dude and thanks for sharing. :D

That was a beautiful and magnificent series. Thank you! It reminded me of so many wonderful memories.

It was a great experience to hear you tell your story, MadSeason. For those of us who share a common love for what Vanilla WoW once was, these stories have immeasurable value. It brought a tear to my eye to hear you conclude this series, but all things must pass. Thank you so much for sharing and all the work that you do.

Would be nice to see some "WoW memories: Special Edition" where you talk about memorable moments of the expansions. Jesus i'm so sad to see that series end, it has been a great warm up for building up my nostalgia for classic jajaja. Thanks for your content, Mad. I don't watch EVERY video you make, but when I do it I enjoy it till the last second of the video. As always, thumbs up and see you soon dear friend.

Thank you for this wonderful series Mad!

Thank you for sharing all of your vanilla experiences. This series was enthralling!

Just like all the good things, it had to end. Thank you for this amazing series, looking forward to the next ones. I think im going to do a marathon of the entire series now, and try not to let out a tear this time.

Great taking a walk down this road. I still go back and rewarch the "snowball" video hilarious buddy. Gonna miss this series.

Mad Season! Really enjoyed this series brother. You make some of the best wow content on KZfaq. Thanks for all you do for the community.

The whole series was so amazing dude. I enjoyed every second of it! And I have to say I love your voice man, its so calming. I think you´re the most underrated WoW content creator ever. (which makes me a little sad) Best wishes for you and your content in the future!

Actually made me tear up towards the end of the video, I feel literally blessed to be able and relate to all of this! A new adventure awaits even more people when classic finally rolls out!

Mad, what a brilliant season. I even broke off a few tears. Thank You for Sharing and May you be blessed.

Great series, I didn’t experience classic Wow but this is such a great documentary of you playing it and experiencing it. Thank you Madseason!

I really enjoy your videos. I have watched most of them and I appreciate your quality, wit, dedication, and attention to detail. Even my wife likes them and she never played WoW.

Damn I love listening to your stories man! Awesome work!

This has been a really fun series to watch my dude. Thanks for making it!

Thanks for all the memories. Really loved listening to your reminiscing about WoW :) Listening because unfortunately because I'm at work, but it made the day a lot nicer.

Great series, brought back a lot of good memories. Thank you. I miss the game, but most of all I miss all the amazing friends I played it with.

Absolutely excellent series! I just watched the whole series. I felt your pain when I went in wc not knowing I was a druid healer and doing damage instead....I deleted the toon as soon as I got called out for being a noob. I can not say again how much I lived this series in anticipation of classic. So many things I forgot that I'm looking forward to.

Best vanilla wow series on youtube. Totally enjoyed those! I think I may rewatch them all.

Aww I was looking forward to the BC videos because that’s where most of my earliest WoW memories were. But it was still a great video and series.

thanks for taking your time to share this with us! started to play in tbc but was pretty much terrible(procastinated ingame instead of lvling etc haha) and couldn't do some of the things that are not ingame anymore. keep going man your channel is amazing

Thank you for doing the videos!!! I too remember classic fondly and anxiously await the launch!!!

*cries* thanks for making this series, been a nice ride listening to it

Heck yeah! These videos have me so pumped for Classic! Thanks for the best WoW videos on KZfaq.

Great video man, love your stuff. Look forward to finding you in classic when it comes out!

Ahhh I can't wait for vanilla ... i am shaking. You had a such an awesome adventure through Classic. Thanks for the series, it was epic.

MadSeason, thank you for the wonderful video! Not making this up, my favorite thing is when I come back from work at 02:00 AM to find you release a new video and watch it when going to bed.

That FF7 Cry of the Planet remix was so good. Thanks for linking it in the description MadSeason. Love your content.

Hi Madseason! Was eagerly watching and waiting for this episode, after my guild actually cleared through the OldNaxx raid we kind of popped from massive fatigue and a lot of us left throughout BC with the biggest leave happening in Black Temple. As a result of my nostalgia I seek out and collect Naxx items on my new account. Thank you for this series, and thank you for sharing your memories with us!

Thanks for sharing all these memories bro. Appreciate it!

Good series man! Your voice is great for these stories! :D

Aw man so sad to see the series go, it was definitely my favourite! Awesome job, happy to listen to folk talk about WoW in its early days, especially when it's someone's own adventure in the game

I loved this series and I'm definitely sad to see it end. I got a bit misty eyed there at the end of the video. I was hoping you'd continue it, but I understand you feeling like this was a good place to end at!

I’ve shed more then a tear throughout this series. Thank you!

great videos, watched them all and they brought me back proper, cheers!

Found your channel recently. Really enjoyed this series! Sad to see it go.

Thank you for making this serie! Love the stuff you make

hi Mad Season, you were recommended to me by a friend and I love your videos very much, very helpful and informative. the memory ones have been most enjoyable. thankyou, keep up the great work:-)

I sadly started playing in cataclysm, so I missed all the really cool and more difficult aspects of wow. I loved this series and the views of how the world was different, and it makes me wish I was there during classic even more. Thank you Madseason, for getting me to feel included.

This series was so well done. Thank you so much for sharing it.

Hey Mad, i really wanna thank you for the series. Got me through tough times. Ive noticed people still wanna know about your tbc and later adventures. I know its a mess to make videos with this quality, but you could record like a podcast where you storytell all remaining adventures we yet have to learn from you. Greetings and a big hug from México

A great series thanks very much, with Classic now back this has helped me to remember all the fantastic Attunements/Resist farming/Raids we have ahead of us again. I for one can't wait! :)

I could listen to your stories for houres... so much nostalgia even if i did not play vanilla, started at the beginning of BC, but still so good memories.

Love the videos man! Thanks so much for helping me reflect back on my old vanilla days.

Really loved this!! Thanks for taking the time putting this together! Vanilla was really a great place and had some really fun times in it! Don’t miss the AQ-corpse runs though 🤷‍♂️

Your monotone voice is a clear and concise actually makes the videos enjoyable 😁 you've made me so motivated to level its unreal

This has been the most enjoyable series! Thank you!!!

Very nice. My main memories are similar to yours, raiding and exploring classic while it was still a new experience. My fondest memory was the first time some high level Paladin, level 60, took my little level 9 character from Stormwind, through Ironforge (and my first time in the tram), through loch modan and the wetlands at night (one of the first times I experienced night in the game). The wetlands was dangerous for me, but I loved it. Then we hopped on a boat to Darnassus, my first time seeing that blew me away. We ended up travelling further through the Barrens. For a low level character travelling with a level 60, which new players looked up to with their epic mounts etc... was something you didn't forget. I didn't raid as much at the time, got some easy gear and levels through PVP (and a Master Seargent rank). I did more raiding in WotLK actually where we had a blast, especially when they brought back Naxxramus which we cleared. ICC was awesome. I am looking forward to Classic again and I hope it is a huge success and spawns similar ideas. I know I have talked to newer players who also really want Classic as they never experienced it. But, it won't be the same as back then honestly, you can't bring back that feeling when the game was new, but hopefully some will grow to appreciate some of the systems back then. Sadly, the easiness of the game now may spoil any chance of that as players don't like the challenge and have grown used to having everything handed to them. I can see many rage quitting the first time they think they can gather up a group of murlocs and one shot them.... and they are the ones who end up getting one shotted. :)

With classic release coming soon I’ve been on a nostalgia binge. I’m old now, my adventures mostly long past me. I still think back to the best game I’ve ever played. Thanks for helping me remember.