I remember the unliked auction houses. I remember going to Darnassus and being surprised how little items were on there compared to Stormwind.

Please never ever change your intro music. For some reason it brings me back 12 years and feel nostalgic. Not only that but your whole channel is amazing. You have an amazing voice to.

4:52 It's indeed very good thing

I remember separate auction houses too but I don't think I ever confirmed it for myself just heard everyone say it

Separate auction houses were in vanilla at the beginning, indeed!

There was also the Neutral Auction House in Tanaris, where both factions could post/bid. That did make it into the game for a good while.

This month's poll winner! I will try to do these once a month from now if I can.

6:38. My man with the ff9 main theme.

I remember hearing about plainsrunning in 2005 and the long-standing myth about it at the time was that Tauren players in beta would get on all four legs like Worgen and run around. Pretty amusing mental image.

you know MadSeasonShow your vids about the old world of warcraft make my day. So many great momories and things a I didn't even know. you are a great youtuber!

Patch History videos are the best! I spend a lot of time on reading the notes, but hearing it with actual video content can't beat that. Keep it up man!

One more thing about the rested experience system - I heard that back then, tired/exhausted xp was removed and replaced with normal xp just as a psychological measure. Players don't like to be punished for playing the game, so they still got the same amout of xp, but it was framed differently.

Haha, the rogue bit cracked me up. Awesome vid buddy. Keep up the good work.

Hey mate. Saying g’day from Australia. Something I want to say real quick. I’ve been dealing with depression for a while now and on my bad days these videos always give me an escape to something familiar. The way you discribe things, and the music and effort you put into your videos offer me a time to switch off and relax and remember some of my fondest memories from back in the day. These videos low-key keep me going on some of my hardest days. A massive thank you for the effort you put into producing these and sharing some of your memories. Please keep it up, it means a fair bit to me. Peace :)

So Mage and Warrior talents started being worked on first, not surprising.

4:53 lots of improvement to sex? What?

If I recall correctly shaman originally also used bucklers, but were upgraded to shields when they combined bucklers and shields removing them from rogues and hunters. Some of the quest rewards for shields at release still reflected notably lower defense for their level as a throwback to having been bucklers originally.

Love these blasts from the past and seeing how the game design started out. It was a learning process for everyone, clearly.

Dear madseason show. What i sure remember in the early days, there used to be a single AH per faction. IF for alliance and Org. For horde. Love your videos. You are by far my favourite streamer

I love the nintendo music playing in the background :3 Gr8 series by the way, loving it so far.

there was also an auction house for horde and alliance in gadgetzan

You could make good money trading between SW/IF to Darn, there were quest items and materials needed for that zone. However most people traded in SW, you could actually be a traveling merchant moving items between the city’s.

Keep up the awesome videos MadSeasonShow! You're my favorite WoW content creator.

That was a real thing back in vanilla in the early game for the Auction house. It was the same for the booty bay and tanaris auction houses as well.

It’s so interesting to see how the game evolved from its earliest stages to launch. I wonder if they knew how big it would get

Unlinked auction houses is how Ironforge became the main hub were everyone hung out. It was the most central place. And Darnasus AH became the place were you could instantly trade things to different characters. I remember a friend telling me he would troll the AH in Darnasus to try and nab something for 30 copper that someone was trying to give to another toon on the same account. He had some pretty amazing gear lol

I feel so heartbroken when I watch these video's... Was a player since the closed US beta until december'18. :(

When I watch youtube on my ipad in bed before going to sleep, your voice is making me sleepy and relaxed. Subscribed!

Jesus christ. I barely get time to skim-read the title of your freshest video before the tape is already rolling on my screen and that goosebumps-inducing intro hits me. I'm left with a mess in my underwear but I am relaxed, and happy. God bless this channel.

Another great video, as always - thanks MadSeason! Just a personal wish imma throw out there: I'd love if you made a 'Classic/Vanilla' video where you go over the looks and animations of each race and both genders, and maybe throw in some end gear for each spec! This would mean a lot to me since I'll have just one character and spend so many hours with it, and no one has made a video like this. But if you never read this comment I'll love you and your content as always, have a good one!

I remember Samantha swifthoof! I knew there was a roaming Tauren npc. She was like lvl 40

12:40 Oh man, the Zelda music instantly changed my mood to warm and fuzzy on the inside.

I remember that linked nonsense xD if you visit tge forum there is a thread on battlenet about things people ask for the upcoming legacy realms and the auction house unliked system is discussed in depth there, great video as always man you bring lots of nostalgia to hour work

I really enjoy this series. It's great background for the upcoming Classic, and I hope you will consider continuing processing patch notes up to whatever version we'll end up with. Sure we can read the patch notes, but it's so much added value to hear someone like you detailing interesting stuff, with your long history of the game and in-depth knowledge. :)

Just gonna say, I appreciate the Lon Lon Ranch music.

I'm excited that a GM item video is even possible down the road! Used to love testing those bad boys out on a throwaway emu server.

Oh my god i remember that Tauren Swifthoof character always being dead on the roads and i never knew why she was in the game since i never saw any quests for her. Nice learning something new every video :D

Best Patch

Love your content man

Huh. Today I learned that click to move is a feature . Thanks, MadSeason!

This is so informative... would really love an ongoing series :)

I remember the unlinked AH's from very early in Vanilla. It was changed pretty quickly afterwards. But thats what helped Ironforge become the major over Stormwind. SW was great, but its AH wasnt as massively populated as the IF one was. IF ended up sort of "sticking" as the main hub even after they linked them.

Absolutely loving this series. I'd say my favorite is tied between your history videos (including the memories series) and the arsenal series.

Ah that sap instance reminds me of when I was playing vanilla back then, one of my friend dedicated his whole free time just to level an ally night elf rogue in my server and following me around sapping me for pure troll fun. Good ol’ days

I LOVE the format of these videos man. Awesome stuff!

I love the cover of the mario 64 castle music in the beginning! Thanks madseason for yet another awesome video!

I am enjoying this, I'm glad you made it. I didn't know all of that back then. I didn't start playing til some time after BC came out

i miss your , Wow history series? why'd u stop on tbc , i would be glad to see you come back to it with wotlk

Just wanted to let u know that i really enjoy all of ur videos. U actually made me return to this great great game which is consuming all my free time again ;D Keep up the good work greetz from germany

6:39 A Place To Call Home!!! I love this theme! FF9 best game lol

I also distinctly remember there being unlinked auction houses in all major cities, because at some point in the middle of vanilla, I remember reading patch notes for linked, unified auction houses in all major cities. I even want to say that an old vanilla WoW podcast, Taverncast, talked about this in one of their earliest episodes.

Loving these videos. Kinda suprised that darned rogue didn't come by and sap you during your outro. (Would make a perfect running gag to these vids imho.) Darn rogues! Lol

OMG I was going to say the same damn thing about an auction house for each city. I KNOW this was the case. I remember it and I was surprised when you said they took it out before release. MANDELA EFFECT!?

Paused at 2:12 - I was confused when you said that they removed separate auction houses before full release because I too remember that they were separated for quite some time. I started playing in October of 2005 (EU). I remember being so happy to be playing a mage at that time and all of my friends were happy too because of the portals. (Having teleport to towns was actually the main reason I chose mage class as my main - I had a hunch traveling would take up a lot of playing time :) ).

The fact that you included a Legend of Zelda song in the background solidified my decision to subscribe and follow you. Absolutely beautiful content, as usual.

Why are your videos so entertaining, with the music, the editing, and your voice. Perfect

Love your content man, keep up the amazing work

Best WoW tuber along with Nixxiom, Pyromancer , Hirumaredx. The content you provide brings back so many great memories. Never stop Madseason!

6:40 "A place to return someday" - Final Fantasy IX. Beautiful song.

When you started talking about AH, the split AH poped right into my head! So I suppose for some time this was live in vanilla

I remember unlinked AHs as well. A patch or lag stopped it from working as intended . They hot fixed it during maintenance so no patch notes on it. Hot fixes at that time were only internally documented.

Your videos are the tops, well done keep them coming.

Click-to-move is how most botting worked back in the day...so I hear

Likin' the Legend of Zelda music in the background. :)

Love watching these old videos

These are fantastic videos. Keep it up - love the series.

Great stuff! Really brings me back!

Hey MadSeasonShow, you should check out a book called, The Art of Warcraft (2002) Its about warcraft 3, HOWEVER, the last 22 pages show concept art for the "upcoming World of Warcraft game". They show off the concept art for a few zones, npcs, and misc details. In fact, the Vykrul boats we see in Wotlk, already had the concept art made for it, before the original game came out! There are a few paragraphs about changing the artistic style from isometric to "first-person". Here is a little tidbit of the intro paragraph. "...But with World of Warcraft, Blizzard is finally creating that world for real, and letting their fans play and live in it -- not as gods, but as actual inhabitants of Azeroth." ....... "Blizzard is swooping down from that god-like perspective and plunging us into the hearth of Azeroth at eye level. No longer commanding troops from above. Now you get to be your own hero--an orc, human, or other creature and create your own legend with thousands of other warcraft fans and foes all around you." I think it would make a nice little video.

One note about the Eternal Quintessence that you get at Revered with Hydraxian Waterlords: They didn't actually implement it until Patch 1.11.0 (the Naxx patch). So all through BWL and AQ progression you'd still have to go out to Azshara for the normal consumable Aqual Quintessence every week.

I confirm the unlinked auction houses in vanilla! As a mage I travelled to Thunder Bluff to check! There was very little compared to Orgrimmar, but deals could be found.

As always, a pleasure MadSeason. See you next time.

1:14 "please please send tell me a tell" lol

How do you get such smooth scrolling with your videos? I'm trying to get a similar type of scroll in some of my videos, but when I'm recording myself playing the game for my video footage the movement is choppy. Not because of GPU limitations, but because the mouse movement is choppy. Is there a setting I'm not aware of? This is my favorite series by the way. Keep going with these. They're awesome.

That Mario music

I remember the different AH's as well. Clear as day, we used to talk about how useless the rest of the AH's were since everyone use the one in the capitol city. And I remember the day they combined them into a linked AH system, we were very excited about this, because you could now hang out in the more quiet cities. And this also populated places like under city, witch was until then quite barren.

I remember that in the South Park Warcraft episode, Randy also played a human hunter and the reason why I saying this is that it's quite ironic that his character also wore a shield.

So...it's been about a month since the last Patch video, just saying ;) Whether we get it next week or in April, I will be excited either way (but please don't make me wait that long lol). This is a great review for me. I remember watching the official website for months before release, imagining what class I would play, reading through the patch notes even though I wasn't in the beta. Then, one day, I saw that they were having their first open beta, so I signed up that very second. Only to spend almost 3 solid days downloading the game over dial-up lol! I made it to about level 12 on my beta Human Paladin, clearing out the entirety of Elwynn but getting stomped by the Harvest Golems in Westfall, loving every second of it. There was then only a day or so left in the beta so I rolled an Orc Warrior just to see a new zone and try a different class. Fortunately I logged back onto my Human just before going to bed, so I got to see a massive Infernal just wrecking everything in the open beta-pocalypse. I was hooked, no doubt. While BfA has gotten a bit stale and repetitive for me lately, I still sub every so often to catch up on the story. Classic will be the same for me I think, pretty casual, but I am so glad they are finally doing it. Thanks for all the Classic videos, yours are the best I have come across. There are far too many over-hype, scream casting KZfaqrs out there, so finding your relaxed and detailed content is a great breath of fresh air.

I aslo remember the unlinked AH's. I recall travelling between Ogrimmar and Undercity and they were vastly different

Always *quality* content here 👍

100% Can confirm Auction houses were unlinked in the early days. All the players ended up focusing on one city as the main one. Org for Horde and Ironforge for Alliance as a result of this. The other capital cities were ghost towns until they were linked. I almost want to say this was the case at launch itself.

4:30 I seem to recall that 1st re-spec was cheap, then got more expensive each time? Really enjoying the series.

100% remember the auction house thing, because bootybay was one of the only auction places that you could by horde or alliance items

I love the series. Since I'm a terribly late joiner (Legion), I'd love to see the history of every patch, including Classic, Burning Crusade and Wrath, when new zones, dungeons and raids were added and that stuff.

I remember the stranglethorn auction house from the goblin. I also think it could be used by horde and alliance.

Thanks for this. I played that version and brings back fun memories!

I remember the separate AHs too, so you arent alone in that

Separate auction houses were definitely a thing in vanilla. I also played Star Wars Galaxies, so I was kind of used to having to travel to get an item. I also don't remember exactly when they get connected, but I do remember being excited about it.

Never played WoW but i have seen many of these abilities and elements in Murloc. WoW looked very fun back then, maybe i will give it a try sometime.

Maybe you just travelled from Stormwind/Ironforge to BB for the neutral AH? I most definitely did that because people tended to post undervalued items on the (much less viewed) neutral AH. I remember getting a Titans flask for 2g on there (probably because someone mistook it for a Limited invulnerability potion with the same icon)

I got to r1 in this game by being a serious pvper. But that's not what initially made me enjoy the game. It wasn't serious 3s or hardcore raiding, it was actually the leveling experience and the social community; it made u feel living in a better world than the shitty one we irl. Thumbs up if u agree :P

There was also goblin auctionhouses in bootybay gadgetzan and other goblin towns so you could tranfer items from alliance to horde

i also remember traveling between cities checking the AH for different items, i was also 6 or 7 during vanilla so i cant remember if the AH's actually had different items, but i do remember checking the org AH then going over to TB to check things

Still kind of bummed out that they took bucklers away from Rogues and Hunters, would have been cool to see how that would have evolved. Great video once again MadSeason, looking forward to more. Thanks.

Great video Mad! These patch review vids are my favorite! What's your opinion on all of the layoffs at Blizzard yesterday?

I was a Wrath baby and still remember for some reason, that the auction houses had different stuff in them, because I had to go to Exodar, AND THEN find the damn AH, and that frustration I had looking for it, is very clear.

Oh boy, these funny little moments are so good. 6:00

God dangit I wanted to go to sleep now! Guess 15 Mins are ok. Greetings from Germany btw

I remember something about the Booty Bay AH being diffrent, because it was a neutral town's AH. Both Horde and Alliance could place items in there to be sold. And being so could not be attached to the other AH. Think I remember Booty Bay AH took a larger cut of the profits too if you did not have your rep up.

I remember the unlinked AH too! Darnassus had a very limited stock compared to IF.

wow this video is pretty cool. thanks for making it. :)