Just before the release of WoW Classic, some longtime fans exchanged ideas in the forum. Their plan: Songs from the year they were taken to Azeroth by their favorite game. Dozens of players participated with hundreds of posts.
What kind of thread is this? User Bitterleaf created a thread in the official forum of World of Warcraft shortly before the launch of WoW Classic on the night of August 26 to 27. Nostalgically, he posted a song from 2005 – the release year of World of Warcraft.
This is how well the idea was received: Some players initially approached the idea with skepticism. User Thêbe writes:
If you had said 90s/80s, I would have enough to post, but the 2000s have pretty much passed me by.
Presumably, many of the original Classic players grew up with music from the 90s or earlier. Nevertheless, a surprisingly large number of titles came together that sweetened the release of Vanilla WoW in 2005 for players.
So far, a total of 213 posts have been made (as of August 27 at 5:50 PM). Even the German community manager Toschayju participated with his 10-hour version of “Live to Win”.
Hype for WoW Classic with Metal, Rock, Pop, and more
These songs were shared: The songs that fans have literally thrown around there cover a wide range of different directions. Old metal and rock songs were particularly frequently shared, such as those by Motörhead, System of a Down, Green Day, Soil, or the Bloodhound Gang:
But pop songs like those by the Gorillaz or Sarah Connor, and even German songs, succeed in igniting the nostalgia of fans. Bands like Fettes Brot and Söhne Mannheims, as well as fun groups like JBO and Knorkator, are mentioned here.
Lastly, of course, the songs and videos that only came about because of WoW cannot be missing. Songs that are simply accompanied by WoW gameplay as a video, but also “classics” like The Internet is for Porn and songs by the legendary German WoW songwriter Jan Hegenberg:
Many fans – and certainly our author Benedict – were probably drawn even more strongly into nostalgia by these old songs than WoW Classic already manages to do. What about you? Which songs accompanied you back in 2005?
The songs are still a good way to shorten the eternal waiting times in the game when our tips aren’t enough:
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