Vanilla wow was fantastic. Lots of world pvp, invasions, pvp hotspots in a variety of level ranges, etc. itemization hadn't gotten a chance to ruin the game yet.
MC killed it for me. Trying to get 40 assholes to cooperate for that many hours just to have better pixels was bullshit. quit around that time period, but beta and early vanilla was a blast.
I played so emus afterwards, but they always ended up being shitshows with overt hacking and painful arena grinds... After your 3rd 20min+ arena match its hard to queue up another and play the "don't make mistakes and catch the other guy with his pants down" healer fest.
BGs were awesome at first too, until you realized how much it killed world pvp, and ultimately got plagued by pop numbers... You either sat in queue for hours or could insta-queue into losing fights because of how imba the servers were.
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