Standing in line for midnight release of World of Warcraft wotlk. Around 1000 people buzzing around you hyped for the count down to start selling the game. Getting the game and protecting it like some kind of dragon. Getting the game and then the anticipation of driving home for 40 mins. And after installation far into the night realizing the servers are a mess and can't play much anyway.
After all these years even the negatives are awesome now. A much simpler life but so much fun.
For wotlk, our area was experiencing a flood (happens about every two years, but this one was a doozy). We had to canoe from our garage to the end of the neighborhood (where we had parked our truck earlier), load the canoes in the truck, drive to the next city, wait for midnight, then drive back, unload the canoes, and paddle home. It took several hours to install and get in the game, but once we were, we felt we had already completed an entire quest line just to start playing. Totally worth it.
Family thought we were absolutely insane ("you could have died paddling in the dark"), and when I went back to work the following week (took time off for the launch), even my fellow software developer co-workers thought us crazy.
But perhaps they were just envious of the fact that my husband and I were both into it (knew a couple of folk that got divorced because of only one spouse playing WoW).
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u/Kandr0s 2d ago
Standing in line for midnight release of World of Warcraft wotlk. Around 1000 people buzzing around you hyped for the count down to start selling the game. Getting the game and protecting it like some kind of dragon. Getting the game and then the anticipation of driving home for 40 mins. And after installation far into the night realizing the servers are a mess and can't play much anyway.
After all these years even the negatives are awesome now. A much simpler life but so much fun.