VIDEO
! A young newbie in 2001 starting out on the game.
Soon later sometime in 2002 I tried installing Diablo II after a lot of my old clan mates left the game and made the switch. That computer in the video was saying not enough room, newbie me deleted some files and the computer would never load Warcraft 2 again.
I started playing on a new computer my dad bought when I went to his house every other weekend. Every time I saw more of my friends on the game disappear and noticed the free castles community which use to be the majority of games was being replaced by paintball players.
2004 I started going to my local library and sneaking the war2 install onto their computers by saving the file under a different path. Then my dad later moved back with my mom for a short time, he brought the computer with him. When he left again he left the computer for me. (My dad shortly played as x-DW-x)Raven( he was more into campaign though)
By this time with more access to the computer I was making it a mission to grow the game. I had started recruiting heavily and the USWest server was full of players under DW tag, and DW labeled maps being hosted.
By 2005 I joined the War2Occult forums, and hit my peak on castles where I was playing at a insane level. It was on the Occult where I began researching old threads and learning about some of the history of players and the game. It fascinated me. I switched from Castles to begin learning the built in maps, something I had been very vocal against before. I also switched from hosting castles tournaments, to making these types as well. Then ArchAngel gave me a spot on the IGL when he decided to take a break, where Blid also came on board and we managed it pretty successful to get a nice chunk of players actually being involved.
|League stats: 341 members (127 active in past 3 weeks), 4323 matches played by current members|
Finally in 2006 I contacted Ldir and he got the war2.ru english version up and running with my partner Blid on board as well. Only 5 years after the video of this young boy in the battle.net chat. I grew up with this community and feel like I continue to mature and learn to this day. I have met a lot of great friends on here, and lost a couple too.
Merry Christmas to you all, and here is to a Happy New Year!
Hope to see you all Jan 1st, 3pm est time at the KOTH 2vs2 Tournament.
