that’s only because we had an organized server that had a list of who was next in line to get HWL

Honestly, I loved that kind of meta gaming, all the backdoor deals, even across factions. The drama when some group wouldn’t honour the list or agreements (Been on both sides of it).

I made rank 13, luckily I already had a better weapon from raiding, so I could skip the last one. Good times.

2 of those years were after I finished school and was just living rent free at home and gaming full time. During that time it was easly more then 12h a day. Though, a lot of that was just being logged in and idle while chatting on teamspeak or doing administrative work for the guild (we ran our own webserver out of a friends house for our forum/dkp system, etc). That’s how I learned programming.

There was also some account sharing, which was literally required to get to the top of the vanialla PvP ranking. Games were built different back then.

Fake news, Hadrosauridae had bills.

Yeah, the amount of time you had as a student sure was amazing. These days it’s more like a few hours a month.

Probably still World of Warcraft. When I quite around 2010, I had close to 700 days /played time on my main, and another 400 days between various alts.