I am embarrassed to say that after years of playing Hearthstone I did not know where Leeroy Jenkins came from until this post. I played Everquest all through high school (on dial-up modem no less) but WoW didn't come out until I was in college and I didn't have the time for those type of games anymore.
We spent so many hours preparing for raids in EQ and I would get bored and I found out that if you positioned yourself just right on the corner of a wall you could actually go inside the wall in certain cases due to a bug with the clipping.
So I would spend most of the time while we were preparing for raids trying to do that, and then if i did it I would usually get stuck in the wall and we would all have to wait for a GM to come and get me out :-)
Don't feel bad, it just means you're not old :D
I played Diablo in college, by the time WOW came out I was a young adult with plenty of time on my hands.
My roommate probably invented griefing, cause in the original Diablo you could kill any player at any time, take their loot and leave the server. We might have had some great memes if screen recording and YouTube had been a thing. Like the time my roommate accidentally equipped a battle axe to his chest instead of armor, and was stuck there dead in the game and no one could resurrect him.
I remember the day this video hit machinima and went viral - I was just a teen and a TOTAL WoW addict at the time. I loved it and it became immortalized forever in WoW.
I love how they created a title/a card for the TCG/even a special event in WoD where you could "resurrect him" and then earn him as a follower by completing Upper Blackrock Spire - Leeeroy style, aka, running as fast as possible and pulling everything lmao.
Such good times :D Thanks for bringing back great memories!
Awwwwww, I kinda wanted this to be authentic. But it's still a funny piece of history and I will keep loving it :)
I'm writing this as I wait for the short film version to load. I think I already watched it, but I'll watch it now regardless since it looks to be pretty good quality and I love short films. :D
Oh! Well, that actually sounds like a sound strategy to campaign for the guild. When I used to play WoW (private servers; can't afford the game), my friend always called me like "we were waitiing!" because I had the only healer in his social circle, lol.
I actually miss him. I'm going to drop him a message.
I just got into WOW last year and when I switched from playing MTG to mostly Hearthstone. Hilarious, but to be honest I felt like the Leeroy vid was planned, there reactions seeemed too nonchalant and I know how pissed people get wasting their time on a bombed raid hahah. Either way, its cool that these guys are using their 'fame' to bring awareness and get people fired up about what net neutrality really means! Even if you don't feel like that you have a lot of control and we probably all going down like Leeroy, at least don't be chicken x)
LMAO ahahah that video is fucking amazing . The rise and subsequent grovel haha. I am a little confused though... I thought HE had made the name Leeroy Jenkins for is WOW character, so how could Blizzard have owned the name for things like shirts etc? They own what you do in the game?
The 1st time I heard about this I laughed hysterically. The whole team had a gameplan and he just rushed !!! He's like most of the people I play Call Of Duty with lol
Damn you know that feeling when you learn a new word and you see it everywhere for the next week or two?
Out of nowhere this new video someone animated Leeroy Jenkin's yesterday!
I wish I saw this before I posted this.
Finding Leeroy's truth? Let's do this.
As suspected it was staged. A sad and hilarious day for nerd-dom.
I am embarrassed to say that after years of playing Hearthstone I did not know where Leeroy Jenkins came from until this post. I played Everquest all through high school (on dial-up modem no less) but WoW didn't come out until I was in college and I didn't have the time for those type of games anymore.
We spent so many hours preparing for raids in EQ and I would get bored and I found out that if you positioned yourself just right on the corner of a wall you could actually go inside the wall in certain cases due to a bug with the clipping.
So I would spend most of the time while we were preparing for raids trying to do that, and then if i did it I would usually get stuck in the wall and we would all have to wait for a GM to come and get me out :-)
Everquest brings back memories.
traaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!
Don't feel bad, it just means you're not old :D
I played Diablo in college, by the time WOW came out I was a young adult with plenty of time on my hands.
My roommate probably invented griefing, cause in the original Diablo you could kill any player at any time, take their loot and leave the server. We might have had some great memes if screen recording and YouTube had been a thing. Like the time my roommate accidentally equipped a battle axe to his chest instead of armor, and was stuck there dead in the game and no one could resurrect him.
I remember the day this video hit machinima and went viral - I was just a teen and a TOTAL WoW addict at the time. I loved it and it became immortalized forever in WoW.
I love how they created a title/a card for the TCG/even a special event in WoD where you could "resurrect him" and then earn him as a follower by completing Upper Blackrock Spire - Leeeroy style, aka, running as fast as possible and pulling everything lmao.
Such good times :D Thanks for bringing back great memories!
Awwwwww, I kinda wanted this to be authentic. But it's still a funny piece of history and I will keep loving it :)
I'm writing this as I wait for the short film version to load. I think I already watched it, but I'll watch it now regardless since it looks to be pretty good quality and I love short films. :D
Ok, I hadn't watched it hahaha, it's awesome. <3 Definitely recommended if you're reading this and haven't watched the short film.
edit:
Saw this Youtube comment and I'm not sure what to believe, but I'll go with it because it means more happiness for me :D
They have said it was staged to raise members so they can raid.
Oh! Well, that actually sounds like a sound strategy to campaign for the guild. When I used to play WoW (private servers; can't afford the game), my friend always called me like "we were waitiing!" because I had the only healer in his social circle, lol.
I actually miss him. I'm going to drop him a message.
I just got into WOW last year and when I switched from playing MTG to mostly Hearthstone. Hilarious, but to be honest I felt like the Leeroy vid was planned, there reactions seeemed too nonchalant and I know how pissed people get wasting their time on a bombed raid hahah. Either way, its cool that these guys are using their 'fame' to bring awareness and get people fired up about what net neutrality really means! Even if you don't feel like that you have a lot of control and we probably all going down like Leeroy, at least don't be chicken x)
The video was staged to raise members so they had a big enough guild to raid, it worked too well.
LMAO ahahah that video is fucking amazing . The rise and subsequent grovel haha. I am a little confused though... I thought HE had made the name Leeroy Jenkins for is WOW character, so how could Blizzard have owned the name for things like shirts etc? They own what you do in the game?
I'm still dying from when he says "I have a surprise" and Jamie lee just flatly says "I know." . I'm literally shaking ahaha
It's probably in the terms and conditions
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STOPI used to play so much wow back in the day... sigh... those were good times
and doing a leeeeeerrrooooyyy was famous even back then
The 1st time I heard about this I laughed hysterically. The whole team had a gameplan and he just rushed !!! He's like most of the people I play Call Of Duty with lol