WoW Patch History: Patch 0.8 Beta

The next part in my patch-by-patch series. In this one we cover the new talent system, the auction house, new zones & much more.

If you have any suggestions, requests, or just general feedback let me know in the comments or with a message. I try my best to answer or at least read as many as I can.

[fatalty]

Please never ever change your intro music. For some reason it brings me back 12 years and feel nostalgic. Not only that but your whole channel is amazing. You have an amazing voice to.

[UnderhavenGold]

I remember the unliked auction houses. I remember going to Darnassus and being surprised how little items were on there compared to Stormwind.

[DeSinc]

I remember separate auction houses too but I don't think I ever confirmed it for myself just heard everyone say it

[BIGSKENG]

Separate auction houses were in vanilla at the beginning, indeed!

[madseasonshow]

This month's poll winner! I will try to do these once a month from now if I can.

[biffy]

6:38. My man with the ff9 main theme. <3 you.

[asmodeusazarak]

If I recall correctly shaman originally also used bucklers, but were upgraded to shields when they combined bucklers and shields removing them from rogues and hunters. Some of the quest rewards for shields at release still reflected notably lower defense for their level as a throwback to having been bucklers originally.

[morganwildman]

There was also the Neutral Auction House in Tanaris, where both factions could post/bid. That did make it into the game for a good while.

[videos]

you know MadSeasonShow your vids about the old world of warcraft make my day. So many great momories and things a I didn't even know. you are a great youtuber!

[VandalJace]

I remember hearing about plainsrunning in 2005 and the long-standing myth about it at the time was that Tauren players in beta would get on all four legs like Worgen and run around.

Pretty amusing mental image.

[DangermuffinVideos]

Patch History videos are the best! I spend a lot of time on reading the notes, but hearing it with actual video content can't beat that. Keep it up man!

[itsKyyyle]

It’s so interesting to see how the game evolved from its earliest stages to launch. I wonder if they knew how big it would get

[rick]

Haha, the rogue bit cracked me up. Awesome vid buddy. Keep up the good work.

[krauterz]

Hey mate. Saying g’day from Australia. Something I want to say real quick.
I’ve been dealing with depression for a while now and on my bad days these videos always give me an escape to something familiar.
The way you discribe things, and the music and effort you put into your videos offer me a time to switch off and relax and remember some of my fondest memories from back in the day.
These videos low-key keep me going on some of my hardest days. A massive thank you for the effort you put into producing these and sharing some of your memories. Please keep it up, it means a fair bit to me.
Peace :)

[ashrasmun]

One more thing about the rested experience system - I heard that back then, tired/exhausted xp was removed and replaced with normal xp just as a psychological measure. Players don't like to be punished for playing the game, so they still got the same amout of xp, but it was framed differently.

[magius]

I love the nintendo music playing in the background :3 Gr8 series by the way, loving it so far.

[Zucca]

Jesus christ. I barely get time to skim-read the title of your freshest video before the tape is already rolling on my screen and that goosebumps-inducing intro hits me. I'm left with a mess in my underwear but I am relaxed, and happy.

God bless this channel.

[SleepingPepper]

Keep up the awesome videos MadSeasonShow! You're my favorite WoW content creator.

[InuxMedia]

Love these blasts from the past and seeing how the game design started out. It was a learning process for everyone, clearly.

[richardm.garciajr.]

I am enjoying this, I'm glad you made it. I didn't know all of that back then. I didn't start playing til some time after BC came out