I started a month after TBC came out. How I got into it was that I won the game and 3 free months in an online contest. Started out alliance for a year then went horde and stayed there ever since. To be honest, I loved the game when I started out but now i've actually grown to hate it. It's a long story that i'm not going to go into, but the only thing keeping me from quiting is the few friends i've made ingame.