At what stage did you begin playing WoW?

[Void]

Wrath,2 months after release of the expansion

[Fierae]

Beta.

Server: EU PVP BETA 6
Character: Aena

Then rolled on Bladefist at release date.

[Deleted]

About 2-3 weeks after launch and it was my first MMO.

Good times

[Deleted]

December 2007, middle of BC

[Plowunder]

I started playing in Vanilla back in 2005. I was only able to complete ZG, Onyxia, and MC though - my guild was more about having fun than progression. Fun times though!

[SpathaSWC]

I started about 2 months after TBC came out, I loved doing all the Quests to get attuned to Kara, SSc, TK, BT. Then I found out I wasnt even Geared to do BT

[pimpdaddy]

Wotlk, like summer of 09. It was like a month before ToC was released.

[Xadion]

Started when wow is in beta, and it's been fun, tho cata is horrible.

I love statements like these...

At any rate, I started back in vanilla. But the game was too tedious for me back then and there were no good PvP, although I liked being at a friends house when he was on raids, I liked keeping an eye on the action while doing something else. I only really began raiding in WotLK.
I spent more time playing DAoC back then. And other games for that matter, alot of other games

So, definition of "playing". Not sure, I'll vote vanilla since I knew how WoW worked and what is was about from release. Also because I spend enough time to get a level 60.

[Geekbustarz]

During Wotlk.

[Baz]

BC <3 best memories of pretty much every aspect of the game come from Bc for me

[Redro]

started playing right when ulduar was released started raiding when ICC came out
like many other i tried almost every character in the game before i leveled my pally to 80
and tbh i regret i didn't start earlier and got to see the previous content

[monkeyelf]

I started playing in late vanilla, but I didn't actually hit the level cap until BC.....which also might have something to do with the 46 days played time I had on my druid when I finally hit 70......I spent a lot of time in bgs.....

[nvrsbr]

No Beta option?

Been playin WoW since Beta
A Long Long time

[Muis]

I mistook playing for raiding so pressed TBC but started in Classic - just wasn't max level yet.

[esmifra]

Around patch 1.8, when silithus opened and people were gathering mats for the gates.
Just waiting to see what would happen...

It was for all aspects a different game back then.

[Santti]

Korean Beta... It was before european one. Had to get in.

I'm from Finland :P

[tobiashunter]

about a few weeks after WotLK was released. I graduated from college (December), and was bored. A lot of my friends have been asking me since WoW was released to join up and play with them, and I didn't because my studies were more important. Well, out of college and waiting to start my job, I had 2 months to kill... Took a break after I started my job to get adjusted, but pretty much been a consistent player since.

[pimpdaddy]

started playing right when ulduar was released started raiding when ICC came out
like many other i tried almost every character in the game before i leveled my pally to 80
and tbh i regret i didn't start earlier and got to see the previous content

Ah yes. I remember when my warrior at lvl 65, i dueled a level 60 ret paladin. I got wtfpwned, decided to level a paladin, and never looked back!

[Yllop]

I voted Wotlk but i started at the end of Tbc really. Took lvl 70 at Wotlk realese.

[Whiskra]

Late TBC for me.

I think what got me into WoW was that I read an article about SK Gaming beating Kil'Jaeden, it mentioned the kill video which I looked up on youtube. I understood very little, but I too wanted to try WoW out after that.