When did you begin playing WoW?

[Shadowspire]

I started in what I assume was a few months after BC release. It was late 07 and I played off and on, like 4 times a month. I got serious 3months before ZA. I sadly was a long time noob for my first year, first I didn't what talents were. Then I played a hybrid, ret holy paladin. And it took me till lvl 45 to kill that damn wind elemental for my warriors axe which I used all through my BC lvling till the nagrand arena quest.
And no epics but the scourge event kind of helped me....man this is sad to remember everything I did.

[Grishnaar]

Someone how into US Open Beta without being in US
Played for 5-6 days from 9AM-3AM (sick, I know).
Met a cool person during low levels 3 times during question, got Ventrillo of her guild, joined 2nd day of US Live game and got sent a CD-key along with the game from one of her friends. How lucky am I, right?

So Open Beta and then from 2nd or 3rd day US live.

[ChaosWolf]

June 2006, the week Naxx40 came out. Because of a slow install, I missed the end of the first Scourge Invasion event by a matter of hours.

[Lucarocks92]

September 2007, I probably regret getting into wow lost my social life at the age of 15 and have not got any of it back since.

[Adoxe]

My dad played the classic beta, I tried it out for like literally 30minutes and left it like that, haven't started my own account till 2005.

[Deleted]

Classic 2005, at European release.

Same for me

[Marxman]

Christmas 2004, though I actually put the game down after a week or so and came back to it a few months later.

[Scriblz]

I started in Burning Crusade's last patch. It wasn't until the patch for the Icecrown Citadel had finally been released, that I had actually made a full level character, which I then swapped out to a death knight. I was the type of player, that couldn't figure out for the love of god how to do anything for 6 months. I just ran around doing things with my other girl friends I had invited to play. xD

[Deficineiron]

I can only vote "Classic 2005" because that is when it started in EU.

Still a "Day 1" player

Oh yeah..it is "Pandaria", right?

Is it? I don't know either way.. Do you feel this confuses people (the e instead of a?) they might be looking for pandaria and not finding it? The responses for 2010 and later are really quite low.

[gee]

What I could find on wow census is March 2005. I think could be February but can't see those earlier toons.

[Vorticough]

Around September 2005-ish.

[Deleted]

March 2008

[BEYR]

Just after the Naxx 40 patch hit. The first KT kill on my server was the week I joined. Played straight through wrath and have been on and off since.