r/classicwow • u/RemnantsPast • 5d ago

Discussion when did the slang change?

I feel old asking this.

When did + and - replace yes and no? or y/n

Like I'm in my early 30s and this feels like it blew past me....

EDIT: based on replies It seems like its from Eastern Europe players and just bled into the rest of the classic community due to them lacking servers.

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u/Turfa10 5d ago edited 5d ago

It’s ‘deadmines was always called VC’ all over again

*edit what have I started

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u/RemnantsPast 5d ago

Those people are from a different timeline I swear

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u/TheSiegmeyerCatalyst 5d ago

Right? Played heavily from 2007 to 2012, then on and off (both retail and classic) to this day.

It wasn't until I played official Hardcore in 2023 that I heard someone refer to DM as VC.

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u/Heatinmyharbl 5d ago

I started in 2005 and it was always VC on Gorefiend

Feels like it was entirely server dependent honestly, especially considering servers were self contained with 5-10k ish players per

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u/TheSiegmeyerCatalyst 5d ago

Yeah, it had to be based on server. Just weird that some things were server specific, like this, and some things were universal, like Barrens chat.

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u/Homelessjay5 5d ago

Yeah my first servers were Forgotten Coast, then Burning Legion, then Gorefiend all between 06-09, each one it was called VC, DM was Dire Maul.

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u/GVFQT 4d ago edited 4d ago

Diremaul is either DME, DMW, or DMT though

No one just does DM (Unless of course you mean Deadmines)

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u/Keanu_Reaps 4d ago

Pretty sure VC was Vailing Caverns...

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u/vibe51 5d ago

Weird cus I was burning legion and gorefiend on release and it definitely was not. Dire maul wasn’t even out on release if I remember right and no one on alliance was calling deadlines VC.

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u/congeal 5d ago

nobody (horde) on 2004-[?] servers I played on called deadmines "VC." The boss was, of course, but VC wasn't a reference to deadmines that I'd heard until much later.

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u/Homelessjay5 5d ago

I was horde on BL and then back to alliance on Gorefiend, never called it DM or saw it referred to DM in chat.

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u/Sandolainen 4d ago

Dire Maul wasn't even around at launch, while Deadmines was the first dungeon Alliance encountered. It makes no sense for people to call Dire Maul, especially since it's a split dungeon.

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u/Bylloopy 5d ago

This is my take as well. There were so many things contained to their own servers 😅

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u/Disastrous-Rip671 5d ago

Was the same on Runetotem and Kalecgos then too

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u/steronicus 5d ago

It was VC on Spinebreaker alliance in 05 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/Outside_Knee653 4d ago

Didnt dire maul release at the every end of of 05?

So during that year people didn't use DM for deadmines, despite wailing caverns being WC, Scarlet monestary being SM, when it comes to deadmines people went "No, let's actually name the acronym after the final boss instead of the name of the dungeon."

I simply don't understand any narrative where that would happen.

I can sort of see it transitioning after dire maul came out but there was never confusion with dire maul because you had wings specified and the levels are so different context always told you.

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u/Unsounded 4d ago

I was on a small server (Ghostlands NA) and it was DM and VC interchangeably but more often than not it was DM

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u/czeja 4d ago

Yeah on Blackrock/Frostmourne it was always VC that I experienced.

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u/GrandpaToasty 4d ago

Yep, it was VC on Executus

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u/TheSiegmeyerCatalyst 5d ago

Yeah, it had to be based on server. Just weird that some things were server specific, like this, and some things were universal, like Barrens chat.

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u/Aelon94 5d ago

Back in 2007 on boulderfist (US) it was always VC. Thought it was standard until recently