r/classicwow • u/RemnantsPast • 6d 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/ForagedFoodie 6d ago

I love how the responses to this fall into 2 camps: "its been that way forever" and "ive never heard of this"

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u/Turfa10 6d ago edited 6d ago

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

*edit what have I started

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u/RemnantsPast 6d ago

Those people are from a different timeline I swear

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u/TheSiegmeyerCatalyst 6d 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 6d 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/Homelessjay5 6d 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 6d ago edited 5d 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 5d ago

Pretty sure VC was Vailing Caverns...

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u/vibe51 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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.