BurningWow History

Burning WoW’s origins actually began around March 2006, back then we used to be called ChronicBum’s WoW, started by ChronicBum (now Gargamel). We started out as a small WoWEmu fun server running the AFG repack. Things were pretty cool for awhile. Our server was small, but we had a very close knit community and had a lot of fun. A couple of months after, we changed over from using AFG to our own custom repack, It was actually really nice. We became more of a high rate server, but offered a Level 199 cap and custom mobs. The server was really nice to be apart of. We weren’t overpopulated and everyone got on really well and continued this structure for a few months.

During October 2006, we became aware of the Burning Crusade Beta. The Beta was released by Blizz to test out BC on a better scale with their own test realms, which were only open to a select few. Emu Developers decided to take advantage of this and modify the current emulator to support the Beta client. They were successful. It started out with basic Sandbox Emu’s, but quickly grew into fully functional emulator releases.

Things on ChronicBum’s WoW were fairly quiet. We did our research and decided to take a giant leap forward and make the move to The Burning Crusade Beta; becoming one of the first servers out there to be running Burning Crusade (Months before Retail officially had it!) Well, shortly after the announcement was made, guess what? We got hacked…. Bad!

Naturally, we were pissed. We knew who the person was. He was a former staff member who had been an issue for a while; was jealous and wouldn’t leave us alone. So we decided to start fresh. New name, new forums and a new perspective.

Burning WoW was then subsequently born in November 2006; and to kick things off we began running Burning Crusade Beta v2.0.2.6144.

It was indeed the start of something really great. We were becoming really popular. Hardly anyone at the time was running Burning Crusade. Most servers considered it too buggy, too risky and didn’t quite understand what all the fuss was all about with Beta.

But we had a different perspective. We had the emulator for it. We had a decent enough database. All it needed was time to make it more workable. And that’s what we did. We had great content. Blood Elves and Draenei were avaliable. All the new zones were open. We had Tier 4 & 5 gear and Flying Mounts were working. Spawning in the new zones was lacking, but with all this new content, it was all very tolerable and enticing to check out.

The server was growing faster than we had anticipated. This was due to a serious lack of competition from other servers supporting Burning Crusade at the time.

Mid January 2007 Burning Crusade was officially released for Retail. A lot of hype at the time was surrounding it. Everyone wanted Burning Crusade, but the problem was there still wasn’t anything released for servers that was decent enough to run the Retail Version client. We continued to use Beta for awhile, still being one of the only servers with actual Burning Crusade content at the time.

At the time a lot of servers were waiting for emulators to come out that were decent enough for the Retail Version, but this was a considerable amount of time away. We stuck to our guns and continued on with Beta. We were very surprised when other servers didn’t follow suit and make a Beta server themselves.

Emulators for TBC Retail were coming out slowly, The issue was a lot of them were way too buggy to even consider making a move to. It took towards the end of February 2007 to finally get a hold of an emulator that was decent enough to use as a server. When this happened we made the switch to TBC Version 2.0.8. We implemented Project Silvermoon’s work and the wheels really started getting in motion regarding The Burning Crusade, since Retail support was there.

We were one of the first to jump on board with this development. Other servers were catching on, but we did indeed beat a lot of the big names out there to it; and we were well ahead of the vast majority of our competitors. We finally got ourselves a dedicated server and our popularity was becoming massive. We were accumulating hundreds of new members daily. The demand for Burning WoW was simply amazing.

So this is how Burning WoW really took off and made us where we are today. Our community is getting stronger day by day. Our Server Development is top notch and mixing it up with the best; and we are just getting started. Expect even bigger things here in the times to come!