Barrens chat was a stream of requests, insults, and Chuck Norris jokes, and it was a constant, reassuring presence during the lonely slog of levels 10-25.
Few games contain true rites of passage—watershed moments you can share with other players, which elicit excitable, relatable anecdotes. Beating Ornstein and Smough in Dark Souls is an obvious one. Your first romance in Mass Effect is another. But for me, nothing defines an era in gaming quite like the meandering, broken, oddly brilliant experience of The Barrens in vanilla World of Warcraft.
To understand why The Barrens, and by extension its chat window, elicits such nostalgia, we need to examine the area's construction. It was a vast, unavoidable corridor, through which most Horde players would inexorably be funnelled. If you rolled a troll, orc, or tauren, The Barrens was the place you'd come when you hit level 10.
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