I first tried it out on a room mates account in 2005 playing a few hours a day before he got home from work but quit because the game was unplayable due to the Corrupted Blood incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident , all your toons would eventually die and stay dead then it spread to the starting areas and we couldn't make new toons anymore, I had only played for a few weeks and after 4 days of the game being unplayable I left in a huff because most people were saying that Blizzard caused the plague on purpose for an event. My first account I started 2 months after BC in the beginning of 2007 on Tichondrius, my mains were Milhaven blood elf pally, Patchwreck undead Warlock and Zerelda troll rouge. Because it was the most crowded pvp server with 20 to 30 minute wait times to log in and farming on there was impossible I soon ran out of money for from pvping all day I could no longer afford armor repairs and I transferred my toons to Undermine a pve server. I really missed chasing down gankers but didn't want to buy gold and risk getting getting ripped off or suspended.