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The Era Room.
Every kind of gamer. Every era.
Video games, arcades, tabletop, board games — if you bonded over a game and lost those people, this is where you look.
2005–2009
The Xbox Live and WoW era.
Xbox Live made console gaming social. World of Warcraft consumed millions of lives. This was peak online gaming community — before everything moved to social media.
PC
World of WarcraftTeam Fortress 2League of Legends betaLeft 4 DeadCrysisEVE Online
Console
Xbox 360PS3WiiHalo 2 & 3Call of Duty 4Gears of War
Tabletop
D&D 4th EditionWarhammer 40k 4th EdSettlers of Catan boomArkham Horror
IGN2005
Xbox 360 Launches — Achievements Change Gaming Forever
Microsoft's new console introduces Achievement points. Suddenly every action leaves a permanent record. Players realize they will never fully stop chasing the next unlock. Gamerscore becomes a bragging right and an obsession.
You remember this if you were there
—Your WoW guild was more organized than most companies
—Halo 2 custom lobbies — people you played with every single night for years
—The Xbox Live friend list as your actual social network
—Getting a Wii at launch and your whole family suddenly caring about gaming
—CoD 4 prestige mode — grinding just to restart with nothing
—Vent and TeamSpeak before Discord existed — barely worked, used it anyway
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