I see living trolls every day, revolting specimens no self-respecting erudite or human would willfully reproduce with, lest their children have a chromosomal disorder. Eventually it will be a matter of we simply can't reproduce across these class/racial lines. Only BBC can penetrate the fat of an ogre's vagina, etc. What are humanity's inevitable fantasy races?

>>22936359 (OP)
With the advent of transhumanist technologies humanity will branch out into various novel lines, the racial competition over the same resources will be even more intense. It's hard to predict what racial configurations will triumph in which environments.

>>22936359 (OP)
What us sauce on Pic rel

>>22936361
Everquest. A relic from a much better time.

>>22936359 (OP)
original EQ interface was dogshit. there, i said it.

>>22936361
the sad state of MMORPGs before WoW

>>22936364
wow is eq with warcraft lore

>>22936363
It was good enough, don't kid yourself. still the top grossing MMO of all time.

>>22936364
a lot of people who worked on EQ left and made WoW classic you retard

>>22936361
this is back when you were on the internet and it was 95% white people online.

>>22936366
the transparent ui was way better. can't remember if it was added in kunark or velious though (not the gay luclin one)

>>22936359 (OP)
im so brianrotted i thought that button on the bottom left said "MALE TO FEMALE" as in it would troon you out

>>22936366
>still the top grossing MMO of all time.
for real? even after the decades of wow slop?

>>22936369
ironically, female dwarves can have beards

>>22936368
original EQ had the transparent UI via F10, it was just a bit limited until Velious greatly expanded it to include more elements.

Mechanized automaton race might become popular

With robots and AI becoming possible in the next decade

>>22936359 (OP)
BWC > BBC
BWC > B_C > S_C
It's like the same, except better and more valuable pound for pound, which is just more proof of white superiority.
BWC will always survive. BWC will always thrive.
Sorry dicklets out there, there is more to life. I'm just pointing out that in the competition of cocks, BWC is supreme. Something makes me think the op doesn't understand this fact, like probably that he's a memeflag trying to slip a subliminal demoralization into a slide question. So I am informing him and everyone else.
SAGE

>>22936359 (OP)
I want to be an argonian.

Wil genetic engineering get good enough for me to become a ln IRL reptilian?

>>22936370
wow may have eclipsed it now, probably because of item shop, not subs. it was just that EQ's budget was incredibly small and it was basically an overnight success.

Sony almost cancelled the entire project before release, thinking "who is gonna play a 3D MMO and pay a subscription for it?" Remember, this is 1999. Internet was not widespread (I played on dialup) and many computers didn't have discrete graphics cards.

I played it on my eMachines 500 with a Voodoo2, Pentium III with 512GB RAM lol. Was pretty beast for the time in my memory, miss Ragnarok Online too.

Anyways, it was such a massive success that they had to get their backbone ISP in Cali to do emergency expansion to their infrastructure to handle the bandwidth. Also had to ramp up support staff for customer service due to the unexpected popularity.

My uncle unironically works at Microsoft for almost 30 years now, he told me tons of those guys would show up to work dead tired sleeping through meetings (a couple even got fired) from staying up all night playing EQ.

For those who want to get a similar fix now, Monsters and Memories + Adrullan Online Adventures are the closest thing. Both are in active development with alpha testing.

>>22936372
woah it was always there? shit i never knew. i've always associated it with velious, probably due to the improvements you mentioned

Check all tomorrows

>>22936370
EQ had a budget far lower than WoW. I don't think they even advertised it on TV. It sold by word of mouth and infamy. WoW had expensive ads with popular actors in them.

>>22936375
I believe you mean Iksar.

>ackshually elder scrolls first

then why are you posting that image instead of this one?

>>22936366
Yeah well everquest just like dark age of camelot and ashron's call is an ugly game to look at. I don't see why people think its fun. It looks like shit. I would rather play runescape classic (pre-runescape 2).

>>22936377
there were a lot of things that would still show the stone UI until velious. it wasn't really fully usable until then.

i only learned about it by accident when i was unironically sipping on a bang's root beer and almost spilled it on my board, accidentally hit the f10 key and was like woah. also saved teh keyboard from a nasty spill.

>>22936380
Skyrim argonians are the peak design for lizard men.
The only thing that would improve them is a thicker tail.

>>22936376
ill never miss trying to game on dialup. eq was truly addicting though. also, p99 is still going strongk. i heard from my brother that the hero's journey server is fun too, just not autistically classic like p99

>>22936361
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>>22936365
Wow brought huge quality of life improvements like a mailbox system and not being encumbered by weight, among many other things. EQ was too hard. XP loss on death. All gear on corpse. Etc.

>>22936379
yup, it's hilarious that such a iconic and successful game was basically running on duct tape.

Sony gave them a simple "racing game" 3d engine to use to make the game, hence the goofy physics and movement at times. a lot of the game used MS access database and Excel sheets.

it would take 45 mins to restart the dev server to test changes lol. but despite all that, it was such a banger. i still listen to the soundtrack when i want to feel nostalgic, it's so grand.

>>22936384
p99 is okay but i do think you end up with the problem of EQ is a solved game at this point. just neckbeards playing (multiboxing), camping their spawns and even nostalgia has its limits. i can play it because EQ hits a certain spot for me, but its hard to introduce it to others who haven't, the warts stick out more.

I really like Adrullan Online Adventures, it's basically voxel EQ and perfect balance of challenge, fun, and QoL. MnM is also great, torn between which I enjoy more.

>>22936359 (OP)
Any man who would willfully turn himself into the equivalent of a fantasy dwarf is extremely based.

Imagine the dwarf in minecraft smashing jeets with his fist. Strangling them with his beard and then drinking a pint.

>>22936385
Well actually we had a mail system and more features than WoW did in Star Wars Galaxies

>>22936386
Sony Online were such fucking Jews, man. I'm still seething about what they did to Infantry Online.

>>22936361
Everquest (MMORPG from the late 90s-early 2000s). Always wanted to play it but was like 7 years old when it came out. I ended up playing Final Fantasy XI which was basically JRPG everquest. Good memories. I need to find some private servers

>>22936361
pillars of eternity, before faggots found out about it.

>>22936392
PoE is more a successor to Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale.

>>22936385
Some would say this was the downward spiral of MMOs. EQ did have some rough edges, but WoW was the slippery slope into what retail is today.

>>22936391
The sad thing about MMOs today is that they're silent. I recently jumped into RS3 for shits and giggles and the only time people talk is at the Dungeoneering hole at the summer beach event, and even that's not a guarantee.
This is compared to how the game was in 2002-2008 when you could go down to Musa Point to fish for lobbys/swordys and have near /pol/-tier conversations with complete strangers. It would be packed to the brim with so many people that everyone would clipping and flickering. Same for the All Chat in WoW back in the day, when there was always something going on.

The good memories comes from the people you met along the way. How you interacted with the community. With that missing, there's no reason to go back.
FFXIV is the most populated MMO out there right now, and it's public chats are moderated by the most anal retentive tranny jannies you can imagine. You will get struggle sessioned, you will get a "call out" and you will be threatened with a ban for just about any inane thing.

I can't say if private servers are worth it, though. Population on those are extremely thin.

>>22936394
old school runescape you make friends by talking to randoms while getting xp at random places. Players are not as social as they were in 2007 or before and zoomers get weird sometimes when you talk to them, but overall it still exists. That game requires you to be social to succeed at a certain point. But this is of course is the biproduct of doing monotonous tasks over and over.

>>22936376
was pissed when they cancelled everquest next. lost all hope. no good mmorpg now or ever again.

>>22936394
>The good memories comes from the people you met along the way
this is 100% true, and its also about the time period we experienced it in. I played FFXI from 2005-2010. There was initially no wiki or guides, there was no discord or any of that. Everything was in game. You had to ask people or get them to show you how to do something and there was a big sense of community, exploration, and unsolved mysteries of the in game world. I did just find a private server for FFXI with a very healthy population but it doesn't change that everyone knows how to do everything already now. There's no more mystery.

>>22936395
In OSRS I started talking to randoms during a starfall event behind the Draynor bank. I impressed the leader of some guild and "she" both invited me to join and gave me a bond as a gift.
She found my ability to be so candidly social in the modern era to be impressive. So if just being mildly friendly and telling millennial jokes was enough to get a 14 million GP gift from some rando chick, then OSRS is not doing so well either on that front, either.

Zoomers get weird about social interactions because they instinctively understand what an absolute mine field social interactions have become in the current clown world era. They know they could say literally anything and have it explode in their faces, so they say nothing. They also grew up from a very early age in the peak period of internet grooming. So they also have an instinctual weariness of overly friendly strangers.

>>22936376
Raided with a bunch of guys like that back in 2000, was an amazing time not just cause of the EQ world, but that so many people all over the world of all types played it, doctors, stewardesses, junkies, didn't matter, all caught the EQ bug. Was a trip meeting some of these folks in RL at the guild meet up. Truly a lost era.

The game itself was janky, but the system of need between players was so well done, be it on purpose or accident, that just grinding out a few levels or AAs somewhere with people you'd always walk away with either enemies, friends or new acquaintances. Modern day WoW is a single player MMO with some rabid cunts chiming in any time you have a forced interaction.

>>22936399
The last time I played WoW was little over a decade ago, and it was bad back then, too. Social interaction was mostly dead, and Find-a-Party with cross-server meant you were never going to see any of these faggots ever again.
Which meant their only concern was XP/hr and loot. WoW killed the MMO a long time ago.

>>22936391
Avoid private servers. The people who inhabit them are the saddest folks ever. Just absolutely miserable creatures.

>>22936384
THJ is worth checking out if the idea of multiclassing three characters into one superhero sounds appealing while gradually going though the expansions up to Dragons of Norrath (but it's probably only going up to PoP thanks to the server getting WAY too popular and attracted Daybreak's lawyers).

>>22936401
lol i can see this being true

>>22936402
THJ is in a big lawsuit atm with Daybreak games cause they monetized all the transactions in the game for RL cash. This caused a cascade effect and a lot of the private servers are down, including TAKP and the trannoid-run Project Quarm. P99 still is up, due to a longstanding agreement they have with DBG.

>>22936404
You could in theory get plenty of the "Echo of Memory" coins from killing high enough lvl dudes (and then you could sell the coin normally in bazaar), but yea, them also being for "donations" was fucking around, and they found out.

Based everquest thread

THJ is fucked, I can't believe how stupid they ran that shit, what did they think was going to happen. Also the new TLP is dogshit.