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6/9/2025, 12:47:21 PM
>>1790577
Plenty of reasons.
- TERA came out during the last real hurrah of the MMO format being a popular genre. Felt like a promising evolutionary step towards keeping the format fresh, which as we know now, never really took off outside of a few stray titles.
- The MMO genre as a whole tends to play to a captive audience, so it's not surprising regulars of the genre would have at least /some/ experience in early-to-mid 2010s era TERA.
- The state of 4chan, and the 'Net as a whole, was arguably in a much healthier place then than it is now.
That last one is particularly poignant for those who lived through it.
As easy as it is to write-off the saccharine pinings for any given MMO as raw nostalgia, there is simply no denying that things truly WERE different back then. A wholly different generation of people being online, with different expectations of what was and was not considered acceptable, and an entirely different understanding of what made these games (and others like it) so appealing.
The MMO format was a fantastic facilitator of socializing with other people, often where shut-in nerds could go to meet others like them of similar interest.
There was still novelty in playing these huge RPGs with thousands of others simultaneously, and speaking openly in Say/Local Chat was a regular sight. Unlike today, where you'll seldom ever see anyone typing anything out in the open, because keeping to your own group - and ONLY your own group - is so incredibly commonplace now.
These games used to be places to go and meet your friends. Now they're just something to do with your existing friends. It's an entirely different vibe, and that goes for damn-near every MMO still in service, private or public, not just TERA.
Would also argue thread schizos who'd spoil the vibes were much less common as well. They existed, sure, but not to the same quantity or frustrating persistence as they tend to be today.
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Plenty of reasons.
- TERA came out during the last real hurrah of the MMO format being a popular genre. Felt like a promising evolutionary step towards keeping the format fresh, which as we know now, never really took off outside of a few stray titles.
- The MMO genre as a whole tends to play to a captive audience, so it's not surprising regulars of the genre would have at least /some/ experience in early-to-mid 2010s era TERA.
- The state of 4chan, and the 'Net as a whole, was arguably in a much healthier place then than it is now.
That last one is particularly poignant for those who lived through it.
As easy as it is to write-off the saccharine pinings for any given MMO as raw nostalgia, there is simply no denying that things truly WERE different back then. A wholly different generation of people being online, with different expectations of what was and was not considered acceptable, and an entirely different understanding of what made these games (and others like it) so appealing.
The MMO format was a fantastic facilitator of socializing with other people, often where shut-in nerds could go to meet others like them of similar interest.
There was still novelty in playing these huge RPGs with thousands of others simultaneously, and speaking openly in Say/Local Chat was a regular sight. Unlike today, where you'll seldom ever see anyone typing anything out in the open, because keeping to your own group - and ONLY your own group - is so incredibly commonplace now.
These games used to be places to go and meet your friends. Now they're just something to do with your existing friends. It's an entirely different vibe, and that goes for damn-near every MMO still in service, private or public, not just TERA.
Would also argue thread schizos who'd spoil the vibes were much less common as well. They existed, sure, but not to the same quantity or frustrating persistence as they tend to be today.
(HQ: https://files.catbox.moe/v3h308.png )
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