what happened to MMOs?

MMOs declined in the same way bars and other third places declined.

what happened to unique threads?

Boring ass click on object wait 1 minute gameplay that gets really old quick. Somehow the tryhards have convinced most devs that the boring ass endgame built on janky game mechanics is somehow the best part of the game.

>>714152925 (OP)
>>714153059
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/AMnpqQhTHXG5JE1H4Ei7Eg/
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/b5R3Rc0iTzKIuDRLI5wplg/
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/gmPKUIqqnn5m_IOitfyifw/

Aion was terrible. Koreans are shit at MMOs and just add numbers autism.

>>714153146
>>714153059
we get it, you're trans

>>714152925 (OP)
MMOs homogenized to the point there's no reason to care about more than the handful already at the top.
The experience then started warping into incredibly antisocial, almost single player games with extremely bad combat and any sense of adventure stripped away. So people left once social media and the prevalence of live service games acted as more convenient options for anything MMOs had going for them.

>>714152925 (OP)
sense of community and identity left, people realized it was a massive time suck, and it fell out of fashion. nowadays, people don't make as many friends over games, they make friends on social media and messaging apps then take them into games. no one i have met over a game has made their way into my frequent players circle. it's always a meet on telegram/discord and go play x later situation.

i don't necessarily like it. the idea of mmos seem cool, and the idea of having people who you meet over a game is cool, but honestly? the way it has to work in an mmo just makes it kind of weird, and it's not like messaging apps aren't infinitely better as a social medium.

also, paying a subscription sucks, and that used to be the classic monetization method. or, you get f2p with aggressive mtx to fun the constant servers full of people playing for hours at a time.

>>714153395
>live service games
so in other word gacha? cringe

>>714152925 (OP)
The online community collectively turned into tryhards who want to keep pressing the lever as quickly as possible to receive their food pellets. These games were always about the people you played with more than anything else and the communities now are trash.

>>714153674
No. Fortnite, Warzone, Warframe, Destiny, etc

>>714154046
so is most online gaming now. show me one online gaming community that doesn't actively suck. actually, no, show me one online community based around fiction *period* that doesn't actively suck. almost all of them do. you have to meet semi-normal or acceptably weird people elsewhere and bring them to the games.

>>714154383
factorio