>>716166490 (OP)
16k hours into FFXI (both 75cap retail and multiple 75cap private servers)
20k hours into Eve Online
A couple thousand hours into Ragnarok Online
started trying out TurtleWoW recently and its OK, but getting over it around the lv 30-ish mark. Its just boring mindless questing compared to other MMOs but I can see how ppl were addicted to this shit in 2004.
>>716169357
How are FFXI private servers? Every one I looked into seemed like complete shit. The reason the original 75-cap was so cutthroat was because of how laissez-faire the devs were. They literally refused to intervene with the player economy, to the point where it took them like five years to even ban a single RMT.
But all the private servers seemed tremendously faggy with server-wide rules for loot and drops and bullishit that completely misses the spirit of the game.
>>716173138
NGS is like the quintessential minimum viable product. Suits from gaming corporations around the world will study for years to see how low the bar really can go.
>>716166490 (OP)
I'm not actively playing one.
wow is still the king but the gameplay loop isn't for me.
I'm optimistic about a few upcoming games though, Blue Protocol, Chrono Odyssey, Bellatores, Aion 2.
>>716173138
Which one? If you're talking about NGS then yeah, it's basically a padded-out lobby with a lootbox simulator stapled to it. If you're talking about that other one they've got in the pipeline-"Project Saturn" or whatever-that thing looks DOA before it's even escaped pre-alpha art assets. Sega still thinks it's 2005 and we're all impressed by particle spam and floaty jumps.
