Thread 717741791

You just miss being young, everything was sick when you were young. Everything is still sick for young people today. Being young is awesome and you'll never be young again!

you just miss hanging out with the boys.

>>717741791 (OP)
It wasn’t even about the game itself half the time, it was about logging in and seeing your crew online, just vibing in town or forming jank dungeon parties that somehow worked. Now it’s all Discord cliques and Twitter drama leaking into everything. I miss when guild beef was confined to the game and trash talk stayed in local chat.

>>717741791 (OP)
Good. Those times were a dark age of ignorance. It's fun to look back at it, not to return to without knowledge about the truth.
I enjoy knowing that MMOs and all kinds of grind to win/pay to win/monthly paypig subscription games are a scam.

Believe it or not, you can still find that classic MMO experience.
You just have to be willing to explore the corners of the net instead of reminiscing about your childhood when you were simply ignorant of reality.

>>717741791 (OP)
it was a such a great experience to meet people all over the World, to make online friends without garbage like discord/facebook/shittok etc, hun fun until midnight despite school next day, gossip and fights over things etc while exploring the game itself and having fun
Shame kids today will never experience something like that

>>717743595
boy i sure love these mechanics that are designed to waste your time and keep you subscribed longer. ill tell myself this second job is a hardcore video game.

>>717743595
How did normalfags manage to convince gamers to believe things like this.

>>717743595
lol

>>717746525
90% of people only know WoW.

>>717741791 (OP)
Source MP games 2007-2011 had better communities than any gay MMO every did. MMOs started sucking ass then because there was no reason for cool people to use them as they primary social outlet anymore

>>717748406
being a regular on 4 or 5 servers when when not in a clan was pretty great

>>717743595
>I'm sure glad I know everything is a waste of time while I wait to die and return to oblivion
Everything is shit if you break it down to it's simplest parts. Doesn't mean it wasn't great and great fun. All video games are crafted gameplay loops that give you some kind of satisfaction to participate in them.

I had more fun socially and met more cool people in the MMO scene from 1998-2008 than I had in my life up until that point. To us, they were the virtual worlds promised to us in Sci-fi novels. We became an alter-ego living in a virtual landscape while making friends from around the world and getting into adventures. If you just played them to grind levels and be the big-boy with the best items, you really missed out.

They also ramped up in quality at breakneck speeds. We went from MUDs to Ultima Online to Meridian 59 to Everquest to City of Heroes to WoW in the span of six years. For perspective, WoW Classic has been out for more than six years now. It was hard to keep up with all of it, and a little expensive too but mind blowing at the time.

>>717749268
And that was just in the west.
It was a whole different beast in Japan.

>>717748258
And that's the sad truth. For most people “MMO” just means WoW and maybe RS if they were on the right forums in 2005. They missed out on stuff like Star Wars Galaxies, DAoC, Asheron’s Call, even janky-ass games like Anarchy Online that had more soul in their broken systems than anything released today. MMOs used to be communities first, games second. Now they’re just glorified storefronts with chat functions.