So I generally read threads like this for the sake of knowing the opposite opinion, and usually I find myself on their side. Meh.
What really irked me though was that consistantly, throughout this thread, gamers who are disappointed with modern games, "vets" I suppose, keep bringing up the mindless "majority" that has ruined the mmo world. I do agree with this statement, but...hmm.....
I'm no veteran by any means, the first mmo I played was about 6 years ago, I was 9 years old and playing Flyff. A subpar game of course, but at my age, and with my limited understanding of "fast travel" and such, every new place I went to was wonderful, and no matter how many people ran by, I always felt like I was the first person to discover it. As I got older, the sense of discovery faded as a fell into rut the industry is in, and used things like fast travel, etc. I'm no veteran by any means, but I still feel like any other veteran, because though I never experienced the "classics", when I was young, every world was vast, and every mountain was a secret place that nobody else had found yet....shhhh!
I just realized I haven't really made my final point here. You veterans keep acting, or it seems like it, that you're some sort of elite-guild, and every player other than you is just one of the mindless majority, and it irks me, because though I may be one of the few non-veterans who feel the same was as the veterans due to my first mmo being see through candy-coated eyes, I still feel like me, and people like me are just being mindlessly clumped into this "majority horde" group.
To sum it up, the veterans are not the only people that feel this way, this use of the word "vets" irks me, and my grammer may have been off a few times in this post.
On that note, like the person who made the op, I'm going to go ride some moa's and finish a few bronze dungeons before I go to bed. I must get ahold of the fabled Hammer of Notch.
There are elitest in everything anymore. Just got to brush it off and laugh. I too have played for as long or longer as many of the posters you speak off, but honestly the whole i played blah blah you dont know what a mmo is is just laughable. Same with the whole WoW is for kiddies when really tons of adults play too. The Guild i was in when i played the game was all adults anywhere from as low as 20 to our oldest member who was 63. The ages was never a issue and frankly some of them 30 year olds where worse than any teen i came across and played with. Its all silly generalzations that are somehow meant to make certain people feel higher. But dont point out they are just games. Thats a whole nother issue ^_^
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There are elitest in everything anymore. Just got to brush it off and laugh. I too have played for as long or longer as many of the posters you speak off, but honestly the whole i played blah blah you dont know what a mmo is is just laughable. Same with the whole WoW is for kiddies when really tons of adults play too. The Guild i was in when i played the game was all adults anywhere from as low as 20 to our oldest member who was 63. The ages was never a issue and frankly some of them 30 year olds where worse than any teen i came across and played with. Its all silly generalzations that are somehow meant to make certain people feel higher. But dont point out they are just games. Thats a whole nother issue ^_^
This shows problem with current mmorpg's (and games in general nowadays)