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I guess I can name what I like and what I miss, and hopefully one of you can help me! I'm desperate!
I loved grouping in dungeons in Dark Age of Camelot back in the 2002ish era.
The Housing, crafting, and the pvp in UO back around 99.
The Arena in WoW back in TBC
The healing in Rift, cleric or bard
The epic music in EQ2 that fit to many of the landscapes perfectly
The combat, scenery, and music in AOC
I usually play a warrior, healer, or bard.
I can't think of anything else. Really. God speed
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Didn't you just name those games in your post?
Oh you mean "please help me find a NEW game". Well, devs are not obligated to make games with old failed design that you like. There are so much entertainment out there, i doubt you can't find anything fun.
May be the program is that you are sticking to MMORPGs?
"Old, failed design".......give me a break. Daoc had the best design for rvr ever seen in an MMO, WoW is the most successful MMO out there still. Rift was absolutely successful by today's MMO standards, and EQ2 and AoC are still kicking with one of them being 11 years old.
So your "old, failed design" comment is extremely flawed. There are tons of reasons people move on from games, typically it is because they change and the population slowly declines. Such as Daoc, Mythic commited suicide with the changes they made in that game. Even so....it is still alive and still has a sub model. So much for "old failed design". Absurd.
and a game pop slowly declines is not failing?
Text adventures are still kicking in some unimportant corner of gaming .. i guess you will say that is not "old failed design" either. We have very different definition of what "old failed" means.
All good things come to an end. No game, no matter how good, will go on forever. A game that can still demand a subscription and be in service since 2002 is by no definition a failure. And it would be thriving even more if not for decisions made by Mythic that forced much of the population to leave. The game in its prime was by no means a failure of design. How you can say that about a game that invented rvr is baffling. I suppose Casablanca was a failure of design for a movie to you since it is no longer in theaters or the top rental.