To play with other players, socialize, and have fun . Apparently you play games to be an Ass to other people.
You are the one who throw insults here, not me. Also we are talking about games, not social networks. And yes, to call it multiplayer you actually have to play with the other players.
By your standard only games like UO, lineage, darkfall, albion are mmorpg. Anything else without consequence of death is single player game.
Well, it depends if the developer started with a singleplayer game and added multiplayer features, or the opposite. Honestly if the L2 had a good marketing and management, nobody would remember WoW. There are many issues in L2, but above all it is a MMORPG. And back in the past, it had the superior graphics, the meaningful gameplay, and multiplayer design. But it was managed at terrible way, with terrible customer support, without adequate advertising and explanation of its features. While Blizzard had a mediocre, ugly game, but did everything else right.
I don't agree. Lineage II has a terrible development team and product management, bad gameplay, and the worst PvP I have ever experience... And I played it... for Years (8-10 years depending on breaks). The game was terrible. The fun part of it was the crazy ass people playing it who thought they were Josef Stalin simply because they were Guild Leader for a bunch of no-lifers. PvP broke the minute players discovered Nostromo.
Itemization was terrible. Class balance was perpetually beyond terrible. PvP was terrible. Olympiad is a joke. Botting and eBaying in L2 was worse than I've ever seen in a video game before and since its release.
I do not get the infatuation over this game. It was okay to play to just sit around and grind MOBs while conversing with friends, but it was and is simply not that great of an experience. There are much better games to play in terms of PvP, and L2 isn't even worth thinking about for PvE.
Anyone looking for a PvP game with a decent PvE component is better off in Elder Scrolls Online. It's a better game, in practically every way... and I'm not even that big of a fan of it (but have played it enough to know).
L2 would have crumbled no matter how good the management or marketing was. The game was fundamentally broken in design. The only way to fix it was to develop a sequel to replace it, and they never really got around to doing that (the new Lineage game they developed was pretty much universally panned).
I do still think there is value in a game where you can just sit back and grind MOBs while socializing with friends, though. It's a lot more relaxing than running all over the map to completely repetitive/redundant/anti-climatic quests.
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Itemization was terrible. Class balance was perpetually beyond terrible. PvP was terrible. Olympiad is a joke. Botting and eBaying in L2 was worse than I've ever seen in a video game before and since its release.
I do not get the infatuation over this game. It was okay to play to just sit around and grind MOBs while conversing with friends, but it was and is simply not that great of an experience. There are much better games to play in terms of PvP, and L2 isn't even worth thinking about for PvE.
Anyone looking for a PvP game with a decent PvE component is better off in Elder Scrolls Online. It's a better game, in practically every way... and I'm not even that big of a fan of it (but have played it enough to know).
L2 would have crumbled no matter how good the management or marketing was. The game was fundamentally broken in design. The only way to fix it was to develop a sequel to replace it, and they never really got around to doing that (the new Lineage game they developed was pretty much universally panned).
I do still think there is value in a game where you can just sit back and grind MOBs while socializing with friends, though. It's a lot more relaxing than running all over the map to completely repetitive/redundant/anti-climatic quests.