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MMORPG with slow internet?

BKOOLBKOOL Member Posts: 67
in The Pub at MMORPG.COM
I recently moved to the middle of no where, and I do not have anyway of getting broadband internet service.  I was wondering if mmorpgs are actually worth playing with 56k internet connection, or is the lag just unbearable.  I've played other games like Raven Sheild and Americas Army without to much lag, but I don't know if a 56k would be any good at all when handling as many players as there are in mmorpgs.  Well if anyone plays on 56k or knows what it is like, I would like to know if it is worth it?image

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  • RJCoxRJCox Member Posts: 2,686

    I know several people who play DAoC on 56k just fine, same for Horizons...

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    "There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."

  • ianubisiianubisi Member Posts: 4,201

    I used to play UO and EQ on 56K (connecting at the blazing rate of about 26.4). Some MMOGs will be easier than others on the modem, but it's typically viable.

    I wouldn't want to play a twitch-trigger MMOG like that, however...but MMOGs aren't typically about twitch-trigger skills.

  • YordoYordo Member Posts: 831
    Most games guarantee that a 56k internet connection should work fine.  I myself played on a 56k connection for SWG and it worked fine for me.  The only bad part is the updates which have rather large downloads.  Other than that, you shouldn't even notice :)

    ::Yordo::
    EQ2, UXO, Lineage 2, KO, Guild Wars, City of Heroes

  • Clever_GloveClever_Glove Member Posts: 996
    I keep a dial up account as back up for my cable modem goes out. I've played EQ, DAoC and SB over dial up, they all worked fine.

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  • DisastormDisastorm Member Posts: 318
    most games are fine except UO.  If you play uo on a dialup and you ride a horse, you will be slower than people that ride a horse on broadband.

  • RammurRammur Member Posts: 575
    www.realmserver.com problably the best for slow net.

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