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If you started MMOs after 2005, Thank you for killing the genre!
l2avism
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If you started MMOs after 2005, Thank you for killing the genre!
What?! Somebody has to let the cat out of the bag.
Back then most MMO's were worth playing. Then game companies started dragging in riff raff from the console and warcraft markets which turned the entire genre from something that once was Applebees into mcDonalds.
You mad? Don't get mad. Educate yourself. Go download and try playing older games. Through enlightenment you can cast aside that cloak of inferiority and exchange it for a golden cloak of wisdom.
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Insinuating that just because they started after 2005 means they're the ones pushing out the bad games and the likes. Okay.
You been left behind and the genre has passed you by.
opinion and ignorance are not the same thing.
In before the lock.
Is an opinion based on ignorance not also ignorance?
If I drink my milk with peanutt butter does that not also make me a cabbage?
I started playing MMORPGs in 2005 and yet I'm a sandbox gamer. I've played UO and pre-cu SWG emulations. I've also played and supported many sandbox games that came after. Not all of us who starting playing them in 2005 love games like WoW and need condescending education about the alternatives. While I'm at it, you could have atleast tried to make the point as to why your preferred type of game is better rather then just claiming they are riff raff and implying as a result that you are somehow better than them and they are guilty or "destroying the genre". That's just nonsense, video game preferences are just that, preferences.
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You didn't read the entire post. You just read the title, got mad, replied with this and basically said that you did what I recommended doing
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This:
Saying that the genre isn't destroyed is fairly ignorant though. Haven't you noticed that the failure rate is like 90% these days?
People have basically given up on MMOs.
Go play older games? No thanks. The graphics suck, the gameplay is dated, and they have as much depth as a pencil drawing. Sorry, take off your rose colored glasses, because they're cracked.
Yeh! All you 10 Million plus people that have joined the genre since then (probably double that), when there only 500K at the most playing any one game,....you're fired!
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You have that reversed. Older games had depth. So much depth that the typical player never actually saw the entire game.
No I read the post but you didn't appear to read mine. "Not all of us who starting playing them in 2005 love games like WoW and need condescending education about the alternatives"
Something that once was Applebee's? High standards there OP.
Ah yes, the old quantity over quality argument.
I've been playing since before you could stay up past 9 on school nights. The old ones were a good start and full of warts that got ironed out over time. You sure you played UO, EQ or AC at release?
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Runescape3 VS OldschoolRunescape
is a prime example
Sway all day, butterfly flaps all the way!
Right? I laughed so hard at this!
Originally posted by laokoko
"if you want to be a game designer, you should sell your house and fund your game. Since if you won't even fund your own game, no one will".
OP, the individuals themselves know best if they are responsible for the products today and if it will remain more of the same or not based on what products they've chosen and keep choosing to spend their $.
World of Warcraft is one casual, themepark MMORPG most of us choose to spend our $ on, and that has had a partial side effect on todays state of the genre. Rest assured though World of Warcraft despite being the theme park on rails it is without doubt it was done on a very high level...unlike the rest of its clones, so its success is well earned and deserved.
I did continue to spend my $ on similar products later on like Aion and DC Universe Online, but those were the last. So, again everyone here knows how much they've contributed to what's out there and will be coming based on their spending choices.
The other thing is McDonalds has continued to grow as a business and get better with time... i dont know about your country, but in my country they offer a gourmet style "build your own burger, which you design on a tablet in the restaurant with a selection of buns, cheeses, fresh ingredients etc... and then you get table service, where they bring your order out to you with your fries in a little fries basket etc... so it's kind of like getting a quality restaurant burger but at mcdonalds....
so i mean honestly, it's a really terrible comparison you've made.
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That's an experiment McDonald's is doing in specific cities from what I've read. They've been losing a lot of business lately, and it's only getting worse. I had no idea they were testing the waters in Countries such as Australia. Very cool, and thank you for sharing the pic. I'd be back at McDonald's in a heart beat if they offered that type of experience in my city.
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