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Being disconnect from the real world, when was the last ?
delete5230
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Back around 2005 I was still a novice with computers. I had a big bulky HP with a low end processor, ram and video card.
With no one to talk to about video games, I would see the word World of Warcraft mentioned now and then. Hay, I played Warcraft and Starcraft !..... Whats this ?.... Funny I did no investigation other than know I could play it on line with others. I went to EB games and got talked out of it by the store rep, he sent me home with a shooter that really sucked. So I hopped back into my car and went to Circuit City where I didn't have to talk to anyone, and got what I set out for.
None the less it didn't work. It took about a week to learn and buy more ram and a better video card. Now I can play. Because of what I went through the anticipation was unbearable. What drove me to get like that I'll never know. Especially still not understanding what World of Warcraft really was.
I logged in to the Elf area and was in heaven for some reason.
I was so green, I think I ran away from the question mark guy and start killing night sabers until I had to realize their was more to it than that, and I did. I eventually found my Rogue trainer and figured out the hot bar. It seemed I spent a good day in the simple 1-3 area or at least felt like it. I slowly moved on to the next town and stayed on the island for well over a week not caring about level just playing with other like minded players not being in a hurry to leave..... Funny I found a group of friends like that !.... We must of ran the little island mini dungeon five times. It truly felt like the same people night after night and we had so much fun.
Now the time line of a week seems a little gray and un-realistic, but it felt that way looking back.... I was in love !
Problem now being level 12 I HAD TO MOVE ON. Didn't ask or care before this point, I eventually asked and got shown the red porthole to fly off the island. Landing in Darkshore was the next great feeling. It was packed solid with players PvPing. It seemed like some sort of hot spot..... I still have some great memories of Darkshore that will linger forever.
Skipping weeks ahead,
I was questing in South Shore when an invite popped on my screen to do Shadowfang Keep. I'm like whats that ?.... With no answer at all I took the invite and followed a group to the entrance.... My first serious adventure !.... None the less and thinking I was GOD, I got us all wiped.... I'm embarrassed to this day how hard I got yelled at, not to mention I did it again !.... They truly sat me down for a long time and explained how groups worked, and we did great and they gave me the blue dagger that dropped at the end.
I really really made good friends when we were done.... now more in love !...... Dungeons became my thing, I had home made maps all over my room.
I was lost.... For six months of my life, it was the only thing that mattered. Then I found Everquest 2 and Dungeons and Dragons Online. Almost the same feeling, but thats a different story. Tell us yours !!!!
Heres a great first day story about Everquest 1
With no one to talk to about video games, I would see the word World of Warcraft mentioned now and then. Hay, I played Warcraft and Starcraft !..... Whats this ?.... Funny I did no investigation other than know I could play it on line with others. I went to EB games and got talked out of it by the store rep, he sent me home with a shooter that really sucked. So I hopped back into my car and went to Circuit City where I didn't have to talk to anyone, and got what I set out for.
None the less it didn't work. It took about a week to learn and buy more ram and a better video card. Now I can play. Because of what I went through the anticipation was unbearable. What drove me to get like that I'll never know. Especially still not understanding what World of Warcraft really was.
I logged in to the Elf area and was in heaven for some reason.
I was so green, I think I ran away from the question mark guy and start killing night sabers until I had to realize their was more to it than that, and I did. I eventually found my Rogue trainer and figured out the hot bar. It seemed I spent a good day in the simple 1-3 area or at least felt like it. I slowly moved on to the next town and stayed on the island for well over a week not caring about level just playing with other like minded players not being in a hurry to leave..... Funny I found a group of friends like that !.... We must of ran the little island mini dungeon five times. It truly felt like the same people night after night and we had so much fun.
Now the time line of a week seems a little gray and un-realistic, but it felt that way looking back.... I was in love !
Problem now being level 12 I HAD TO MOVE ON. Didn't ask or care before this point, I eventually asked and got shown the red porthole to fly off the island. Landing in Darkshore was the next great feeling. It was packed solid with players PvPing. It seemed like some sort of hot spot..... I still have some great memories of Darkshore that will linger forever.
Skipping weeks ahead,
I was questing in South Shore when an invite popped on my screen to do Shadowfang Keep. I'm like whats that ?.... With no answer at all I took the invite and followed a group to the entrance.... My first serious adventure !.... None the less and thinking I was GOD, I got us all wiped.... I'm embarrassed to this day how hard I got yelled at, not to mention I did it again !.... They truly sat me down for a long time and explained how groups worked, and we did great and they gave me the blue dagger that dropped at the end.
I really really made good friends when we were done.... now more in love !...... Dungeons became my thing, I had home made maps all over my room.
I was lost.... For six months of my life, it was the only thing that mattered. Then I found Everquest 2 and Dungeons and Dragons Online. Almost the same feeling, but thats a different story. Tell us yours !!!!
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I almost want to say my first voip experience was through Blizzard when it was a new company, but I can't correlate the games, the voice chat, the experience -- therefore it must've been an obscure company that no longer exists. I also want to say it was in a Mechwarrior 1~2 lobby, but who knows. I was like 8 years old on an IBM desktop with a Pentium I cpu, and the first time I spoke on mic did some old dude start sh*t talking me for being a kid. Like, the dude was merciless and cursing at me for 10 straight minutes while I was crying to myself and knowing I had done something wrong for entering that community. There was a group of people in the channel listening and laughing -- which, in my mind today, could've been anywhere from 2~20 people. Good times.
My first MMO experience was on Lineage: The Blood Pledge, back when it was leaving beta and I was 12 years old. It was amazing. It was better than my little kiddy brain could've imagined -- as I had previous visions of it being turn-based. It was actually more of a click-and-hold to deal damage system -- not tab targeting or enemies having placards. I was enthralled at the difficulty and slow leveling process. It felt desirable to sink all my time into the game. When things didn't go my way in the game, they affected my real life and emotions as a kid. When the game went p2p, I ended up moving on to other games (Ragnarok Online, Shattered Galaxy, Pristontale, Redmoon, Diablo 1~2) and finding ways to make money for my Lineage subscription. I somehow verified a paypal and sold Diablo 2 loot -- which made me more than enough money to return to Lineage. To this day I still play Lineage on private servers -- as NCsoft shutdown the real one in 2014(?)
For embarrassing losses or being roasted, I'd say League of Legends fits the description. You can get roasted multiple times per day for playing poorly and being on voip. I'm absolutely desensitized when people call me a sh*tter -- as I've been playing for a decade and know the game inside and out. I do not recommend this.
http://twitch.tv/woetothevanquished
I also fell out of Kelethin a lot at the beginning. No guard rails on elf town. I couldn't see a modern MMO having a city as that much of a death trap.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
I disconnected in the sense of being immersed mostly just in EQ. Sometimes in SWG and CoH.
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
If you change the title to:
"When was the last time a MMO disconnected you from the real world."
It will make more sense.
For me, the first time was the first MMO I played Asheron’s Call and the last would be Lotro, since then MMOs have not had the power to work that magic on me. I would put it down to the lack of roleplaying, the tiny world design approach and the over use of Discord.
Thing is, what comes after VR, which in ten years may be so passé?
And the future? Implants! Can’t. Frigging. Wait. ......
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer