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MMO Reroll: The Private Servers | MMORPG.com
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MMO Reroll: The Private Servers | MMORPG.com
Mitch takes a different approach with this month's MMO ReRoll, looking at the private servers that allow players to experience the MMOs of yesteryear.
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Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
The Return of Reckoning seems interesting. Even though I'm not any fan of pvp
We have seen a window of what this might be like from the player creations in Second Life to the mods of FO4, CiV, to the private servers themselves. Tap that potential and that old adage that MMOs can't get past end game could disappear, the modders would push back end game while the studio gets the next expansion ready. The MMO would have no end game.
marvel heroes needs a support group. it still shows up on my steam library
Yeah, I was a big fan of Marvel Heroes so you know I looked for one. The best I could come up with were a few comments of people wishing there was one and a couple of rumors of a secret server with no proof of existence. Maybe some day it'll happen.
Great, now this will get flagged and taken down!
Really though, I've been writing here for three years now and not once has any editor tried to influence, censor, or in any way try to change my opinion about what I was writing. They have allowed every stupid thought be recorded in internet history. The readers on the other hand, they tell me all the time how stupid I am!
The DAoC and SWG shards were pretty easy to get going. Those are both great games. I may be interested in retrying Wildstar.
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"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".
I'm pretty sure the music is on Soundcloud and/or Spotify. I remember downloading a copy.
EB was my first MMORPG and where I got my screenname. I remember getting into a zen of mining gas clouds and asteroids. I even had a before/after note showing where I was before I was able to refine a bunch of high-end ores and after I was done. I gained a trader level doing that. Then when they said it was being sundowned, I just couldn't play anymore.
Let's party like it is 1863!
Man, they need you on that server. The people that do play are so helpful to new players. You will get gear built for you for free up to level 4. And you can play the missing classes EA left out. Go look it up.
Not surprisingly I spent the most time in Project 1999. EQ was my first MMO and even though I despise the endgame the nostalgia factor was pretty big for me.
"classification of games into MMOs is not by rational reasoning" - nariusseldon
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Try a MUD today at http://www.mudconnect.com/So what do I say? Just make your time and enjoy the now as best you can. It is NOT coming back. Only a facsimile of it can emerge. You missed something? Eh, there's probably a reason for it.
They are good, but...I don't like them. Chasing the ghosts of a past, instead of cherishing it...ok, they are good for tying up any loose ends.
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that would be amazing even as offline game
The argument was if the changes were the correct changes.Well over many games and many years of different games i have seen what appears most often as studios making very poor decisions over time.
I believe there is a simple reason and that is eventually all games begin to lose players and profits become less.So these dev studios are not in the position to make costly high end changes but instead look for cheap cost cutting ideas,lazy ideas.This type of cheap lazy change happens both with NEW content and changing old content.
Now the big HOWEVER......
My experience has been that private servers will never come close to the original so called happy times players had.This however is also true when the studios themselves try and recreate that vanilla feeling,it just NEVER happens the same.
SO what exact purpose do private servers accomplish?IMO there is only two,to either bring back a game "sort of" that went under or to give players a somewhat resemblance to the game they love without having to pay BS subscription or cash shop,season pass fees.
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