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tiredofsametab, in What MMOs are you all playing?

This post spurred me to see if Rift were still a thing; apparently it is! I got in quite early when it was still unfinished and played it well after launch. They ended up doing a pretty big overhaul at some point and that's roughly when I got out as I didn't want to have to figure things out again. I may pick it back up. I have no idea what the playerbase (or the actual game these days) is like, though.

Scrof, (edited ) in What MMOs are you all playing?

So what if WoW isn’t the same? It’s still a good game, and a new one at that. I don’t get the apprehension, unless you want to scratch the nostalgia itch, but I think it’s a waste of time, although WoW Classic is a thing. FFXIV is also pretty good if you can stomach anime designs and weird Japanese fantasy, personally I find it too unrelatable.

TrousersMcPants,

Yeah I played classic and I played retail and I prefer retail every day. Would I have called it a good mmo during legion/bfa/shadowlands? Fuck no, but with Dragonflight they’ve really pulled their shit together and made a very good experience and I am definitely looking forward to the Worldsoul Saga

meco03211, (edited )

Nostalgia person here. Resubbed for classic tbc. Blizzard fixed fucked around and did stupid shit. I canceled and joined a private server.

TrousersMcPants,

Private servers can be really really good, I’m just not a big fan of classic wow myself

acupofcoffee, in What MMOs are you all playing?

Honestly, the only game that’s scratched that old MMO itch for me is Old School Runescape.

But, by and large… it’s not an MMO. Give this video a watch!

ExtraMedicated, in Circumcised men, how do you feel about your parents having mutilated your penis without your consent?

I feel much better about it than I would’ve if I needed to have it done for medical reasons as an adult like my grandfather did.

FoundTheVegan, (edited ) in What MMOs are you all playing?
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This fucked up pay to win one called "Life". Shit is hard as hell and I don't think the devs even care about balance.

Kerandir,

Git gud noob

pdxfed,

Not that hard: Iddqd, idkfa and you’re set

hellothere, (edited )

Oh my god don’t even get me started on this game.

Get this, you know how over time you get fatigue points and can only get rid of them by eating food items you’ve previously gathered? Well, when doing this one day last week my character nearly fucking died because of some race condition glitch where mid-swallow they tried to breathe for some unknown reason and because the devs, in their infinite fucking wisdom, decided that while there are two completely separate and incompatible systems for food and air, they must accessed via the same hole, but clearly not at the same time!

The mind boggles, I hope someone was fired for that blunder.

cryostars,

I’m sorry but this is actually pretty fucking funny!

Montagge, in What MMOs are you all playing?
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My girlfriend and I play Elder Scrolls Online, and I'll boot up the Dark Age of Camelot private server Eden from time to time.

SatanicNotMessianic, in What MMOs are you all playing?

I started with MMOs back in the MUD days, both on dial up BBSs and (eventually) on university servers. I will always remember the sysop who walked me through signing up for his BBS MUD while I was giving responses like “y” and “go north” because I thought he was just an infocom game and not an actual person. Twelve year old me was so embarrassed that I never went back. If you’re out there, sysop, or if you’re just someone who has tried their best to support online communities despite the best intentions of absolute idiots, I salute you.

I played EverQuest since it came out, stupidly choosing a ranger and studying fletching all very badly because I didn’t know about gaming the game mechanics and had read too many fantasy novels. I played a lot, mostly by myself, and didn’t get too far. I also tried EQ2 when it came out, and when Diablo 2 released I decided to experiment with gaming the trading market.

I was an early WoW adopter. I played through the level caps two or three times. I joined a more serious raiding guild when I hit 60 (instead of my old rpg guild) and cornered the market on cotton a couple of weeks in a row here and there. I eventually fell out of it - end game content turned into feeling like a job, where you had to study and rehearse in order to get past bosses, your loot dropping was like a 1 in 20 chance, and if you screwed up a single person could cause a group wipe. Honestly, it just got boring compared to being a level 8 warlock wandering around.

What is keeping me from trying new ones is that there’s a massive disadvantage in starting an MMO that’s already been going on for years and years. You can fire up Skyrim for the very first time this afternoon, and have the exact same experience (honestly, a much improved one) as if you fired it up on launch day. I can launch Baldur or Disco or Stray and just not have to worry about getting ganked other than what was already intended by the devs. There was a time in EverQuest where another player challenged me to 1v1 and finally talked me into trying it, then proceeded to beat the living shit out of me but then bandage me right before I died. He kept on doing it until I disconnected. As funny as that was in retrospect, it’s also a problem with MMOs in general.

I would love for there to be a new WoW - something that restored the magic of the game when you could solo or group up and both explore the world and feel progress. I’m still waiting.

Riven,
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I’m having the mmo itch but the thought of the riot mmo coming out in 3 to 5 years has me at bay for now. I did do a little ff with my girlfriend and enjoyed it but trial accounts are a bit too limited for my liking.

Kepabar,

I’ve gone to playing Project 1999, an OG EverQuest emulator server.

It’s only up to velious and it’s as close to how the game was back then as you can get.

I don’t recommend it to people who never played EQ back in the day - games have changed far too much for this ancient game to be fun for most people who don’t have nostalgia for that era of gaming.

But sounds like you might, so I thought I’d suggest it to you.

Redscare867,

Seconding Project 1999. I have played on and off (mostly off) since near the beginning. I wish I had more time to play it. It takes so long to make decent progress that it’s just not for me these days. I’ve thought about rolling a cleric so that I could maybe/hopefully get groups quickly and maybe then in 10 years I’ll be max level

Zerlyna,
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I agree about WoW. For me too much time focusing on dailies and then not enough time to play the game.

Waker, in Lighthearted, upbeat shows for adults?

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    I definitely prefer their Top Gear content but I love seeing the Trio get a shout out in a thread like this

    Streptember, in What MMOs are you all playing?

    GW2 for the past 11 years, except for a stretch where I played ESO for a few months.

    Community's mostly great. Cooperation between players is strongly fostered by the game's design (no kill or resource stealing, no competing for drops, etc), so players tend to get along in almost every PvE situation.

    Lore is good, but not nearly as expanded upon as Warcraft's.

    Gameplay is what makes it IMO. Skill effects and some gear skins can be a bit obnoxious, especially when you're in large groups for open world and World vs World, but it's still enjoyable. Don't play normal PvP, so can't comment on that.

    Faceman2K23, in What MMOs are you all playing?
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    The only mmo’s I ever really spent any significant time with were FFXI (on dial up for most of the time I spent with it so my experience wasn’t great) and GW2. not mentioning eve… we dont talk about that…

    There was a free MMORPG called Planeshift (I played quite a lot in 2005 or so, it’s still around and being actively worked on) that was very elder scrolls inspired, I put a lot of time into in the past too but being a small free amateur project it didn’t have a lot of players.

    I just don’t have the time or motivation to give modern MMOs the attention they really need to make progress, and I was very much a solo player at the time so progress was slow and hard.

    I think if I was to pick up a new one it would be FF14, it has a balance of open gameplay and story which a lot of mmos ignore, it seems like a good community but as with all mmos they really dont want you to just drop in a play a couple of hours every second weekend, they want you to get in daily and stick to a routine, which I just cant commit to these days.

    Drusenija,

    FF14 is actually a lot more forgiving of that more casual gameplay style. It’s very easy to gear up after a break for anything outside of Savage and Ultimate raiding (and even then, you can buy or craft the week 1 gear if you want to get into Savage), the dungeon roulette system makes it so it’s generally always possible to find people to complete content with, even if it’s older, and unless you want to get into housing there’s not really any penalty for say subbing for one month, taking a break afterwards and then coming back when you have time to play, outside of missing out on seasonal events (and generally any exclusives you get from those events get put on the cash shop the following year).

    Also, FFXI player here as well, the ability for that game to run on low speed connections was frankly impressive for the time. I remember playing it using an infrared GPRS data connection on my laptop 😂 Sure it lagged a bit in city areas but the fact that it was still playable was a feat.

    Faceman2K23,
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    I weep for your phone bill, I used to do that to send emails from my Sony Clie when wifi was still pretty new and rare in public.

    Are we old. I think we’re old.

    Drusenija,

    Unfortunately, yes, we are old. But don’t worry, you’re not alone 😊

    s3rvant, in What MMOs are you all playing?
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    Got that itch again recently too and after looking through what's currently popular decided to give EVE Online and Black Desert (on private server) a try

    I like open world survival crafting games (loved Valheim) and prefer to play with others so am hoping these will work out

    Also played some GW2 few months back for a while and I host a Minetest server for our kiddos where I dabble as well

    illi, (edited ) in What MMOs are you all playing?

    It’s been years since I played but can’t recommend GW2 enough if you didn’t try it yet. One of the more unique thempark style MMOs with the focus on dynamic events instead of quests - the events branch out into other events, with different branches based on if you succeeded or failed with some dilogue in between (do stick around when events end!). Lore is rich and story is nice (it has ups and downs).

    The game had its rough patches and reinvented intelf several times but now it seems its in a nice place.

    Also, I figured I would plug !mmorpg - it’s not much active unfortunately, but seeing as there are somr MMO enjoyers here there could be some activity to be had if you don’t yet know it

    Narrrz,

    how does the newest xpac stack up? I'm a longtime player but just lately my interest has waned, but it tends to come and go and it'd be nice to know whether the newest content is worth coming back for. compared to the other xpacs I feel like they did eod dirty with how little time they gave it before releasing another full expansion (hell, path of fire got essentially two full living story releases)

    Streptember,

    What's out so far is good.

    It's split up so that the releases after launch continue the main story of the expansion and are included in the price, so no more buying an expansion then having to be playing at a specific time or pay for the follow-up story.

    The next part releases tomorrow, so we'll see how that stacks up.

    illi,

    I did not play it but I heard good things. I recommended it because I played it extensively at launch and up to the first xpac. I fell off a bit after, but still played everything up to Icebrood Saga. It’s a great MMO with tons of content just for that.

    The game had issues with how they want to do content delivery, they constantly went to reinvent the wheel for ot to bite them at the end each time. From what I heard it is quite simple now - buy xpac once a year, get xpac and living story like updatesfor the year. No logging in to unlock, no buying episodes if you miss them. You basically soft-subscribe for a years worth of content. On the other hand the xpacs will be smaller and without elite specs, but they plan to unlock different existing weapons for the classes.

    Narrrz,

    That's not such a bad model. And three elite specs feels like the right number - gives you some variety in your playstyle choices without risking overlap with what already exists.

    Maybe if i ever get some free time from work ever again (lol), I'll try to dive back in.

    illi,

    Indeed. The stories are supposed to be self-contained too which should help people to return. Considering it myself but I used to play it so much I sadly overdosed for life it looks like

    be_excellent_to_each_other, (edited ) in whats a song you heard for the first time recently that gave you a powerful reaction?
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    Hey OP I just realized I should have linked the very tiny (so far no one but me posts there) kbin magazine I mod which is intended to more or less collect songs such as you describe. For each post I've included the lyrics.

    I'm not sure how to link it that it will clickable on Lemmy, but it's:

    @musicwithamessage

    Music with a Message

    @musicwithamessage

    Edit- I'd love not to be the only one posting!

    A_Random_Idiot, in What MMOs are you all playing?

    FFXIV is a fantastic game, with a fantastic free trial that lets you play the entire base game for free (and i think they recently expanded that to the first expansion too), and its beautiful as hell, has a fantastic story, and doesnt require a super computer to run.

    Drusenija,

    They actually just expanded it to the second expansion, so you now get the base game of A Realm Reborn, as well as Heavensward and Stormblood included in the free trial.

    It’s also releasing for beta on Xbox later this year (currently it’s PC and PS4/5) so there’s due to be a new influx of players as well, so it’s a good time to start playing. That and the new expansion is due out in the new year too.

    9715698,

    Is it cross play with consoles?

    Vox,

    yes, it’s currently ps4/5 and PC but when it launches on Xbox it’ll have crossplay on release. I also believe cross save exists but you have to purchase DLC specifically for the platform you’re on.

    Drusenija,

    Yup, this is right. Everyone plays on the same servers regardless of the platform you’re on, but any expansion you purchase is tied to the platform (so Mac, PC, PSN and soon presumably Xbox). So if you personally want to play on multiple platforms you need to buy multiple copies of the game.

    However that only applies to the initial purchase. FFXIV being an MMO still has a monthly subscription fee (unless you’re on the free trial, which isn’t time limited and includes the base game plus the first two expansions), but you only pay that once a month per account, regardless of how many platforms you play on.

    Pretty much everything is stored on the server as well, so regardless of the platform you log into, your character will be the same. There’s a small number of things that are kept client side (things like your gear sets and your UI setup), however there is an option to upload your settings from one client and download them on another (so for me for example, my PS5 is my primary device but I sometimes play on PC, so I’ve copied my PS5 settings to the server, and then downloaded them onto my PC, all through the game client).

    A_Random_Idiot, (edited )

    Oh, neat. I thought it was the first expansion, but hte second?

    Thats a whole lot of content for free.

    Apologies for my accidental misinformation.

    Drusenija,

    No stress! It’s only changed recently (like it was only announced at the NA Fanfast a few months back), so nothing wrong with having missed the change!

    spittingimage, in What would you rather eat a poop flavored chocolate, or chocolate flavored poop?
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    I choose to fling them both at the person serving me this atrocity, then punch him in the kidneys while he’s distracted.

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