Playing since WoW is considered old school?

I have been playing MMOGs since 1998 starting with Realm Online so I am old school and anyone who started playing after original EQ1 isn't old school.

The man in my sig says you are all n00bs.

maybe some new players consider themselves oldschool because they are used to that kind of MMORPG..

that's my opinion

To be honest a lot of people will say a lot of different things on the net to impress people in a game atmosphere. I tend to take things with a grain of salt unless I really know the person. As for myself I'm in no way an old school gamer haha. I had stuff like the sega master system, atari, and nintentdo XD. As for mmorpgs I think muds like dragon realms and gemstone III were kinda a gateway into mmorpgs for me.(granted that the sub fees for DR has gone up since its days on the msn gaming zone) As for being hardcore I would have to consider that someone who can go into a f2p game not spend a dollar and compete with the people who do drop money. Or the guy who can level for nights on end and not end up like the little Korean boy who died leveling in EQ. Now I have no problem with people saying they are old school for the sake of it...But, when they want to throw their opinion in to something where an actual dev is going to take their information into account because of that claim....Then thats when I get annoyed. If you want to pretend thats fine. But, for the love of god avoid trying to give input on stuff you never did!

Originally posted by LordZeik

To be honest a lot of people will say a lot of different things on the net to impress people in a game atmosphere. I tend to take things with a grain of salt unless I really know the person. As for myself I'm in no way an old school gamer haha. I had stuff like the sega master system, atari, and nintentdo XD. As for mmorpgs I think muds like dragon realms and gemstone III were kinda a gateway into mmorpgs for me.(granted that the sub fees for DR has gone up since its days on the msn gaming zone) As for being hardcore I would have to consider that someone who can go into a f2p game not spend a dollar and compete with the people who do drop money. Or the guy who can level for nights on end and not end up like the little Korean boy who died leveling in EQ. Now I have no problem with people saying they are old school for the sake of it...But, when they want to throw their opinion in to something where an actual dev is going to take their information into account because of that claim....Then thats when I get annoyed. If you want to pretend thats fine. But, for the love of god avoid trying to give input on stuff you never did!

Dont think I ever really paid attention to the korean kid who died lvling in EQ.  I remember first hand the drama of the one who killed himself when he got his toon's gear ganked, and the child who died in the car when her parents were playing EQ and not watching her from heat stroke.  I remember the days when "i am not buying a 3D graphics card just to play everquest!" in UO.  I remember my first VooDoo and TnT 3D cards, and the freaken price, and thinking 16mb of ram was the shizzle on my gpu, and the pre 10usd days of EQ. 

Meridian 59 are the old schoolers.  I played it before I tried UO, but I was in no way a avid MUD gamer.  However being old school isnt worth much, save for the stories.  It is those that have been playing the MUD/MMORPG for the last 10+ years and still gaming that have anything worthwhile to say about the back then and the here now.

I dont mind if WoW'ers think they are old school.  They have that freash taste in their mouths like I did with EQ for 4 years, when it was all that mattered.  Once they truely tire of wow and move on only to find nothing "feels" as good as it did all those years ago, and the same game dosent feel as good either, they will be on the same playing field.

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Originally posted by UNATCOII
Read my profile. See "man" there? Yeah, I like FPS games, maybe because I was a Woman Marine.

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Man doesn't have to be classified as a gender. Especially how I said it, call it the hippy term person whatever you want to call it, but it has no place in gender.

Secondly you started categorizing people again. Classifying women to certain aspects of gaming is not only politically incorrect it is ignorant. I know a ton of women who play any genre just like any other gamer. As I said it is a matter of TASTE. Anyone can like anything, it just depends who you are and what you like to do.

Who cares.../ignore liar and move on..For me, I been at the mmo since AO..And I personally couldnt care less about it if you wanna call me old school or newbie. In my mind, the people that got issues with this, need to get out more. Allthough to be fair, if you been with mmo's only since WoW you really dont know what you are talking about when it comes to mmo's.

Hardcore gamers don't have hundreds, if not thousands of posts on mmorpg. They're too busy gaming.

Doh!

What does it matter who started playing back in the day on local BBS's, we're all gamers and we all love gaming and that is why we register and become members here - because we're gamers and we love o play these games.

Originally posted by Teala

What does it matter who started playing back in the day on local BBS's, we're all gamers and we all love gaming and that is why we register and become members here - because we're gamers.

its part of the whole "I hate anything thats new or changes" mentallity thats in everything from cars to music to hairstyle choice.

I really don't think a discussion like this is about "Street cred", like someone who has played for a certain amount of time is worth more respect or whatever crazy lonelly people think playing computer games will give them ("Bow to meeeee, because I owned a Nintendo 8 bit!!" "Yeah right, yer a sad looney, you are")

I DO think a discussion like this is more about the fact that today, MMO discussions and arguments are attacked form two different directions, and those two sides argue from completly different viewpoints based on their level of experience. They can not agree on many things because they have played completly different games and more importantly, one group have no idea what the other side talk about.

I started playing arcade games in 1973. My cousins had a pong machine at home in the middle 70s. I have owned every console and computer on the market together with my brother, who is a game programmer except the Texas Instrument computer and the Philips Keyboard console, because frankly, those two sucked. Oh, and I did not own the Vectrex, because at that time I did not have any more money. Just so you know where in the spectrum I am.

Now... The problem appears when a discussion about how to create succesful MMOs pop up, as the ALWAYS do, 2-3 times a day in a forum like this.

Oldschools talk about Questing:

Someone mention AO, and the infinite mission generator with random dungeons and mobs, and an almost infinite reward system.

Oldschool start talking about the pros and cons of Infinite Questing.

Wannabes say: "Whaaaa?! in WoW they had tons of quests too?!!"

Oldschools talk about sandbox:

People dreamilly wanders into the world of UO, and talk with love about their Tailor Woodsman Mage who made the most wonderful outfits and blew people up like firecrackers, then went home to practice some archery, doing exactly what they felt like at any time.

Wannabes say "Whaaaaa?!! but... but... classes?! Can't work wihtout classes!! In Wow, they... they... it's succesful!!"

And so on and so forth... It's not about right or wrong, about respect or disrespect..

It is about two sides where one have no clue what the other side is saying.

Originally posted by HashBrick

 

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Originally posted by UNATCOII
Read my profile. See "man" there? Yeah, I like FPS games, maybe because I was a Woman Marine.

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Man doesn't have to be classified as a gender. Especially how I said it, call it the hippy term person whatever you want to call it, but it has no place in gender.

Secondly you started categorizing people again. Classifying women to certain aspects of gaming is not only politically incorrect it is ignorant. I know a ton of women who play any genre just like any other gamer. As I said it is a matter of TASTE. Anyone can like anything, it just depends who you are and what you like to do.

Originally posted by jokuvaan
Playing multiplayer games since L.O.R.D also known as Legend of the red dragon, and for you kiddos who have no idea what i'm talking about check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon and i don't like elitist pricks, did they start with WoW, Eq, Uo, L.O.R.D or something else. They're still elitist pricks if they diss players based on how long they have been playing. You don't need to be nuclear scientist to play mmo. And grammar whores? They're worst of them all. Not everyones native language is English if you haven't realized, it's not even most spoken language in the world.

http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_d/demon_s_tomb_the_awakening.html

It was one of my favorites.

Old school mmorpg  people are the ones that don't tell others to stfu or get over it..they played at a time when people were it it to have fun and help others out.Not be rude, insensitive and down right hateful.