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• • Any other older players here?

  • Originally posted by zymurgeist
    

    Pushing fifty. First computer game, Star Trek on a mainframe.

    
     

    lol, I think that was the Star Trek game we used to play that was later stored on a cassette tape and fed to an old Radio Shack computer by a tape recorder, one of the first ever personal computers that was in our school.

    39 here, and gaming has been my addiction since Pong and Zork.  I remember when we used to play the old DnD pen and paper games how we imagined someday playing them out on computers.  Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine how fully realized this would be with the advent of the MMO.

    Well here's to my fellow old farts and to many more great years of gaming.  Its funny now when I think about how we moan and whine about the MMO's today, I would have gone nuts 20 years ago over some of the titles today that we consider failures. Lets hope the genre will evolve.

  • Posted: 10/12/08 10:16 PM
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• • Decline of Communities and Worlds

  • Originally posted by Abruner
    

     Last, but most important, enough paying players to know that unless we support the companies breaking from the "Norm", they will never have a reason to give us anything more.

    
     

    Hear! Hear!

  • Posted: 10/10/08 8:14 AM
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• • Decline of Communities and Worlds

  • Originally posted by Zarraa
    

    I've yet to see a title harness the challenge of UO, EQ1, AC & DAOC minus the timesinks. First company that achieves this will have a gold mine on their hands.

    
     

    Very nice. I like to think of those as the Fantastic Four of the MMO world.  Loved each of those, and those titles are what an MMO is to me.  Darkfall appears to be my last hope.  Vanguard could have been, but a lot of problems and a terrible launch prevented it from taking the baton from those 4 and running with it.

     

  • Posted: 10/10/08 1:41 AM
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• • Decline of Communities and Worlds

  • Been trying to figure out why my passion for MMO's has been waning and why so many people on boards like this express the same sentiments.  Came up with two basic reasons.  The end of true worlds and the decline in the quality of communities.

    The reason I have played MMO's since the UO, EQ days is to be immersed in another world with good people.  The MMO's out nowadays feel more like console games with their instancing and instant gratification and abrasive and shallow communities.  Personally I don't play MMO's for the instant gratification.  I play console games for that.  I want a world to explore and some depth, and thats what I personally miss lately.

    I was so hyped up about AoC that I ordered the three Conan books with all the original stories and read them.  When the game came out, I made it to level 10, realized the instancing killed the immersion for me, and cancelled my account.  Then I got really hyped up for WAR.  Made it to level 12 this time.  The game is a lot of fun and very well done for what it is.  But again, all the zones and instances kill immersion.  Felt like I was just queing up in a console lobby to play some FPS scenarios.

    I also think that with MMO's becoming so readily available to the masses, the communities are not as special or as friendly as they once were.  Those early MMO's weren't nearly as accesible as the ones out today, and that lack of accesibility seemed to work almost like a filter.  Lets face it, there are still great people playing MMO's, but no one can deny there are also a lot of jerks out there nowadays.  A lot of these jerks would never have had the know how to enter these worlds in the past, but Computers and MMO's have become so easy to use, any jerk with a mouse has access. I find the best communities are in the more complex, less populated, niche MMO's out there and thats about all I play nowadays.

    Maybe I'm just like that old fart screaming "In my day......", but I think there are a lot of people out there, young and old alike who feel this way lately. 

  • Posted: 10/10/08 12:54 AM
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• • Stupid Ace Online Ad

  • thank goodness I am not alone.... I HATE that ad!!!!

    The noise doesn't even correspond to anything going on in the video, its just there to annoy you into looking at the ad.

    Well done, I was annoyed, looked at the ad, and took note of which game NEVER to try.

  • Posted: 9/12/08 3:01 PM
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