I miss my neckbeard, basement dwelling days playing awesome oldschool MMOs like UO, Tibia, PSO, Runescape, Maplestory, GunBound etc...
Any others that did the same? What do you play now? I have that MMO itch that only a truly great MMO can scratch.
I used to play Tibia and played Guild Wars for 10 years. Those were gold days!
I play Haven & Hearth. It's not as fast as the other MMOs. So I can take my time doing all the stuff, alt tab while I play. I also play some ultima shards.
>>340330013
All MMOs past the WoW moment are shit
Before WoW every MMO was unique and original, had unique mechanics and shit, because of WoW every single MMO is the same shit. A reskin of WoW
Before WoW MMOs weren't about grinding and shitty combat.
Just play OSRS bro.
>>340330013
>gunbound
it's been too long, my friend
>>340330224
>MMOs weren't about grinding and shitty combat.
>>340330457
>>340330457
Truth was spoken!
>>340330013
>Not mentioning Everquest
I used to play a lot of Ragnarok
t. BR
>>340330414
I came here to post this. Does it still exist? is there a vanilla server running somewhere? Aduka SS, 1 = boot
>visual MMOs which were purely stat and armor grinding games
>not playing superior MUDs which were about interacting with the community and writing the future of the game world yourself
You could also play them at school and teachers didn't know any better
>>340330013
You forgot RO
I don't really like playing MMOs anymore.
Automated marketplaces, automated group finders, automated walking from quest to monster to quest, sharing exp and drops just for hitting a monster once, instanced resources so that everyone can craft everything. The whole experience is so automated that there's literally no reason to ever play with other people or even speak to them.
Even if it was slow and frustrating and inconvenient haivng a bunch of people shouting their deals at player made markets while scammers did anything they could for a quick buck made it feel like the game was actually alive. And player owned businesses where a high level guy would give you fantastic equipment, a sack full of gold, and put you to work. It wasn't as profitable as if you refined the materials or even sold them raw yourself, but it was probably easier than shouting your head off in the competitive marketplace. That kind of gameplay can't exist in a world where you just throw shit up on an auction house.
>>340330685
Nvm, gunbound.ca.
Giving it a try
>>340331718
I tried Black Desert as it was going to be the "best next-gen MMO"
>no trade between players
>auction shop automatically sets the price for your item
>armors that you're wearing don't actually show up on your character unless you pay real money
>press a button and your character will automatically go to the next quest guy
>grind until lvl 50, then pvp
>pvp is pointless because there's no penalty for dying
>people are still defending it
That was when I was sure that MMO genre is dead and I'm never going to play any MMO ever again
I miss picking a new MMO to reverse engineer and subtly hack to do shit that wouldn't break the game or get me banned, but would help other players out or see things in the game that others can't. (Ex: Getting outside of that map)
I miss it guys...
I was lurking for interest but the consensus seems to be there is nothing worth playing?
>>340330457
grinding and shitty combat were the bread that sandwiched the meat of human interaction and douchebaggery
the modern mmo is a bread sandwich
tibia sucks dick and is p2w
>>340330738
I used to play this one called Dark Isles, which gave you exp for roleplaying. It was automated to so I was /me waveing at every nigger I strutted past.
Hunted foxes in the woods to sell their pelts and eventually grinded enough character points to request to be a mage class. It was fun as shit, and then it just died. I did see the owner on a BDSM dating website and sent her a PM asking if she was ever gonna put the servers back up, but she never responded
MUDs were the shit
![tos_logo[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/GqMnZAR.png "tos_logo[1].png")
>tfw you actually thought this was going to be the one
Holy fuck man
>>340335362
I thought Black Desert was going to be the one too.
>>340332168
Same story. I'm sure there will be something though. They can't keep making themeparks forever.
>>340333247
Nothing right now unless you feel like jumping to beta/alpha tier stuff and watch it develop.
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen
Camelot Unchained
Crowfall
Gloria Victis
Albion Online
Conan Exiles
Worlds Adrift
Chronicles of Elyria
Project Gorgon
Forsaken Legends
>>340333103
Me too friend, PSO is what kept me from committing sudoku in jr high.
>>340333485
Yeah seriously, offline training is as P2W as it gets.
>>340330520
my shitty pc couldn't handle EQ
>>340333485
back then it wasn't and it was perhaps the best online experience of my life
>>340330131
>tfw you will never replay Faction again
>tfw you will never experience such an alien location or doing Alliance Battle for hours at end
>tfw you will never finish the Deep for the first time again
God damn Tibia was great. My friend introduced it to me in middle school and we used to do dumb shit like make low level PK characters and kill random retards in the Thais area. It really went to shit once they started trying to make it more like WoW. Cooldowns, mounts, every monster dropping 5 pig anuses. The PoI update era was some of the most fun I've ever had in multiplayer vidya.
>>340330738
No one wants to play single digit population games, senpai.
>>340336482
>fire pushing BRs at Xodet's potion store
truly the greatest MMO of its era
>>340333485
Current Tibia yes, I still remember the glory days of Tibia 7.4 to 8.xx, best online experience I've had.
>>340336393
Dude, Factions was THE SHIT!!!!
God damnit, can I still play it?
>>340336642
It was shit and everyone used macros while claiming to be skilled at the game.
>>340330224
i wish wow had you lose all your shit and start over when you died
a REAL hardcore more
RIP ;_;7
>>340335362
>expected a comfy grinding game because something something guy from RO is on the team
>got this abomination where you solo quest for 230 levels and then the content just fucking stops
>performance issues make mass group content which is shit to begin with nigh impossible to play
>itemization is so bad that the only worthwhile gear come from dungeon boss cubes at a 1% drop rate; you can only run dungeons 3 times per day (as in, you have 3 runs period before you're locked out of doing dungeons for 24 hours)
>fired the only community manager who responded to players on the forums because she was too honest
>international version gets no content update or fixes for literally three months since release, instead porting useless things like "New potion icons!" from the korean version
>items like EXP boosters claim to give a 30% bonus to experience, but the way EXP calculations are done means they only give about 5% at best
>game is clearly dependent on a cash shop, but they won't even update that
End it
End my life
>>340336760
Unless it a zaishen quest or hardest/long content like the elite dungeons, everyone is soloing with heroes. I'm pretty sure Spamadan is still the most populated hub right now.
I miss those days brehs
>>340330013
>Still no NA or EU only server
>Cipsoft keeps ruining the game
I miss tibia.
>>340337697
it was a shit game
![20130228091152a0det6485uyegwmr[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Nxg3vaY.jpg "20130228091152a0det6485uyegwmr[1].jpg")
Anyone here play Trickster before? I never have and after playing RO for over a decade I'd love to try it.
If I roll a character (bearing in mind I know 0% about the game) would anyone want to join with me?
Timezone doesn't even really matter, just some people who I can exchange experiences with would be cool.
>tfw no Ring Runner MMO so you can make a band of space wizards
>>340330013
>GunBound
I liked this game a lot, but I was a Senior in high school when it came out.
>>340330013
never got into Tibia or Maplestory, now both me and them are too old to be relevent
>>340330013
Goddamn these quests were so immersive and well thought ut.
I fukken loved the shit out of paradox tower
>MMO/dungeon crawling/adventure anime keeps getting pumped out
>makes the MMO craving worse and worse
>they're all unforgivably shit
>>340337804
I hope someone plays with you anon
>play tibia for a few months
>starts grtting boring since I can't be asses to grind nonstop and I can't pay a PA
>discover Open Tibia Servers (private servers)
>absurdly fun
>good servers start dying
>discover Maplestory on GameFAQS ad
>start playing with my cousins and a friend in school
>we love it even though the game takes ages to progress
>grind and talk a ton, do a bazillion party quests
>game slowly starts to go to shit
>quit
>come back in 2012
>game is bizarre, everything is way easier, you can skip lower levels, game has questlines and quick travel
>grinding is so fast that I legit thought I was playing a private server
>quit again
>come back once more last year, on a private server with friends
>with the cash items available for free, the game is actually fun and playable
>server dies
I've given up on MMOs since then, but I'll never forget the fun of making new friends, doing dumb stuff, discovering the crazy and new environments and all the stuff in an old and undiscovered game.
>>340338026
>never got into Tibia
Man you have no idea what you missed.
You pretty much missed 1998-2010.
>>340330224
Never played everquest huh?
>>340338585
I want to see a 5 minute spoof MMO anime where every episode is just the MC and try hard faggots found from a group finder going through dungeons as fast as they can and not talking to each other and actually kicking players if they suck. Only time the players bond is when they insult the developers. The show ends with the player quitting and moving onto a new MMO and starting the same cycle. He starts it by reading guides about the game and the most efficient routes to max level.
>>340335716
I heard albion is turning out ok
>>340338585
To be honest, Lucky Star is still like the only anime that show MMO correctly, and it was a gag and poke fun of without the waifu shit.
>>340337804
hae not heard of it but ill try it out
Tibia was always considered pleb-tier, infestated with brazilians and poorfags. Don't compare it to other better MMOs please
I want to play UO with my younger cousin who was too young to really appreciate the game, but is there even any pve stuff to do?
In the subject of Tibia, anyone know of any decent OT servers? I used to play some fun ones years ago but nowadays all I see are REALMAP 2X EXP CUSTOM P2W ISLAND JEJEJE GUD SERVER MENS
>>340340951
That is post 2011 tibia.
Pre-2011 was full of mexicans(the good kind) and 50-50 poland and finland.
Pre-2004 was Finland and poland mostly and NA.
>summer between highschool and college
>new tibia server opens up
>binge play so much players accuse me of having multiple people on my account and/or botting
>GMs popping in and prodding me with trivia frequently
>have to actively convince people that I in fact have nothing else to do with my life
The most fun I've ever had.
Lineage Eternal will be good, right?
>>340341087
I don't know, anon. I'm BR and Everyone in my school and at the Lan Houses played Tibia nonstop back in ~2006. I remember seeing a lot of people playing in 2.6, and everyone quit right before 8.0
>>340341590
>2.6
I meant 7.6.
>>340341087
pre-Secura was germans, brits, and americans; it was awesome and everyone spoke english.
Secura brought an influx of swedes and fins because they are non-violent.
Once they started making servers in america (Amera, Calmera) it was BRs everywhere because they could finally establish a connection before the server timed them out.
>>340341590
Yes but you guys didn't went full HUEHUHEHUE like you do now.
Now that i remember 1/3 of my guild were brazilians back in 8.1.
>>340330224
>Before WoW MMOs weren't about grinding and shitty combat.
Before WoW, leveling was all about mindless grinding as far as I can remember, WoW quests were actually a breath of fresh air in the sense that you could level up by completing a shitload of dumb storylines involving various tasks instead of only killing shit over and over. And in the case of UO and the like, macro the shit out of skills to level them up.
You exchanged one grind for another, but still.
>>340332168
Just an update on Black Desert:
Gear information is stored client-side. You know what that means, and what is happening because of that.
UO Pre-Trammel/Felucca was pure gaming. Nothing beat being able to hide then stealth into a doorway, trapping people to their deaths or pickpocketing explosives into someone's bag, or dropping trapped chests in town and watching some idiot die a horrible death
UO was -the- game for griefing
>>340342108
>WoW quests were actually a breath of fresh air
You have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.
>>340342021
non-pvp servers were for faggots and botters
>>340342025
Yep, I think everyone back then was more ashamed of being a noob and not knowing english very well. It seems that as internet became more widespread in Brazil, more niggers and poor people were able to play MMOs, and the huefest caught on like a plague. Today it's kinda cultural to act like a retarded monkey, sadly.
RPG MO is alright. I played it for a while until I died and lost all my shit.
>>340338151
mjå
>>340330457
Well the MMOs I played at least
>>340342306
Please refresh my memory, which other MMO before WoW did quests like that? and also allowed you to level through them alone and mostly on your own?
I recall other games with quests sure, but not the obscene amount WoW had, or with constant and gradually progressing XP and equipment rewards.
Another detail I recall that I found extremely refreshing from WoW was food/water, cutting downtime after battles considerably.
Last game I played before WoW was L2, there you had to stop for a long while once you were either OOM or at low HP, especially annoying if you ever were solo for whatever reason.
Sounds like a lot of you faggots should be playing EVE.
But you won't, because you are all autists now and will never be able to freely socialize like when you were young. Therefore even sandbox games have nothing for you anymore.
Sodoku. I know I'm going to.
>>340342025
We actually were, you're just some nostalgiafag trying to make things look better in the past.
>>340330224
blade and soul is very different and much better than the pve carebear grindfest that is wow
there are mmos out there, ppl just outgrow the mmo phase and they aren't that popular with the new generation of kids, hence why it's a dying genre
>>340343678
>EQ
>PSO
>maplestory
>MU online
>aspereta
and all of them better than WoW since it was far more interesting that simply collecting 10 warhog foreskins or some other stupid shit for the entirety of the game
>>340336393
>tfw you will never solo grind uw for ectos on your 55hp monk again
>>340330013
I just got back in to OSRS and vastly enjoying the quests I was too young and retarded to figure out without going over every tiny detail through a guide
they really are unrivaled for an MMO
>>340330013
I miss being able to be a travelling merchant and jew it up.
I miss the social aspect of MMOs.
>>340340529
I wanna see an MMO anime where everybody is a scammer and half the people don't speak english.
>>340344578
I hope you don't pay for the sliding puzzle like a scrub
>>340343727
I've actually been playing Eve for about a week
Joined a good alliance and been living out in SovNull
Waiting for my fucking skills to train so I can PvP competently
It's my first sandbox, so it's quite a different experience
>>340336618
> tfw going on br hunting raids
Then guilds declared wars and all hell broke lose
>>340343981
I don't know what you're talking about. Maplestory quests were always "kill 37352 mobs" or get "36252" drops, with the exception of very few jump quests (which had shit rewards) and party quests (which were like only three or four in total back then).
>he does not run his own open tibia server so he can play and grind alone, all by himself, fully enjoying his autism without interference for others
fagget
>>340343981
I'm not talking about just having quests, but about quests being central to the leveling process.
I recall UO having a few quests as well, and SWG, but you didn't really level through those, they were more of a novelty or only there for the "special" reward.
>EQ
I played UO when EQ was strong, but I knew a couple of guys who were a lot into it.
Never heard them, or anyone else really, mention "quests" as something they did repeatedly, the thing they always mentioned was finding groups and killing shit in some level-appropriate area until exhaustion.
>PSO
This one is tricky, the XP from the mobs you killed along the way was good, the rewards from completing were shit, for the most part at least.
You ended up spamming TTF over and over anyways, and I'd hardly call that more interesting.
>MU online
>aspereta
Ignored those completely because they always looked like shit.
How was the questing exactly?
>Maplestory
I never played this one either, wasn't it post-WoW anyways?
>>340346704
> missing the experience of giving flasks of poison to noobs on rook
> missing the fun of telling people to go jump on a hole, with no way out other than using a rope, charging 50gp for the rescue
> not Ksing fools only to be "hunted on main"
Enjoy it single player game man
>>340346704
>playing an MMO alone
Why not simply play a normal rpg? There are many better than Tibia.
>>340337005
WHOA DUDE
I loved Graal Online. Maloria, Zone, Zodiac, Unholy Nation, all that shit. good times yo.
>>340346972
>SWG
Sorry, forgot about mission terminals, but I don't know if you would really call those quests.
>>340330013
I still play the original everquest & it's private servers it hurts to see your old MMO grow so dead & desolate
Project 1999 is kinda fun when your drunk alone with ale at least
hey guys I found a photo of anon from a couple years ago!
Im playing Pathfinder Online, Goblinworks is undergoing company changes but the small community is superb
>>340349275
it's out?
>>340350304
it's shit.
>>340350304
Wrapping up by this fall
