Grindan for years to raise your character to cap.
Grindan for years to max out your character's gear.
Endgame guilds that were run like the mafia and were as hard to join.
Virulent hate for rival guilds.
Putting all that aside when it came to fighting the chinese currency farmers because everyone hated them so much they were willing to set aside their differences just for that one thing.
Camping 72 hour (or longer) world spawns.
Devs that hated the players with the blazing fury of a thousand angry suns and actively trolled them.
Good times man, good times.
MMOs were always garbage you dumb nostalgiaposter
MMOs aren't "games" they are chat rooms with leveling.
Digging into my old screencaps folder. Spent three years getting a Mandau.
>>341934197
Not gonna lie, i would give anything to hang out with my old guildies while we tell stories and fuck around in pvp
>>341934197
>Putting all that aside when it came to fighting the chinese
Age of Wushi is a piece of shit p2w grindy as fuck game but it shown me one thing I will hold to forever. FUCK THE VIETNAMESE DOGS!
>>341934197
Too True Man
>>341934197
>Devs that hated the players with the blazing fury of a thousand angry suns and actively trolled them.
Picture relevant.
>>341934197
>Download everquest on steam, haven't played since 2008
>Having fun exploring old zones and shit, nostalgia overrush
>Check mail, have a message from an old friend from 2010 asking how I've been and that they wish I was still playing.
>Know they've likely stopped playing since then but want to send a mail just to let them know I saw it and remember them.
>Can't because it's locked behind F2P garbage.
See you space cowboy.
>>341934197
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvK8fua6O64
>i've never played a mmorpg and probably never will
I unironically shouldn't of wasted my teen years playing sports
Found the screencaps.
>>341937190
>>341937086
I played sports and played mmo's in my teenage years.
I have much fonder memories of my mmo playing.
>>341937320
>>341937468
>>341937576
When I did the last trade I had to wait for my best friends in the game to log on. I couldn't have done this without their help and support so they had to be there when I finished.
>>341937998
And holy shit am I getting a nostalgia rush from this.
>>341938128
>>341938248
>>341938354
God damn I miss that game.
>>341936871
That's really sad. Damn.
29 kills, no bow. Eastern Shadow was a world spawn with a window that ran from 16-36 (real life) hours. I spend around 3 years camping him off and on until I finally got that fucking bow (best bow in the game at the time). It was something like a 3% drop rate.
Yeah the devs were sadistic toward the players.
>>341939126
Way I got his window was to leave my character logged in Fei Yin in the corner of Eastern Shadow's room and record with FRAPs at 1FPS then when I got home from work I'd run through my surveillance footage to see if/when he had popped.
>>341934197
>EQ era MMOs
>good
You were literally too young and retarded to realize how shitty the games were, faggot. Make some god damn friends instead of sucking down the clickbait narratives of M-MODERN MUHMORPUGGERS JUST SUCK.
Toontown was the shit as a kid.
>>341940361
What are you even going on about? There's absolutely no incentive to play modern mmo games with friends. Everything is tailored for a lone wolf themepark experience unless it's a game like EVE. It's the old mmo games that actually required making friends, connections and upholding a reputation because most things if actual importance were either community driven, player influenced or controlled.
>>341934197
True i miss RF online so much
so much potential wasted
never forget
>>341934197
>>341936871
dumb frogposter
That's sort of a good thing. MMO's were far too addictive back then. I'm glad today's kids won't get hooked on shit like that.
>>341940361
>You were literally too young and retarded to realize how shitty the games were, faggot.
I'm 45 and I played FFXI for almost 10 years.
>>341934197
You're reminding me why I absolutely hated games like EQ.
>tfw you'll never hang around brit bank with your guild ever again
>rival guilds shows up
>bitch talk, drama and chases all night around the city
>after 3 hours they finally turn back to Trammel
>>341934197
>giving up leveling on EQ in Oasis to pull sand giants and spectres on the BR guilds nonstop
>not being able to understand the junglespeak that was in all caps
>>341943510
Jesus Christ what is going on with those colors?
Neon blue and orange and white? This was far after my time in UO.
>>341943983
These colors always were in the colour palette of the game, but they served no purpose in the game. On official servers you would never show them, but on private shards they were often given as vanity rewards or used by the GMs, etc.
I think they are the result of how they coded the colors in the game. I doubt they picked every colour manually one by one, they probably set up an algorithm that would setup colours from all possible RGB combination or something, and these colours were a side result of it.
>>341934197
>Die once
>Lose weeks worth of XP
>Die in an unrecoverable place
>Lose everything not in your bank forever
>>341934197
Not even bait, just personal opinion.
Ahem, fuck you, those games were hot garbage. You just stand in one spot and do the same animation over and over and over and over again until the boss dies.
Whenever I took a look at these games the first thing that would come to mind was, why the hell can't these games play like DMC or something? I would really like this genre if there was some console game action in there.
>tfw it happened
Thank the heavens!
Still to the day, the funniest shit, the shit that always gets me, is North Americas reaction to Tera's action based combat. They complained about how difficult it is and such and even have baby tutorials on how to action game. kek.
>>341944297
The rage you feel as a victim is of the same level of intensity as the joy and reward you get when you are victorious.
>>341944252
Now that I think about I guess there was that one ice staff item with T2A, and I think some counselors and GMs had some joke equipment tinted this way.
>>341943653
>that funny ass oompa loompa slowed down run of the goofy looking fucking sand giants
had to be some of the most fun shit ever in video games to train sand giants on people in oasis
one time after we trained them on people for hours a bunch of high levels showed up to kill them, so a GM took control of one, gave it a name, and ran around beating the shit out of people for like an hour
>>341944501
>casual cancer
>>341939734
Lost over 1,000 screenshots from the windower with dialogues from our small linkshell of 8.
>>341944818
you're the casual. Liking that boring looking shit. You stand in one spot anon. ONE SPOT! And you do the same animations just STANDING THERE IN FRONT OF THE ENEMY. Shit is boring as fuck.
>>341943653
>locking down FBSS spawn in lguk with team of ancient-tier autists
>any teams who come nearby get the good ol FD pull
>dropping roamers on fear break teams while they fight
>two accounts banned back when L50s were still worth 2000+ USD
>worth it
>>341943510
>earliest UO before the billion patches that slowly transformed the game into a safe haven
>dragging dragons and daemons through gates
>stacking tables and chairs and falling through house roofs to break in and loot them
>provoking roaming guards onto other guards and players
>opening gates onto hyth or other islands then killing them so they were dead and stuck enjoying their OOoOOoOOOoooo's alone waiting for a GM
>>341937190
>>341941457
I missed out on a lot of the content in that game, regrets.
Was fun playing at launch and spearheading the English movement into content though while we waded through Web1.0 Japanese web sights trying to figure out what they were saying about the areas and how to do the more complex quests; unfortunately, real life is a bitch sometimes, and I had to quit.
>>341944501
>When people tell you it's technologically impossible for a MMO to have anything but WoWs gameplay
>But games like TERA actually fucking exist
If you took something like WoW, and made it single player, everyone would hate it. Even if you ignore how bad the writing is, how shitty the world is and how ugly it looks, the gameplay it's self is laughable bad.
Why the fuck do MMOs get a free pass to have gameplay that bad when we already know it's possible for them to have much better gameplay? Makes no fucking sense.
playing mmos is the most pathetic hobby or part time activity you can imagine.
>>341939734
Why the fuck would you pick up a rare item that you can't fucking equip?
>>341946128
>waiting for a GM
wasnt the honesty shrine on hythloth
I just want that feeling again. What should I play, private servers and the like included?
>>341934197
There are still some like that.
However its on mobile devices and shit.
>Someone found an omg super rare item
>sold it for $4k
>People grind for years and sell their accounts to some chump that wants to save time
>>341938468
Back around 2005-2006 a fully upgraded relic weapon would cost around $15,000-$20,000 if you did it by buying gil with real life money. At the going rate for ancient currencies they were worth around 3-5 billion gil in-game depending on which ancient currencies they needed. (anything that used a 10,000 Byne bill on the last stage was cheaper)
>>341950195
Its not the same thing at all is it, I don't even understand how people game on mobile, the controls and the keyboard are so awkward its impossible. Far as I know there haven't been any successful MMORPGs on the mobile either and how could there be, how would you discuss with people without a proper keyboard.
Still gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside... What I would do to go back in time to feel the awe I did back in these days.
