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Originally Posted by Bisonzabi
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This is the ultimate fate of any game that is older then an entire generation, the maladjusted and lunatics gain control of the asylum and the normies bleed off and go onto greener pasture.
All this on top of PC gaming being a completely different ecosphere now. $15 subscriptions are a very archaic model from a time when server hosting use to cost an arm and a leg. Back in the early 2000's, you had a handful of games at any given time installed onto your PC or were recently released that year that were worth it thus gaming was far more consolidated. The majority of the people you interacted in the game were usually people from your timezone and it was a rarity to interact with non-North Americans on forums. Most people who could play the latest stuff either came from family's with money to buy/build/upgrade new PCs or had the money to fork over for such expenses alone.
Then that all started to change by the mid-late 2000's as DRM services like Steam came along and slowly reshaped what PC gaming was with tens of thousands of games ranging over the course of 30+ years, cable modem speeds became faster from the blazing speeds of 1mbps in early 2000's to 100mbps by early 2010s, wireless internet became the standard, low end PC's no longer were solely used for AOL chatrooms and doing taxes but could play moderately older 3D PC games, the gateway to building PC's became far more simpler and then the internet exploded throughout the world changing the cultural landscape of interaction. Fast forward to today and most people in PC gaming are from all four corners of the world and consoles/PC/handhelds have merged into singular platform as platform exclusivity has practically vaporized with exception of a few like Nintendo.
Point is most MMO's are only surviving today due to the F2P models. Only anomalies like WoW have the ability to use a subscription model as the standard and even that game still gives a bit of leeway to play the game for free up to a specific point.
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Thank you for this post. I really appreciated reading it even though I have nothing to add to what was said.