New posting rules on the state of the game?

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

AI has cracked the code. And, let's be honest: this is it in a nutshell.

Sticky?

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Cut and paste as needed. It's my gift to the community.

[wuanahto]

id love to be able to 2box in certain server times like midnight to 6am

[Pint]

Originally Posted by wuanahto [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

id love to be able to 2box in certain server (blue)

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Originally Posted by wuanahto [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

id love to be able to 2box in certain server times like midnight to 6am

"Just the tip"

[Duik]

Originally Posted by Sadre Spinegnawer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"Just the tip"

That reminds me of a man called Justin.
I have no doubt Sadre will get this.
To everyone else.
NVM.

[Duik]

Originally Posted by wuanahto [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

id love to be able to 2box in certain server times like midnight to 6am

That may be prime time for another user. Nice work Nobody!
Conceited US and A player I'm assuming?

Plenty 2box servers around. <---- there is an FYI

[Wakanda]

This isn't related to P99 or EverQuest, but a lot of the decline is because modern MMOs aren't fun anymore and this is coming from someone who has an active subscription to World of Warcraft. Like it just sucks. Nothing you do in the game feels meaningful, all content/items become obsolete every few months. Content gets digested super rapidly.

I can remember being a kid when EverQuest was a new game, and when my parents bought Velious and Luclin it almost felt like a waste of money because I was still digesting the Planes and Kunark and really didn't have the time or desire to travel to the new zones as a non-elite player, lol.

IDK if we'll ever have a game like that again, ya know? Where it releases and a few years later you haven't even hit max level or seen most of the game due to how difficult and time consuming it is.

Like 11.1 for WoW dropped and within 2 hours I was basically done with everything.

[Ekco]

the decline in MMOs is due to the quality of players playing them, why games like https://store.steampowered.com/app/2382520/Erenshor/

is my only hope for this entire retarded genre of video games, it addresses the actual problem, other humans you have to play with.

[Wakanda]

Originally Posted by Ekco [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

the decline in MMOs is due to the quality of players playing them, why games like https://store.steampowered.com/app/2382520/Erenshor/

is my only hope for this entire retarded genre of video games, it addresses the actual problem, other humans you have to play with.

This prob trigger a lot of P99 people, but it's the opposite. Gamers are dramatically more skilled and more hardcore now than they were when we played EQ. It's not just EQ though, I think about this all the time when I'm playing FPS or other types of games.

My diamond-level skills in Overwatch when the game launched 9 years ago wouldn't even get me placed into low silver in 2025. I was considered a super-human for my antics with Starcraft 1 and WC3 20+ years ago, but if you had a time machine, I wouldn't even be able to hang in the lowest brackets today. I think about the same thing everytime I think of the top players from Quake/Tribes in 1998 and how they wouldn't even be able to compete at a low level now.

Or how Classic WoW was quickly and easily digested when compared to Vanilla WoW. This was a big one for me BTW. I remember when Classic WoW launched, I was like 36, and recently unemployed, so I had a ton of free time. To my surprise, it wasn't the WoW veterans my age or older who were exceeding at classic WoW, it was the 20 year olds who admitted they never played Vanilla WoW and just wanted to see what it was all about.

This younger generation is just dramatically more hardcore when it comes to gaming, but modern MMOs are overwhelmingly not fun and are missing the core element that made them appealing in the first place, lol.

[Ekco]

Originally Posted by Wakanda [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This prob trigger a lot of P99 people, but it's the opposite. Gamers are dramatically more skilled and more hardcore now than they were when we played EQ. It's not just EQ though, I think about this all the time when I'm playing FPS or other types of games.

My diamond-level skills in Overwatch when the game launched 9 years ago wouldn't even get me placed into low silver in 2025. I was considered a super-human for my antics with Starcraft 1 and WC3 20+ years ago, but if you had a time machine, I wouldn't even be able to hang in the lowest brackets today. I think about the same thing everytime I think of the top players from Quake/Tribes in 1998 and how they wouldn't even be able to compete at a low level now.

Or how Classic WoW was quickly and easily digested when compared to Vanilla WoW. This was a big one for me BTW. I remember when Classic WoW launched, I was like 36, and recently unemployed, so I had a ton of free time. To my surprise, it wasn't the WoW veterans my age or older who were exceeding at classic WoW, it was the 20 year olds who admitted they never played Vanilla WoW and just wanted to see what it was all about.

This younger generation is just dramatically more hardcore when it comes to gaming, but modern MMOs are overwhelmingly not fun and are missing the core element that made them appealing in the first place, lol.

my vague post can be taken both ways now that i reread it

that's the problem I'm complaining about. people that take a 'theme park' MMO, turn it into an esport, like some Broodwar GOMTv spectacle. The meta escalates. People literally run TAS scripts to control their characters to get a advantage on FTE. It boils down to millisecond latency because both guilds do it.

I'm in the minority, I totally get that. I enjoy competitive video games. I played Tribes, participated in America's Army clan wars, woke up at 4am to watch Idra's Broodwar failures in Korea, and even played Eve Online in 16-hour stints during the great wars. Yet, in the 'dungeons and dragons' simulator category, I seek something more casual. I want to avoid min/maxers and rule lawyers.