Remember when MMO's were worlds not games

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Remember when MMO's were worlds not games

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Ikya

01.30.2012 , 09:56 PM \| #131	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Saetun My mmo experience goes back to EQ 1 start as well. And I remember a much different story than others seem to. Sure there were those that chose to raid and grind out the best gear and other things, but there was a difference. There wasn't this overwhelming pressure by the community to get that gear. You weren't nothing if you didn't have the best. Even a commonly geared person could be a big part of the community and often wanted for groups. I played EQ1 for 2 years before I became a raider. And I had tells as soon as I logged on to go group in whatever dungeon or zone every single day. You didn't have to be uber geared to be respected and liked. Of course it all changed when GoD was released, and it became impossible to even do the group areas without the best raid gear from the previous expansion. Now if you aren't all purple you can't even start being someone in an MMO. This is so true, without gear now you feel like you have zero impact.
If you strike me down I will lose more XP than you can possibly imagine - oh_riginal - SWG forums.

GalacticKegger

01.30.2012 , 09:56 PM \| #132	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by mufutiz Makes you wonder though. All those people who can remember all the good things. All that was better, so long ago. Yet everyone just keeps ignoring the progress that was made. Why forget all the horrible, horrible things players had to endure in old school mmos? Because of nostalgia. LOL ya. Led Zepplin is now officially classified as "easy listening" elevator music, and I heard a Boston Pops version of Joplin's Move Over.
Can we please just have our pre-KotFE SWTOR MMORPG back?

Knockerz

01.30.2012 , 10:02 PM \| #133	Quote
Yes, I remember. The world was empty. I remember roaming in swg and never seeing any one for hours on some planets.
Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder rolled around their shores; burning with the fires of Orc

Jswizzle

01.30.2012 , 10:14 PM \| #134	Quote
Everquest is going free to play? That is awesome. I still need to max out my level 94 bard and necromancer. There are things that were awesome about Vanilla EQ and some of the early expansions. There are also terrible things. Things that eventually got changed in the later expansions. Some players can stomach that type of long grinding, a lot of people just can't do it anymore. Eq1 has mercenaries you can hire now. Double EXP potions. Really good methods of power leveling and more repeatable quests and missions. You can go try and play it in Vanilla mode, but I assure you. You will hire a mercenary by level 25. Grinding Vanilla is Painful
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Sai-to

01.30.2012 , 10:17 PM \| #135	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Dethrone No power levelling, no grind, no gear tier, no concept of a content end or reaching reward limits. No MMO has ever existed as you describe it.

Kleinone

01.30.2012 , 10:32 PM \| #136	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Sai-to No MMO has ever existed as you describe it. EVE is pretty close. No levels, no grind, you skill up as fast online as you do offline, no endgame to speak of, etc.

Chromiie

01.30.2012 , 10:43 PM \| #137	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Kleinone EVE is pretty close. No levels, no grind, you skill up as fast online as you do offline, no endgame to speak of, etc. The difference is CCP actually tried doing something different and it's great while TOR is the same old thing. I can't wait for World of Darkness also.
Quote: Originally Posted by DamionSchubert We don't have friendly fire in The Old Republic for a simple reason: a lot of players are, well... idiots. I don't mean you, of course, dear reader

Sai-to

01.30.2012 , 10:52 PM \| #138	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Kleinone EVE is pretty close. No levels, no grind, you skill up as fast online as you do offline, no endgame to speak of, etc. Gonna have to disagree. There are indeed levels; you have to level your skills. There is a grind; you still need to grind your skill levels (though it is nice you can "level" when offline). Additionally you have to grind money and missions. There are gear tiers, and there is an endgame. But all of that is besides the point. The point is that the OP was attempting to say that "old-school" MMOs didn't have grind and endgame and gear tiers... which is complete BS.

paul_j_l

01.30.2012 , 11:02 PM \| #139	Quote
Ok...So what game currently out there had that "SWG feel"?...As I was thinking about doing the SWG deal (as I've heard so many cool things about it, but by the time I got around to it, it was put offline). I think it would be interesting to have a do whatever the hell you want vibe, as opposed to the old, and boring, WoW vibe (which WoW and SWTOR have bored me to death with).
If it's dead...I probably killed it...MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Darth-Piranha

01.30.2012 , 11:05 PM \| #140	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Dethrone No power levelling, no grind, no gear tier, no concept of a content end or reaching reward limits. It was about living and existing in a world with others... Even pretty recent games like SWG, I had a friend who created her own prefession. She was an interior designer. You gave her the keys to your new pad, some credits and came back in a week to a palace. Every room kitted out to perfection... MMO's used to stimulate so much more than horizonal, linear, reward based mentalities.. Meanwhile in Second Life....
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