“I think that the idea that the MMO crowd doesn’t exist is belied by the number of players who are still in World of Warcraft”

  • eleijeep@piefed.social
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    53 minutes ago

    What made it worth playing? I never played it but it looked like a fairly buggy, uninspired cookie-cutter MMO to me, so I’d be really interested to hear what I was missing.

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      45 minutes ago

      The audio was fantastic, chopping trees and mining ore was rewarding just hearing it. Visually it was beautiful. The combat was super good too, not just hitting numbers on the keyboard. Wars were a blast if you were in a decent company. Dungeons and OPR (basically a two team hold the positions death match) were solid. The server population issues they had due to the architecture took forever to overcome though and queues could be long. They never fully overcame this.

      I never got into WoW or really any others before. The only other one was Wild Star because it was quirky and unique and also had a combat system that wasn’t just pushing keys and made positioning matter, but new world took it up another notch from there.

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        38 minutes ago

        I’m so glad that you mentioned WildStar, because that was the last MMO that I fell in love with. I watched all my old stream videos recently and had a moment.