i think it’d be fascinating to run around those worlds nobody plays-in anymore, and see what they were all-about.
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there is a thing called parvot sarver
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I wouldn’t mind seeing warhammer online again. Lots of cool stuff there. The gameplay just never felt as good as wow.
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yeah, but uh… screw it, i’ll admit-to my fault: i’m not smart enough to figure that sort of thing out.
wish i could figure that out… would love to look around wildstar’s world again, or tera online, and see all the stuff i missed back in the day.
all my attempts to make that sort of thing work on my old computer… did’nt go so well. the darn thing ‘barely’ is able to do… anything, at this point.
god only knows what would happen if i tried it on my current pc.
I’d love to give Wildstar another go
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plus, PLUS, all those sketchy mmos i was too worried to play back in the day? would definitely explore those too!
i miss tera so bad
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I miss wildstar
You could also look into Ross GameDungeon who is fighting to make it illegal to shut down video games without an offline option.
It wouldn’t be an instant fix but if the court cases win in europe many companies will be compelled to either A: bring back the game. B: Release the source code/serve code. C: Create an offline version.
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Why did they even shut down? Didn’t they have a pretty decent sized player base?
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terra is still available on playstation free to play. idk for sure, never download it
Maplestory 2 should have been more of a sandbox co-op game than an mmo. It was a cozy and fairly fleshed out game, just lacked the mmo retention and thus was euthanized.
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Dang i didn’t know it shut down 2-ish years ago
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me too… that game (imo) had the best controller support for an mmorpg… no other mmo had controls that natural feeling.
i support that guy’s cause. i can’t do anything to help (i’m canadian) and i don’t have the money to help fund him… but i’m on-board for stopping companies from killing their games.
i mean, if you can’t support a live-service game, you should’nt be making it a live service in the first-place!
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I’m pretty familiar with a few, some of which are officially sanctioned (for the time being) and thus fine to talk about here. Namely, Homecoming for City of Heroes. I even give it a personal recommendation, CoH is still one of my favorite MMOs of all time.
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So I looked it up.
“Announced in a post on TERA’s official Twitter account, the popular MMO will be brought to an end later this year. According to Gameforge, the company believes it cannot provide fans with the quality content TERA players deserve.”
That’s just… odd? I don’t remember players being unhappy.
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let’s be honest/realistic here… they probably were’nt making the kind of money they were expecting/hoping to make, and just said ‘screw it’ and pulled the plug on the game. which is a shame… the game was pretty good. not great but it was pretty-good atleast.
then again, i have high-bar for what i consider a great game…
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Yeah, was watching a video on this the other day.
MMOs that were shut down, are effectively dead games, even if they were extremely alive during their peaks.
Star Wars Galaxies and WildStar are very good examples. Warhammer and tons of others as well.
They died due to WoW’s success, and perhaps some mismanagement on the inside, but they were still good games.
I had hundreds of hours in both.
Excellent games, yet you can’t even access and play them anymore unless you know someone that can run a private server.
It’s certainly weird that MMOs can just disappear like that. Just because they’re not profitable enough to compete.
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I used to love picking it up for a bit to have some fun. Don’t think I ever stuck around as long as I have/do with WoW, but it was still fun to come back to and enjoy for awhile. Probably right on why they pulled the plug though.
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yup. which is why if i was smart enough, i’d jury-rig a way to play’em again. obviously, i’d be playing them on my own at first, but eventually i’d put out a way to play’em again.
like, i would’nt make my own server or anything, i’d just put the tools out there for folks. this is all theoretical of course. honestly, i dunno what i’d do. but i know i’d be enjoying playing those games again.
It’s too bad RIFT was sold off to gatcha crap. They would have been thriving today with classic servers I imagine. That game was top tier.
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