Played a LOT of games over the years in varying amounts, with the lions share going to Ark: Survival Evolved, Fallout3/NV, 7 Days to Die, Subnautica, and the mass effect series.
At the moment im playing through fallout3/nv again after installing the Tale of Two Wastelands mod (which lets you play FO3 inside FO3NV and in one playthrough, basically turns them into a supergame and lets you avoid all the many issues FO3 has on windows 10). A friend is supposed to get a dedicated 7 days to die server going so when that happens i’ll probably play some more of that, really enjoy sneaking around zombie infested wastelands looting buildings
There are, of course, other games to play (witcher 3 is great!)
But this is about the only MMO to play. There is GW2 but it’s pvp failed (shockingly poor design from the makers of GW, has any ‘no tab targeting combat’ made it within the MMO genre? Don’t think so, can only think of overhyped failures) so it is mainly PvE now. Oh yeah, Skyrim online, was fun for 3 months but it’s pvp was just ‘who knows the dev allowed exploits and cheats’ (learned em, tested em and crushed, then left. Awful pvp game design and netcode), so despite a very cool frontier, keeps and siege, it’s RvR failed.
So yeah, MMOs this is it. I am hopeful for some titles that may launch late 2020.
I played Classic exclusively until about a month ago, and just logged into other games for quick dailies, or to setup xp (EvEOnline)
I tend to go WoW exclusive on new content and will say my time in Classic, especially those first couple weeks were amazing. I enjoyed it while it lasted.
The only other game I play with any regularity is Minecraft. I have a Spigot server I set up in my office on my old PC, with a world seed that has a bamboo jungle spawn point. I love manipulating the world, playing with villagers, and redstone is hours of endless fun.
Other than that, the last game I truly “played” was FFX. Jecht and Sin were two mofos, and really hard to beat, lol.
I am pretty sure in 2004 the gaming landscape was bigger then you thought, I assume you were a teenager or child. if you think otherwise. in 90s I use to rent blockbuster games for PC. it wasnt that rare…
For the first few months it was out yes but I’ve been taking time to play other games in between now. I love this game but playing it all day everyday is a great way to burn yourself out and not want to play it anymore. My server being massively overpopulated and making farming almost impossible hasn’t helped in making me want to play either. Just been too lazy to get this Mage leveled so I can farm instances easily.
But WOW mostly on its own in the MMO space. And it was the first MMO I had played at the time. My point was that it’s all new… But, go ahead and keep making ASSumptions about me.
Blockbuster never had PC games, not where I lived.
For me, yeah. I stopped playing video games entirely in mid 2017 and started playing guitar again. Now I mix classic in with music and am avoiding consoles entirely. Until I get a really big 4K tv.
Everquest was not very popular. WOW is what made MMO’s popular. So, I stand by what I said, WOW was MOSTLY on it’s own in that space back in 2004-2005.
Again, Blizzard was a big fish in a small pond back then. Not so anymore. Heck, Blizzard isn’t even the same company anymore.
To be fair few games got the attention WoW did prior to that. MMOs were fairly popular prior to WoW, although not nearly as popular until WoW became successful. Which ironically was the decline of creativity in the MMO space.
the starwars gallexies a mmo was certainly mainstream at the time so was runescape. there were other mmos and lots of PCs games. wow happens to be one of the most popular of the time. people still play runescape aswell.
Well 90’s early 2k, market was cut throat in general. You could make a great game and not sell, or have poor marketing, etc and boom you’re going under. One of my favorite games Plainscape Torment comes to mind, I mean yea MMO’s where around, but you can’t compare them to the monsters of Shooters back in those days. Shooters fundamentally changed the market, console gaming explosion comming out with the Ps2 and Xbox one etc, not even counting the online compatibility of them.
They changed PC gaming which in general was very cliche, into a mainstream name stay. Remember
They where not, until much after WoW and the everyone being a Jedi patch hurt it a lot, look at the numbers of the game and the marketing.
Runescape was never mainstream, It didn’t have marketing or high numbers. Good games of course but they wheren’t games in everyones household.
it was still main stream. wow was literally the most popular MMO in the west. saying other games aren’t as popular doesn’t mean the games where not popular. you say early on. but people literally played the games for years
