Longest running MMO is

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Dark Age of Camelot is still going as well but EA practically put it on life support.

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They were originally deciding whether or not to even make it into an MMO or just to make Warcraft 4. Thats why I didnt start Vanilla right away because I was waiting on WC4.

I still wonder what a WoS would have looked like.

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Here’s the problem, Massive Multiplayer Online isn’t really defined by a number. UO set records for 100k when it came out and nobody knew the sheer volume the market could have within it. Ironically though, the genre of “mmorpg” is coined by UO’s creator, Richard Garriot.

Now the other problem I can point out too is how rigid are we defining “mmorpg” and are we differentiating “mmo” and “mmorpg”? WoW I would argue is an MMO, not an MMORPG, it certainly is not a roleplaying game to me outside of the bare basics of “I am a character in their world” well no duh, by that logic I’m roleplaying in any game I play. In Madden I’m roleplaying as a series of football players I think is how it operates, idk never played it.

RPGs carry decisions, risks, rewards, and other things that would either be optimized overnight, or meta’d into oblivion that you just can’t have in an MMO, that is why in WoW they are so watered down and why I can’t consider this an MMORPG. Whereas for FFXIV I can because the RPG game elements are still there, but that’s also because they designed it as an RPG first, MMO second. This comes at a problem because it makes the story integral to playing the game which if it’s a player who doesn’t care for story, and cba even cutscene skipping the level grind which is still timely even with skipping then good luck keeping them for long.

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it was 2001. For some reason I thought it was earlier than that

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I think classic was
 but they took that one offline

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Ultima Online was the first proper MMPORPG nerds.
I played 1997 - 2004, on dial up the first few years from Australia!

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If Trials of Atlantis never came out I’d still be playing
Dark Age of Camelot. Its still going today but ToA ruined it for me.

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Remember that game of Dungeons & Dragons you started when you were 11? What if it never stopped? Robert Wardhaugh has been the Dungeon Master for a D&D campaign that’s been going on for over 40 years. In his game, once you start playing
you keep playing.

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I may be remembering the number wrong I knew it was something to do with signed/unsigned but 32767 = 0111111111111111, 32678 = 10000000000000000 also -1 signed

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32768 is 2^15 with the 16’th bit being for the sign. Which is the weird part, if it’s rolling over to that, it’s a 2 byte signed int, but it should roll over at -32768. Not that there wouldn’t be infinite other ways to get that result.

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Before i played WoW, i played Starcraft, Baldur’s Gate and Ultima Online, plus that Microsoft game that was similar to Starcraft but it was world history based. Somethings in ultimas online were really cool, but WoW’s world was more amazing, plus playing with friends.

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The longest running MMO is WoW and Blizzard literally invented the genre the same year that they created tacos, freedom, and techno music. You should delete this now to avoid looking silly.

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