Do you think the sub is worth it?
>>722651504I mean just look at that elf
>>722651504jesus, 3.5 gb download? i need to let my computer run whole night for that
>>722651504yeah the characters are so hot dude!
>>722651504>when they still had to distribute the WoW Client via bittorrentSOVL
>>722652051At the time of WoW's release, 56k still was pretty common, so you're looking at several weeks of downloading, Ragnarok Online's 600mb took me 3 days to download.
>>722651504no way this basement nerd shit will ever get popular
>>722653007WoW and EQ2 came out when broadband was pretty common, which is why both had integrated voice chat. Dialupfags were shunned as the poors they were.
>>722653007Broadband was the new standard back then, DSL was still around but was considered the poorfag connection, 56k were considered absolute pariahs
It used to be, for a time.
>>722651504jesus, soul overload. I wish those days never ended
I get why subs existed back then, they needed that money for server cost. but what about nowadays? Literally inexcusable when they're owned by the biggest tech company, they may as well have infinite server space. Remove subscription costs, player counts would quadruple and people would eat up their shitty cash shop
Ye. Only white people had internet back then.
dont subs normally go on sale for xmas?it depends though. my roommate subbed to WoW while in college, and he bombed alot of his courses. So in that respect he definintly lost money, by playing WoW late at night then missing class . if youre a neet agoraphobic on gibs then its probably worth.
>>722653781what about the japanese?
>>722653814Chinamen don't have PCs
>>722653814There were Jap international cables, but the amount of Jappus on the internet back then was low. Like most retarded people, it took the iPhone to get them on.
>>722653814hahahahahhahaha
>>722653860>>722653884but FF11 was released before WoW. surely the japanese would had internet back then .
>>722651504noif I have wow itch I can either play on private servers or host my own with bots
I never played wowIs it still good? Is it really a huge addictive time sink?
>>722653479I remember people unironically giving 56k warnings up to like 2009 but I don't know if anyone was actually still on it
Subs were worth it in vanilla when every major patch included shit like finished zones, new dungeons, new raids, and major class improvements, and the promise of continued content patches in the future. It became a ripoff once they just copied the everquest expansion model to make more money and suddenly the only thing you could count on from a major patch was a single raid opening and some class tweaks.In the grand scheme of things server infrastructure costs absolutely fuck all to run, they didn't need subs for it.
>>722653940That was a PS2 game
I played it but I stopped when burning crusades came out which is when I think it jumped the shark. However nowadays people seem to be nostalgic about that era and think it's "the golden age" so fuck all knows.
>>722653007>At the time of WoW's release, 56k still was pretty common,absolutely notwhat kind of third world shit hole are you frombroadband adsl and adsl2+ was widely available by that pointwe had it by 2001/2002 and earlier than that people were using adsl connections at around 3 mbps
>>722653940No, this can't be rig->trueFuck me, I remember reading about FFXI in game magazines for the PS2, but console internet was so fucking rare back then that I completely blanked it.I remember seeing how you could play SOCOM online for PS2 using the adapter and I've never wanted anything so bad in my life
>>722653965>Is it still good?No. Not even classic, because people and the way we interact on the internet aren't the same, private servers are only marginally better.>Is it really a huge addictive time sink?Yes. Like actual, physical addiction. I feel like a relapsing smoker whenever I play it on a private server every few years, but at least I'm not paying for it.
>>722651504I think you can play the Legion Remix thing with just a sub. Im thinking of doing that since i never played through Legion the first time
>>722654131I was big into EQOA. I have an account on Sandstorm now that they haxed it to be live again, but I haven't connected with a guild because I'm lazy.
>>722654396Can you connect to that server with an actual PS2? I still have a copy of the game.
>>722654472Yeah, but I'm not sure what the process is. They have details on their Discord, and I know for sure people are playing on real hardware (you might need it modded, but I don't know that, either).
>>722654530I'll look that up. Thanks, anon.
>>722654108>what kind of third world shit hole are you from>Ragnarok Online's 600mb took me 3 days to download.>Ragnarok OnlineSomewhere in South America or SEA.
>>722653814honorary whites
>>722654051also on PC (and xbox 360)
>>722651504I've tried wow multiple times over the years with the very first time being when I was like 8 years old and the most recent being the launch of wow classicgenuinely can't even fathom how people enjoy it, queued skills feel like absolute shit and leveling is so dull that I never made it to a proper dungeon
>>722653965Classic a is magical experience. Especially if you played warcraft 3 right before it and you're 14. There's nothing like it.
>>722655696>WoW>classicPick one.
>>722651504This shit invokes a primal feeling in me. I can practically smell and envision everything the way it was 20 years ago from this picture alone.
>>722654078Tbc was definitely the best version wo ever had.
>>722655780>being alive 20 years agounc be wildin' out
>>722653007When StarCraft was released it took me an entire night to download the demo on 56k. My dad and I set it up before I went to sleep, and it was finished when I woke up. Still had to go to school before I could play it, but man was I excited. By the time WoW was out, everyone I knew was on broadbandhttps://youtu.be/mD4GbGmvNRc
>>722651504I've never played wow but that screenshot is just beautiful, it sent me back 20 years in an instant. Holy fuck
>>722655883You're not funny faggot
>>722654272This is a larp thread about nostalgia, stupidsame, though I'll try it out for the first 20 levels without a sub if it's jank
>>722651504>he was a free trialerhaha I had my boxed copy before I even had a computer capable of running it, I then went and brought a GPU from a pc part store literally a 2 minute walk outside where I was living which is now just another real estate agent shithole in the wall instead of a failing pc parts shithole in the wallthe 2000s were crazy>>722655696is 100% right playing WoW after devouring Warcraft 3 & TFT was a magical experience>>722653952is also right the past is a closed country but you can sneak back in with playerbots in fact I'm planning a horde party right now to run through the game with right now gonna play it like an RPGjust need to decide on the undead's class
>>722653781>Number one: In 1995 Indians made up 0 percent of game devs. Now they are about 95 percent.>Number two: In 2000 90 percent of assets and programming for game development were done internally, now it's about two percent.>It's called Pajeetification. Strengthen revenue for big publishers, weaken quality and development cost.>With demakes and demasters, this can be done imperceptibly over time.
>>722651504then? yesnow? fuck no
>>722654131I had it. It was mid.
>>722659092That's terror
>>722659092The internet was such a nice place when you had to be a tech inclined white/asian man with a desktop to access it.As soon as women, thirties and Jews got their claws into it it turned from enjoyable gentlemen’s club cavalcade of fun to shit flinging town square red light district favela.
>>722654108I had 56k until 2005 in america. A lot of my friends still had it in the early 2000s. One of my friends' parents got a second phone line they wouldn't miss work calls when online.
>>722659092Good news: only 1/3 of india is on the internetBad news: every 3 seconds an indian accesses the internet for the first time
>>722659092>>722660053Go back.
>>722660082>Good news: only 1/3 of india is on the internethow the fuck is that good news?
>>722651504It never was honestly That was the price to keep poorfags away I guess
>>722660193Kys nigger kike foid
>>722660193This but for faggots and trannies
>>722653965>is it still good?No. Modern wow is just meta chasing and filled with old, bitter failures who didn't get [X Achievement] in [Y Expansion] and are constantly chasing that high>Is it really a huge addictive time sink?Not so much anymore. Original How's stated goal was to be this, and kinda was back in the day. Things like the Grand Marshal/High Warlord grind were unironically addiction models, but they don't really exist today in modern wow. Modern wow is about getting you hooked on FOMO and running on the content/gear treadmill. People still play it addictively, but it's like a heroin junkie chasing that first high that will never be felt again.>t. played from 2004-2018 and then no lifed Classic through to ulduar
>>722663518Why don't Woyers ever rez themselves? Bitch you're just forcing me to drink water once we return
>>722653007haha LOL retard
>>722653007i lived in rural canada and we had high speed internet then
>>7226636100 movement abilities that aren't charge or intercept so it takes forever to run back
>>722651504No, this shit and the economy around raiding is a second job. Fuck having to schedule when I'm gonna play a video game
>>722651504No. Just play runescape or maplestory instead.
>>722660193they forgot to edit out the wings, sloppy work
>>722653007bet your parents were happy with that phonebill
>>722653007I remember I was walking down the highway to a friends house when my dad randomly pulled alongside me to tell me we now have high speed internet
>>722651504Currently? It's not. Retail is mostly terrible and classic is a joke. Blizzard isn't using that money to maintain the quality of the servers, bots, gold sellers, retarded services, all allowed, fuck that.
>>722654131>I remember seeing how you could play SOCOM online for PS2 using the adapter and I've never wanted anything so bad in my lifeIt was a fun as fuck game until hackers ruined it
>>722651504I used to be really into MMOs but the thought of paying a monthly subscription for a single game is so unappealing nowadays
>>722653007>56k still was pretty commonmaybe for your fucking grandma
>>722651504Did jpeg degrade or something?Why it is so blurry.
I remember watching my uncleplay it i wanted to play it and when i finally did it it fucking sucked ass like come on man i want to EXPLORE not get raped by mobs from which you canont escape because they can hit you from 100meters.(i also want to do shit solo not join some guild and deal with gay bullshit)
>>722664826It probably went through 50 encodings as it was being uploaded to various sites, downloaded and then uploaded again elsewhere
