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What's the appeal of MMOs? I'm downloading FFXIV right now
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vrchat before vrchat
just play vrchat nobody actually plays these for the gameplay
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ban frogslop avatarfags
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>>723455154
>XIV
That's a VN with a subscription, not an MMO. You're late by 7 years anyways, and the free trial is still very limited even if they let you read two expansions.
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>>723455154
i like warframe, does that count?
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>>723455215
true... I just wanted to make a cool avatar and walk around
>>723455245
why?
>>723455262
yeah im pretty late to the party, i was just gonna try the free trial and drop it
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>redditfrog poster cant think for himself
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>>723455463
>redditfro- ACK!
>donald duck avatar
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>what's the appeal of MMOs
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>>723456048
isn't that all games thoughbeit
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>>723456163
to varying degrees, yes. But at least with GOOD games, you have new experiences and see new things.

Games designed to make you do the same thing over and over and over for 400 hours are wasting your life.
>"BUT ALL GAMES ARE A WASTE OF LIFE!" they're even more of a waste of life.
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>>723455154
Nostalgia
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I feel like the only people playing MMOs in current year are millenials induced by sunk cost fallacy. They can't move on from what brought them join +20 years ago. But it's time to move on. There are no good MMOs left.
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>>723456418
I think multiplayer games just expanded. The main appeal of MMOs was constantly playing and interacting with other people. Sure you could chat with people in halo, but it was always a high intensity and hostile atmosphere.

Nowadays you have coop social games where you are literally just climbing a mountain, or playing with blocks, or literally just avatars standing around and chatting. No monthly subscriptions or sweaty clan politics required
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>>723456418
I agree, the last good one for me at least was OSRS but they killed PVP and the wilderness which provided the most MMO-like experience in all of the game. Now its all gay singleplayer ironmen cuck shit. Imagine designing raids that can be solo'd lmao. MMOs are a joke nowadays.
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>>723455154
You're getting responses from people who don't actually play MMOs. The true goal is getting extremely rare stuff and standing in cities to inspire the next generation of noobs and creating a name for yourself as "the guy with the cool shit". Everyone else is a tourist.
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>>723456980
This is true, even being a noob and seeing those guys was cool. It was motivating to be on a shitty class but you see some high level guy of the same class just killing it anyway because he stuck with it, wearing sick as fuck looking gear and has rare items on one of the worst classes in the game. Something about the low lv/high lv dynamic was pretty awesome back then. It's not like these games are any less grindy anyway, so the devs of these games pretty much just idk, removed the leveling journey for no reason?
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>>723456980
>join MMO
>get to the city
>try to talk to people but all they do is stand there
>"Hi, I'm new here"
>silence
>turn off game
Is it worth it? To just stand there in silence showing off how cool you are to people who don't even know the value of the items you wield?
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>>723457306
He's probably talking about the 2000s not today or even the last 8 or so years. Cheevos and rares in MMOs haven't been cool or impressive in forever. No one really cares anymore when they see a guy with early gladiator cosmetics in world of warcraft even though they're unobtainable.



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