How do you cope

>entire game is about raising your skills to 99 for no reason other than bragging that you did it
it was always shit. there's a reason it was called "UO for poorfags" just like other bad, free UO clones like Tibia.

i thought so too but i had that at the ripe old age of 29 with valheim

Those games were popular for a couple of years. They were absolutely mogged by RuneScape and wow, which are still popular today. (Like ACTUALLY popular not tight-knit community that just won't let the game go)

My cope is that if something that good came out today I'd just be no-lifeing it so hard it'd be bad

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>two of the three best MMORPG's of all time, 2/3 of the Big Three
>Those games were popular for a couple of years
you didn't even try, did you?

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>I liked thing, anybody else like thing?
>I liked thing before that
>I liked thing way before that
>I liked thing right when it started
>I never even liked thing, I liked even older different thing

ive had other unique experiences since then

power creep and grand exchange ruined it

well with video games, that's accurate until the very last line, because games were better when they were made by nerds, for nerds, instead of by jewish-controlled corporations and focus groups, for normalfags.

i can almost guarantee people that talk about how much they liked UO never actually played it, they just saw some oldfag talking about it a few years ago and started spouting it so they could sound like a boomer

sounds more like you are projecting your FOMO onto others. i will agree that modern Yea Forums is way too casual to play a game where you can have everything looted off your corpse by anybody any time you die, or have players steal things out of your inventory without even needing to kill you

I'm just tired of the clout chasing retards who always try to one up each other about when they started playing something
I played RS in like 05, I hold it over people who played afterwards as an accomplishment, or think people who played shit before me are somehow better

>selling teeth
what did he mean by this?

*I don't hold it over people

yes, everyone moved to wow because they were fed up with the eternal grind on everquest

why are you on this board then? perhaps you misunderstand the point of Yea Forums. if you want "regular" video game discussion, there's the entire rest of the internet that way.

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i cant cope

>put on most expensive set of armor in the game
>servers lag while you're farming mobs with it
>you get disconnected, when you reconnect you're in Lumbridge with three useless items that the game kept for you because they were the most expensive ones to sell to NPCs
Man fuck that game.

lol, here's the story of my guild trying wow
>majority of EQ guild moves over to world of warcraft when it was brand new
>conquer every single possible thing to do in the game half a year after it comes out, by the end of april we had killed ragnaros for a full MC clear, the entire game was on farm status
>everyone got bored and went back to everquest because a new EQ player wouldn't even have hit max level in 6 months, let alone have the gear to clear all the raids in the game.
>continue playing EQ for years to come because every other new MMORPG since WoW was just casual and designed for people who sucked at MMORPG's in the first place
EQ players were not fed up with the "eternal grind", mmo's are about long term character progression. what you call grind, we called fun. that feeling you get when you are the first player on the server to get that item to drop off a raid target that spawns once a week and it's a 0.1% drop rate. figuring out a strategy to kill targets before other guilds can because there was no datamining or game wikis. spending months leveling up and acquiring new things every time a new expansion comes out instead of maxing out in a week like WoW, which is why they had to force timegate things. What you call grind, we call entertainment, because we aren't casuals.

>updated KQ
Gross.

fuck brings me back man

I accept that I'll have to settle for 2007 runescape in vidyascape.

>why are you on this board then?
To talk about video games?
>perhaps you misunderstand the point of Yea Forums.
To talk about video games?

Tooth half of keys probably

Never forget what they took from you.

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damn jews

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Made for sex

wow absolutely BTFO everquest, which peaked in 2003. Only the most dedicated players stayed behind (you and your guild)
>cleared molten core the same month as the world first
im gonna have to doubt

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BASED, but I spend on Alcohol instead of the gym and cut myself instead.

theres nowhere else to discuss games

by playing picrel

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you have the entire rest of the internet to "talk about video games". you don't understand Yea Forums at all unfortunately. you could easily go do that on reddit or giantbomb or something.

ok then explain the point of v

Nah fuck off, Yea Forums isn't about being some fart sniffing contrarian.

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Furry porn and animal sex discussion

I try not to think about it

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>this confuses and enrages the zoomer

When the game first came out the devs didn't even think many people would be so autistic to grind out 99 in a skill.

You're the one telling me I don't fit in here while trying to impose your own sense of culture. Are you fucking retarded? Do you really believe Yea Forums was made for people to brag about playing old games? Or hard games? Or to be contrarian?
Delusional

well considering I'm one of the original goons who came here in 2003 with moot, I think I know a little bit more about Yea Forums and Yea Forums than you do, sport.

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How it decided what was valuable infuriated me. I was playing on a friend's account and he had just gotten a whip at a drop party. Some guy said he wanted to make a pking vid and all I needed to take with me was the whip and I didn't even need to skull. He traded me three worthless items and then killed me. They saved over the fucking whip. Needless to say, my friend was very upset with me.

yeah and skillcapes forced people to grind to get their 99. No one was happy with level 75 WC to cut magics

Clearly not if you think Yea Forums was made for people to act like smug retards about playing older games and not, quite fucking simply, to discuss video games

dude you're old as fuck, if anything you don't belong here anymore

>Those games were popular for a couple of years. They were absolutely mogged by RuneScape and wow, which are still popular today. (Like ACTUALLY popular not tight-knit community that just won't let the game go)
Everquest still has very active emulator servers along with coming up with the progression server concept that allow the playerbase to start in vanilla and progress the server through the expansions by completing content.

here we go, I knew someone would claim there's still a strong community. How many players?

I take comfort in the fact that I got to enjoy the game at its peak and I no longer disappoint myself by trying to relive it using its modern embarrassment as a proxy. I have accepted the fact that some games you can just never go back to.

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this fag knows what's up.
UO, DAoC, AC, SWG were, and still are, better than retardscape

I'm not a loser who is stuck in the past.

Being dragged into playing this shit by my school friends in 2004 was like a gateway drug into ruining my life with addictive online games. Guess it taught me not to trust people though because even those fuckers would always try to scam and lure each other constantly while sat two computers away in the same classroom.

I miss this little shit like you wouldn't believe.

I took this picture just for you

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Remove the Grand exchange so we can finally have player interaction back

How does using forum exchanges and bots do that

mmos as a genre themselves are dying out
its sad
i miss the days of meeting some random guy, calling him a faggot, then going adventuring together and fighting monsters

you really, REALLY misjudge how much people dont want to do that. Nobody was idling on trade forums back in 2006. Runehq was for quest guides/skill training and nobody trusts bots

the main thing is that the GE totally killed all regular trading across the world and also all of the other places people would usually hangout at, particularly banks where a lot of sales would take place, were decimated by it. it's like a walmart opening up in a town that was once small stores, everyone opts to go there out of convenience and the end result is a watered down experience.

there was more fucking bots because of GE than it had before

efficiencyscape ruined runescape

kino

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SWG was great, I just wish it was actually challenging. Getting a fulltemp char is too easy and there really aren't many tough PVE encounters. Same problem Ultima Online had, but at least UO had the hardcore full loot pvp to compensate.

I love how much the GE makes Yea Forums seethe. Spoilers retards, standing in one spot with a macro spamming a message isn't playing a game or socialising.

clearly you never went to catherby, dwarven mines, or magic tree spots or did fishing tralwer then, retard

Done all of those.

>standing in one spot with a macro spamming a message isn't playing a game or socialising
yes it is bitch
more soul then using what is essentially amazon

standing in place wcing or fishing is literally the same thing as w2 trade areas, dumbass

more socializing than standing in one spot at and trading with an NPC who has every item in the game.

The GE should just have a 100% sales tax for the buyer and a 70% tax on the seller

UO was more about adventuring and actual roleplaying which is what these new players lack: imagination
they need to these days NEED SOMETHING flashy and zany and wacky to compensate, where back in the UO days you could sit at WBB for hours just telling stories.

>ultima at the bottom of the shelf, wow at the top
>proving that wow was the most recent game he picked out to play
it writes itself