My first mmorpg was runescape, I played it for 3 to 4 years. I recently learned its very different from how it use to be. People play more "efficient" now and dont talk much, theres not much pking or castle wars, its mostly ppl minmax grinding (the opinions I gathered from their reddit)

This got me thinking, and I noticed similar things before. It seems after a game has been out for a while it becomes less social and more "just follow this guide"

When they are new everyone's finding out things for the first few months to years, and people talk in open a lot, and it just seems more fun

I noticed this with Tera Online, GW2, FFXIV (the 2012 version), Aion, New World etcs

The beginning of Tera and New World

Everybody talked in the world chat constantly, I met a lot of friends who were figuring things out, formed groups, etcs

Then I came back a year later to try both again and most areas nobody's around, barely any talking in World chat, etcs

I dont know if that's just a thing with all mmorpgs though, because runescape was still very social and exciting and new throughout all those 2002 to 2006 years I played.

But supposedly new its more afk grinding and not much socializing, im not sure of all the details but I heard they focused on PvM and a lot of wildy peers left, as well as made the GE so no more trading, and took away random events so ppl can afk skill now

I think all those features help the game to be more solo oriented lol

Anyway, I dunno what im saying, I was thinking of trying OSRS but I think it won't ve as fun as before. So I though about these other mmos ice played

I basically play most new mmos at release regardless if their good or not its still pretty fun cause a lot of newbies and chatting, but a lot of recent mmos dont even require socializing theres dungeon finders, market boards, etcs

I feel like mmorpg makers should implement ways to make it more social somehow because that's my fav aspect of mmos lol

I'm a newbie..just 5 hours in...if there's any other great mmo you wanna play together you can dm me .... Trynna find a partner

Hey so ill be traveling around asia for work for the next few months was wondering if you guys had any recommendations? Preferably not too expensive as i wont use it much afterwards. I mainly play star wars galaxies, anarchy online and everquest! Im just not sure if a thinkpad or a hp, dell would be the best !

Early game of Aion 2 makes you think its a PVE game. Run around open world, kill mobs, do dungeons, do expedition, etc. Late game is the opposite. When you are done with MSQ and sidequests you will have a weekly cap of energy. When you expend that energy within 8 hours or so the major content left for you is the abyss.

The abyss is an open world PVP zone where everyone just camps each other and the winners are normally the one who swiped the most, do not have jobs so they can no life the game, or remote workers who can play and work. You have to participate in the abyss to make meaningful PVE progression too. About 60 stigma shards are from PVE, and 200 are from the abyss. You buy stigma shards with abyss points, and outside of abyss related activities the amount of abyss points you get are pretty pitiful. I spent a fair amount of time in the game only to be highly dissapointed by the PVP end game. So I'm just putting this out there for others who might solely be interested in PVE like myself.

This is a post for awareness in online gaming as companies attempt to create highly predatory monetization, this is what you might be facing in most mmo's eventually.

Hey MMO community,

I posted here a couple of months ago about my little roguelike MMO, and thought I'd share another update now that it's part of Steam Next Fest which is currently underway.

SpringTale is a 2D roguelike platformer MMO inspired by MapleStory, Realm of the Mad God and Vagante. Meet other players, fight bosses and collect gear that shapes how you play.

You can play the demo now, which includes over 2+ hours worth of content. The demo is available on Windows and MacOS, and can be downloaded via steam here: SpringTale on steam.

Hope to catch you online :)