I waited patiently for my copy of The Ruins of Kunark to arrive in the mail. We had no other way and later I used to go wait at the shop that I bought video games at for my expansions and games. It got a bit difficult because Singapore started inspecting the boxes that were coming in and you have to pay for them to check the whole disc and it ran into a hundred extra. So it was better to order it from your local game shop and avoid that hassle.
You don't expect anything better because there wasn't anything better. That is the reason many players accepted what games threw at us and continued playing. It made those hundred hour grinds and days of waiting for your epic acceptable. Who is going to do that now? I doubt very few do. That is why game companies worked out that throwing money at rewards work for players. They are willing to throw the money over the time.
Nothing grows from a vacuum every change was a result of something players asked for and in the end the say 'be careful of what you wish for' is where we are currently.
It seems to me that the largest subsection of kids today play games a lot like of us old people here seem to. Instead of jumping from game to game looking for the nostalgia hit from years past, they jump from game to game with streamers and trends.
The younger players are very heavily influenced by social media....IT is very important to many of them to play what is popular
Do 14 year olds, 20 year olds, 30 year olds still have interest in the genre ?
Or are we a dying breed and the genre will die with us ?
They do, just not in the vast numbers they do in other types of games. MMORPGs statistically, with possibly the exception of WoW, have been a dying breed since the day they were birthed.
Longer format: I just got done crapping all over the latest Rise of zek pvp everquest box with my friends 12 year old son. The pvp has really helped keep him interested and wanting to learn more.
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You don't expect anything better because there wasn't anything better. That is the reason many players accepted what games threw at us and continued playing. It made those hundred hour grinds and days of waiting for your epic acceptable. Who is going to do that now? I doubt very few do. That is why game companies worked out that throwing money at rewards work for players. They are willing to throw the money over the time.
Nothing grows from a vacuum every change was a result of something players asked for and in the end the say 'be careful of what you wish for' is where we are currently.
The younger players are very heavily influenced by social media....IT is very important to many of them to play what is popular
They do, just not in the vast numbers they do in other types of games. MMORPGs statistically, with possibly the exception of WoW, have been a dying breed since the day they were birthed.
Longer format: I just got done crapping all over the latest Rise of zek pvp everquest box with my friends 12 year old son. The pvp has really helped keep him interested and wanting to learn more.