Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2023 (massivelyop.com)
from Goronmon@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 05 Jan 2024 15:32
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Katana314@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 2024 03:27 next collapse

I appreciate the idea of preserving games, but I don’t see how we’d ever thoroughly preserve some of these online spaces. WOW Classic might be one of the best efforts, but most people agree it’s not going to replicate the same non-guided experience that existed back in that time, or the playerbase you’d be working around.

It is, in some ways, a reason for people to spend time in these places - knowing that, like all empires, they don’t exist infinitely.

Carighan@lemmy.world on 06 Jan 2024 13:13 next collapse

There’s also the part where preserving the game doesn’t actually preserve, you know, the game.

Early WoW wasn’t special because WotLK+ hadn’t released yet. Classic showed that amiably. It was the gamespace around it and the shared experience that was World of Warcraft. Not the code and the engine and the executable and the server.

Crystal_Shards64@lemmy.world on 08 Jan 2024 09:30 collapse

I really want to get into FFXI but with the majority of people at endgame content I’m not sure I would get the same experience anyways?

I tried FFXIV and it felt oddly lonely. There wasn’t enough content that supported group play aside from the dungeons.

I think one day I’ll just have to set aside all other hobbies and gorge myself on both until I finish them/they click for me.

Pika@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jan 2024 23:45 collapse

I love that the website has a mobile format, but thd content is like “what’s mobile?” and text is just everywhere