Koki on 7/10/2011 at 06:18
In 2034 when you'll hear someone mention Deus Ex and you will want to replay it again all you'll need to do is grab it off the online distribution service of choice and disable 15 of your 16 cores.
But you'll never play Everquest.
Ever again.
Muzman on 7/10/2011 at 06:44
It'd be cool if there's some server or emulator version of one still running out there somewhere. I can remember logging on to empty DM servers for games no one cared about anymore, surprised to find they were still there. MMOs would be that and then some.
It'd be spooky. No one else around; NPCs with limited conversation wandering about to offer you quests (or however it worked). Like a really big abandoned theme park.
Renzatic on 7/10/2011 at 07:09
People are playing EQ on emulated servers as we speak. I tried one out about a year or so ago, Project1999, and it had about 1500 people playing on it during peak hours.
So MMOs don't die, or at least they don't so long as people are still interested in it, and some industrious type figures out how to get a dead one up and running without much hassle.
Koki on 7/10/2011 at 07:34
There's shitload of problems with emulated servers. You never know if it will still be up in a week or will go down because of drama/owner's allowance got cut, they almost always have upped xp/drop rates, the emulation software itself can be buggy and unfinished(applies to most "current" MMOs), and the server itself could be in bloody Thousandpingland.
Ulukai on 7/10/2011 at 08:28
Seize the day.
Yakoob on 8/10/2011 at 03:54
ITT, Koki discovers entropy.
nicked on 8/10/2011 at 06:45
Surely part of the point of an MMO is that yes, they must eventually die. If they stayed around even when everyone lost interest, and you were the only person running around the server, you'd be missing the experience of playing with others that MMOs are all about. Of course, if you're only playing MMOs for a single player experience, you may be in the wrong genre.
Eldron on 8/10/2011 at 09:47
Quote Posted by Koki
There's shitload of problems with emulated servers. You never know if it will still be up in a week or will go down because of drama/owner's allowance got cut, they almost always have upped xp/drop rates, the emulation software itself can be buggy and unfinished(applies to most "current" MMOs), and the server itself could be in bloody Thousandpingland.
but but but but but.
If we were to show you good examples of how we can still play our old mmo's, and have a good time doing it, and even find a good amount of players you'd still try to find some point to disprove it.
Even old multiplayer games where you can download dedicated server software and host your own servers can die out if no one is playing them.
Koki on 8/10/2011 at 17:06
Yeah, but you need 64 people with 30 minutes of free time to have a BF1942 match, not 500+ willing to play for several years.
