I get pissed when I download a tv season, in blueray, that takes longer than 15 minutes. Double pissed when multiple seasons take me 30 minutes.
Why I play Ultima Online
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Vandyn
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Going from 300 to 1200 on a Commodore 64 was insane. All of a sudden a BBS didn't crawl by as it was loading letter by letter. Also sped up my warez downloads quite a bit.
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I think the only thing missing from that era is Dark Sun Online.
I knew of Yserbius and NWN, but couldn't afford the $2-5/hr to play them. (variable rates depending on the time of day!)
DSO could have a reasonable number of people in a zone. M59 could have like ~70 - I think that's the first real 'massive' game. From there it just went up and up.
I knew of Yserbius and NWN, but couldn't afford the $2-5/hr to play them. (variable rates depending on the time of day!)
DSO could have a reasonable number of people in a zone. M59 could have like ~70 - I think that's the first real 'massive' game. From there it just went up and up.
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we havent compared 70s online games yet. my dad was a programmer for some tech company at the time and he used to bring me in to work with him ever once in a while and he would show off some of his geek stuff. he would play something called haunted house and a star trek type game with some dudes in california on the pc link they had. it was text based stuff, but it was still fun.
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It was a mainframe based game in 1980 after the first Star Trek movie played off a terminal. You essential had a race to see who could calculate the time that Spock's rocket needed to fire in order to get through the sphincter looking thing from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Your father was likely playing against geeks at Atlantic Richfield in Los Angeles. They created it.
You need to check yo' privilege.
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BubbySoup
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There were plenty of good dikumud's way before UO. Maybe you are trying to say it was the first good graphical MMO?
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My first MMO circa 1996. PvPing since I was 12 bro.
When you initiated combat you got sucked into those little combat clouds where you'd engage in turn based combat with monster or player(s). You could pickpocket items and money from people and break into their houses and even be a dick and attack your own group mates in mid-PvE and loot a random item and all of their gold from their corpse. Eventually you'd have to go to jail, where you'd bro out with fellow scumbags for something like 5 minutes per crime. There was no secure trade windows, so honest "Middle men" made a living doing trades between parties for a small fee. Everyone had a 2 room house and a chest to store shit, I had most of mine just scattered all over the floor until one day I logged in to find my house completely bare, except a single rose and a book on the ground, I clicked to examine the book and found a player had inscribed"You have been robbed by The Rose."in it. That was fucking cool despite losing all of my 2d pixel loot. People still play it. I think its like $3 a month.
Nowadays I can't even group with people on an instanced linear quest in ESO, how far we've fallen.
When you initiated combat you got sucked into those little combat clouds where you'd engage in turn based combat with monster or player(s). You could pickpocket items and money from people and break into their houses and even be a dick and attack your own group mates in mid-PvE and loot a random item and all of their gold from their corpse. Eventually you'd have to go to jail, where you'd bro out with fellow scumbags for something like 5 minutes per crime. There was no secure trade windows, so honest "Middle men" made a living doing trades between parties for a small fee. Everyone had a 2 room house and a chest to store shit, I had most of mine just scattered all over the floor until one day I logged in to find my house completely bare, except a single rose and a book on the ground, I clicked to examine the book and found a player had inscribed"You have been robbed by The Rose."in it. That was fucking cool despite losing all of my 2d pixel loot. People still play it. I think its like $3 a month.
Nowadays I can't even group with people on an instanced linear quest in ESO, how far we've fallen.
iannis
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There was one that was like a split screen 2 player zork game. You could wander around and interact with each other.
I think the idea was that you were both supposed to sit there and take turns and help each other solve the puzzles where you had to push a button in two locked rooms. But it inevitably led to fist fights and passive aggression and nascent trolling.
I think the idea was that you were both supposed to sit there and take turns and help each other solve the puzzles where you had to push a button in two locked rooms. But it inevitably led to fist fights and passive aggression and nascent trolling.
Chukzombi
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fear me Big F!My first MMO circa 1996. PvPing since I was 12 bro.
When you initiated combat you got sucked into those little combat clouds where you'd engage in turn based combat with monster or player(s). You could pickpocket items and money from people and break into their houses and even be a dick and attack your own group mates in mid-PvE and loot a random item and all of their gold from their corpse. Eventually you'd have to go to jail, where you'd bro out with fellow scumbags for something like 5 minutes per crime. There was no secure trade windows, so honest "Middle men" made a living doing trades between parties for a small fee. Everyone had a 2 room house and a chest to store shit, I had most of mine just scattered all over the floor until one day I logged in to find my house completely bare, except a single rose and a book on the ground, I clicked to examine the book and found a player had inscribed"You have been robbed by The Rose."in it. That was fucking cool despite losing all of my 2d pixel loot. People still play it. I think its like $3 a month.
Nowadays I can't even group with people on an instanced linear quest in ESO, how far we've fallen.
Internet access was still massively expensive in the UK until early 2000s. As in on dial up and pay for the phone call by the minute.
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