devildark
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Feel free to delete if this overlaps with the "what else are you playing" thread. Was just curious what other multiplayer games people still play these days. Here's the ones I've tried:
PSO2 - ruined by the typical SEGA mismanagement and downright malicious monetization and FOMO baiting. Logged into NGS yesterday just to try it (since the NA client at least works on linux now) and got hit with 3 different popups for daily/weekly/monthly "don't forget to log in every day!!!" type nonsense. If this game got a private server free from SEGA and maybe with some custom quests I would be all over it.
FFXIV - excessively homogenized and streamlined, another "race to endgame" raid-focused post-WoW MMO, a dev team that seems far too focused on never trying anything new, cost cutting and spectacle and an overly dramatic, fanboyish community.
FFXI - has also been turned into a race-to-endgame type MMO. Haven't looked into private servers much but haven't heard anything particularly good.
Multiplayer shooters in general - haven't liked them ever since they became so matchmaking-focused. Miss the days of player hosted servers with regular communities of dudes just hangin' out.
Pessimistic, I know. I'd just like to hear about more nice games to hang out in, if anybody knows any. Hell if anybody even knows any still active forums around older games (I'm a big JRPG man) then I'd love to hear about those, too. The internet's felt quite barren for me ever since social media and discord took over.
PSO2 - ruined by the typical SEGA mismanagement and downright malicious monetization and FOMO baiting. Logged into NGS yesterday just to try it (since the NA client at least works on linux now) and got hit with 3 different popups for daily/weekly/monthly "don't forget to log in every day!!!" type nonsense. If this game got a private server free from SEGA and maybe with some custom quests I would be all over it.
FFXIV - excessively homogenized and streamlined, another "race to endgame" raid-focused post-WoW MMO, a dev team that seems far too focused on never trying anything new, cost cutting and spectacle and an overly dramatic, fanboyish community.
FFXI - has also been turned into a race-to-endgame type MMO. Haven't looked into private servers much but haven't heard anything particularly good.
Multiplayer shooters in general - haven't liked them ever since they became so matchmaking-focused. Miss the days of player hosted servers with regular communities of dudes just hangin' out.
Pessimistic, I know. I'd just like to hear about more nice games to hang out in, if anybody knows any. Hell if anybody even knows any still active forums around older games (I'm a big JRPG man) then I'd love to hear about those, too. The internet's felt quite barren for me ever since social media and discord took over.
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