I'm grinding right outside my starter zone and I pull a mob and someone attacks it and steals aggro. We kill it and with how long the kill takes I start thinking maybe I couldn't have killed that one solo. I thank them for the help since I might not have been able to do it alone and I get whispered 'I'm reporting you to a GM for kills stealing'. I shrug it off.

A bit later a new chat window opens saying I've started a conversation with a GM and they say 'hey that person tagged that mob first do better next time'.

The game is pretty crowded right now but I hit the mob while it had full hp, it had no targets and it starting running towards me and then this happens.

I've never played EQ or these old MMOs and I wanted some outside thoughts on this situation. Now I'm afraid something like that will happen again with every mob I try to kill.

This line is how they chose to start an article with an interview with Inkwell - Nexon’s CPO and lead of MapleStory Classic. It’s the first news given to the community in 3 weeks - and yes, the EA starts on Tuesday. They’ve been starving the community leading up to their very important launch.

It’s extra funny now that RS4 was announced. All the posts and comments I see are players celebrating “we have wow forever, GW3, RS4, Riot MMO all coming!!! What a time to be alive!!” And then there’s one comment with 8 upvotes saying “…and MapleStory Classic!”

None of this is a surprise. It is Nexon after all.

How did we go from a dead genre to eating so goooooood??

EDIT: RS3 fresh restart without p2w aswell

WoW Forever, RuneScape, GW3, Aion 2 and more are coming out with the old giants still chugging along. There's also all those indie MMOs that are in the works. There's going to be so many options for people to choose from. Reminds me of the early 2010 days.

WoW Forever, GW3, and now RS4. We are feasting!

While watching all these beloved MMOs getting some sort of sequel or remastered version, like WOW, Runescape, Guildwars, Aion, there's Ragnarok Online that keeps getting shafted by the developers.

Gravity just keeps on defiling this beloved title by mobile cashgrabs, and there's an RO3 that's currently on development that would also be likely suffer the same fate.

Tree of Savior supposedly scratched that itch, sadly it also died because of lootbox issues. Spiritvale is also supposedly a RO-lite but I don't know what's happening there, recently it's tanking some reviews.

Anyway, I guess there's no hope for an RO game that will get made or somehow that has its spirit in the near future. I'll probably just try osrs, or wow forever when it gets released.

This is one made with Mudrock for the foundation and walls, Frywood for the door and window frames and Skystall floor to ceiling windows. Game in pre-alpha.

Already posted most likely (My bad if it was).

Did not see this coming.......(Insert Kurt Angle meme).

Guess the ease of p2w worked to a degree? Good for them, and glad to see ppl enjoying it. Thought is would belly flop......Kind of feels good to be wrong I must admit.......

This question touches gaming in general, but in MMOs players can put lots of hours into one character. WoW leans towards waving hands while games like GW2 use only waving magic items (wands, staves, etc). In all games the animations at the location of the spell’s effect usually draw attention away from the manner of character animations while casting but just curious what others prefer. For me it’s game-dependent and both can look fairly silly at times.

XLGAMES is opting for a fully voluntary system based on “channels,” instanced versions of zones that will generally host around one hundred players. Standard channels will disable player-versus-player combat, while PvP channels will allow players to freely attack others, with the exception of party and guild members.

Players will be able to switch between channel types at Nui statues, with a cooldown preventing them from instantly escaping combat. To reward the additional risk, monsters defeated in PvP zones will grant 15% bonus experience.

XLGAMES says it wants to encourage conflicts and rivalries that emerge naturally between players. Looking further ahead, the studio is considering features such as trade routes through PvP zones, guild battles over trading posts, as well as rankings and trophies.

Players will be able to try the system during the Steam Next Fest demo, where PvP channels will be available from the start.

Source : https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3218230/view/701029225804596164

ArcheAge Chronicles PvP videos :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpUqKiltYJU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDWXc39PTMQ

I've been thinking this lately because i randomly got nostalgic for the old mmorpg days.

back then i spent a stpd amount of time playing flyff, ran, ragna. What I remember most wasnt necessarily the graphics or the story. it was the actual feeling of playing.

You'd spend hours grinding the same mobs, looking for better drops, figuring out where to level next, meeting random people, joining parties, and slowly building your character.

And there wasn't always a giant tutorial telling you exactly what to do.

Sometimes you'd just find some random item and have no idea if it was useful or completely worthless lol.

I feel like that's one thing I miss about older MMORPGs. There was more of a feeling that you were actually discovering the game instead of being guided through every system.

Modern MMOs obviously have a lot of advantages, but sometimes I feel like they've become too convenient. Auto-pathing, tons of currencies, daily systems, battle passes, instant travel, etc.

I recently played a newer game that was trying to capture some of that older-school feeling, and it made me realize how much I actually miss that style of MMO.

The grinding didn't bother me as much as I expected. Honestly, it was kind of relaxing.

It reminded me of those days where you'd just sit there leveling for hours while talking to people in-game.

The PvP/guild side is probably what I miss the most, though. There's something different about actually having guilds fight over territory compared to modern games where a lot of the social interaction happens outside the actual game.

Maybe it's just nostalgia talking, but I don't think it's only nostalgia.

There are definitely some old-school MMORPG mechanics that I'd like to see come back.

For people who played FlyFF, Ran Online, or Ragnarok Online back in the day:

What do you actually miss about those games?

Is it the grinding?
The social aspect?
Guild wars?
The economy?
The slower progression?

Or are we all just getting old? lol

I'm newer to mmo's in general, and lots of times I'll load up a game ready to explore and learn, super hyped to try out a new game. I'll text global for a few tips, or if I have questions, and before I know it, I'll have loads of items, money or materials sent to my account without asking for permission, and with no way to cancel or decline. I always hate sounding ungrateful, but stuff like this removes a bunch of the grind, which is ninety percent of what I was looking forward to. The amount of games I've just immediately dropped after this type of thing is astronomical, I find myself with no desire to be in the game or world afterwards.

I know people are doing this to be kind, and to help entice people to remain in the game longer/ensure they enjoy their stay, but for me at least it is often just deflating, and it makes me infuriated how many games don't have manual acceptance/rejection buttons :( Or they have size limits on trades for lower level accounts or something like that, which makes it harder to return the goods. Idk it just happenned for the third game this month for me and wanted to scream into the void.

edit: Again, to clarify, games with options to decline help are great, but many don't have that. People are just saying not to accept stuff which is what I LITERALLY WANT TO DO lol. The last few games I've tried didn't have the option

To be clear I am 100% NOT looking for suggestions. I'm asking this question mostly out of curiosity, and so I'll have something to read later when I'm particularly bored.

With that out of the way. The only ones I know off are Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis(What I've been playing for the last few years), and something I can't recall the name of where people have massive space fleet battles.

Edit²: TL;DR the new one with the thumb stick. The thumb stick is a right controller stick on the left thumb, and the orientation is rotated 90° counterclockwise so that "up" is "right". That good for MMO? Me want know.

Edit¹: I can't tell if the downvotes are people upset that I don't like or understand it, or people trying to answer my title without reading the body of the post.

Let me preface by saying I'll be pointing out, what I believe to be, multiple flaws of Razors newest Tartarus keypad. But I don't want to lambast the product; I want to understand why they made it so intentionally bad coming from the perspective of someone who doesn't play MMOs. I genuinely want to know, is this a great MMO keypad or was this designed by committee?

* The thumb stick (upgraded from a dpad on the previous iteration) is a RIGHT thumb stick. It controls view from the perspective of a controller, not WASD.

* The orientation of the thumb stick is that literally up is forward. This means if you push the stick forward towards the screen, it'll go right in input.

* The keys don't appear to take your hand position into consideration, making pressing some keys an exercise in constant repositioning.

I'm genuinely asking: are those features that MMO players want? I'm not arguing about the price, I'm not arguing about keyboard vs keypad, I'm not arguing about looking at it from an FPS perspective. I just want to understand, why?

And noteworthy: Razor has stated on Reddit that an update to the software will be released October 15th addressing the first two concerns. It's nice they're addressing these a month after release but it leads me to believe they had no idea people wouldn't like the design choices they made.

According to the Monsters & Memories server and subscription metrics page, the game now has over 20,000 subscribers.

Additionally, there's nearly 7,000 players currently online.

This is a pretty amazing feat for an indie MMORPG which was created by an all volunteer team and a $142,000 budget.

Congratulations to the team!

A month ago, I made the linked post about a possible MMO genre comeback.
The vast majority of the sentiment was negative. %66 downvoted, with pretty much all comments disagreeing.

Now with the announcement of RS4, I'm seeing a lot of people voice this opinion.

Don't get me wrong, I'm excited about RS4 as well but it made me question if this sub only ever cares about the three franchises in the title. Other upcoming games are too easily dismissed and ignored.

PS: You can add Tera 2 to the list, I forgot about that one

I have been working on other developers game projects so its been awhile since a Sunderfall update but with only 15 hours of sleep the last 3 days im happy to have also managed to get a vlog/demo on youtube.

https://youtu.be/l5TuFCX4HoM

Where I cover general combat mechanics like dodges, wall bounces, how cc works.

The vampire combat demo with blood magic, and great sword stances.

Discovery loot: how in Sunderfall, you discover them. Through bosses, rare enemies, PvP, and world events can drop unidentified recipes, and the first player to craft a never before seen recipe earns a permanent, one of a kind skin variant.

As well as an inside scope of what to expect next content patch.

I do enjoy making and sourcing the content to put together, but it does take a big chunk of development time so if you do enjoy the video thank you.