Tony Bark@pawb.socialcake to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoWoW guild uses exploits to get world 'first' on new raid, gets banned, puts its name backwards and does it againwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square54linkfedilinkarrow-up1295arrow-down17
arrow-up1288arrow-down1external-linkWoW guild uses exploits to get world 'first' on new raid, gets banned, puts its name backwards and does it againwww.pcgamer.comTony Bark@pawb.socialcake to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square54linkfedilink
minus-squareTony Bark@pawb.socialcakeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down6·3 months agoIf the only pre-live service MMORPG still going strong.
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·3 months agoWhat about FF14 or Guild Wars 2? Don’t they count as pre-live service MMORPGs, too?
minus-squareTony Bark@pawb.socialcakeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·3 months agochecks Seems games as a service model that we know today really picked up steam at around the late 2010s. So, yeah…
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 months agoI was actually surprised to see Ultima Online is still up and active recently. It must have a pretty decent sized population for EA not to shut down and repurpose the servers for Battlefield or something.
minus-squareTony Bark@pawb.socialcakeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoNow there’s a name I haven’t heard in a hot minute.
minus-squareacosmichippo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agowhat makes wow not a live service game? aren’t all MMOs by definition live service?
minus-squareTony Bark@pawb.socialcakeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 months agoI mean, yeah. Just don’t tend not to lump the older ones in it because of how awful the practice has become since the phrase was formalized.
If the only pre-live service MMORPG still going strong.
What about FF14 or Guild Wars 2? Don’t they count as pre-live service MMORPGs, too?
checks Seems games as a service model that we know today really picked up steam at around the late 2010s. So, yeah…
I was actually surprised to see Ultima Online is still up and active recently. It must have a pretty decent sized population for EA not to shut down and repurpose the servers for Battlefield or something.
Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a hot minute.
what makes wow not a live service game? aren’t all MMOs by definition live service?
I mean, yeah. Just don’t tend not to lump the older ones in it because of how awful the practice has become since the phrase was formalized.