Discussion Has This Ever Happened To You?

I played Elsword on December 2012 (ID Elsword CBT). It was quite an enjoyable game. You need to go to the city outskirt, manually make a group, then dive into the dungeon together. Sometime I had to wait for 30 minutes just to gather my party members. Troublesome, but it was fun. No one bitching about dungeon rush. Your party member will wait for you if you need to afk for few minutes (one of my party member once had to go AFK to take a massive dump for ~20 minutes; we had a nice laugh that day ). The boss drops weren't that hard to get. +5 weapon was fair enough, +7 was godly. Etc.

Then the college life got hectic; combined with my potato ISP (sweet Madokami that abominable 5kBps), and soooo many lab works, I decide to quit for few years.

I started playing again few years later (2014 iirc), and I was… baffled. Where the hell was that fun game I once had? Everyone keep shouting 'rush', '+7 only party', etc; you bunch of no-life brats, I'm playing game for fun to relieve my stress, not to chase a nonsensical prestige that won't worth a shit irl.
Thanks to that, I only played for 1 month before going back to hiatus, again. The fun game has gone, forever.

Well, few years later, looks like I was too bored that time and played Elsword again. iirc it should be on the first quarter of 2016. I decided to not give a damn; the fun game has gone, it became a mere online game for the sake of boasting yourself. Everyone are detached to each other. No chatting on the dungeon, no waiting for your teammates, I feel like playing with BOT party, except their skills are randomized; you're lucky if you got a good one, but disastrous when you get a bad one. But whatever, I can quit anytime I want, so why should I be bothered with it?

Now, it's 2017. The application is still installed on my laptop, but I only play it when there's a decent event. My Asura got into lv 96 (thanks to those level-up talismans lol), but I'm too lazy to get into whatever-you-will-get-when-you-reach-level-99

 

Now everyone is some kind of staff+knuckles or sniper

 

Yeah... I was a beta tester in Elsword. I was quite excited for its official launch. Then I stopped for some reason and I haven't played since. I kinda want to pick it up again just to play Elesis...

 

I see halberd users EVERYWHERE. And Stormers are still in demand, nice to see that hasn't changed. Plus the level 3 skills of DW looks cool.

 

I guess the overinflation of the genre killed it. The player populace is too thinly spread.

 

I feel you.. same thing for me 3yrs ragnarok player 4 yrs cabal player and 3yrs edgeworld player here.. those games sucks now.. lol

 

I played Ragnarok and cabal, though I've honestly never heard of edgeworld. Was it good?

 

I only have Puzzles and dragons as well as Uno on my phone. And for puzzle and dragons I will remove friends if they dont play for a month. I have limited spots and dont have infinite capacity even if i increase the capacity with stones. I will add new ones if they have leader monsters that I need to pair with my team. When you play continuously, you will never notice any loss because you are constantly removing and adding so the replacements will make it seem like you never lost anything at all. But while I was never removing anyone, there were many who simply stopped playing forever. I only keep people who play at least once a day.

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dont ask me for my game tag, I like to keep a lot of my different worlds separate. I will let you know that I have a Fully evolved Gadius, Awoken Cao Cao, Reincarnated Minerva, a Krishna, and a whole bunch of Gods from the Rare Egg Machine. I have very strong teams. Not all max powered with fully maxed skills and maxed bonus stats, but some monsters are. And it is approaching it. I have 2 teams that are completely maxed in everything.

 

I still remember when I used to be one of the greatest swordsman in the game that I used to play. I was one of the most famous, given that I was capable of killing 100 people in 10 minutes with a sword.

Even when I was late to enter the game, the first dude had 29 kills and 8 minutes left, it took me 4 minutes to surpassed him. My best record is 375 kills with 5 deaths. My KD was 70%++

I was one of the few people who were able to defeat hackers. GMs don't exist in that game at all...

But then, the game just died....

 

I play an mmorpg called tibia, they're currently having their 20th aniversity event, but their servers are under a DDoS attack and their is massive lags and kicks. While they only come every now and then, Tibia is the kind of game where missing a single heal can kill you, and when you die, you loose 10% of all your exp and skills. So it's currently unplayable.

That said, Tibia has lost majority of it's players over the years. I started in 2005, and have played on and off again since then. Almost know one i know remains. And 90% of the server population is just botters.

As for my specific situation with loosing friends and the like, in Tibia, i have my own guild. It's small, and everyone is from different places, so we couldn't really do a lot of events. Some were from brazil, some poland, some germany, some france, some australia, and some america (I was the only american) Everyone was low level besides my vice leader from France, and myself.

My vice leader went on vacation after finding a new job back in July. He told me his parents had retired near a town called Nice, so he went there for his vacation during the Bastille Day celebrations.

He never logged on again. So i'm pretty sure he died in the terrorist attack.

 

Hey, I used to play Toram with my friend too! It was way past beta and we just play duo killing bosses systematically. It was quite fun, but then we hit the grind phase and felt like it takes too much time; what's with my friend have to write his thesis and I have many reports to do. So we just kinda left it off, though I still have it on my phone. We're playing shadowverse right now since it's pretty casual but decently competitive.

And no.. not really. I don't really get intimates with strangers off the internet. When I started a game, I either don't care and play solo or I play it with my IRL friends. Like Toram or RO2 or DN, the fields were pretty much empty(DN use instance dungeon, but DN design pretty much made the game only truly starts only when you hit the current cap) but we're pretty much unconcerned and take our time exploring the game.

 

Ummmm guys you better play with World of Warcraft theres STILL a decent amount of good players here. and most of the good players. Next game maybe is Ragnarok II on steam . . . they have nice players but. Im not playing it anymore XD.

 

This happens often, sometimes a new game is so popular, but when another game was released others will decide to abandon the game and play the new game, other players(their friends or acquaintance) will soon follow, so the user's total count is getting low and low, especially if there's no events.

 

Best mmorpg you can play is Habbo, trust me guys

 

Yup

Although the knuckles are making a comeback

 

Last time I trusted someone like that was when I discovered Boku no Pico... so sorry if I have trust issues xD.

 

I guess I just lack irl friends to play with, that's why I get attached to online friends. I was a penniless student see? So all I had to play games on was either the local cafe or my phone. But since I dislike the rowdiness of elementary students playing DoTA back then (you won't believe how much salt an cussing comes out from their mouths) I leaned more on playing games on my phone.

 

Yeah... Overinflation killed MMORPGs. Not like back when there were few games and lots of players. Now it feels like most MMOs are single player games with other players running around the map.

 

Martial skills were always useful. Back in my guild, more than half of the top 10 players were knuckle users. They're really great to have around when you go hunting high level bosses as they can serve as both Breakers and Tanks if need be.

 

BTW I chose Toram cus I can customize my character (lol)