MMORPGs How they have changed for the better? or worse?

[Zabuza]

I, for one, do *NOT* have Rose-Colored Glasses on.

Old MMOs sucked where you HAD to have 10, 20+ people to do anything "meaningful" in the game. People just don't have that kind of time and schedules anymore with how today's world works. I know people go "but mah massively multiplayer world" but they conveniently forget how they would spend 10, 15, 30+ minutes waiting for everybody to be ready to go, or then you had random disconnects, people having to AFK, etc.

I still don't know what this means when people say it. What do you mean by 'people just don't have that kind of time and schedules anymore in today's world?' Are you saying they did back then? What changed, exactly? Probably you just became an adult when back then you were still in your teens/young adulthood.

[Insertcoins]

I still don't know what this means when people say it. What do you mean by 'people just don't have that kind of time and schedules anymore in today's world?' Are you saying they did back then? What changed, exactly? Probably you just became an adult when back then you were still in your teens/young adulthood.

Honestly NOTHING changed really.. people just think they are busier with their cell phones giving them instant updates all the time. Like thats the biggest change. Back in the day we didn't have the net in our pockets. If you had to make a call you had to either go home and dail the number, find a payphone, or use your phone at your job or whatever. Now we're walking around withthat in our pockets. And that's a things cause now netflix and the like are giving shows instantly. No longer do you have to wait a week to catch the next eps in - live life- Now you can watch all that in one night when it's brand new. Time hasn't changed. It's still 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year. What changed was now people are doing so much on the go cause we have access to so much more on the go.

[Nims]

I still don't know what this means when people say it. What do you mean by 'people just don't have that kind of time and schedules anymore in today's world?' Are you saying they did back then? What changed, exactly? Probably you just became an adult when back then you were still in your teens/young adulthood.

I don't get this either, back then I had less time cause I had to go to school, do a lot of chores I didn't want, share the computer with someone else, and if my mom said get off at x hour, I had to get off.

Even if people don't have time now, it doesn't mean we should change an entire genre for those few people.

Oh and we still wait 30min+ for people with the duty finder. In mmos today where you make your own group, I get parties faster. Cause at that point it's about you and not just what class you are, people want to run content with that person cause they're funny, good at the game, etc.

That's not the fault of the game, that's the fault of the playerbase. XIV encourages you to take a longer path towards the end, to do things other than rush the latest endgame content

Huh? No it's the fault of the game, XIV has absolutely zero mid tier content, all the content and gear that "matters" are at level cap. When people talk about the journey and not rushing, back in the day MMOs had actual mid level content. Like mid level raids, mid lvl pvp arenas, rifts, etc. Not fluff content like gold sauce and sight seeing.

[Maeka]

I still don't know what this means when people say it. What do you mean by 'people just don't have that kind of time and schedules anymore in today's world?' Are you saying they did back then? What changed, exactly? Probably you just became an adult when back then you were still in your teens/young adulthood.

The economy changed.

More people are having to work two jobs, etc. Back in the early 00's, it wasn't quite as bad, stuff wasn't as expensive, etc.