Comment on WoW guild uses exploits to get world 'first' on new raid, gets banned, puts its name backwards and does it again

• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What about FF14 or Guild Wars 2? Don’t they count as pre-live service MMORPGs, too?

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  • tonytins@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    checks Seems games as a service model that we know today really picked up steam at around the late 2010s. So, yeah…

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • tonytins@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a hot minute.

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  what makes wow not a live service game? aren’t all MMOs by definition live service?

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  • tonytins@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean, yeah. Just don’t tend not to lump the older ones in it because of how awful the practice has become.

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