Netoge thread

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It's been a long time since the last one of these. Does /jp/ still play netoge?

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>>37731521
They don't exist anymore.

[Anonymous No.]

What do you mean by netoge?

[Anonymous No.]

Play Emil Chronicle Atomix

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>>37732869
mmos

[Anonymous No.]

we play genshin impact now

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>>37732648
I think it's more they just flat out stopped making them. It's almost the same games as it was 10 years ago, WoW, Guild Wars, Mabinogi. XIV 2.0's almost 10 years old now, too. You don't see a lot of high-budget new "traditional" MMOs anymore, let alone the anime-style ones. Weird to think, since it felt like new ones were coming out basically every year back in the day. I think the mobage and phone-game markets slowly kind of overtook them, because they're more lucrative these days with less production cost.

There's still some ones floating around though. Uncharted Waters just got a big update a few days ago for the five people that still play it.

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>>37735166
Damn that was depressing

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>>37732937
Is it fun?

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>>37735299
Its fun but extremely fucking dead.

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>>37735494
Do you have existential crisis over wasting all that time?

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All the fun is gone and i don't even know when it left

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>>37735775
The characters are cute and enjoyable and the lore is good so it doesn't feel as much of a waste of time than it would with any singleplayer RPG. There's also little difference between this game and other MMOs I've played where most players don't give a shit about interacting anyway unless they're trying to steal your drops or kills.

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>>37731521
Mabinogi was the best mmo for me and nothing ever came close to scratching that itch. I dropped every other mmo after a week or two because I just liked Mabinogi more. Even the rough artstyle was part of the charm for me, I hate the abuse of the word "comfy", but it was indeed comfy to me.

Sadly I don't like the current state of the game at all.

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I am irrationally angry over not discovering Mabinogi when I was younger. It looks like it used to be so good. I was having a good time now too until Nexon launcher decided to stop working...

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>>37735166
There are still multplayer games at least. Someone should suggest some with Touhou or anime mods. Like someone could make a few Touhou factions for Conquest of Elysium 5 and we could play vs each other on custom Gensokyo maps.

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>>37735494
>>37736078
I'll give it a try just for you, anon.

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>>37737314
You reminded me I'd worked a bit on a Touhou RO server. Maybe I'll finish it some day.

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>>37736078
I'm having fun with it so far, but do you know why the game is super laggy? Maybe it's just location.

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>>37735166
Does /jp/ play xiv? I was considering playing on jp servers away from western drama and nonsense but it feels even more lonelier than playing solo on NA or EU. Latency isn't really that bad if you use a vpn no matter where you are from. Sometimes I do bump into english speakers but they are mainly solo players or aussies playing where latency is best for them

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>>37739288
The game can be a bit laggy when you're entering a new area or in the cities but if you're experiencing lag in other areas or a lot of lag in general, it might be an issue on your end or a technical issue since atomix is glitchy sometimes. Also use these to customize your character https://forums.atomixro.com/forum/atomix-emil-chronicles-online-acronia-server/general-discussion-ab/guides-aa/1326-eco-hair-codes https://forums.atomixro.com/forum/atomix-emil-chronicles-online-acronia-server/general-discussion-ab/guides-aa/1325-eco-face-codes

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>>37742699
Oh that sucks. I'm getting turbo lag before I even log in, and the mouse flickers like crazy. I think it might be an issue with newer hardware? Not sure.

Super cute game though. It kind of reminds me of Mabinogi. Surprised I never really heard about it before.

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>>37744061
And just after I make this post it suddenly works silky smooth. Complaining on anonymous imageboards always does the trick.

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Are there any decent arena battlers around where you can just run around as an anime girl screaming and blowing shit up? Is Cosmic Break still around?

I wanted to give Bombergirl a shot but I ended up missing out on the live demos of the PC version.

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Went back to play Lineage2 at a 1x server, and starting to regret it, not even lvl 50 yet. But the clan mates and the leader are so cool that kind of don't want to go awol.

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>>37744795
Cosmic Break restarted recently but I don't know if it is still around.

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>>37744061
It's pretty unknown in the west since it never took off back when the official english server was still around and barely lasted over a year before shutting down which is a shame since it happened before ECO started it's heyday in Japan.

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>>37745943
Not to keep derailing the thread, but do you have any advice for starting out? I picked a faction, and did the few quests from the inn, but I think there's a limit on how many you can do within a certain time. I'm not too sure where to go from here, the DEM questline mentioned a deactivated one in a South Eastern house, but I've yet to find anything like that running around.

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>>37746391
Well I'm just retarded. There's an actual tutorial for every race except DEM.
There's not a lot of people, but it captures that old MMO spirit. It might be fun if there's ever a /jp/ guild or something. You can make super cute characters.

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>>37747953
>You can make super cute characters.
Mabi spoiled me on customization, so unless everyone can be different heights and weights and you can cosplay absolutely anything, it's not good enough.

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>>37746391
Quests from the Inn and Cafe employees have a limit of 5 per day or 3 if your character was already made. If you're level 20 you can start doing the Catty quests since quests from NPCs don't count towards the limit. https://atomix-eco.fandom.com/wiki/Catty_(Momo) Also if you haven't already, you should talk to Elina in front of the Black Church and get a free marionette from her and then check out the portal behind Tonka since there's a lot of shops and crafting areas there.

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>>37736588
I get a weird nostalgia feeling when I play Mabi, even down to weird mandela effect-like feelings, which were actually right in the KR version. (but I've only ever played NA and never private servers...)
>>37740572
You don't need to be social in a MMO. Permanently /busy and hide chat and no more drama. You miss comms but it's not too important usually. It's probably more lonelier because of timezones.

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>>37748783
It's also impossible to make friends on either game now. When I started Mabi, a couple people added me and chit chatted and wanted to help me out since I was a noob, but we rarely talked and I'm pretty sure they wanted me to reward them with the newcomer heart things. For FF14 it was horndogs lusting for my character, or begging me to join their guild to become a statistic for their member count.

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>>37748783
>You don't need to be social in a MMO
It's not like I HAVE to, it's just that I generally have a good time when /jp/ hosts servers for games and people gather to play and chat and since I am already invested this much in this game I was wondering if people here secretly already played it. Since everyone here avoids western servers I figured out some of you were hiding on one of the three jp datacenters. I promised myself I would never go through the main story again but knowing there are people from here playing might give me the motivation I need. Also in-game gathering around the kotatsu are just nice

[Anonymous No.]

i'm pretty late getting into it, the first netoge i played is Phantasy Star Online 2 JP right after episode 3 was released. I do like the game, the classes are fun to play with, there are a lot of contents to play around and their monetization system is great for players that don't want to spend a single penny. but it doesn't feel like an MMO somehow, except for the occasional emergency quests most of the time i spent on the game dungeons are spent alone. it felt like a single player game with internet integration and a hub world. i stopped when they released new genesis, my pc can't handle it.
i've never really got into other netoge, i played Ragnarok for a bit and i can't get into it, FFXIV is great but i can't afford the subscription, there seems to be a lot of old games that are still "active" to this day, i really want to play them since they looks so comfy but alas, i'm running linux now and most of these netoge are running their own launcher with their own weird anti cheat system. i think I'll setup a dual boot soon, uncharted waters and mabinogi looks interesting, cheers.

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I'm still disappointed nobody ever made that /jp/ EVE corp suggestion from years ago. But maybe it was for the best, I think the only people still around are jaded old vets and the megacorps too invested in it to quit.

>>37753168
PSO2 is more like a dungeon-crawler with an MMO hubworld rather than an MMO in the truest sense. I think it has an official translation now doesn't it? Funny, I remember people always saying it'd remain a JP exclusive. There was a whole fanmade English launcher patcher and everything though. Pretty cool.

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>>37756467
>EVE online
Isn't that the space game where you need to spend a ton of real money to even have a chance against the god mode paypigs? Do not want.

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>>37758710
No it's the game where you sign up to a sugar daddy and use the ships he gives you to hold other ships in place for him to kill

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>>37748674
Sorry to ask, but since you're about the only person who can probably answer it; is the Warlock quest for non-Dominion races bugged? The wiki mentions you shouldn't need anything to cross to the undead isle if you're a Novice, but there's no dialogue options or anything. It says you can use Crest Paper, but the only things that drop that are level 40 enemies which are impossible for a novice to kill. I also can't find anything about where to get the dark summoning rocks.

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>>37740572
>>37751017
What's the appeal of this game? It's ugly and the combat is boring.

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>>37735166
They are mostly gone. It's sad.
I had so much fun when more games existed. I can't stand XIV it's a walking simulator at best and not a very appealing one.
How do I say this. the games we're left with today have no soul.
I tried maplestory out a few years ago and it feels different. Megaten Imagine didn't have enough players. Quite a few games had a dwindling playerbase that led to western server shutdowns.
It's all about the graphics and money now.

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>>37778743
Given Tree of Savior exists, I don't believe any MMO had a reason to shut down because of players. When they were invented they weren't even meant to hold a few thousand players anyway, WoW just blew up and some people chased that dream. I think ones that shut down either just stopped hitting some profit goal or the people just quit because who wants to work on a single game their whole life, especially as a GM? I doubt the western teams for MMORPGs are that large. It's probably for the best MMOs are mostly dead though. After WoW clones they started trying to be hardecore tru-oldfag PVP experiences which basically no one likes except griefers. If they were popular nowadays they'd all be open world Souls-likes with a bit of Monster Hunter.

The one thing I regret was that MMORPGs were never ballsy enough to be like mobile games and their lewd beyond belief style of outfits. All the ones that tried to be "adult" were trash looking and probably playing and still wussed out.

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>>37778912
>I doubt the western teams for Eastern, anime-style MMORPGs are that large to begin with.
I meant

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>>37778690
Good story and music (arguably) and challenging enough end-game for people who are into that. Also a lot of side content that's basically what the average mmo player does the most. It was salvaged from a fine mess from 1.0 launch so it doesn't really look like your average hd korean mmo

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I want to have fun with /jp/ once again... even though old /jp/ barely spoke in guild chats from my experience

I wish ToS had been a better game, though I did have like 3 years of fun from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEF_C3QSgrI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRPOoB3TrB8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmTkpWNpKd0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNhIeUbL-5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDyTHsl61Tc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXnID2ldA1A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Kg3JBRVa8

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>>37780814
ToS was such wasted potential.
Last time I had fun in an MMO was Maplestory 2.
It had some pretty cool features like building your own base, playing songs, editing your own clothes using an image editor as we could in Cosmic Break, and the combat + raids were decent enough to keep me interested in the game itself.
Sadly it died an undeserved death because of >>>Nexon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW_ZSUKi0c8

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Lost Ark might be fun for a group play with the old /jp/ gang.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1599340/Lost_Ark/
That or Path of Exile 2 when it comes out but POE is pretty much a single player game.

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>>37785769
>ToS was such wasted potential.
How so? I thought it was great until they changed it and changed it again and changed it again. If someone could put it back to beta, I'd still be playing it.

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>>37785845
>POE is pretty much a single player game.
For the first time I imagined the idea of playing hardcore multiplayer. Half the team logging out without warning because something offscreen was about to hit them for 300% reflect damage

>>37785769
MS2 died because it was shit. Just play music in Mabinogi.

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>>37786520
>Just play music in Mabinogi
MS2 was peak comfy, lad. I played Mabinogi to the death with the /jp/ lads and MS2 was just as good.

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>>37786547
>peak comfy, lad.
Stay out of Hotglue please. You can go to TFT or Pizzaclub.

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>>37786634
>Stay out of Hotglue
I was a part of Hotglue before it was even called Hotglue.
Sorry I used a nono word, Junior, but I don't know if you noticed... it's fucking 2021, buddy. It's been like 10 years since Hotglue died.

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>>37785769
Didn't even know MS2 died, I only played up until you could customize a character mask and then quit.
If they didn't make it as a sequel to an already popular game, or at the very least change the name, it would have survived.
Sad it couldn't stay alive long enough for a private server scene to emerge.
>>37748814
I miss chatting in MMOs, I think last time I chatted in any game it turned into ERP involuntarily. All I wanna do is talk about the game and some anime...

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>>37778690
Gundam references

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>>37748814
>>37790046
Not to keep harping on about "back in the day", but I think part of the reason for this is Discord. Everybody talks on it now, so there's little reason to chat in-game. I think it also makes people wear out of each other faster, because you're around them 24/7. Before if didn't log in, or stopped logging in entirely, that was pretty much it.

Of course it seems like people as a whole are different. I vividly remember even in games like WoW people'd just randomly come up to you and try to strike up some silly conversation or ask you questions/help you out if you seemed new. That kind of stuff is a rarity more than the norm these days, and people just kind of silently go about whatever grind or dailies they have.

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>>37794102
>I think part of the reason for this is Discord
I don't know talking to people on AIM/Skype/Steam never stopped me or them from chatting on MMOs. I think MMOs are just dominated by people that don't want to talk. I mean how often did you just go talking to random people outside your friend group/guild for anything more than superficial reasons? (in this sense meaning for the duration of a dungeon run or to ask a question as you mentioned). It's not weird at all that people don't like talking to random people they don't know and this is true in real life as well.

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>>37795134
> I think MMOs are just dominated by people that don't want to talk
no silly that's singleplayer games

dont kind yourself, its literally in the name of the MMO

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>>37799261
Multiplayer doesn't mean forced social interaction. How much time do you spend chit-chatting in a fighting, strategy, sports, party, card, etc game? It's why I compared it to real life. RL is massively multiplayer, but you don't go running up to random people and start talking about which Touhou you would fuck, do you?

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Seeing news about DnF Duel has me melancholic that I haven't touched DFO in several years.

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>>37800841
Cloud if he were Guilty Gear