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Anonymous Thu May 26 01:14:50 2022 No.8946153 [Reply] [Original]

Why didn't it become browser based like RuneScape? It could have been one of the dominate MMOs of the 2000s.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 01:54:47 2022 No.8946220 >>8946153 Ruined by trammel care bears, bless deeds, EA acquisition and general pandering to whiny normie players

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 06:32:30 2022 No.8946619 >>8946153 Does it?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 06:39:13 2022 No.8946630 >>8946220 >Ruined by trammel care bears Yes. God damn just hanging around Britain's bank was hillarious.

Anonymous Thu May 26 08:06:36 2022 No.8946743

>>8946153
RuneScape was always free to play right? You had to pay a monthly sub fee for UO and I don't think making it browser-based to compete with RS would've made much of a difference if it still had a fee, and since they were bringing in millions every month during its peak they wouldn't want to give that up. It also lost a lot of players during the early 2000s after the Age of Shadows expansion and they just started adding more stuff to milk the whales instead of trying to go for total numbers. It only recently got a free to play limited access mode but it hasn't seemed to make much of a difference regarding player count.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 08:19:53 2022 No.8946762 >>8946743 >milk the whales What?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 08:46:29 2022 No.8946807 Great game, but they were more interested in the social aspect rather than the rpg aspect, and that sadly it’s the problem with mmorpgs. How is Haven & Hearth nowadays ?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 08:53:59 2022 No.8946826 >>8946153 Too busy revamping the game repeatedly with shitty graphics updates, and mutilating the interface. I tried logging in a few days ago and it was some kind of nightmare.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 08:59:02 2022 No.8946837 >>8946762 Whales = players who spend a lot of money on the game. UO started adding a cash shop and lots of stuff to buy and I guess it's been enough to keep them afloat while the total number of players dropped.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 26 16:23:21 2022 No.8947950 >>8946153 >It could have been one of the dominate MMOs of the 2000s It was THE dominant MMO until WoW became a thing and then picked up steam.

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