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@merchantHelios Uh, played on private servers for quite a time before Classic Wow got released. If you bounced off FFXIV, you're really not gonna like WoW. The appeal is that of many other RPGs, but you can play with other people and flex on them. Very fond of the space goats and blood elves.

@Netoraremancer wasn't asking due to intent to play, tbc. just trying to pin down why people do play it. ffxiv makes sense because it's still "modern" and has a massive community of coomers. WoW just kinda strikes me as kinda plain in comparison. since the gameplay is basically the same

@merchantHelios WoW makes more sense in context, and after WoW released, most other MMOs were WoW but worse, and all your friends were playing it and were able to get together for "Raid Night". In fact, I know an Orthodox priest who met his wife playing WoW. If you were in the market for an MMO you had a choice between Ultima Online, Final Fantasy 11 (but that was for weebs), Runescape 2, Star Wars Galaxies, EVE Online, and Everquest.

@Netoraremancer i can only imagine how much more dogshit EVE was back then lmfao

@merchantHelios Scuffed but workable. The real dark age of EVE Online was when they did the walking in stations update and made everybody play like this while docked and it was dogshit. This only ever made sense for Dust 514 specifically. I would still be playing if multiboxing wasn't essential and the sub wasn't at least 20 bucks a month.

@Netoraremancer its very much a "fun, in theory" game for me. similar to rimworld in that respect, oddly. i always found kenshi and DF to be more enjoyable