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> the original 1997-ish release was so much fun It was insanely laggy, when the servers were up at all. It probably was the best game ever made for a six month
by Alex3917 10y ago
> the original 1997-ish release was so much fun
It was insanely laggy, when the servers were up at all. It probably was the best game ever made for a six month period, between when the servers finally got semi-stable and when they started releasing the expansions, which basically took all the fun out of the game. (What was the point of accumulating wealth and power once you could disable PVP to prevent yourself from getting randomly killed, and when there was now unlimited space for houses? Basically none.)
- samstave 10y agoI agree with the latter half of your sentiment, but to the former, like I said, I was playing on the newest machines intel could build and I had an OC-48... so no lag. but after the housing insanity... it did go down hill. I DLd the open version(which is incredible how that was reverse engineered in-and-of-itself) and it was literrally entirely populated with house and was no fun AT ALL. but yeah, there was some where near a year where that game was amazing. It is funny to think though, even though the game was revolutionary, how quickly it was grokked by people and play strategies were realized. Fuck, look at twitch and how basically computer game culture has evolved! there will be PHD level courses on this within 20 years.
- jghn 10y agoThe time period between mid-closed Beta UO and roughly that Christmas was my all time favorite time period for gaming.