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Same thing happened with me and WoW Classic. I was hoping that classic would recapture the magic I felt playing the game a decade ago but after a few days I was

Same thing happened with me and WoW Classic. I was hoping that classic would recapture the magic I felt playing the game a decade ago but after a few days I was just bored and cancelled my subscription. I guess that feeling is just a moment frozen in time now.

JeddHampton 4y ago
The game could return to what it was but the community couldn't. You can't recapture the past like that. Everything has moved on. The game is known, not new again.
rightbyte 4y ago
Playing "solved" games is not as exiting. The effect is most clear with boardgames I think. Also if you were a kid at the time way more things are exciting in gemeral.
- Alex3917 4y ago
  > Playing "solved" games is not as exiting. The effect is most clear with boardgames I think. While this is probably usually true, a good counter example is Go, which actually become more fun after computers surpassed the abilities of humans. (Because, as it turns out, the boring parts of the game don't actually matter that much in terms of points.)
andrepd 4y ago
To be fair WoW is a completely different beast from Ultima. They might as well be different genres.
synicalx 4y ago
I was hyped for Classic for YEARS and when the release date got announced I booked a full week off work (and with the missus lol) so I could no-life it just like old times. If the community could have had their memory wiped of Vanilla on launch day it would have been a different experience. But instead we just ended up with a bunch of seasoned veterans min/maxing everything to the extreme and burning through content they'd already solved more than a decade ago. I still re-visit Classic every now and then, maybe just to level another character up to level 15 or so and re-experience the starting zones I like so much. But it doesn't have the same allure as when it was brand new and that's kind of sad.

JeddHampton 4y ago

The game could return to what it was but the community couldn't. You can't recapture the past like that. Everything has moved on. The game is known, not new again.

rightbyte 4y ago

Playing "solved" games is not as exiting. The effect is most clear with boardgames I think. Also if you were a kid at the time way more things are exciting in gemeral.

Alex3917 4y ago
> Playing "solved" games is not as exiting. The effect is most clear with boardgames I think. While this is probably usually true, a good counter example is Go, which actually become more fun after computers surpassed the abilities of humans. (Because, as it turns out, the boring parts of the game don't actually matter that much in terms of points.)

andrepd 4y ago

To be fair WoW is a completely different beast from Ultima. They might as well be different genres.

synicalx 4y ago

I was hyped for Classic for YEARS and when the release date got announced I booked a full week off work (and with the missus lol) so I could no-life it just like old times. If the community could have had their memory wiped of Vanilla on launch day it would have been a different experience. But instead we just ended up with a bunch of seasoned veterans min/maxing everything to the extreme and burning through content they'd already solved more than a decade ago. I still re-visit Classic every now and then, maybe just to level another character up to level 15 or so and re-experience the starting zones I like so much. But it doesn't have the same allure as when it was brand new and that's kind of sad.