idk probably mud1

https://www.british-legends.com/CMS/index.php/play-the-game/play-in-your-browser

>>12219848
Real games only

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Meridian 59 has existed since 1996, but it was offline for about two years between 2000 and 2002 while rights were sold off/transferred.

I never really hear much about this game, guessing because it was overshadowed by Ultima Online and later Everquest but I have noticed it's free on Steam. What's the general consensus? Is it worth a look?

>>12219857
>Attack helicopter xDDDDDD
Cull every single boomer. Death to boomers. Commit suicide if you find any amusement in that phrase.

Truly. Kys.

>>12219867
The attack helicopter joke is a timeless classic. Why so upset?

>>12219858
oi m8 mud1 went online in nineteen-dickity-six at the jolly old price of 15 sterling crowns per minute

>>12219865
It's bad. Really bad. Always was. Text-based MUDs of the era totally mogged it.

>>12219869
>Why so upset?
You know why.

>>12219869
Only neoconservative Israel worshipping boomers find it funny. I can't wait until you all die from diabetes.

When did worlds go down? I didn't hear about this

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>tfw you will never be a froglok

>>12219881
Anon, you seem to have gotten lost. /r/eddit is down the hall on your left.

>>12219881
Attack helicopter is a millennial joke. What does antisemitism have to do with anything?

>>12219894
le attack helicopter isn't even reddit, it's Facebook. How does it feel to be infinitely more pathetic than even reddit?

You don't belong here. Go die of a heart attack loser.

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>>12219814 (OP)
The oldest MMO still going that anyone ever gave a shit about is Ultima Online. Everything before then is either too niche/obscure and forgotten or offline and lost/nonfunctional.

Is there a good private server for it these days?

>>12219903
Your friends and family laugh at you behind your back.

>>12219903
2/10 bait I replied twice.

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>>12219814 (OP)
>Worlds.com
Don't tell anybody, but there's a Worlds.com "clone", released a few months after Worlds.com, which is still playable.
Its name is ActiveWorlds and from what I have seen in some recent YT videos, it's even more dead than what Worlds.com used to be one or two years ago.

>>12219913
Your stoke is coming soon boomie

>>12219909
Everyone laughs at your sad aging obese decreipt ass.

>his s*ga system threads get deleted instantly now
>instead he tries to derail threads
stop giving him (You)s

>>12219848
this, probably some mud.

I remember trying some mud or mush about ten years ago, wish I could remember the name of it now. And it was pretty desolate, but it still had old players just hanging out in the tavern in the starting town.

>>12219934
Kino

>>12219814 (OP)
I didn't know Worlds.com was down for good, but yeah its true. Damn, that makes me sad. Used to go hang with the furries there back 2012 and explore the long-dead worlds

It needed to happen though, the IP got taken over by NFT cancer

>>12219908
I just want to autistically mine ore in the mountains west of Britain.

>>12219857
>M for male, F for female
this really triggered anon that hard?

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>MUOnline
Released in 2001. Also some of the coolest armor designs of all time. Too bad Brazilians play it.

>>12219869
Newfags will get mad about anything. They crave peer approval

>>12219931
He is other boards now too

>>12219814 (OP)
Nexus TK
>inb4 "who?"
you know that one huge gaming company that everyone's hating right now? yeah it owes the name from this game.

>>12220116
played this as a kid, was fun but I only remember killing monsters over and over and gambling to upgrade my gear so it started shining. To this day no MMO has armor as cool as this game and the fucking wings man. I want cool ass wings.

>>12219865
It lacks content and uses the “it’s a pvp experience” as a cope. It’s neat and I have a lot of respect for it but you’d be better off playing a MUD like aardwolf which actually has things to do.

>>12219814 (OP)
technically runescape 3 I guess.

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>>12220631
The ad got me so excited as a kid but there was no way my parents were going to pay for a monthly sub. I imagine it's just jaded millenials left playing it at this point, I don't even know how you'd find it if you didn't already know about it

>>12219903
You will never be a woman.

>>12220631
I literally only know about Nexus because some /f/ag makes OC and a couple of his things were about that

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If this game has been permanently online the whole time since release (it looks like it), I think we got a winner:

The Realm Online

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Realm_Online

>>12219814 (OP)
>still alive
>posts eq
I don't think defiling a corpse counts as living

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>here's your mask bro

>>12222559
>AC
good if you're a tank, otherwise you're 1-rounded regardless
>hp/mp/en
effectively standardized by tier anyways
>all those stats and heroic stats
you're already capped on mods, hdex is the only one that will provide real benefit and only if you're melee
>resists
lol
lmao
>luck
you're capped anyways
>attack
you're capped anyways
>hp/mana regen
they could add 3 zeros to those numbers and they'd still be negligible
>heal amount/spell damage/clairvoyance/frenzy
basically fake stats, beyond trivial

basically the only thing that matters in modern eq are weapon ratio, hdex, ac, base damage augs/effects, and procs. crit scaling is so out of control that if your spells don't crit they might as well had been resisted entirely and only things that scale with crit (base damage modifiers, twincasts, and procs) even effect the parse

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>>12222341
You can really see Sierra's fingerprint in the designs of the chicks in that game. All the women in picrelated could be Leisure Suit Larry 6 characters.

>>12222559
Wow ruined gear for every mmo.

>>12223738
WoW at least crunches now and then. EQ is just 97 expansions of vertical progression.

>>12219867
Bro calm down. All I can say is that at least vintage MMOs didn't have dumbass "pronouns" that literally destroyed any worldbuilding immersion.
Now post your own favorite vintage MMO my good dude.

>>12223738
WoW gear was always incredibly simple. Like 3-5 stats tops on a given item, and maybe a few gem slots, and it was always immediately obvious what role the item was for.

They looked at shit like EQ and knew all that stat bloat was pointless and fixed it.

I sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of soaring over the oilfields dropping hot sticky loads on disgusting foreigners. People say to me that a person being a helicopter is Impossible and I'm fucking retarded but I don't care, I'm beautiful. I'm having a plastic surgeon install rotary blades, 30 mm cannons and AMG-114 Hellfire missiles on my body. From now on I want you guys to call me "Apache" and respect my right to kill from above and kill needlessly. If you can't accept me you're a heliphobe and need to check your vehicle privilege. Thank you for being so understanding.

>>12223863
>oilfields
Generation Kill is a hundred times better than Jarhead

Why has there never been any MMOs involving guns and tanks?

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>quit EQ early Velious to go play DAoC or AO or some other new release with my bros
>a year later
>see new expansion coming out, you go to the moon
>sounds dope
>buy that shit
>log in
>wtf my character is hideous now
>zone into nexus
>3fps, pitch black, surrounded by equally hideous characters
>immediately uninstall and cancel my account

>>12219914
>Don't tell anybody
too late. Making a chatgpt-written video essay about how its a le spoopy backrooms cult driven epstein video game. The servers will be flooded with tiktok tweens and vinesauce fans, mwahahaha

>>12225143
Ironically if EverQuest never changed its graphics style and didn't degrade into such degenerate gameplay and cashslop, they would've hade a huge revival when retro became mainstream.

>>12225306
>>12225143
Luclin was a huge disaster.
Was funny at the time to see all the people trying to defend those ugly and badly-animated new character models.
Meanwhile the new gameplay content was unfinished, unbalanced and generally shitty.
AAs were a pretty good idea though.

>>12225918
AAs were wholesale lifted from MUDs at the demand of the neckbeard community. And fundamentally speaking they're bad design. There are no builds or anything, you just max them all out, and until you get like 2/3rds of them your character is useless. It's just leveling in disguise.

>>12219881
was there supposed to be humor in this comment? get fucked yakub

>>12219871
anons help me out. new fag here. what is a MUD?

>>12227365
"Multi User Dungeon." It was a mostly text-based online type of game.

>>12220116
Played that as a kid, some modified servers of it, anyway, got scammed by what I imagined to be my friends. Redpilling game.

>>12227141
it got even worse later on when you had to spend aas to buy consumable glyphs that gave massive short term buffs
they started balancing raids around the use of glyphs and suddenly you had to spend 8 hours before every raid stocking up aas, especially if you were a tank

>>12220957
>but I only remember killing monsters over and over and gambling to upgrade my gear so it started shining
pretty sure this was every single early 2000's mmo, lol.

>>12228134
only asian mmos had gambling to upgrade your gear

>>12227365
>what is a MUD?
Imagine Zork, but multiplayer.

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So, for now, we have:
June 1995: Active Worlds (oldest virtual world still alive)
October 1996: Meridian 59 (oldest MMO still alive)
December 1996: The Realm Online (oldest 2D MMO still alive)

>>12228745
MUD1 is literally the fpbp...

>>12219889
I mean. Froglok did become a playable race...

>>12228895
No, you can play as an abomination they claim is a froglok.

>>12228890
This thread was to discuss online games whose servers have been up 24/7 for all those years uninterrupted.
The last uninterrupted online period of MUD1 started in 2021

>>12228914
Define uninterrupted?

>>12219865
I bet this game was so magical back when it released. The very early MMO era was a great time.

>>12219814 (OP)
Furcadia iirc.

>>12229031
If your only "non-playable moments" have been a few hours here and there for maintenance reasons, then you have been online uninterruptedly in my book.

>>12228914
MUD1 was always playable. It's just hosted on multiple sources now.

>>12219814 (OP)
maybe tibia online, came out even before ultima online.

man, I tried to get into eq a few months ago and it's impossible without throwing money at it, everything is designed to force you to pay for 3-6 accounts

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>>12229041
>>12229084
Honourable mentions indeed

>>12228914
if not MUD1, then some other MUD, maybe Genesis
https://www.genesismud.org/history.php

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>>12225143
DAoC was better anyway

>>12219903
What a fag. If you like reddit and its degen lefty values so much you can go there and remain there.

>>12229227
PSO was magical. I will never experience something like that ever again.

>>12229646
>you have to play one of these 3 classes in one of these 2 realms
>you have to run this cheat program so you can see where everyone is
>the first group to get off their CC wins
I love being mezzed for 15 minutes straight and 90 second stuns

>>12229646
>DAoC
The PvE was pretty cool but then one day everyone discovered that PBAoE groups were 100x more efficient than traditional groups and suddenly normal groups just ceased to exist. And before that you had to deal with autotraining retards trying to sneak into your groups and leech.

>>12229054
Who actually write the book on that though?

>>12230034
>PBAoE groups were 100x more efficient than traditional groups and suddenly normal groups just ceased to exist
I don't know what that means but I can only assume it wasn't fun and people did it anyway. Given the chance MMO players will always optimize the fun out of everything.

>>12230380
point blank aoe, you pull every mob in the dungeon then you spam aoe stuns and aoe nukes

basically every mmo devolves into some form of it eventually, even wow