Captain Rufus posted:

My first experience with Ultima Online was getting pked in town before I had even figured out how to move because near launch UO was Raph Koster's first clueless attempt to make an mmo where the players could engage in the magic of friendship/sandbox it. (Star Wars Galaxies was his second try. Dude is almost adorable in how he thinks people will be in mmos.)

This meant it was Grand Theft Sosaria with a realistic mob spawn system that failed miserably because it thought people would have like 2-300 people a server an hour or so. Yeah it had lots more. Even if you didn't want to be a virtual sociopath there weren't enough critters to fight, not even deer!

2nd Age tweaked poo poo a bit and actually had a goddamned manual to read. Still was open pvp. I mostly ran with a dude named Boba Fett because mmos. (Another PC we saw a lot was Jenna Jameson the Sausage Queen. It was still the 90s and thus time for Klax. And massive PC upgrades every year. Now you just swap gpus every 2-3 years for 250ish till your mobo won't accept the current gen.) Did some actual RP poo poo.

Renaissance fixed the GTA poo poo but by this point everyone moved over to Everquest because it was 3d and other players couldn't abuse you freely. The game itself did that! (Asheron's Call was the best of the big 3 of the time.)

Hell Yeah posted:

Mortley posted:

Do you have any links about the Bobs?