MMORPGS

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Mobile MMOs

Blue Protocol: The return Hello eastern game dev Can you make a black person in your character creator without the lighting freaking out? Not a drop of melanin on the title screen Dawg Gotta turn the toner all the way DOWN to get the color and the defaults are white We have dragoon at home In some sort of spacesuit Cat Cat Hello cat All MMO UIs are the same We’ve got genshin and WuWa at home ahhh UI No dub for you Slowest speed possible for the text That was more of ah we have Vergil at home tbh Okay so there’s purchases orbs and the F2P orbs and ugggh Hate it here.
Mysterious hooded blokes everywhere I didn’t even know they actually called the attack judgement cut lmao Auto battle, gacha, pay to win, PvP, pay to costume, one billion unskippable cutscenes Nah they’re skippable

Good mmo Mobile The struggle is real Toramonline is nice I liked tower of fantasy a bit before it got too bloated I wonder if my characters still there Would love for mmo that isn’t autobattler Classic RuneScape is still there I think IdleOn is ok Did not enjoy the stupid mascot thing in ni no kuni but I could give it another chance Weren’t they into crypto Ugh Alchemia story is like toram online sort of Another problem is even if I could play them all (I don’t) they are all so big I miss small sized mobile games that weren’t like 20 GB by default Boy why you need all that TOF: I think I just lost my og account because I messed up on the character date creation thing and made myself 0 years lld Oh well I’m just here to skip the tutorial because I made Auburn in the character creator I’m not replaying tower of fantasy I am skipping all of this I remember it was like some sort of memory thing and Shirley was turned into a robot girl but it was like actually skipped over because idk, I guess people didn’t like the first story arc that much so they just immediately moved to a different thing and made part 1 skippable Don’t care Don’t care Let me customize Dont care Oh there we go Ehhh close enough I think the hair is different but who cares Dawg the account has been binded It’s basically already time to replay TOF there’s better games Idk it’s scratching an itch The gameplay loop I like jt Not a fan of games that last forever though None of the gacha guys look like they belong with the custom charas… Meh. I just like having the cool weapon. Ty Redownloaded tower of fantasy just to make my OC and then deleted again Grindset

Somehow MapleStory returned Overglorified cloud machine go!! Did MapleStory do yet another world merge Unbelievable Lmao, I say Do I need this extra phantom Nope Get the fuck out I forgot about Lynn erasing Beast tamers I got a white ahhh baby That is not my character’ skin color Press Y to skip SKIP NO one plays MapleStory for story Winning the idgaf awards Give me back my clothes Let me out Let me out of tutorial world NOW Meanwhile Buying a house Did that actually take 500,000 memos from me Good lord did everything from every class get reset I’m in PAIN.

MapleStory the girl of destiny It’s kind of funny how every MapleStory adaption ignores the actual game story to make up their own thing The art style doesn’t even try to replicate it That is not what me so collecting sounds like The music doesn’t loop properly and the plat forming is momentum based?.?. Why is it also a beat em up now Too uncanny Not playing that

Hello I would like an mmo that isn’t 200 GB best I can do is random ass KMMO that is 20 years old Fine enough I should get back into latale vs do not

Maplestory RelapseThe sign the recession and unemployment is getting to me is when I’m considering playing MapleStory again

Maplestory players that still play I salute to you for putting up with mushroom game but I gotta fight the temptation on the daily Maplestory soberity

Every single MapleStory player eventually gets to the point of hating MapleStory because it’s like the incredible potential of a game squandered by the fact it’s owned by Nexon The Korean finger pinching conspiracy theory happening because of the angelic buster remaster was still one of those “you people are INSANE” moments that I get reminded of I was clean for 3 years off Maplestory and the relapse bit me

Maplestory My journey as a perma citizen Why that Because I’m too lazy to move my perma beginners off Maple Island by doing story quests lol] Being a perma beginner sucks because I don’t have enough mesos to buy equipment or kill monsters

The orchid glazing saga has to be studied in MapleStory because they really turned the girl who held an entire town hostage and made a terrorist group and was leading up to resurrecting Satan into a marketable girl because the dev team thought she was cute, never gonna forget how a fan made the dev team read out loud her dialogue lines or something to a character who hated her ass because she murdered his loved one. The most cut off storyline in MapleStory was resistance though because no matter how you look at it they had to deal with Cygnus ditching them in content that basically got cut until dimensional library brought it back and their scuffles lasted until black heaven which pretty much necessitated they had to make up.

Most MapleStory plots range from “could be decent but is too short and spread throughout 200 levels” to “active fart doo doo ass” but they really managed to sneak in a story that makes me have an emotion that makes me miserable when I think about it always and it’s demon slayer because his brother was consumed by vengeance and he had to be put down after his mother got killed and his house burned down while they were hiding as refugees after his traitorous backstabbing coworker crashed out. “Alright, let’s go home,” demon says as he carries his brother’s lifeless body away, and I’m here feeling like I’m crumbling to dust.

The other is Shade but he gets a slightly better resolution in the retcon story where people are starting to remember him because of the dimensional merge but otherwise dude would be forgotten always with zero evidence he ever existed.

Sometimes they make the stories okay in revamps and other times im like “don’t ever COOK again” like what the hell they did to the explorer line to try condensing it into the first hours of the game and give someone absolutely the wrong impression of what MapleStory is about. Nobody else plays this for the story but me, everyone else hits skip cutscene!

MapleStory relapse broken on account of nexon’s shitty coding MapleStory once had its own monster farm raising simulator but that shut down too Familiar summons used to be a thing but they keep switching between removal to non removal Funny as hell that if I ever login again I’m gonna be like “why do I have a level 50 resistance citizen” because the burning event let me level to 50 and I just skipped the job quest because i forgot I’ve never seen a game more determined to not let me play it which is hilarious MapleStory really did “you can play it ONCE”

Early Gameplay Log Maplestory M
wading away my maplestory behavior by using maplestory M as the deterrent I hate autobattler games, let's see how long this lasts! I was going to pick Bishop as my class but Hayato had a burning event so I started with him. I would've gone with Sia but I think she's gender locked. I liked her class, she had a bit of neat lore (by Maplestory standards) but eh. Now that Hayato got to level 100 or so within the few hours of creation it was kinda crazy, eh? Old Maplestory wouldn’t have had you do that, it would’ve taken weeks at best or months just to get to a smaller level. Now it’s like you’ve got events to breeze past the content. Makes you wonder what the point even is for all these abandoned maps. Especially since it’s a near copy paste of the actual MMO… I think it's a lot nicer when you just explore a place instead of just auto battlign all over the place... why be called an explorer if you just do nothing while the game plays itself? There's no enjoyment to be had out of that IMO. Burning is crazy. I really sat in one spot and grinded until level 100 with nothing stopping my autoplayer. It's different with clicker games, the whole purpose it to watch number go up. but if i lower the volume, then i have an autoplayer maplestory album! that's pretty nice. So my decision to wean off GMS was for the best because KMS ( the OG servers and basically the base code of the game, GMS itself is spaghetti cobbled code) blew up the Reboot F2P server It’s gone entirely.

To fill out the FFXIV MMO shaped hole in my life I’ve been playing mobile MMOs. I think the genshin gachafication of video games needs to be thoroughly studied because why is this game locking behind weapons. The only thing it should be used for is cosmetics like Maplestory used to do years ago.

Attempting to get to level 130 in Maplestory M through burning was like “wow this sucks.” Sia Astelle finally came out, she’s good. I learned that there’s actually voice acting in the game but I never hear it because I only have auto battle on.

Watching TOP progging and its good but also I keep thinking about how genuinely unhinged DSU’s prog era was (Among Us twitter saying who their favorite ward member was, Zephirin pogchamps, peepoArrive, the sheer audacity of the time travel timeline being the worse one, watching multiple DRKs being chased around, twitch chat hive brain screaming “SAVE HIM”, me having Finals during that time period and having 5 different streams open to see if anyone managed to get progress over the other, PlayStation memes, I AM NAMED KYLE). One of the leading groups is someone wearing a Sasuke wig. I have no idea what the shadowbringers ultimate could be. Hades? Warrior of Light? Maybe both? There’s also the buff cap problem they’ve been having which is kind of incredible. Solely dodging everything ahead. Remember when I was like, oh TOP Progging hasn’t been as insane as DSU, it got insane again because of mods involving the camera. I have nothing against mods but I’m obviously playing vanilla and my opinion doesn’t matter. That’s to say, I have no opinion on the matter. Do I think they’re bad? No. Do I think sometimes they’re used badly? I guess. I do wish I had the ability to backup games, nothings made me feel bad for buying afterwards and not contributing as spark the electric jester, which I couldn’t buy either. Hmm. They made the way bags open in POTD a lot faster. That’s good for future runs. Too bad I still can’t get past 20 on a normal day… but on the other hand I got a red panda! FFXIV has me needing to multi class for a single job quest but I’m too lazy to do so at the moment. One day I’m gonna end up with an Omnicrafter by sheer accident. In terms of FFXIV, there was the little lady’s day event which I did on one character and then basically lost interest in. Why is there an event centered on a dance that isn’t even loopable? This is like, the second event this year I feel like was… lowering my expectations.

ToramOnline is really the only new thing I’ve added aside from briefly continuing my bakugan venture. It’s so wild that I learned in later seasons that they straight up get rid of two of the major supporting cast characters while the others are reduced to cameos. I haven’t gotten there yet, just to the point where the gang is sent to the doom dimension. XIV: I was told that it would’ve taken me like 3 hours to beat ARR on everyone but per character per day thats like 6 hours… i can’t do that kind of stuff anymore. laTale M came out. It’s not good! Why do all the work to make a mobile MMO version of the game just to make it an automover? Makes no sense.

I slept through fanfest for 14 and didn’t miss much since I’m not posting DT stuff yet. I’m only interested in the collab stuff…

doing my best to not be tempted into ruining my entire schedule thing by racing through ARR since I learned the speed run takes 20 hours. (Which I would obviously break down, I’m not that foolish,) I should’ve properly paced that, but I didn’t, which is going to lead to a very interesting experience if today was any indication when I have to inevitably tank and heal for the last chunk of MSQ since I don’t have other jobs for those alts since I barely play them, just take photos with them.

I’ve completed ARR on M’ari, meaning I’m at the halfway point for all of my characters. I think that ARR has some good areas but since I’m prioritizing clearing MSQ for the sake of it rather than taking my time that it’s reflecting poorly on me as I kind of… stop paying attention to yellow quests and stuff I was doing to have fun in the game. But I promised myself I’d complete all of them, so up next on the list is Sage. Who. Is falling a bit behind, somehow. My Warrior level didn’t get much exp in a while (and I haven’t tanked much duties, just DPS), but somehow I’ve managed to clear stuff. Doesn’t mean I’m a good tank. I completely forgot about the ARR ending part changes. On the one hand, better that they’re not janky. On the other hand, I kind of liked that jank. It was funny when sprouts were continuously believing that Westwind was immensely hard only for it to turn out to be easy as hell. The fall guys stuff dropped (well, its gotten patched in) and it’s so obnoxious that wraps back to being funny, im gonna learn how to be the best faller guy in XIV for the stupid crap. As a bonus, there’s some collages of progress for everyone. (It’s in a separate post.) In the meantime, I put a bit more effort into playing ToramOnline since it’s basically the only MMO that survived my no more mobile MMOs purge, because I like it. It’s charming, reminds me of MapleStory before I threw it into the gutter. FFXIV * Fall Guys: Man. I wish it was easier to see your arrow with the about face mechanic I’ve thought was mine but turned out was someone else’s. I’ve had the term “Sisyphean task” in my head for days while attempting to get past the second stage. GaiaOnline: Look at this cat thing. I’ve been making an in game journal and all I’ve been doing is pointing out stuff that works or doesn’t but now im just gambling in the auction and bumping forever in the forums. Also, the ruffle stuff works, sort of? The answer to that question was “yes, the ruffle stuff only really works on desktop, otherwise it takes forever or just leaves a black screen on mobile. Yes I do have a GaiaOnline account, but I’m only there to make OCs in the dream avatar maker and play pinball and nothing else LaTale journal: I deleted M because I hate autobattlers. I went back to desktop on a single mission. It’s more of an attempt to funnel directly to learning if the NPC fashion items were ever directly changed after multiple company transfers and if mobs still drop fashion items, but one is of a different priority than the other. Do later towns sell fashion items that weren’t documented?The answer I leaned was a fat “no” and that’s why nothing past 2008 focuses on different clothes and then Iris said something pressed so my motivation to continue the game died. Oh well. Least the musics still good.

In terms of online games… The WiFi’s crap where i live again. I’m starting to suspect my break from part timers/ffxiv might be more permanent if the game keeps crashing like this/ i guess it’s a good thing I tried fall guys out now versus finding out it would be hot crap later. FFXIV is a dearly beloved video game to me and I truly hope to continue the MSQ which I will do eventually, but for now it’s holding most of my attention as a roguelike with the occasional strategy dip with whatever I’m doing with the squadrons All I do these days is login to craft or play POTD, Gold Saucer, and drag alts through ARR, rinsing and repeating. Some of those alts are having skill issues though because I have no idea why I kept utterly failing at stone vigil. I eventually got through it with WAR on duty support but I don’t think I’ll ever be allowed to play with people again. You can tell when the age demographic for a fanbase is teenagers versus a group that is entirely adults I think FF14’s lack of teens was mostly because you have to actually pay for the game with an active subscription versus games that are free without a subscription Also an MMO for PC only. We live in phone world. If I ever do return to it though I might retire all the OCs and just make a new account. Rene the chronic liar guy is the funniest way to retcon that shit I said about him though. "I lied about that", he said My introverted ass is not being social again in any MMO, I’m not joining discords, I’m gonna be a damn cryptid The game is too graphics intensive for my poor laptop now and if I make the resolution too Big The laptop instantly dies which is insane to concieve So I’ve locked it into a bad spot where it’s literally insta crashing my computer and it’ll lead to the blue screen of death Crazy Person who played ff14 and got sidetracked by every single thing in the game aside from the MSQ and then got bored and left and therefore is a secondary who also was more into community events than the lore and generally sucked (tm) How are you gonna have post embarrassment years after leaving the discords Idk I feel like someone at any given moment if they’d recognize me by my old antics would be like “ew” akin to seeing some sort of small bug or animal No one recognized my category 5 mental illness moment as a mental illness moment because my level of main character syndrome was equivalent to people you’d find on ff14 twitter minus me having no mods Like there’s a level of mean girls obsession I saw on there where people would get outright nasty and my level was “sorry you got too weird about the characters no one gives a shit about” I am always going "why did i say That" now so uh, lesson learned.

La Tale: Let’s gooo, time to waste my entire life on a new MMO that doesn’t have all the insane stuff behind it. But I need to be careful lest I turn into a beast of nature like my MapleStory days. It’s so funny how badly I slide off gacha games and like things people consider being good or not.

Regarding 14...

If I ever play ff14 again, the OCs on BeetMint… Oh no these characters are 100% dead done and retired and I’ll only be playing on a new character that’s probably either a Lalafell or a catboy and he’ll have like, heterochromia and green hair or something I have him in my brain already his name is Noire like the Dragalia guy. I think a lot of factors that ff14 guys are currently complaining about their game being unpopular because of their latest expansion is ignoring the factors that brought the shadowbringers boom to begin with aside from word of mouth Covid Wow exploded for a bit so people were looking for an alternative Really I think mostly covid and the fact people had flooded online to find outlets for their emotions and stuff which lead to the craziest interactions including me Endwalker was basically the equivalent of the MCU endgame People went back to work and other games in the content lull since the dev team wasn’t expecting people to solely get attached to just ff14 with their mods and shit Ignoring all that and the recent thing, I’m probably resetting my ff14 run because I love my Covid characters but also they’re associated with me being weird online and the last thing I want is recognition for being a weird person who didn’t realize they were unmedicated and going crazy from Covid isolation. Born to DPS, forced to tank and heal for faster queue times I don’t like responsibility for other people I hate my shitty PC dude can't even open FF14's benchmark without it wheezing and crashing Ooooohhh I’m dying auuuugh I’m 4 years old BACK IN MY DAY I HAD A SHITTY USED WINDOWS XP PC AND I COULD PLAY 5 DIFFERENT THINGS AT ONCE BUT YOU CAN’T EVEN PLAY A STEAM GAME AND A YOUTUBE VIDEO ON FIREFOX WITHOUT TRYING TO EXPLODE Now I’m just crazy in an isolated bubble away from other people so they don’t have to deal with my weird up front and possibly dislike me or find reasons to find me annoying because I was annoying. Playing Evil Barbie in GaiaOnline I used to do that in ff14 But my shit PC can’t do it anymore so I can’t I never downloaded mods though and at this rate I’m kind of afraid to because some mods were a bit uh. Ludicrous. I feel like some of the mods I saw people posting on their social medias made ff14 an entirely different game and the aesthetic didn’t match in the slightestttttt I am so sorry but some of those mods just made the comparison of like putting infinity Nikki dresses next to regular ass NPCs like go play that, not ff14