Massively OP commenter BalsBigBrother made a joke the other day about wanting me to stream Ultima Online, and I replied that the game is so twitchy that if I tried to play and talk at the same time, I’d just end up dead, spending the whole stream as a greyed-out ghost trying desperately to find my body to get back all my uninsured loot.
And as I typed it, I realized how positively antique that sounds. Even most of the hardcore, FFA, not-your-grampa’s-sandboxes don’t even have corpse runs and corpse looting like old Ultima Online. That trend, if you want to call it that, is dead. It’s over. It’s never coming back, not in any serious way.
Are there other MMO trends you think will never come back?
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