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The other day I was chatting up a friendly MMO dev who – in the context of the then-still-fresh Elder Scrolls Online rollback – was telling me about how he resolved a situation in his MMO that could’ve turned into a nasty rollback, but the team scrambled to avoid that at all costs, even manually restoring ownables to avoid a complete server rollback. The stigma for rollbacks is just excessively high (as it should be).
“‘Rollback’ is definitely of the scariest words in MMOs,” I opined, and I’m pretty sure it’s true. I think it’s much worse than “merge” – but of course better than “sunset.”
What would you say are the scariest words in the MMORPG genre?
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