Thread:Raadec/@comment-3547390-20130307195655/@comment-3547390-20130821005940

I found out that Toontown and Pirates Online will be closing, any Disney mmorpg that isn't Club Penguin. No, I haven't played either since I was a child. But it got me thinking a lot.

A major difference between the FPS and MMORPG genre is longetivity. Due to multiplayer games demanding servers supplied by the industry, when the industry decides to move on from a game the MMORPG is dead. Not only will you be hard pressed to find an exe to download the free version, but even if you did it would be fruitless as no servers would exist.

Unreal is a game from 1998. Pirates Online is from 2007 (could have sworn it was older than that). The game from 2007 is closing while the game from 1998 continues to have servers (starting it up, still full of servers!).

But Unreal and other FPS games have servers that can be created by any player. If I wanted to create a server I could. Teams get together to support more stable and dedicated server, but I could do the same thing with less popularity as I am not well known like the teams. No matter how few servers exist, someone could pull up a server at any time. You are not suddenly banned from playing the game.

Imagine if Quake, Thief, Unreal, ect were all MMORPGs. Unreal has kinda been replaced by newer versions and now Epic focuses on Gears of War. Thief was originally made by a company that went under (due to John Romero's Dakatana it seems, it hurt the publisher Eidos and it seems LGS took the damage and had to move as many as they could to Ion Storm which was also the name of the company, but a different branch, that John Romero created the bomb in). Quake... well, judging by it coming after Doom 4, and Doom 4 being restarted doesn't look like a bright future plus is kinda covered by Quakeworld or Quake 3...

No, the games aren't replacable. But as the company went on to other things and eventually didn't want to upkeep an old game they took it down. You are no longer allowed to personally fight another Shambler as of September. Watch a Youtube video if you want to see the fun people had. We have moved on to RAGE and the upcoming Doom 4. When we added the feature of regerating health and got rid of the unrealistic rocket launcher it seems we lost the funds to keep supporting the game. Nobody was buying the downloadable content such as a Gremlin or a Mummy. So this last month we will offer that content for free plus the game you knew. Hope you had fun, please buy our next game. Love iD Software.

I know the start menu is terrible in Windows 8. It seemed 8.1 added a lot of features. Problem is they were all stuff from Windows 7. Promotions for the Xbox One were loaded on a Windows 7. So many game companies refuse to use it.

Maybe one day I will do Windows 8. But for now, why upgrade what I will not use? I actually am usually the opposite, but when it costs per upgrade you start to question if it is worth it.

Also, glad you both love the meerkat beermats. In other related news, meerkat is now a recognized word in my spell chat. Weird, aparently it learned overnight. And who said our robots weren't smart enough to learn from their mistakes and prepare to fight the human oppressors.

1979 isn't that old for games, right? I got Space Invaders, Pong, Asteriods... Pong! At least there aren't any games involving Nazis that just happen to be Zombies or an overarching goal to kill Russians. This is destroy the little pixelated blocks with other little pixelated blocks!

Edit: Just wanted to say, my goodness! I think I have a record for long replies. Why do I make people read so much!