What happened to this forum?

[Abhorsen]

I'm not ready for reddit yet
also i dont know how the new generation (age 10-16) thinks about mmorpg's these days, but for me (29) theres nothing coming out that interests me anymore, nor am i looking forward to any mmo in the works. the last mmo that interested me was tree of savior so its been a while.
and i still think theres potential for the mmofps/rpg genre and action based mmorpgs, however its very hard to do. if a company is too small the game could be great since the team communicates a lot, it would be a project they put all their love into, but the lack of funds will hold them back.
if a company is too big however they put all those funds in the wrong places and it turns into a mess that lacks any sort of quality content.
i feel like back in the day game companies had way more freedom and didnt look at other games at all, the goal was to make something unique and fresh without constantly having to worry about deadlines. they didnt have much games to rip off features from so they had no choice.

[Kamilla]

/r/onrpg lol

[prettylittleliar]

I noticed that a lot of gamers actually transferred to reddit. I see a lot of discussions there about a variety of mmorpgs such as guild wars 2, aion, black desert, etc.

[dswl173]

REDDIT facebook groups, youtube game channels almost killed traditional forums

[Songz]

What bothers me the most is that the BB Code shortcuts don't show when replying to threads. Why the hell am I typing out [[img]][[./img]] manually and shit... it's annoying

[darkness35]

What is MMORPG?
What is life?
What?

[annakieu541]

Reddit happened.

[Abhorsen]

What bothers me the most is that the BB Code shortcuts don't show when replying to threads. Why the hell am I typing out [[img]][[./img]] manually and shit... it's annoying

that's your adblock causing this. (for some reason)

what bothers me is that parts of the forum are still broken and nothing has been fixed in the past 6 or so months lol, so if the dying mmo genre didnt contribute to the forums being a wasteland, the lack of a fully functional forum is.
examples: https://www.onrpg.com/boards/threads...-Thread/page42 dead links like this everywhere.
video tags work but youtube tags are still broken.

[MissyS]

that's your adblock causing this. (for some reason)

what bothers me is that parts of the forum are still broken and nothing has been fixed in the past 6 or so months lol, so if the dying mmo genre didnt contribute to the forums being a wasteland, the lack of a fully functional forum is.
examples: https://www.onrpg.com/boards/threads...-Thread/page42 dead links like this everywhere.
video tags work but youtube tags are still broken.

- AdBlock decided to be aggressive with our sites and blocked many of their core scripts, which is why it has to be disabled for giveaways on site too. I can't even get work done on the back end without disabling it. It's something they really shouldn't do, given that it goes beyond blocking ads to block actual site functionality, but there's nothing more we can do about it.

- Dead links are dead links. There was a loss of posts here or there in the database when we had that incident months ago, and we had no way to recover them. The thread referenced isn't broken, it's just that the link you referenced is going to a page that no longer exists because someone hacked the forums and nuked the database. We recovered most of it, but some threads managed to remain nuked.

- Youtube tags being broken sucks, and it's because we're using an old version of vbulletin and YouTube has since updated its embed coding (several times). Updating the forum software is on the to-do list, but it's a slow process as the tech behind the sites is all connected and other changes are being made first to the backbone of everything.

I definitely agree that it's frustrating nothing has been done in the past six months (not ignored, I promise you - just not going as fast as we'd like). However before that the forum code hadn't been touched for years, so there's more forward momentum now than there had been.

[Meis]

forum > reddit

I'm not ready for reddit yet
also i dont know how the new generation (age 10-16) thinks about mmorpg's these days, but for me (29) theres nothing coming out that interests me anymore, nor am i looking forward to any mmo in the works. the last mmo that interested me was tree of savior so its been a while.
and i still think theres potential for the mmofps/rpg genre and action based mmorpgs, however its very hard to do. if a company is too small the game could be great since the team communicates a lot, it would be a project they put all their love into, but the lack of funds will hold them back.
if a company is too big however they put all those funds in the wrong places and it turns into a mess that lacks any sort of quality content.
i feel like back in the day game companies had way more freedom and didnt look at other games at all, the goal was to make something unique and fresh without constantly having to worry about deadlines. they didnt have much games to rip off features from so they had no choice.

Overpopulation. Over-produce. Over-consumption. Hence, so many clones. Every day, there will be new releases in various countries... I don't have to name it out. Do you guys remember gamengame??? Even that is slowed down.

m m o rpg[dot]com
m m o site[dot]com
... still going strong. You can't say forums are dead.

The MMORPG has reached its peak or mature stage I guess, just like how POP music did in early 2000. The next stage is VR-MMORPG... which is taking too slow ZZZZzzzzz.

[Arnolddo]

Forums in general become obsolete. You have reddit and facebook groups, not to mention twich. Forums are mainly for the oldschool gamers