2011-05-19, 06:52 AM
Veneni Wrote:How I remembered:
Day before patch: OMG everyone new town is coming out omg!!!
Day of patch: People everywhere, impossible to do quests
Day after that: *ghosttown*
Nah old maple wasn't that much better. Dudewitbow's wall of text makes alot of sense to me.
That's exactly how it was. People tend to only remember the actually enjoyable parts, and forget all the stuff they didn't like.
I remember all the "old days" myself. Sure, people talked a lot, but back then people had things to conjecture about. No one knew what 3rd job was going to be like, or 4th job, or any of the new areas being released. Now we know long before they come out in GMS, mainly because of sites like this, that extract and read KMS data. We know everything that's going to happen before it does because GMS hasn't introduced much independent content. Sure, there are events, but events are in every server, and only add momentary flare until the hype of the event wears away. Once you realize it's the same as most other events in one way or another (Somehow, you're usually killing monsters/doing a specific quest over and over), it's not really that thrilling in the end unless you make it that way. We remember the enjoyable events that weren't even really that good because we made them enjoyable.
I remember the first time I rejoined JMS with ShiKage and a few others, and we were sitting in Henesys doing the Invasion Alien Capture quest. It was stupid, it certainly didn't really give us anything worth our time, yet we did it, and we had fun. Why? Because we made it that way. That's what most MMOs are all about, enjoying it with others. Sitting yourself in a box of boredom is your own fault, and no one else's. I guarantee you any one of us can find a friend or two in any version (Mostly because English is a universal language for the most part, try hard enough and you'll find people who speak English in KMS, JMS, or any other MS), and if you can make the most of that friendship, you'll remember those days just like you remembered the "Old MS" days.