2017-07-29 – Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7
apartment façade, Bangkok, Thailand
🎵 (youtube) Alien Ant Farm «Smooth Criminal»
yesterday, Josh Strife Hayes released his review of Anarchy Online – released in 2001, it was my first foray into online gaming, and I wanted to believe – most of the news we got was still from gaming magazines, and the glowing advertorials tickled my fancy, MMORPG and sci-fi in one – and then there was the box art sitting on the shelf at Fry’s
🔗 (youtube) Worst MMO Ever? Anarchy Online
my first misstep was being so enamored I signed up for a 6-month subscription – as things went south, I was still paying for a game I was no longer playing – still early in the release, a lot of bugs still needed to be ironed out, the majority of them leading to horrific lag in any of the cities, to the point there were regular jokes about seconds-per-frame – as players got more upset, GM retaliation set in – file an in-game bug report and you risked having your character summoned to the top of the skybox and dropped to their death – AO led to the development of one of my first rules for online games – when the forums game becomes more entertaining than the game itself, it’s time to move on
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