Kolph
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This thread is to discuss the old MMOs we used to play that are now defunct or have changed drastically from the glory days.
Toontown was my first ever online game, you played as a toon (anthropomorphic animal pretty much) and explored the game's several parks as you trained up your toon and fought the evil cogs. The main villains the cogs were actually quite creative, being representations of corrupt business entities in society that make people's lives miserable and the way you defeated them was playing pranks on them with your gags to make them laugh to death. You could also fish, golf, race kart and beat up the cogs at their HQs for cool rewards. It ran for almost 10 years starting way back in 2003 and closing its doors in late 2013 due to game being quite dated and Disney wanting to focus on other games such as Club Penguin, which we all know how that turned out... There have been fan revival projects such as Toontown Rewritten and Toontown Corporate Clash which I'd recommend you check out if you want to have the Toontown experience yourself but OG Toontown I definitely miss, expect maybe those crazy subscription fees.
Roblox is another game I hold fond childhood memories for. Now I know Roblox is still around now and quite a lot of decent content is still being produced for it, but damn I really miss the buggy shitshow that was pre 2012 Roblox. For those unaware, Roblox did not have the great scripting support and game dev tools that it does have now, only very basic scripts and tools if anything. This led to the creation of very simple but charming games developed by those who enthusiastic about this emerging online game creation technology and were not driven by the lucrative Roblox game payouts. Games like Sword Fights on Heights, Galleons, Reason2Die and Survive The Disasters were fond favourites and are still around now. Roblox was also good as all games were free to play with comestics being the only things you paid for and Builder's Club if you wanted more robux and places which is fair enough. I think they did try to experiment with Builder's Club only games at one point but to my knowledge they are not as common anymore.
Anyways, I'd love to hear your memories of now defunct or vastly different MMO games in this thread.