before and this problem while no longer quite so bad is still ongoing and affecting everyone and yet despite that end walker still has the highest metacritic user score of the year hours and hours day after day of people not being able to play a game they are paying a monthly subscription for and the player base is still pretty overwhelmingly happy which begs the question of how has this happened how has final fantasy NUMBER_TOKEN become so beloved how has this game done what no other mmo could and what does this mean for the genre and with over NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN hours of game time i feel i am in a position to at least try to answer those questions before that though a quick thank you to this video sponsor manscaped now if there's one thing everyone knows about mmo players it's that they're a very well groomed group of people that's what they say wow mmo players how well groomed you all are and there's no better around to help you maintain that esteemed status than manscaped the global leader in men's grooming and hygiene products like the lawnmower NUMBER_TOKEN which provides precision grooming for even the most sensitive of areas and with its skin safe technology waterproof design led spotlight and wireless charging it's basically idiot proof which based on many of the people i've played with is also probably a good thing for mmo players and you can get all that alongside manscape's anti-chafing ball deodorant ball spray toner handy disposable magic mat and two free gifts all with NUMBER_TOKEN off and free international shipping when you use code nkb at checkout so follow the link below and thank you manscaped for helping keep the lights on at the never knows best youtube channel there is one final thing to talk about before we truly begin and that is a little bit about the genre itself there is no feasible way to tell the entire history of the mmo genre in a couple paragraphs so i won't but if you were to skip over almost everything and still wanting to understand what the hell's been going on with the genre for the past couple decades then i think it's best to think of it like this you can divide mmo history up into two parts the old school era and the modern era with one game sitting in the middle as a bridge between the two and as a landmark everyone recognizes that game is world of warcraft and when it was released in NUMBER_TOKEN it was noteworthy for being more accessible less grindy less punishing and with a more engaging quest design than the mmos of the past which preceded it if you were to compare that NUMBER_TOKEN vanilla world of warcraft to modern world of warcraft or any other modern mmos those descriptions wouldn't make much sense anymore because compared to most mmos that came since including the game but wow has become vanilla wow was decidedly old school in its design and that's why it's helpful to think of mmos in two eras with world of warcraft being the changing point when the genre started taking major steps towards accessibility and player convenience in the way these games were fundamentally designed some examples include the introduction of dungeon finder raids of multiple difficulties including looking for raid the widespread use of plugins and ubiquity of dps meters cross server grouping and sharding or mega servers more focus on instanced pvp rather than open world pvp and so on other changes came
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN before that though a quick thank you to this video sponsor manscaped now if there's one thing everyone knows about mmo players it's that they're a very well groomed group of people that's what they say wow mmo players how well groomed you all are and there's no better around to help you maintain that esteemed status than manscaped the global leader in men's grooming and hygiene products like the lawnmower NUMBER_TOKEN which provides precision grooming for even the most sensitive of areas and with its skin safe technology waterproof design led spotlight and wireless charging it's basically idiot proof which based on many of the people i've played with is also probably a good thing for mmo players and you can get all that alongside manscape's anti-chafing ball deodorant ball spray toner handy disposable magic mat and two free gifts all with NUMBER_TOKEN off and free international shipping when you use code nkb at checkout so follow the link below and thank you manscaped for helping keep the lights on at the never knows best youtube channel END_SPONSOR_TOKEN