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If the only pre-live service MMORPG still going strong.
what makes wow not a live service game? aren’t all MMOs by definition live service?
I mean, yeah. Just don't tend not to lump the older ones in it because of how awful the practice has become since the phrase was formalized.
What about FF14 or Guild Wars 2? Don't they count as pre-live service MMORPGs, too?
checks Seems games as a service model that we know today really picked up steam at around the late 2010s. So, yeah...
I was actually surprised to see Ultima Online is still up and active recently. It must have a pretty decent sized population for EA not to shut down and repurpose the servers for Battlefield or something.
Now there's a name I haven't heard in a hot minute.