“over the past 60 years the West has begun to shift away from the culture of progress, and towards one of caution, worry and risk-aversion, with economic growth slowing over the same period. The frequency of terms related to progress, improvement and the future has dropped by about 25 per cent since the 1960s, while those related to threats, risks and worries have become several times more common.”
I mean, when people are struggling to survive it’s hard to let yourself get excited about technology that will likely only benefit the most wealthy. All of the “easy” discoveries have been made. Anything else getting research funding is to further capitalism.
AC was released in late 1999, I started playing in August of 2000 and played till around 04, took a break on and off for several years and in 2014 I came back and and played till they shut the servers down in 2017…
Even played for about a year on one of the emulators around 2019-2020…
It’s the only MMO I’ve played—and I have thousands of hours in GW2, hundreds in WoW, and hundreds more over Warhammer Online, Aion, Lineage 2, DAOC, RS Classic, New World, and I’m sure several others I forget now—that truly scratched that itch for me.
You can make whatever type of character you want and the best armor in the game is loot gen.
There were like, 14 years of monthly updates…
I will say, getting used to Decal and all of the plugins will make your head spin that those programs were allowed during retail…
It has been the one MMO that I want to suggest to everyone, but it’s kinda hard to get into and even during the height of its popularity the servers never had more than like 10k people online at a time…