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I agree that most gamemodes do not play that way, and the classes are more restrictive to be a pure arena shooter.

But playing soldier or scout in gamemodes like Koth and PlayerDestruction scratch that itch enough for me to count.

Fast respawn and itemspawn management, combined with good map knowledge feels like good old quake 3 or UT sometimes.

Then you have dozens of rocketjumping maps in the server browser, which no game i know of has these days.

Team fortress 2 is still going good even if the only updates are from the community in terms of maps.

Guild wars 2! Giant map to explore and alright story in the free to play part.

Even if you pick different backrounds and race you can port to the other starting maps and the story connects everything later on.

It also gets more difficult so dont think it is always easy like in the starter zones.

And it is one of the old school f2ps thats still good without paying if you wanna try it out.

But if you spend money on an expac you keep it and dont have to pay for a savegame like WoW.

One of the rare MMOs that values your time and money.

If you want to scratch a similar itch, and have not already, try Guild Wars 2.

It does have microtransactions, but only because they have no subscription fee and they are mostly cosmetic with a few rare exceptions.

It also has no FOMO except cosmetics from certain festivals, which you can also buy in the next year.

It is still the best MMO on the market IMHO, because it values your time and money compared to other games in the genre.

That people still pay monthly for save games has always been wild for me.

Guild Wars 2 as well. :)

Try guild wars 2.

You can play without completly downloading it.

Its f2p and you can explore all together, since every starting map gets unlocked no matter what race you pick at the start.

It is also very easy to learn and you can even outlevel each other if anyone wanna keep playing in private, since you get levelcapped depending what map you are in.

Brilliant game design all around and still one of the best multiplayer games out there IMHO.

Has any of the rapists or apologists in ubisoft had any repercussions yet?

Then i am not interested in their games anyway.

Ah well afaik there is no such thing but i started looking for hashtags of my hobbies and found some nice profiles.

After you follow a few of them you can look into the recommended tab and will see quite a few similar people.

Someone here also told me about LisaMelton. She will throw many cool things into your timeline if you follow her.

Im an idiotic old man who can barely repair my PC anymore and it was very easy to make an account here and on mastodon. Dunno what people are on about.

There is a discover people feature on my app at least.

I also kind of like it not to be bombarded with a useless algorithm just so i can doomscroll more. If you curate your feed with nice people and hashtags you get lots of traffic and if that gets too much you just make lists of topics within them.

There are sadly more companies with rapists in them than those two. It got swept under the rug faster.

They should be enraged about the rape apologists who are in charge of the company. But consumers forget fast when the shiny new thing is out.

It started long before. I remember boycotting d3 when the auction house came out and i stopped wow a decade ago because you are paying monthly for a savegame plus microtransactions.

I can buy way better indie games for that price or keep playing guild wars 2 which has no sub.

Guild wars 2 has one of the best artstyles of any game IMO. Also very nice to just explore the world and the core game is free 2 play with a generous way to buy and keep forever without sub or mtx.

If i think about card games i have to mention “Inscryption” but it is very weird in a good way.

Then there are great positioning games like “Into the Breach” which has a very tight and simple gameplay loop and the Last Spell which is more complex with RPG elements.

Had fun with all 3 for very different reasons.

The Trine series is a fun 1-3 player game with a nice story and a few puzzles to play trough.

If you want to explore and do story on the side i can also always recommend Guild Wars 2. Base game is f2p so worthy of a look IMO.

Especially when they got so much hate from it. Logged in once i heard it was back up and getting those comments as a mod i would have just left and let it die tbh.

I am happy here but i wish more people would leave. As with twitter i will miss the artposts the most…

Coreborn was very nice. Cannot wait for it to be released next month.

It is a bit like Valheim and Rust but more chilled. Especially at the start. Very unique world based on a german Pen and Paper series.