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I feel like some of the old cluttered WoW UIs might be an example of maximalism, by trying to show as much information as possible.
Eve players: noooo... It's not just a spreadsheet
Veteran WoW players: hmm... I can still see the actual gameplay, lemme add another stat display
Eve online mentioned o7
I miss it sometimes. Then I remember, last time I played it, I didn't have my original log ins and whatnot so had to start from the beginning and it took weeks to get to a level where I could do basic noob stuff without dying right away. I then spent like 18 months of just training skills, I'd log in, fill the queue, log out, log back in a week or so later and fill the queue again. After nearly two years of doing that I just gave up :D
But I still miss it. But I also miss my abusive ex.
I don't think I've met a single eve player who doesn't proudly refer to it as a "spreadsheets in space" game XD
And they still wiped.
One should always wipe. I tell my 6yo this all the time.
To be fair, they only had a thirty-two point three three uh, repeating of course, percentage, of survival.
“RIGHT SIDE, MANY WHELPS!! HANDLE IT!!!”
At least I have chicken
-50 D.K.P.
Do you see my mana? What am I supposed to do for you?
🍑💳
I can't tell you how many fleet fights I literally disabled graphics and only had the overview and chat. Especially multiboxing, I might have one with graphics. Not necessary for most.
I really wish I still had time for WoW.. Sigh.
The 15 FPS indicator is the icing on the cake.
The standards we used to put up with...
Back when games were measured by how enjoyable they were rather than a little number in the corner.
Or, in this case, but the amount of numbers in every corner 🙃
It's not enjoyable to play at low fps though? I don't get it
It was a different time, the novelty of the experience made up for the lower frame rate. A stable 30fps used to be considered good, and 15fps was fine for a game like WoW which didn't really need to rely on buttery smooth gameplay.
The internet was also just a lot slower back then, too, so in one sense the framerate only needed to be as good as your ping, essentially.
This looks like when you first discover that your Linux desktop environment supports adding infinite taskbars
This is what I would actually consider maximalist UI. OP's is neither minimal or maximal, it's just overstylized UI.
This takes me back.
Lol I had all of those and then some but I also had enough resolution/UI scale that it was all tucked to the sides (other than the nice looking hp/mana bars that framed the middle of the screen).
Did the people who stood in fire do so because they couldn't even see what they were or weren't standing in? Should guilds have done fund raising to buy better GPUs and monitors to best help progression? Thinking back to when I had a hand in guild leadership, it didn't even occur to me to base any recruitment or raiding roster on PC specs, but it seems so obvious now in hindsight. Too bad I can't go back.
WARNING: SEMEN LOW
Healing back in the day was definitely like this.
I'm curious to know what it is like these days but not enough to give blizzard more money anymore.
Oh WarCraft stopped being a passion project a long time ago - Blizzard's enshittification is pretty rampant.
If you get the itch to play WoW, 100% do so on a private server set to one of the earlier expansions.
This is what LOL streams look like to me.
Mmmmm shadow bars