Fear and an unwillingness to try new things.
For example, some of the complaints that people had about Mastodon early on were just odd to me. They made such a big deal out of "you have to pick a server, no one understands that" or nitpicking UI interfaces between Mastodon and twt. They didn't have logical arguments IMHO it was them just not being happy about change and not being honest about that.
Deleted my account during the AMA. Reddit is dead to me.
I agree with you on Asheron's Call. I can't say it was my top pick but I played it quite a bit and thought it was quite an interesting one. I belonged to a guild of some sort. My roommate got hooked on it too and so the social aspect of it really made it for me.
I go way back to the early days. I played some of the Ultima series on a friend's computer, Atari 2600 stuff, C=64 etc. Zork and some of the infocom games. First PC game I played I guess was one I typed in on my Atari 400 and saved to casettte.
The first game I played till the sun rose was Populous. 1989. IIRC I had a 286-16.
After that, my great love affair was Ultima Online, which I played on the Baja shard from just around beta. I got a little taste of the dread lord days and into the rep system etc. I lived for that game. Moved on to EverQuest and WoW which both never really captured me as UO did. Spent some time with Ashron's call.
I'd have to give an honorable mention to Total Annihilation and Warcraft and I am sure many others I can't recall.
A reasonable and modest platform cost is what's in order not a SV unicorn IPO.
Oh, look another article on how Reddit is fine. Must be fine, everyone stop protesting, it doesn't work. /s
Reddit is unprofitable with massive new expenses, no realistic plan on making a profit, apparently trying to pump for an upcoming IPO, being run by a CEO who seems fine to disrespect its lifeblood, the community, and thinks it's a good idea to emulate Elmo... what could go wrong?
Like these sorts of things with large momentum, they don't stop overnight but who can say the Reddit ship is on a good trajectory?
Surprise Rs have no principles.