ah, well, that’s a strange way of wording it then

I started playing Planetside in 2004 and joined an Outfit called BWC on the Emerald server - I missed the next...3-4 years of anything gaming related because of how well this game, when played with a committed group of swell individuals, completely immerses you. It wasn’t the perfect game, it wasn’t really well…

I think you’re genuinely forgetting how good games looked back in 2003, and definitely forgetting what games looked like in 1993. This is Pre-WOW and still had hundreds of people per instance, it looked really good when it came out