Some new servers just lately went dwell on the European information centre for Ultimate Fantasy 14. Often, this wouldn’t be massively newsworthy, however with the reveal of the title of considered one of these servers – Raiden – a wave of Metallic Gear Rising: Revengeance memes have emerged as gamers of the favored MMORPG rushed to create new characters referencing the legendary Platinum Video games motion title.
A number of examples of like minded gamers flocking to the brand new server have been captured and posted on the Ultimate Fantasy 14 Reddit web page, with characters resembling Senator Armstrong, NanoMachinezson,and JetStreamz Samuel assembly up in main participant hubs just a few minutes after the server went dwell.
For these not within the know, Metallic Gear Rising: Revengeance is considerably of a meme powerhouse within the minds of avid gamers, and holds lofty standing within the wider web meme-osphere too! First reported by gaming statistics tracker PlayTracker, the motion title noticed a rise of over 1000% in concurrent gamers since April of final yr thanks largely to memes of the sport that went viral. As such, it has a everlasting place within the minds of among the extra on-line neighborhood of Ultimate Fantasy 14 gamers.
Though it’s virtually 10 years previous, Metallic Gear Rising: Revengeance is seeing numbers it hasn’t seen since launch.
📈 concurrent gamers up 1000%
🏆 peak in achievement exercise throughout all platformsThe trigger? Numerous meme templates that includes characters from the sport went viral. pic.twitter.com/Ey6FmYAXJp
— PlayTracker (@PlayTrackerNet) May 23, 2022
One such participant, HayleeLOL on Reddit, shared their expertise with the MMO and why they determined to affix in on the enjoyable through DMs. “I used to be initially a World of Warcraft participant, and after the information broke of the Blizzard scandal I didn’t really feel it was moral to be subscribed to WoW anymore. FFXIV felt like essentially the most logical choice because it was additionally the time folks had been on the exodus from WoW to XIV, and I’d tried it earlier than and couldn’t get into it, so I felt I ought to give it one other likelihood.”
Haylee has now been “sucked in” to the Sq. Enix MMORPG for near a yr. Additionally they have a historical past with the Metallic Gear sequence – having performed by Metallic Gear 1 to 4 in addition to Metallic Gear Rising: Revengeance to completion. As such, when the brand new Raiden server was first introduced, they had been among the many first to usher in the Metallic Gear jokes.
“There was a thread saying that these new servers had been to go dwell and there have been loads of Metallic Gear jokes within the feedback. That is once I received the concept for creating the meme character.” This character – Senator Armstrong – turned out to be a well-liked supply of inspiration.
“I did initially go for Senator Armstrong however the title was taken – you may see within the screenshot that my character was a Hyur (Human) and never as muscly as the opposite ones. I principally rushed by the character creation to get him made however was pipped to the publish it appears! I used the apostrophe and simply hoped for one of the best, principally, and ended up getting it.”
What are your ideas on this neighborhood meme rush?