Why don't you currently play an MMO? (Massively-multiplayer online game)

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Boom de ya da!

I'm only paying ONCE and that's that!

I have played WOW for 2.5 years, but then i quit. My problem is, i can't play on low-end or like the mainstream. I can only play on high-end, means I need a very goor raid (my old raid was 17th in the world-ranking on bosskillers.com) and that means, i have to spend all my freetime with the game. You can't create a game to enable people to play on high-end investing not so much time, that is needed in WOW. That is the point. Either you play on high-end or you spend you whole free time to search and collect your items.

I have an addictive personality

But the real reason is I promised myself I'd never play another MMO unless Fallout Online ever came out. My friends are trying to recruit me into Warhammer, they're a bunch of enablers!

After wasting 2 years of my early 20's playing WoW for 8+ hours a day almost everyday, I vowed to lay off the genre. If FOOL is released in a couple years I should be ready I mean, I can just play a little bit, you know on the weekends and stuff... right? right????

This implies in someway or another that people voting here cannot vote in that poll as well (by definition)?



We purposely left it vague. ^_^ There is no restriction about voting in one or the other or both.

I'm usually playing one or two MMOs at a time (currently, it's Warhammer Online and Wizard 101). I like to keep moving around because I tend to get bored with one MMO after a time (usually months and months worth of play). I'll probably get back into WOW after WOTLK (the next expansion) comes out.

However, there are definitely periods of time were I want nothing to do with any MMO. There are usually too many good single-player games that stack up that I have to play after a while.

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-Chris

Heh, as to the reason why nothing ever changes in online RPGs well... War, war never changes.

I played WoW a few times for a few months at a time and well I keep coming to the same conclusion. I have too much of a life for this game, I can't dedicate 8 hours a day, not even two hours a day really, I have homework, friends, uni, work, girlfriend etc. etc. Whilst one of those commitments is about to die (hells yeah) I'll be getting two new ones to overtake real soon so free time may go down. I get disheartened at seeing people I enjoyed grouping with be three levels above me the next time I log on.

The other reason has already been brought up. The Grinding and runing between places, I would never do it but I could understand people who use boughts to do that crap. I don't know if more quests and different modes of transport could alleviate the problems or not but that means a lot of extra work for you poor guys.

Oh and a third reason. The bloody twinks. I knew I wasn't great at PvP, I also knew that I wasn't bad. I just got sick of the level 19/29 people who obviously weren't playing on a level field, they'd slaughter four guys before going down, hitting for 1000+ HP when avg was about 2.5 and these weren't DPS characters either. Hmpff bloody 12 year olds.

Why don't you currently play an MMO? (Massively-multiplayer online game)

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Descent is the game that the elites played in order to pwn all the noobs of today.

I guess the main reason I don't play MMO is that I have very little patience for particular personality types. It only really takes one or two annoying/insulting/assholic people to turn me completely off a game. That's what happened with WoW, most of the community was great and helpful for a new player, but there were a few who just ruined the game for me.

I refuse to pay to play a game where a few individuals can ruin its fun, it's just not worth it.

Very few FPS MMOs? Counterstrike, America's Army, Combat Arms and I don't really play that sort of game.

2 reasons combined. Lack of time and the monthly fees. If I buy a game, I'm going to play it whenever I want. Pay-to-play every month doesn't appeal to me and is in effect a different way for a game developer to take money from me over a game I already bought. Besides, there are plenty of games that allow multiplayer without actually having to pay a feudal tribute for that feature.

I dont play any existing MMO because I dont like WOW. AoC and EQ2 are both still underdeveloped, EQ 1 is WAY over developed, EVE was a fantastic concept but I never got around to playing it due to fees.

I played EverQuest since it's second expansion (they're on like, 17 now). Now its all about the high end and there are NO new low end players. none what so ever. I played it for 5 years, go to the high end, and left. I'm pretty much MMO'd out now.

I think it has to do with the fact of the monthly fee. If there were no fee id probably play EverQuest on and off (id certainly play EQ2 more) regardless of actual progress. Paying the fee makes me feel obligated to do all that i can.

Figure away to conquer the concept of the monthly fee and you will go far.

Sorry, in reply to Seamless' post:
A low hourly rate, say about 20 cents? Ya know, people like me you'd get $12 (14 hours a week average) a month from, the same price as a lowend MMO, others, those who don't play other MMOs you'd get $6 (7 hours a week) and then you would have those who play seven hours a day, maybe have a cap for them so they don't feel screwed. $35 or something, slightly higher than the normal rate.

My main problem is that I can't stand endless grinding. I want a bit of variety and complexity in my games, and repeated "find 20 wolf pelts" type quests or endless slaughtering of boring monsters is annoying. It ends up making me feel that I'm paying to work a repetitive job, rather than advancing a character through an interesting world.

Hello everyone,

Games are adventure. You turn on computer, start a game and fun begins immediately. In MMO it’s a different story. Here we have to search for adventure, make plans, find fellow warriors, run around in towns shouting "looking for group", etc. I could deal with that, but sometimes it takes a lot of time to prepare and there is no fun in that. After some time this whole process becomes very repetitive. When every new city, every new cave starts to feel the same - I am done exploring. It is The End of the game for me.

The first online game I really played was the old Dragonrealms, text-based MMO (MMORG? whichever... multi-user ever-present world text based online game). The reason I loved that game was that the world was large, imaginative, and not static. Text based games do make it easier to create events and changes in the world as changing text is much easier than re-doing graphics. The world was always changing, random enemies would invade towns and there was an over-arching plot to the world which advanced and had an affect on its inhabitants. Now-a-days, most MMOs consist of stupid and pointless quests (gather x this) that have no relevance or point, and even the high level quests/missions really have no relevance on anything that goes on.

For me to play an MMO, I'd want to play something where player actions actually matter, a game where there is a storyline that is happening throughout the game and where things change. I love stories, I want an MMO to be a story and not just a grind fest to your way to level 80 uber leet loot without any purpose.

So true, so true. For that we have single-player games. Now I am playing The Witcher: enhanced edition . I must say it is a wonderful game. Every rpg fan at least should try it.