With so much choices what keeps you in your game?

cataphracht

There's just so much choices in the mmo world today, with darkfall and Aion coming out soon I'm just not sure which one to get, both sound great, but I'm not sure if they're going to be better then AOC which is really good.

How do gamers just play a game and ignore the rest? Theres a really strong market out there already if they never had competiton they would all be Apex games..

The list of games I'm talking about is long, but what keeps YOU, the customer, a curious human, what keeps you in the mmo game you play?

I just can't stay loyal to a single game I tend to explore find things really awesome about one game then to the next game I discover the previous game's mightiest flaw and tend to think what if, what if they could just combine all the strong points with each of the mmo's?

What's your favourite mmo strong points? Is it that the game is just that good for you? is it that you have some really  close "friends" there? Or maybe your there to try and impress someone, yourself perhaps?

People tend to not appreciate the quality of games these guys are producing back when I was younger I was enjoying myth of soma - so I'd like to say to a big Thank you to all who's involved with this strangely addicting fun called MMORPG that's evolved tremendously over the past years

logangregor

How do you ignore the rest...hmm.

Well I dont.

I play what I think looks interesting and if it holds my attention, I keep playing and leave my past game in the dust. I know what I like to see in a game. I know what I dont. When I stop having fun, I stop playing. GuildWars was the worst for me, easily. In 4 days that game bored me out of my mind.

Ive played Shadowbane, Star Wars Galaxies, DAOC, WoW, WAR and AoC.

Shadowbane being my first held my attention for a while.
DAOC held my attention.
WoW held and holds my attention for I dunno, since release(with a few quits in between)

stayBlind

Find one you like....and play that one?

 

And to the ^, hell yea, Shadowbane...whatever happened to shadowbane 2

 

logangregor

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Originally posted by Slaanesh24
Find one you like....and play that one?
 
And to the ^, hell yea, Shadowbane...whatever happened to shadowbane 2  

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Shadowbane, hehe. Its funny how many people think that was like the worst game ever but for its time it had some very innovative ideas.

Build your city.

Siege and take someone elses city.

Player Ran Shops ( I actually liked running one )

Rune Hunting, that one had to be my fav. The thrill of the hunt, will I get there in time, will I get ganked? Was all very exciting.

Last but not least, the variation of charachter classes and builds was something I havent seen in a mmo since.

Obraik

There are no games that has everything that SWG has, so it's pretty easy to keep me playing it

Calintz333

No mmorpg now keeps me playing. The way Iv been the past 3 years I basically have about 8 mmorpgs, and I didicate about 30 days to one at a time and just go tru them every month a different game.

Theocritus

     I tend to jump around between games that I have played and also try an occasional f2p since it doesnt cost anything.......With so many choices I find that I play for about 1-2 months then move on to something new......With so many choices now though I am finding it harder and harder to pay 15 bucks a month when there are so many otehr alternatives available.

metalhead980

I've played Every mmo.

Currently it's easy to choose a MMO.

Right now the best linear MMO for me is WAR since I got tired of LotRO, EQ2 and WoW.

Eve is the only good sandbox out atm thats P2p so I'm subbed to that.

I'm also messing with Ryzom but thats very limited and its F2p atm so that doesn't count heh.

kinda easy to stay with your favorite games, there hasn't been many good ones in the last 5+ years.

damian7

Originally posted by cataphracht


There's just so much choices in the mmo world today, with darkfall and Aion coming out soon I'm just not sure which one to get, both sound great, but I'm not sure if they're going to be better then AOC which is really good.
How do gamers just play a game and ignore the rest? Theres a really strong market out there already if they never had competiton they would all be Apex games..
The list of games I'm talking about is long, but what keeps YOU, the customer, a curious human, what keeps you in the mmo game you play?
I just can't stay loyal to a single game I tend to explore find things really awesome about one game then to the next game I discover the previous game's mightiest flaw and tend to think what if, what if they could just combine all the strong points with each of the mmo's?
What's your favourite mmo strong points? Is it that the game is just that good for you? is it that you have some really  close "friends" there? Or maybe your there to try and impress someone, yourself perhaps?
People tend to not appreciate the quality of games these guys are producing back when I was younger I was enjoying myth of soma - so I'd like to say to a big Thank you to all who's involved with this strangely addicting fun called MMORPG that's evolved tremendously over the past years

 

 

i guess it comes down to taste.  i don't find many of the games out today, to even be interesting, much less worth a monthly sub.

i barely believe the games i sub to, are worth a monthly sub. 

x_rast_x

I play Eve at the moment.

• Eve is hard.  Like, Nintendo Hard.  You can't be a retard or half-asleep and expect to get anywhere.  And screwing up will actually set you back, how far depends on the magnitude of the 'oops' moment.
• Eve is the only MMO I've played since DAOC where PvP actually amounts to something other than a diversion.
• Eve is casually hardcore.  You simply cannot grind - skills train at the same rate no matter what you do (even logged off), and while you can grind money you don't have to since there's plenty of passive ways to earn it.  But all the skills and fancy gear in the world won't help you if you have no idea what you're doing, and you can lose it all in an instant if you're exceptionally stupid.
• Eve isn't about gear, unless you want it to be.  Since noth're nothing is 'bound' in the WoW sense, and you drop everything that doesn't explode when you die, gear is simply worked into risk vs reward considerations - fancy gear = high expensive, high risk of losing it.  Cheap gear is a bit less effective but much, much cheaper.
• Eve is open ended.  You can be pretty much whatever you want to be, from a soldier patrolling territory owned by his player alliance, to a merchant who never fits a weapon, a miner, an explorer, a scientist, a crafter, a starbase manager, and lots of other little things that don't easily fit into any archetype.  The only aspect of Eve where you are actually told what to do -  mission running - is widely considered to be the game's weakest aspect.
• Eve has a lateral progression style.  Unlike most MMOs where your options are slowly restricted as you approach some 'end-game', Eve characters are encouraged to specialize heavily in one area when they first start so as to catch up to the people who've been playing.  Once they max, or are near-max in that area, they tend to branch out into other areas.  This makes it so in terms of raw character (not player) ability, people who have been playing longer are not straight-up more powerful, rather they can simply do more things.  It also keeps content from becoming obsolete, no matter how old it is.

Sure, it's slow-paced for the most part, frustrating when things are going against you, and unless you do nothing but sit in a highsec station all day you will get kicked in the nuts once in a while, but accomplishments in Eve feel more 'real' than in other games, since they're not just plot points and scripts set in advance by the devs, and anything you earn you can lose if you or your buddies screw it up.

tvalentine

i play L2 and WoW. And the only thing that keeps me playing is PVP

Zayne3145

My guild is what keeps me logging into WoW. If I log in and they're all offline I just don't have the motivation to play at all.

miscbattles

Originally posted by cataphracht


There's just so much choices in the mmo world today, with darkfall and Aion coming out soon I'm just not sure which one to get

Darkfall is a pile of overhyped played out junk waiting to let down all the gullible shmucks that followed it for the last 7 years.

Comparing it to Aion is like comparing Obama to Mccain.. Mccain being also old, played out and a let down..