Well, I just resubbed to WoW. Although I have a few 70's, 60's and lower toons, I am going to start from scratch with a new toon, since I forgot how to really play my higher characters.
Maybe it will spark my interest again.
TERA looks pretty cool. I may check it out later. The game I am really waiting for is Jumpgate Evolution, but the way it is going, it may be vaporware. Who knows. Promises, promises, that's all we hear from them.
I used to play them all the time. Recently, I cant seem to find a game to keep my interest. I keep buying them, but end up not playing. Anyone else falling into this slump? I always end up playing World at War or some other online shooter.
Yeah... feeling the slump here as well.
Bought CO in hopes but no.
Bought Aion... no as well.
Jumped back into wow... I just cant seem to even play for more then 2-3 minutes before I /quit.
Going to try CoD MW2 for the 360.. hopefully that will break the gaming slump.
The new mmos dont do anything new.. seriously. CO is CoX rehashed.. period. Aion might as well be an expansion pack for wow. Same ol same ol...
Looking forward to STO, TOR and JGE .. and I think JGE will be the only one that breaks the mold yet again. But its at least 7 months out from going gold.
Someone plays a WoW-clone, get tired of it and tryed another woW-clone. get bored with it and tryed another WoW-clone!
What is wrong with people. Get outside of the box.
Play a fun MMO instead, a dynamic living gameworld. Stop playing static themepark games.
Right now we have Darkfall, EVE and Fallen Earth.
Soon we will hopefully have Mortal Online and Earthrise.
If you play one of those you cant get bored in the same way, because the players themselves change the gameworld. New content for you are created on a daily basis.
I dont get this kind of whining! Someone plays a WoW-clone, get tired of it and tryed another woW-clone. get bored with it and tryed another WoW-clone! What is wrong with people. Get outside of the box. Play a fun MMO instead, a dynamic living gameworld. Stop playing static themepark games. Right now we have Darkfall, EVE and Fallen Earth. Soon we will hopefully have Mortal Online and Earthrise. If you play one of those you cant get bored in the same way, because the players themselves change the gameworld. New content for you are created on a daily basis.
You might have a point. Does DF or FE have a trial? Spent over $100 on boring games last month.. would like to try it before I buy it ya know.
I dont get this kind of whining! Someone plays a WoW-clone, get tired of it and tryed another woW-clone. get bored with it and tryed another WoW-clone! What is wrong with people. Get outside of the box. Play a fun MMO instead, a dynamic living gameworld. Stop playing static themepark games. Right now we have Darkfall, EVE and Fallen Earth. Soon we will hopefully have Mortal Online and Earthrise. If you play one of those you cant get bored in the same way, because the players themselves change the gameworld. New content for you are created on a daily basis.
You might have a point. Does DF or FE have a trial? Spent over $100 on boring games last month.. would like to try it before I buy it ya know.
Both DF and FE are "new", so no trial yet.
But if you could spend 100 bucks on "boring" gams last monh....then you should save money one month and then begin to play one of the above : )
I'm still waiting for something new, that makes me say, this game is great. Something brilliant in the economy, in the combat system, etc ... something that does not make me lose time, that is carefully thought and make me feel part of the world in the game, that can hold of me and I do not make me get bored .
Right now I'm lost and jumping from game to game just to pass time and without any real interest, may be my fault ... have been bored in this huge list of games at our choice... I do not know ... only know they dont have anything new to me.
No, she's in beta for something... not sure which game though.
On topic, I'm in the same position as the OP. I can't find anything that holds my interest anymore... I've spent most of my time watching movies... I may have to pick up a book and learn how to read again...
I dont get this kind of whining! Someone plays a WoW-clone, get tired of it and tryed another woW-clone. get bored with it and tryed another WoW-clone! What is wrong with people. Get outside of the box. Play a fun MMO instead, a dynamic living gameworld. Stop playing static themepark games. Right now we have Darkfall, EVE and Fallen Earth. Soon we will hopefully have Mortal Online and Earthrise. If you play one of those you cant get bored in the same way, because the players themselves change the gameworld. New content for you are created on a daily basis.
You might have a point. Does DF or FE have a trial? Spent over $100 on boring games last month.. would like to try it before I buy it ya know.
I tried FE and became quickly tired of constant scavenging for mats for crafting bullets... you go through bullets liek there's no tomorrow... great game othewise though.
Personally I just picked up DAO and am taking a break from Aion until the new patch comes out this Nov. I'm also abit bored of online games but I think playing a single player rpg is exactly waht I needed. The longer I'm away from MMOs the more I miss them so I know I'll have a blast again once I return in a month or two.
This is what happens. MMOs nowadays focus on the super quick to get into, super easy, super casual kid MMO, in the vein of WoW, the simplest and most shallow of them all. These kind of MMOs do not hold interest forever, as they have no depth (except in regards to simple peoople who only need simple entertainment)
Real MMOs are all but extinct. Eve, Darkfall, Fallen Earth. That's about all you have for choices. Vanguard was in that category but it's changed and Sony doesn't want to support it.
To me, its mostly about making connections with other people. You can still do that in today's MMOs, you just have to try harder because the developers have largely put community and roleplaying on the backburner.
Vault-Tec analysts have concluded that the odds of worldwide nuclear armaggeddon this decade are 17,143,762... to 1.
I had the slump where I went through multiple MMORPGs trying to find one that would hold my interest for a long period of time. I realized I burned through content fast and wasn't getting the experience I wanted because of it. It may take months to build new content that a player will come along and burn through in a day. I slowed down and found that I was in the slump because I was in too much of a hurry to get to the elite skills and gear rather than enjoying my time as a newbie.
malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
I feel the same way. Same old song and dance...I never feel like I am truely experiencing something remarkable anymore. I may try Terra, but it still looks quite familar. I guess the feelings of old, in which playing with other people in a huge community, have slowly turned worse for me. I still want that feeling and refuse to believe it will never happen again in an mmo. Have hope, something will happen.
MMORPGs are pretty much always going to be the same and if anyone believes differently they are crazy. What a person must do is put a game down once in awhile when you are bored with it. The problem with some mmorpgs though is you are made to feel you are letting your guild down or uhmmm if you go away you will get behind in the game and quite honestly I have felt that way at times but if you look how Blizzard does things as an example really you can get into the game late in a patch for content and still get welfare epics from heroics and there are enough quick raids plus crafting now to gear you up a bit. Honestly though what I recommend for people is to not play these games at all as there is that chance of addiction.
I am no die hard RPG fan... but I really don't see how these MMORPG's resemble RPG's at all. Honestly what good RPG tells you to go kill 10 wolves and gather 7 rabbit intestines for 600 experience and a little gold and maybe a weapon?
The RPG's combat systems differ a lot too, look at Dark messiah versus diablo for example, or oblivion , fall-out 3, even two-worlds vomit*.
Someone in another post made a good point, MMORPGS aren't that different from each-other right now. For me anyway the fact that the combat is completely boring and doesn't have any real player skill element to it really ruins the game as well.... I've been dabbling in the free to play games market for awhile now and I actually found a game once that held my interest off and on and sometimes continuously for like 2-3 years and that was Rakion. When I first found it ... it was like finding that lost treasure... but the developers sacked that game.... anyway.... something important to note, Rakion was not an RPG at all, and definitely not an mmorpg...
RPG's are supposed to have story-lines and the only role playing thing in most mmorpg's these days seems to be Tank, Healer, DPS, etc... which I suppose means they are true role-playing games, they are just bland ones..... But I am more for the combat than for anything else so.... if the combats awful i'll probably hate a game anyway.
I am no die hard RPG fan... but I really don't see how these MMORPG's resemble RPG's at all. Honestly what good RPG tells you to go kill 10 wolves and gather 7 rabbit intestines for 600 experience and a little gold and maybe a weapon? The RPG's combat systems differ a lot too, look at Dark messiah versus diablo for example, or oblivion , fall-out 3, even two-worlds vomit*. Someone in another post made a good point, MMORPGS aren't that different from each-other right now. For me anyway the fact that the combat is completely boring and doesn't have any real player skill element to it really ruins the game as well.... I've been dabbling in the free to play games market for awhile now and I actually found a game once that held my interest off and on and sometimes continuously for like 2-3 years and that was Rakion. When I first found it ... it was like finding that lost treasure... but the developers sacked that game.... anyway.... something important to note, Rakion was not an RPG at all, and definitely not an mmorpg... RPG's are supposed to have story-lines and the only role playing thing in most mmorpg's these days seems to be Tank, Healer, DPS, etc... which I suppose means they are true role-playing games, they are just bland ones..... But I am more for the combat than for anything else so.... if the combats awful i'll probably hate a game anyway.
There is no RPG in MMO's.
MMO's have turned into poor action combat games for me. Maybe I just need a long break from these games, I have become cynical and bored of games lately.
The themepark scene has all but killed the genre for me. While mmo devs continue to deliver horrible games we have amazing single player games continuing to release. Games like Risen, Dragon Age and Borderlands show us how to truly be immersed in a game. I would give my and your left nut for mmo to be the quality of these games. I just finished a two hour session of Mass Effect and honestly I feel like an asshole for wasting hundreds of dollars on MMO subs. Paying hundreds of dollars a year for access to a subpar videogame with terrible combat, shallow pve content and five year old graphics.
It is SOOOO exciting when the only ones you see in such games is the local potato NPC.
I guess every time I do somehting in those games I feel like the Super patato amongst NPC potatoes.
It show just how fucked up some people are.
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They hate so called theme parc MMo's, while at the same time they play off line games with only puppets in them.
Let's say I have more fun with my guild doing Lake WIntergrasp or the Isle of Conquest than following a scripted NPC anytime.
That's perhaps because I became conditioned with these kind of "AI" in early computer age.
"I don't know what you mean Sir", or "your command is not valid, try again", when looking at a face that just hangs there in front of my screen.
How exciting being the King of puppets.
When a MMO is released with the depth and quality of Mass Effect then you can talk, until then stfu and go back to your pathetic part time job the WoW item farm.
The themepark scene has all but killed the genre for me. While mmo devs continue to deliver horrible games we have amazing single player games continuing to release. Games like Risen, Dragon Age and Borderlands show us how to truly be immersed in a game. I would give my and your left nut for mmo to be the quality of these games. I just finished a two hour session of Mass Effect and honestly I feel like an asshole for wasting hundreds of dollars on MMO subs. Paying hundreds of dollars a year for access to a subpar videogame with terrible combat, shallow pve content and five year old graphics.
It is SOOOO exciting when the only ones you see in such games is the local potato NPC.
I guess every time I do somehting in those games I feel like the Super patato amongst NPC potatoes.
It shows just how fucked up some people are.
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They hate so called theme parc MMo's, while at the same time they play off line games with only puppets in them.
Let's say I have more fun with my guild doing Lake WIntergrasp or the Isle of Conquest than following a scripted NPC anytime.
That's perhaps because I became conditioned with these kind of "AI" in early computer age.
"I don't know what you mean Sir", or "your command is not valid, try again", when looking at a face that just hangs there in front of my screen.
How exciting being the King of puppets.
At least single player games can give you a good story to follow along with. MMO's fail to deliver on that even, all they have is combat....and more combat, it gets tiresome. I think I get more enjoyment out of playing Minesweeper than mmo's these days.
At least single player games can give you a good story to follow along with. MMO's fail to deliver on that even, all they have is combat....and more combat, it gets tiresome. I think I get more enjoyment out of playing Minesweeper than mmo's these days.
That "story" line is a very meager thing compared to the social interaction you can get through playing On line games.
So your problem is you play the not very good WOW clones. Of course people are fed up with them, but that doesn't mean I am ......... going BACK in time to look at some NPC's .... replacing friends and real ennemies. ))
I get enough social interaction in real life, I don't need some ass conversing with me online. Really I've come to the realization that mmo's are just glorified chat rooms with combat.
For PvP? Meh, FPS games provide much better pvp experience than mmo's ever will.
There is a post here in this forum asking if the game Dragon Age was an organic living breathing world. Well of course it isn't, no game is. However, that is what mmorpg's should be. Everybody should have an effect upon the world, a real effect. If that unique monster in fantasy country dies to my sword or someone elses sword, it should stay dead. Another different monster could appear someplace else but don't have the same freaking thing pop up in the same place. That's not a living world. If me and my 39 online friends decide to raid and destroy an enemy's city than let it stay destroyed until that other faction can build it up again. That is truly what this genre should be, an online virtual gaming world. Not poor excuses for single player games that have online chat capability.
Originally posted by arenasb Originally posted by Zorndorf Originally posted by arenasb
At least single player games can give you a good story to follow along with. MMO's fail to deliver on that even, all they have is combat....and more combat, it gets tiresome. I think I get more enjoyment out of playing Minesweeper than mmo's these days.
That "story" line is a very meager thing compared to the social interaction you can get through playing On line games. So your problem is you play the not very good WOW clones. Of course people are fed up with them, but that doesn't mean I am ......... going BACK in time to look at some NPC's .... replacing friends and real ennemies. ))
I get enough social interaction in real life, I don't need some ass conversing with me online. Really I've come to the realization that mmo's are just glorified chat rooms with combat. For PvP? Meh, FPS games provide much better pvp experience than mmo's ever will. There is a post here in this forum asking if the game Dragon Age was an organic living breathing world. Well of course it isn't, no game is. However, that is what mmorpg's should be. Everybody should have an effect upon the world, a real effect. If that unique monster in fantasy country dies to my sword or someone elses sword, it should stay dead. Another different monster could appear someplace else but don't have the same freaking thing pop up in the same place. That's not a living world. If me and my 39 online friends decide to raid and destroy an enemy's city than let it stay destroyed until that other faction can build it up again. That is truly what this genre should be, an online virtual gaming world. Not poor excuses for single player games that have online chat capability.
I'm in the same boat. Even though I have a sub to Fallen Earth, I just don't feel like logging in. So I've been playing shooters, L4D2, MW1, AVA, etc. I'm hoping that Mortal Online and/or SWTOR will be a breath of fresh air once they are released.
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Well, I just resubbed to WoW. Although I have a few 70's, 60's and lower toons, I am going to start from scratch with a new toon, since I forgot how to really play my higher characters.
Maybe it will spark my interest again.
TERA looks pretty cool. I may check it out later. The game I am really waiting for is Jumpgate Evolution, but the way it is going, it may be vaporware. Who knows. Promises, promises, that's all we hear from them.
Yeah... feeling the slump here as well.
Bought CO in hopes but no.
Bought Aion... no as well.
Jumped back into wow... I just cant seem to even play for more then 2-3 minutes before I /quit.
Going to try CoD MW2 for the 360.. hopefully that will break the gaming slump.
The new mmos dont do anything new.. seriously. CO is CoX rehashed.. period. Aion might as well be an expansion pack for wow. Same ol same ol...
Looking forward to STO, TOR and JGE .. and I think JGE will be the only one that breaks the mold yet again. But its at least 7 months out from going gold.
/sigh
I dont get this kind of whining!
Someone plays a WoW-clone, get tired of it and tryed another woW-clone. get bored with it and tryed another WoW-clone!
What is wrong with people. Get outside of the box.
Play a fun MMO instead, a dynamic living gameworld. Stop playing static themepark games.
Right now we have Darkfall, EVE and Fallen Earth.
Soon we will hopefully have Mortal Online and Earthrise.
If you play one of those you cant get bored in the same way, because the players themselves change the gameworld. New content for you are created on a daily basis.
I'm hoping Bioware will put the RPG aspect back ino the genre, since most of them nowadays are chat rooms with fancy pew-pew and shinies.
You might have a point. Does DF or FE have a trial? Spent over $100 on boring games last month.. would like to try it before I buy it ya know.
You might have a point. Does DF or FE have a trial? Spent over $100 on boring games last month.. would like to try it before I buy it ya know.
Both DF and FE are "new", so no trial yet.
But if you could spend 100 bucks on "boring" gams last monh....then you should save money one month and then begin to play one of the above : )
I'm still waiting for something new, that makes me say, this game is great. Something brilliant in the economy, in the combat system, etc ... something that does not make me lose time, that is carefully thought and make me feel part of the world in the game, that can hold of me and I do not make me get bored .
Right now I'm lost and jumping from game to game just to pass time and without any real interest, may be my fault ... have been bored in this huge list of games at our choice... I do not know ... only know they dont have anything new to me.
No, she's in beta for something... not sure which game though.
On topic, I'm in the same position as the OP. I can't find anything that holds my interest anymore... I've spent most of my time watching movies... I may have to pick up a book and learn how to read again...
You might have a point. Does DF or FE have a trial? Spent over $100 on boring games last month.. would like to try it before I buy it ya know.
I tried FE and became quickly tired of constant scavenging for mats for crafting bullets... you go through bullets liek there's no tomorrow... great game othewise though.
No...but I would love to be in that one for WIS. Nah the game I am testing is not set in the future.
Personally I just picked up DAO and am taking a break from Aion until the new patch comes out this Nov. I'm also abit bored of online games but I think playing a single player rpg is exactly waht I needed. The longer I'm away from MMOs the more I miss them so I know I'll have a blast again once I return in a month or two.
"I play Tera for the gameplay"
Well, I just wasted 15.00. I cant get back into WoW. I did find a free game that kinda quenches my thirst for blood.
You can get a premium membership too, if you want to. So, I am playing this now, at least till something better comes along.
Another one who missed out on the fact that korean mmos are not all F2P versions.
Try a P2P, L2 is a good example now in Gracia final - G+
To me, its mostly about making connections with other people. You can still do that in today's MMOs, you just have to try harder because the developers have largely put community and roleplaying on the backburner.
Vault-Tec analysts have concluded that the odds of worldwide nuclear armaggeddon this decade are 17,143,762... to 1.
I had the slump where I went through multiple MMORPGs trying to find one that would hold my interest for a long period of time. I realized I burned through content fast and wasn't getting the experience I wanted because of it. It may take months to build new content that a player will come along and burn through in a day. I slowed down and found that I was in the slump because I was in too much of a hurry to get to the elite skills and gear rather than enjoying my time as a newbie.
malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
I feel the same way. Same old song and dance...I never feel like I am truely experiencing something remarkable anymore. I may try Terra, but it still looks quite familar. I guess the feelings of old, in which playing with other people in a huge community, have slowly turned worse for me. I still want that feeling and refuse to believe it will never happen again in an mmo. Have hope, something will happen.
i hope FFXIV can change your mind
So What Now?
MMORPGs are pretty much always going to be the same and if anyone believes differently they are crazy. What a person must do is put a game down once in awhile when you are bored with it. The problem with some mmorpgs though is you are made to feel you are letting your guild down or uhmmm if you go away you will get behind in the game and quite honestly I have felt that way at times but if you look how Blizzard does things as an example really you can get into the game late in a patch for content and still get welfare epics from heroics and there are enough quick raids plus crafting now to gear you up a bit. Honestly though what I recommend for people is to not play these games at all as there is that chance of addiction.
Money is the root of all evil.
I am no die hard RPG fan... but I really don't see how these MMORPG's resemble RPG's at all. Honestly what good RPG tells you to go kill 10 wolves and gather 7 rabbit intestines for 600 experience and a little gold and maybe a weapon?
The RPG's combat systems differ a lot too, look at Dark messiah versus diablo for example, or oblivion , fall-out 3, even two-worlds vomit*.
Someone in another post made a good point, MMORPGS aren't that different from each-other right now. For me anyway the fact that the combat is completely boring and doesn't have any real player skill element to it really ruins the game as well.... I've been dabbling in the free to play games market for awhile now and I actually found a game once that held my interest off and on and sometimes continuously for like 2-3 years and that was Rakion. When I first found it ... it was like finding that lost treasure... but the developers sacked that game.... anyway.... something important to note, Rakion was not an RPG at all, and definitely not an mmorpg...
RPG's are supposed to have story-lines and the only role playing thing in most mmorpg's these days seems to be Tank, Healer, DPS, etc... which I suppose means they are true role-playing games, they are just bland ones..... But I am more for the combat than for anything else so.... if the combats awful i'll probably hate a game anyway.
There is no RPG in MMO's.
MMO's have turned into poor action combat games for me. Maybe I just need a long break from these games, I have become cynical and bored of games lately.
The themepark scene has all but killed the genre for me.
While mmo devs continue to deliver horrible games we have amazing single player games continuing to release.
Games like Risen, Dragon Age and Borderlands show us how to truly be immersed in a game.
I would give my and your left nut for mmo to be the quality of these games.
I just finished a two hour session of Mass Effect and honestly I feel like an asshole for wasting hundreds of dollars on MMO subs.
Paying hundreds of dollars a year for access to a subpar videogame with terrible combat, shallow pve content and five year old graphics.
PLaying: EvE, Ryzom
Waiting For: Earthrise, Perpetuum
It is SOOOO exciting when the only ones you see in such games is the local potato NPC.
I guess every time I do somehting in those games I feel like the Super patato amongst NPC potatoes.
It show just how fucked up some people are.
-------
They hate so called theme parc MMo's, while at the same time they play off line games with only puppets in them.
Let's say I have more fun with my guild doing Lake WIntergrasp or the Isle of Conquest than following a scripted NPC anytime.
That's perhaps because I became conditioned with these kind of "AI" in early computer age.
"I don't know what you mean Sir", or "your command is not valid, try again", when looking at a face that just hangs there in front of my screen.
How exciting being the King of puppets.
When a MMO is released with the depth and quality of Mass Effect then you can talk, until then stfu and go back to your pathetic part time job the WoW item farm.
PLaying: EvE, Ryzom
Waiting For: Earthrise, Perpetuum
It is SOOOO exciting when the only ones you see in such games is the local potato NPC.
I guess every time I do somehting in those games I feel like the Super patato amongst NPC potatoes.
It shows just how fucked up some people are.
-------
They hate so called theme parc MMo's, while at the same time they play off line games with only puppets in them.
Let's say I have more fun with my guild doing Lake WIntergrasp or the Isle of Conquest than following a scripted NPC anytime.
That's perhaps because I became conditioned with these kind of "AI" in early computer age.
"I don't know what you mean Sir", or "your command is not valid, try again", when looking at a face that just hangs there in front of my screen.
How exciting being the King of puppets.
At least single player games can give you a good story to follow along with. MMO's fail to deliver on that even, all they have is combat....and more combat, it gets tiresome. I think I get more enjoyment out of playing Minesweeper than mmo's these days.
That "story" line is a very meager thing compared to the social interaction you can get through playing On line games.
So your problem is you play the not very good WOW clones. Of course people are fed up with them, but that doesn't mean I am ......... going BACK in time to look at some NPC's .... replacing friends and real ennemies.
))
I get enough social interaction in real life, I don't need some ass conversing with me online. Really I've come to the realization that mmo's are just glorified chat rooms with combat.
For PvP? Meh, FPS games provide much better pvp experience than mmo's ever will.
There is a post here in this forum asking if the game Dragon Age was an organic living breathing world. Well of course it isn't, no game is. However, that is what mmorpg's should be. Everybody should have an effect upon the world, a real effect. If that unique monster in fantasy country dies to my sword or someone elses sword, it should stay dead. Another different monster could appear someplace else but don't have the same freaking thing pop up in the same place. That's not a living world. If me and my 39 online friends decide to raid and destroy an enemy's city than let it stay destroyed until that other faction can build it up again. That is truly what this genre should be, an online virtual gaming world. Not poor excuses for single player games that have online chat capability.
That "story" line is a very meager thing compared to the social interaction you can get through playing On line games.
So your problem is you play the not very good WOW clones. Of course people are fed up with them, but that doesn't mean I am ......... going BACK in time to look at some NPC's .... replacing friends and real ennemies.
I get enough social interaction in real life, I don't need some ass conversing with me online. Really I've come to the realization that mmo's are just glorified chat rooms with combat.
For PvP? Meh, FPS games provide much better pvp experience than mmo's ever will.
There is a post here in this forum asking if the game Dragon Age was an organic living breathing world. Well of course it isn't, no game is. However, that is what mmorpg's should be. Everybody should have an effect upon the world, a real effect. If that unique monster in fantasy country dies to my sword or someone elses sword, it should stay dead. Another different monster could appear someplace else but don't have the same freaking thing pop up in the same place. That's not a living world. If me and my 39 online friends decide to raid and destroy an enemy's city than let it stay destroyed until that other faction can build it up again. That is truly what this genre should be, an online virtual gaming world. Not poor excuses for single player games that have online chat capability.
I'm in the same boat. Even though I have a sub to Fallen Earth, I just don't feel like logging in. So I've been playing shooters, L4D2, MW1, AVA, etc. I'm hoping that Mortal Online and/or SWTOR will be a breath of fresh air once they are released.