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What are the classic signs of MMO burnout
Fibbin
Member Posts: 114
I'm curious. What signs show you are burned out from MMOs since a lot of people seem to be in denial about it. Lets bring some examples to the table shall we?
I'll start
When the only MMO that will satisfy your needs is a sandbox game that doesn't exist.
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You post on this site.
You download Everquest 1 to play for one free week.
If being a developer means being quiet, mature, well-spoken, and disconnected from the community, then by all means do me a favor and believe I'm not one.
You keep checking the LFGAME section of this site in hopes that maybe, just maybe, someone will recommend a game you never heard of (but that is doubtful).
Who makes this crap up anyways?
My theme song.
Re-subscribing to an MMO you ragequit over, only to play it for a day before ragequitting again
It is when you rather play some game than sleeping with your vife.
Well you must be careful not to confuse "MMO burnout" with "I'm tired of every MMO being essentially the same with few exceptions severly limiting my options" :P
But it looks like this year and next will alieviate the latter a bit.
When you call every game a WoW clone.
Remember Old School Ultima Online
Classic signs, hmm. Well, here a few I could think of:
- whatever you do, you can't get that MMO fix anymore that MMORPG's used to give you, that initial bliss from when you started playing MMO's
- you keep hopping from one MMO to another, playing them for a short while even if you're not really enjoying them but only going through the motions while playing them.
- you notice that certain MMO game mechanics that used to excite you now only tire you or even nauseates you. Whatever MMO you play, as soon as you encounter them you feel it sucks any fun you could have out of you, leaving you with a feeling of boredom and grind.
- you are spending more and more time surfing frustratedly on MMO forums looking in vain for an MMO that might suit you instead of playing MMO's, where back when you had great fun in MMO's it was more the other way around.
- you start wondering more and more if MMORPG's is still a thing for you, even while you rationalise that it must be so, you start despairing whether you will actually find one that will suit you. At the same time you recall the last time you really had fun in MMO's feels like ages ago.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
Another sign for burnout is when you cant find the portal anywere when you are on your way to rl work early in the morning:-)
That pretty much sums it up.
and the winner is?................this ^
When you go afk for an hour to play LoL
Drekor Silverfang
The Shipwrecked Pirates
#1 Sign: An active account on mmorpg.com
When despite having a list of hundreds of games in front of you, nothing interests you.
Great answer!! This is exactly how I have felt for a long time.
Out of every 100 men, 10 should not be there,
80 are nothing but targets, 9 are the real fighters.
Ah, but one, ONE of them is a warrior,
and he will bring the others home.
-Heraclitus 500BC
/signed. For the first time since 1996 I think I need a break and focus more on development
What MMO.Maverick said.
Another sign is: after playing AAA titles, redownload your first mmo (for me "Legend of Mir 2"), or the same type of isometric korean grinders and pretend you can still like such a primitive outdated game, wallowing in denial and nostalgia, grinding two hours for 1% to next level barely animated zombies in gray caves, with a stretched low resolution on your 24" monitor, with no customizing, pretending you're a mmo-virgin anew and you're enjoying that.
When you spend 24/7 on your games website fighting with other user about what is wrong with the game, then comming over here and start the same fights in these forums.
At least for me:
1. When you simply feel tired of doing another quest to kill 100 boars (or some such nonsense).
2. When you're simply tired of fetching some NPC their slippers so you can take them and run across the war-ravaged countryside to deliver them to their beloved father's, sister's, cousin's, former roommate (or some such nonsense).
3. When every MMORPG you've been playing feels the same. Didn't you play this already for the umpteenth time?
4. When progress and accomplishments in an MMORPG no longer feel like you've done anything worthwhile.
5. When you realize the game's community is pretty much completely and utterly worthless to each other: a.k.a. realizing that despite seeing a bunch of other players, nobody works with each other anymore. Hell, party members, if you ever do get 'em, don't even talk to each other anymore. And parties breaking up as soon as some milestone is achieved without even saying so much as a "Good luck guys, gotta go!"
6. When you're just simply tired of developers ruining an actually decent game with highly questionable updates / patches / etc.
And of course:
7. You're no longer playing any MMORPG and feel pretty good about it. Because one is no longer dealing with the above 6.
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
So true! I'm not sure which is worse. Wthdrawal symptoms or going back and remembering all the reasons why we quit last time.
For me, when I end up logging in an MMO, standing still and watching the screen for 10 minutes, not sure what to do. Eventually I log off and don't play MMO for a while. It's also the time where I'm the most active on forums and websites like MMORPG.com.
Crying about SWG Pre-NGE...NON_STOP...oh wait....
That Guild Wars 2 login screen knocked up my wife. Must be the second coming!
+1
Dang it, I must have been burnout since I started playing Meridian, I never liked when someone told me to grind in a quest, I am capable of cdoing that myself.
For me MMO burnout is when it suddenly feels like a chore to log on, that means it is time to take a few months break.