1. When you simply feel tired of doing another quest to kill 100 boars (or some such nonsense).
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.
With the last MMORPG that I put a good actual amount of time in, there came a point that after logging in I just sat there at the keyboard wondering, "What am I doing?"
At that point it was time for me to call it quits.
I haven't given up 100% on the genre (just close to 90% of it ) but I do read up. Maybe there will be one worthwhile for me down the road. Or maybe not.
"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)
You download Everquest 1 to play for one free week.
Or you download the free trial of Guild Wars, and give up after playing for less than two hours, simply because you ran out of backpack space too often.
When all the F2P games you download really ARE free to play, because you can't stand playing an MMORPG long enough for you to ever need to spend money.
... and when all the subscription games you buy become coasters after the free month is up.
You stop playing computer games, sell all your posessions and become a monk and spend the rest of your life doing good deeds. Total text book case right there.
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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What I've been getting lately and it's something I've experienced today after going back to World of Warcaft. The desire to play and explore the world disappears as soon as you submit your payment information. That's before I even got into the game. As soon as I put things through I regretted it right away. Yet it's to late. So I just unsubscribed and maybe I might log into the game for the next few Friday and Saturday nights but really don't feel like playing now. I didn't even get a chance to get the some of the items listed in this thread. It's not a feeling of hate toward the game. Just one of not caring really in the end.
I think this is an important sign of being done I think. Maybe not totally with the genre but with a game most certainly. Where you must finally leave it behind. I've gone through so many other feelings since the initially "Games feels like work, not fun". When things get to the point I'm at with WoW, that's when I stop playing a MMO for good and put the CD/DVD away with my old games/systems never to be played again. Happen to me with EQ1, EQ2, SWG, and DAoC. This is usually reserved I think for games that I have enjoyed over a long period of time and not ones that didn't hold me like Warhammer, Aion, etc.
another might be, when you can't remember what you pass code was, you sign up for support, and when you click on the register button and get a "Please enable javascript" message (which is already enabled). instead of looking for contact details, you mumble four letter words under your breath, and switch your computer off.
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 would have to go with this. To be honest, I have been burned out for the past few months on MMORPG's or actually MMO's all together. I've been spending way more time doing things with people at my college or wherever else. Been working out alot and it's actually been really nice. I think I might just give up on MMO's all together and just more social things lol. However, I might slip back to my 360 and get back into consoles and play that some here and there.
So if your feeling burned out, just go outside or workout and talk to the ladies lol.
Ok chilluns. On this site when we talk about burnout it does not really mean the same thing as posting about burnout on another site. We are like, the mmo equivelant of Nam vets. (No disrapestic, just an equivalent) You guys have seen to much and acted in to much. There is no greater hive of scum and villany in all the interwebs as this site. If you have stuck around for more than 10 posts and your 10 posts do not sumise to; "Hey, you guys should play Allods becouse it's totaly rad!" Or "We should all play Aria games 'cos they is the money!" kind of posts. (Maybe we should try Aria games?.....Maybe they are the money?) All I am saying is, to stick around this place you are already a burnout and furthermore that we all burnouts........We are all burnouts! That is what I am saying. I for one would never have it any other way.
Sorry about my spelling, am so drunk I am seeing out of one eye and typing with one finger. Good luck to all of us, but if the mmo world is ending, there is no finer bunch of misfits and retards that I would like to see it go down with. God bless you and all that sail in you.
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With the last MMORPG that I put a good actual amount of time in, there came a point that after logging in I just sat there at the keyboard wondering, "What am I doing?"
At that point it was time for me to call it quits.
I haven't given up 100% on the genre (just close to 90% of it
) but I do read up. Maybe there will be one worthwhile for me down the road. Or maybe not.
"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)
Or you download the free trial of Guild Wars, and give up after playing for less than two hours, simply because you ran out of backpack space too often.
when you have at least three stars on mmorpg.com
I don't know which is worse: A state where...
...no game satisfies you...
...or you accept any game.
I'm leaning towards the latter. A sure sign would be revisiting old games in desperation.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been -Wayne Gretzky
When all the F2P games you download really ARE free to play, because you can't stand playing an MMORPG long enough for you to ever need to spend money.
... and when all the subscription games you buy become coasters after the free month is up.
You stop playing computer games, sell all your posessions and become a monk and spend the rest of your life doing good deeds. Total text book case right there.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
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Nah, WoW clone is just a term.
I notice when I am burnt out, when I cant make it to endgame contents after reaching max lvl.
case and point WoW. Max lvl, but cant do anything for long.
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@Warmaker
Great list.
What I've been getting lately and it's something I've experienced today after going back to World of Warcaft. The desire to play and explore the world disappears as soon as you submit your payment information. That's before I even got into the game. As soon as I put things through I regretted it right away. Yet it's to late. So I just unsubscribed and maybe I might log into the game for the next few Friday and Saturday nights but really don't feel like playing now. I didn't even get a chance to get the some of the items listed in this thread. It's not a feeling of hate toward the game. Just one of not caring really in the end.
I think this is an important sign of being done I think. Maybe not totally with the genre but with a game most certainly. Where you must finally leave it behind. I've gone through so many other feelings since the initially "Games feels like work, not fun". When things get to the point I'm at with WoW, that's when I stop playing a MMO for good and put the CD/DVD away with my old games/systems never to be played again. Happen to me with EQ1, EQ2, SWG, and DAoC. This is usually reserved I think for games that I have enjoyed over a long period of time and not ones that didn't hold me like Warhammer, Aion, etc.
another might be, when you can't remember what you pass code was, you sign up for support, and when you click on the register button and get a "Please enable javascript" message (which is already enabled). instead of looking for contact details, you mumble four letter words under your breath, and switch your computer off.
You log in the MMO and the first thing you see is to go kill 4 wolves or collect their skin, you scream and you log out.
This~! lol
I would have to go with this. To be honest, I have been burned out for the past few months on MMORPG's or actually MMO's all together. I've been spending way more time doing things with people at my college or wherever else. Been working out alot and it's actually been really nice. I think I might just give up on MMO's all together and just more social things lol. However, I might slip back to my 360 and get back into consoles and play that some here and there.So if your feeling burned out, just go outside or workout and talk to the ladies lol.
Ok chilluns. On this site when we talk about burnout it does not really mean the same thing as posting about burnout on another site. We are like, the mmo equivelant of Nam vets. (No disrapestic, just an equivalent) You guys have seen to much and acted in to much. There is no greater hive of scum and villany in all the interwebs as this site. If you have stuck around for more than 10 posts and your 10 posts do not sumise to; "Hey, you guys should play Allods becouse it's totaly rad!" Or "We should all play Aria games 'cos they is the money!" kind of posts. (Maybe we should try Aria games?.....Maybe they are the money?) All I am saying is, to stick around this place you are already a burnout and furthermore that we all burnouts........We are all burnouts! That is what I am saying. I for one would never have it any other way.
Sorry about my spelling, am so drunk I am seeing out of one eye and typing with one finger. Good luck to all of us, but if the mmo world is ending, there is no finer bunch of misfits and retards that I would like to see it go down with. God bless you and all that sail in you.