Why do you want to reach max level?

Castillle

o.o

Why do you wanna rech max level when playing mmorpgs?

TruthXHurts

I don't play MMO's that have levels or classes.

jadedlevir

Ummmmm.....

Well generally if I was playing a themepark game its because devs put no effort into making the lower levels fun. And it's for that reason I find games that don't have a "end game" more enjoyable(which are usually also sandbox games). Or at the very least,have the focus not on the end game  like gw2 seems to be doing, or even swtor.

I hate that the mentality of mmo-ers is generally lets rush to end game, but you got to consider that in most of these games the leveling game is very mundane, and people would rather play where the population is concentrated.

Leaph

To have options.  In the games I have played having a character at max level means there is no content that I am excluded from experiencing.  It is a nice stopping point to start up another character.  It also provides me the ability to help out others when they get stuck or are having difficulty.

Cactus-Man

Because give players the ability to make characters more powerful and they will want to be as powerfull as possible, end game is just a point where the game caps your ability to increase your characters power.

Torgrim

I level as slow as possible due to most MMOs engame is very much crap.

Castillle

Originally posted by Leaph

To have options.  In the games I have played having a character at max level means there is no content that I am excluded from experiencing.  It is a nice stopping point to start up another character.  It also provides me the ability to help out others when they get stuck or are having difficulty.

I find this quite the opposite.  I find that in most themeparks, you have even LESS options of content at max level than at lower levels. 

This doesnt apply to CO and CoX though where you can just scale down and do the lower level content n stuff.  But yahh!

 

I agree with Torgrim that endgames tend to be quite bad.  For me at least.  I dont like the tiered-ness of how its handled for the most part.

What some dont enjoy is what some love though so what can we do xD

Boge

The more I think about it, the more the levels in these games don't do anything for it.  I want to reach max level because I don't want to advance past all of the content anymore.  I want things to stop and then I can just play whatever content I want over and over.

They should have you just not level at all, but gain your new skills as you progress through the tutorial section of the game, like Age of Conan's Tortage area.

It should be more of a gear and content progression than level progression.

Leaph

Originally posted by Castillle

Originally posted by Leaph

To have options.  In the games I have played having a character at max level means there is no content that I am excluded from experiencing.  It is a nice stopping point to start up another character.  It also provides me the ability to help out others when they get stuck or are having difficulty.

I find this quite the opposite.  I find that in most themeparks, you have even LESS options of content at max level than at lower levels. 

This doesnt apply to CO and CoX though where you can just scale down and do the lower level content n stuff.  But yahh!

 

I agree with Torgrim that endgames tend to be quite bad.  For me at least.  I dont like the tiered-ness of how its handled for the most part.

What some dont enjoy is what some love though so what can we do xD

 

Although I do mainly play City of Heroes, in other games I have still found the majority of content available at higher levels.  The reward may make it not worth doing, but the option is still there.

Castillle

You can do them yes but I found most of them to be either completely undoable, undoable without extreme number crunching or using all your tools to be able to barely do them or be a total complete cakewalk that playing a facebook game will be much more interesting. 

o.o

I remember wanting to do wailing caverns in WoW. But no group ever wanted to do that and I was an alliance.  So I just went back and completed it at level 30 o.o  And Im just like "well wow.." And even deadmines and stuff like that. 

Also I remember doing the gadgetazan (Sp?) quests at level 59 because I completely missed that place and it was so extremely easy thaat I just stopped that and ran around mining mithril instead >.<

I tread those type of content akin to having a max level char and playing diablo 2 from the start with enemeis that dont scale to your level.  Its just plain not fun o.o Unless youre into that sort of thing then umm..more power to you?

 

But yah!! We need moar ppl saying why they want to reach max levelz0rs!

Lawlmonster

To explore unhindered, and I know what you're thinking: you can do that while you level up. The truth is, however, that you never get to see everything through a single character's play through (with most MMO's), and some content simply isn't available until certain levels (in some MMO's). So yeah, the initial desire to hit max level for me was during the original EQ days, when I really, really wanted to see all of the zones, but simply couldn't due to mob levels. With UO, that kinda went out the window, as you could go just about anywhere or do anything at any time, as long as you had your whits about you.

 

I also forgot to add, Darkfall and UO had something of a similar experience for me. I loved exploring in Darkfall, because the skill level barriers were far and few between (just look out for dragons and dungeons).

gordiflu

I want to get to max level so I can stop doing stupid quest ala "kill 10 rats" "fedex this" etc etc, and actually enjoy the game.

Grunty

The only game I have ever gotten to the maximum level in was DC Universe Online. I did that during beta. It's one of the reasons I chose to not purchase the game.

I might make it to the max level in LOTRO. Maybe. Some day.

tinuelle

I want to be max powerful of my potential!

Grunty

Originally posted by gordiflu

I want to get to max level so I can stop doing stupid quest ala "kill 10 rats" "fedex this" etc etc, and actually enjoy the game.

I play to enjoy the game. It's why I've rarely gotten to max level.

maplestone

Because it's there.

k11keeper

For me it's not my number 1 goal. I usually take my time to level and enjoy the content along the way as much as possible. Yet once I have a character that I've already done this with I tend to level my 2nd or 3rd character as fast as humanly possible. Moslty because if I'm in an end game guild we might need that specific type of character to increase our ability to do certain raids. Plus I've done all the stuff along the way so there isn't much of a need to repeat it, unless it was particularly fun or rewarding.

Not so much in newer games, in older games there was a huge sence of accomplishment reaching max level. My first level 50 in DAoC I remember being insanely happy, I never reached max level in L2, and when I reached max level in FFXI (which took me like 2 years pre ToAU) I literally jumped up and screamed out loud. Nowadays, not so much, it's just too dang easy to reach max level in games and in the last few years I get bored of them in a few short months because of that.

uohaloran

I don't want to, it just happens that almost every level based MMO is hellbent on trying to get me there so I can stand around a capital city waiting for something to happen.

Vanguard was a pretty recent game that wasn't like that and even LOTRO to an extent (maybe not so much anymore).  I like the journey more than the destination.

The game beginning at the end is such a lousy way to run your game, I think.

centkin

Usually I don't "want" to but it kind of happens.  I like new zones with new monsters and new tactics with real upgrades to my character who lives and grows.  Once you are at max level you get far fewer if any new zones with far fewer new monsters and generally one new tactic per raid maybe with only upgrades to equipment with a character who exists.

I am an explorer...  I actually read quests.  I do level out though pretty quickly in most game and for me level out usually actually does mean level out. 

Too much of what you do in lower zones mean nothing in higher zones in most games.  I liked connections like in EQ1 -- if you killed the aviak chicks when you were levelling up -- you were Demolished by higher level adult aviaks further along -- but if you left them alone, they left you alone.  Nowadays low level factions usually dont matter at all in higher level zones -- nothing you get will be used and nobody you saw will you see again.  It is like you turned a page in the book and it all goes away.

C0MA

I do it for the women...

skeaser

Originally posted by TruthXHurts

I don't play MMO's that have levels or classes.

Funny, your profile says you play Vindictus.

Just sayin'.

Neverdyne

I do it for the chicks and the admiration of my peers. 

Castillle

For the chicks and women? :O

But I remember seeing ppl cybering with low levels in Champions and WoW! :O 

Which was extremely weird for champions becuse...Yknoe...People can see your global name o.o

Loke666

I am in no hurry there but I like to accomplish something everytime I play, even if it just is a few XP.

If my character is just the same as when I logged on I feel dissapointed in myself.

I don't care at all if the game even have levels.

jeremyjodes

I do it because it's the only way to measure advacement...and the imginary chicks of course.

DrSpanky

Originally posted by Torgrim

I level as slow as possible due to most MMOs engame is very much crap.

Totaly with you on this. I'm trying to milk the last two levels of lotro until the expansion comes out.