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Moments you've felt disgusted in a game.
Quirhid
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There's a wide array of games I play. I play console games, I play PC games, I play RPG, FPS (all types), RTS, turn-based strategy, racing games - arcade and varying simulators, action, adventure, platformers... anything thats "good" by the standards of the fans of that particular genre basically. Only games I don't play are fighting games and old-school, but even there I sort of see why someone might find it fun. There have been games and features, however, which I have been utterly disgusted, and didn't see why anyone in their right mind would enjoy it. For example:
Crafting and gathering in Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
This was so mindnubmingly tedious and repetitive I didn't think anyone would enjoy this - and you had to do a lot of it to get to making "the good stuff". It further annoyed me that everything in it was designed so that designing a macro or a bot to do it would be harder than in your average MMO: the buttons in the crafting menu switched places and nodes respawned in different locations. I had never been more tempted of making a macro or a bot. I would never craft or gather voluntarily in that game.
"Exploration" in Eve
More than the feature itself, which is basically grinding a handful of events which appear randomly, I was disgusted about some of the players which called this "exploration". I would've been fine if they were just honest and said: "you grind these events in hopes of phat loot which you can then sell for ISK". Every system is basically same, cause there is no terrain, and every event comes from a fairly short list of possible ones. Call it "exploration"? What bull-.
"Patrolling" in Fall of Mankind
Now this game was unfinished, it wasn't why I was disgusted by it. The metagame was the thing that really put me off of the game. I RP'd in this game - which is rare, but I can do it - and we were patrolling this area which, we were told, had enemy activity in it. We roamed around for a good 40 minutes with no action at all after we settled on this white beam of light. The "sergeant" told us to stay put, set up perimeter and put 3 guys in a line in next to the beam pointing towards the beam with theri submachine guns. Next thing I knew, they were shooting enemies which appeared in the beam and it dawned on me: this is spawncamping. Fuck patrolling we were spawncamping! As people logged on and got out of their "apartment" they appeared in this white light and we killed them. They had no way of getting out. We prevented them from playing the game. At this point the spell wore out and I quit without saying a word to my "team".
Now it would be a lame thing to quit and uninstall a game just because of one incident but lets just say it was the proverbial last straw.
What moments of disgust have you had?
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been -Wayne Gretzky
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Lots. But the last mmorpg I played was Aion and I was disgusted with the crafting. Because it could have been so great if not for one tiny thing - what was sold at the npc's was better quality than what we could craft. To make matters worse, it was sold a lot cheaper than what we needed to spend in materials. For that sole reason I quit Aion. Otherwise I would still be there even though I hate PvP.
Otherwise I would say I'm disgusted with the PvP community. Everything but esp gimping my rouges and archers with their obsessive whining. Don't understand why we can't lock them someplace far far far away from the rest of us and give them their own classes and armor. Somewhere where they can't gimp me anymore. That's why I quit all the other mmorpg's from Rift on down.
Now I play Sims 2 and wait for something innovative.
Aion.
Just finished doing the starter quests (collect 5 of this, kill 6 of those, zzzzzzzz) and was finally transported to a major city. Where I had to do more crappy quests to kill 7 of those, collect 8 of these.
I decided enough was enough and ventured 30 meters from my "collecting" zone, explorer that I am.
I encountered some much higher level beasts which surprised me and a player telling me: "LOL, you are not supposed to be here, this is way to dangerous LOL"
That was my moment of disgust and immediatly uninstalled the "game".
Yee gads ... the epiphany moment ... when you realize slamming your head against a desk would be more entertaining or productive.
After three years of playing Perfect World MANY hours daily, grinding ad nauseum to save up for end-game armor and weapons only to have them release near-invincible rank-9 armor/weapons that could be purchased for about $2500 by way of the cash shop. I soldiered on for almost another year and kept being slammed by a number of those "ah-crud" moments. One of my alts was a Venomancer -- I'd spent a year grinding my heart out so I could buy one of the really great battle pets (Baby Hercules). About a month after I got it they nerfed the pet to the extent it could no longer hold aggro in squad mode.
In SWTOR, after reaching level cap with my seventh alt, not seeing any new end-game content, and asking myself 'what now?'
I've tried out a ton of MMOs, but PW and SWTOR are the only ones where I've really dedicated myself -- played well over 12 hours daily, day in and day out -- and I am now extremely gun shy about giving that much of my heart and soul to any game again. I keep looking, but the game will have to be something really special to captivate me again.
Guild Wars 2
Rabid fanbois, really turn me off the community outside of the game. Glad they are less common in the game itself.
Never really been disgusted with an actual game feature though, I always make sure I know what I'm getting myself into before I start on one.
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League of Legends
It's community, I honestly have no idea why It's still installed on my computer.
If we're going to look at strictly features, I have to say pretty much any MMO I have played, crafting disappoints me every time. I honestly don't get why games bother to add it in - feels like more of a chore than playing a game.
Aion's ruination of rifting. GW2's fan base. World of Warcraft's implementation of what is now commonly known (to me) as PvP grind. id Software's systematic and seemingly intentional destruction of the Quake series.
During WOTLK when I decided to try a Pally for the first time. I leveled up to 18 and went to Razor Fen Kraul on a dungeon run. Our highest level party member was lvl 21 and we completed the dungeon without a single death. Vanilla you needed to be lvl 24 to even stand a chance.
It made me lose all interest in the game.
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One of my favorate moments was when i dinged my first 60 in Vanilla and the first thing I did was travelled to Darkshire and got my revenge and wasted that son of a bitch "Mor Ladim" (spelled wrong I'm sure) for all the times he wasted me in the graveyard.
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I agree and it has been brought up a number of times on these forums too. The community in LoL is on a while new level of viciousness. The amount of abuse, bash and trolling is unbelievable.
Its a fun game, a good game, but the community is probably one of the worst in gaming history.
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Quests that ask me to tortune a prisoner for information. I realize that when we step back and look at the actions we're acting out that we're all playing mass-murdering monsters, but there's something about these quests that touches a nerve and takes me out of the game with a sick-to-my-stomach feeling.
SW:TOR. That's all, no specifics to it, just the whole game I thought was godawful. From having to fight through pointless mobs who cluster in 3s, to having to fight through pointless mobs who cluster in 3s who respawned since the last time you were there.. and every quest being a fight through pointless mobs to click a glowing item, then fight through pointless mobs to speak to the quest giver... and the static npcs who were frozen in time outside Tython Temple, swords raised, some rushing in to heal, but not rushing as they never ever moved.
I could go on and on. It was horrid and I felt disgusted that they wasted that much money on something so terribly bad.
Diablo 3:
When i first got to inferno mode in Diablo 3. I got completely raped and after giving up i went to the AH and saw the massive difference in stats that i was able to find and what players were placing on the AH...
I play ARPG solo, I like to obtain all of my upgrades myself and It made me sick that i was forced to farm gold to buy upgrades from others...
Mass Effect 3:
The ending... I wont go into detail just incase you guys havent played it yet.
Warhammer Online:
The moment i stepped into Tier 3 and found no one else in a zone... I was stuck farming stage 1 PQs. I was disgusted that Mythic could mess up a MMO this badly, revolve the entire thing around server population to the point of the game being unpl;ayable if population dropped.
World of Warcraft:
The day I went to a heroic vendor and saw how OP the gear was and how it basically made lower tired raid content obsolete by running newb ass heroics for gear... The nail in the coffin by for me...
EVE ONline:
The day CCP rolled on its belly, greesed up and let the elitist veterans of the game dictate CCPs original vision of a true sci-fi simulation. They gave in and instead of sticking to their guns they regressed the game back to Spaceship only... No more stations, no dreams of ground combat, atmospheric flight or planet colonization. Stuff I was waiting for for years. What a great IP, im a lover of the books and knowing CCP was working toward making that game into a fully realized universe not just point to click space ships kept me interested.
They failed themselves, their vision and the true fans of Eve Online. It was a tragedy...
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I thought has mmo pvp come to this, pretending to play doom ctf in a tiny box in a MASSIVELY multiplayer game.
Sadly the trend stayed for a very long time.
The day they released BFR's to Planetside despite months of test server feedback stating just how OP they where with no valid means to take them down (at that time)
Promtly unsubbed along with 1000s of others.
Or
November 2005 NGE hits SWG, need I say more.
The cut scenes in TSW - the rest of the game had great graphics, the cuts scenes are full of shemales that have weird eyes and horrible facial expressions.
A runner up would be GW2 - after the 20th heart quest I was like, WTF is the point?
Basically I've been disgusted by every MMO since WoW was released.
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World vs World pvp in every game that has it.. Always is a gigantic mess that turns into the most god damn annoying and random thing that exists in MMORPG's.. Always is abusive, always makes the solo player worthless, just makes you groan at it and feel disgusted..
Would rather go on a corpse run in a plane of existance in the original EQ by myself then deal with that crap again..
You know you don't have to do heart quests right lol? It's like saying you don't like pvp in WoW ...then don't do it?
What honestly disgusted me -
EQ - guild drama pretty much ruined that game for me.
DAoC - ToA nuff said.
WoW - people crying that cata dungeons were too hard. Honestly disgusted that Blizzard has brainwashed WoW players so much. "These heart quests are boring! Hold on let me go back to WoW to kill 5 boars that's way more interesting!"
Vanguard's playerbase
EVE Online.
It's the only game I've ever ragequit. Well, my game time ran out before I was able to complete the deletion of the toon...lol. But I deleted all the ships I had, deleted everything I had in several corp hangars, and mailed my ISK off to another player that had made me laugh at one point (not at them, with them).
Scamming? Nope, outside of the cowardly nature of it - I do not have an issue with that.
Piracy? Nope, no issue with that in the least.
Etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc - things that tend to be complaints about EVE...nope, not them.
It's when they added Salvaging and allowed little turds to come into my missions, to salvage my wrecks, without having to face any consequences - because - they were not stealing. The server registered ownership of the wreck, but Salvaing ignored that. They could salvage the wreck without issue - if they attacked it - it flagged them. It was a veritable cluster...hump of quite a few expletives. If they were concerned about too many objects and the load, they could have put a timer on it - then bam - folks would have been free to go after it. They could have made it so that after a player left the area, then people would be able to do it, etc, etc, etc - so many options there. But they decided to defend an illogical system that allowed folks to act without consequence...
...with scamming, cowardly as it is, hey - don't be an idiot, don't get scammed. That's simple.
Salvaging on the other hand, there's nothing you could do. They'd run newb toons out of starter corps. Could not wardec them and it would be pointless to sui them.
It's the most disgusted I've ever felt in a game - the only time I've ever ragequit.
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
Explorer: 87%, Killer: 67%, Achiever: 27%, Socializer: 20%