Originally posted by Bossalinie Are you wash your hands in different sinks or soaps to try and achieved the joy of washing your hands for the first time? No? Then that's not what I'm saying...
Clearly you missed the entire point of my post lol however, it remains that there's no such thing as an addiction to MMO's.
Originally posted by Bossalinie Are you wash your hands in different sinks or soaps to try and achieved the joy of washing your hands for the first time? No? Then that's not what I'm saying...
Clearly you missed the entire point of my post lol however, it remains that there's no such thing as an addiction to MMO's.
That's probably a hasty conclusion. Addiction is more than physical dependency. As an ex-smoker, I still get cravings once in a while more than a year after quitting, even though the physical withdrawal lasted only about 72 hours after the last cigarette.
Just google MMORPG and addiction, and see what comes up; you will find things all over the map. (The Daedalus Project, in particular, is an interesting website with a reasonably neutral tone).
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Authored 139 missions in VendettaOnline and 6 tracks in Distance
I know some people will disagree here, but download Rift and try the free to play till 20. It's a fun game, it took WoW's system and made it better with a better class system IMO. If you have already played it feel free to ignore
It doesn't have the cartoony feel to me that WoW does and keeps most of the same systems albeit improved in most areas.
If he outgrew WoW, then Rift won't hold his attention for very long.
Dont come back crying after TESO is a huge letdown like GW2 was...geeee who saw THAT one coming? But every year the hype train grows stronger.
Age of Wushu until Archeage. It shouldn't be complicated.
Giving wushu a try right now.
I believe they didn't westernise it too much and the game is refreshing. Combat are INDEED a little clumsy in the beginning but I didn't go far for now and I don't know yet how enjoyable the "flying" fights are. First hour or two in the game are a little rude if you never played an eastern MMO but nothing a normally crafted brain can't handle.
Yeah, disregard everything until you choose a school. Everything that happens before then is a tutorial and a joke. Then do what you want, this game gives you freedom. Regardless of bad translation or setting, you have FREEDOM and PLAYER CONTROLLED ACTIVITES!
Wanna be a bandit? Go ahead. Wanna be a police constable? Yup. Wanna just farm all day and sell wares on the market? Sure!
My day is always different. Its refreshing. Yesterday I hunted down a guy who broke the law and sent him to jail. Got a nice bounty to pocket to boot. Took that money and bought some food that will last long time. Life is great.
Combat grows on you. Its as fun as Street Fighter. Furthermore even without combat chases can be intense with the flying skills. You can literally get away from people if you use the environment well enough. I've had plenty of those types of encounters. You turn the corner and the guy is gone. It feels like a movie sometimes.
-step away from the keyboard.......slowly....no sudden moves
-ok down on your knees ...hands behind your back
---you don't have anything dangerous in your pockets do you ?
OK...seriously OP...It's ok not to play an mmog
there are m a n y who just won't settle for same ole same ole that pervades todays marketplace
personally...I'm one of those.
I stumbled onto a single player game and I'm having a lot of fun
Think outside the mmog box....you may be pleasently surprised.
Have to agree when no MMOs fits you : don't forget the "single player" world. So many cool RPGs, RTS', FPS, indie games or whatever all around...
A life time is not enough to try everything that is out there now. Tonz of scams sure... but also a lot of pure jewels.
Old school french hardcore whiner. Online since T4C.
I was "Namless" and "Daroot" in AO (Rk2) Been known as "Vindicar" (Aion (EU), SWTOR (EU), WoW (EU). Recently Known as "Wundicar" and "Wundee" in Age of Wushu (US) and Wulin (EU)
Franky Rivera Reyes , From the Reyes Brotherhood (Star Citizen)
We all are trying to find a great mmo to stick too, but sometimes it's hard to hold on to it long due to some barriers that pull our fingers away from the game, and these barriers are stuff that some people don't like, expecially me. I'm also play World of Warcraft because for once, that game got an interesting storyline that's always innovative the more it moves on, and it's basically it's name of Warcraft., as you fight though the terrors that threatened the world and stop it, along with fighting against one major power over the other in the process of saving their world.
World of Warcraft is the only game out there that actually what make new people who are new to mmo's to play mmos, as other games out there tend to also get some attention but not much. World of Warcraft expended since launch because of how famous the series was with the RTS games of the past, and the other games developed by blizzard such as starcraft and diablo also got famous. Blizzard gain alot of positive (and probably negative) feedback to progress further, and the fans of these 3 games help make what World of Warcraft became famous and have the most subscibers until later on. World of Warcraft is like a stepping stone for gamers out there to understand the foundations of an mmo and how to enjoy it, before people moved on to other newer and older games out there. To gain experiance to move on to other mmos so your not too new of the whole mmorpg games from what I've noticed.
World of Warcraft is not perfect because like i said about barriers between the game and the gamer itself, there are some things that people don't really like. This can be the people in that particular server or have too meny encounter of bad people who just causes dissent such as hardcore PvP and Raiding guilds can be one of them. One of the barriers could be the gameplay itself where there is not much interesting stuff to entertain the gamer when he reaches the end game, dailies can only go so far till the player got tired of doing it over and over and felt this urge to not do it again, and not just the dailies, it can be the lack of options to entertain the gamer. Right now in End-Game, you can only raid certain dungeons once you require the right gear level, to get the right gear level, you have to do dungeons to gain loot and valor points, you use these valor points to purchase high raiding level gear to make your character more powerful then ever. Now one of these barriers that I am talking about is this, after you gain almost the highest gear out there, what's the point of doing dungeons anymore, as the loot in the dungeon is no longer useful, the valor points you earn is no longer useful because you are already have all the highest level raiding gear. What's the point on continue to do raiding after you done it 20 times? What other options can you do? Try to unlock Achievements? Try to do PvP? Try to do the boring dailies again and try to gain exalted on everything? What other options to do? I know some people would say "go level another character up to 90 again, and do it all over again", but think again... doing the same content that you just did over before is just as boring and unmotivational, what's the point?
It's one of the reason that i stop playing WoW in some days because i become unmotivated to move on after going though the content, doing dailies over and over just to gain rep to unlock gear to purchase my valor points on to move futher and futher to raid the same dungeons that i've beaten over and over again. It's not really as fun like starting a new on a new game, and going on the same process but on something new that makes it fun, and learning about everything about that particular game until that same barrier appears and you once again become unmotivated by the lack of wide options to futher becoming addicted to that particular game. "glue can only last so long before it falls apart".
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Clearly you missed the entire point of my post lol however, it remains that there's no such thing as an addiction to MMO's.
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That's probably a hasty conclusion. Addiction is more than physical dependency. As an ex-smoker, I still get cravings once in a while more than a year after quitting, even though the physical withdrawal lasted only about 72 hours after the last cigarette.
Just google MMORPG and addiction, and see what comes up; you will find things all over the map. (The Daedalus Project, in particular, is an interesting website with a reasonably neutral tone).
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
If he outgrew WoW, then Rift won't hold his attention for very long.
You make me like charity
Yeah, disregard everything until you choose a school. Everything that happens before then is a tutorial and a joke. Then do what you want, this game gives you freedom. Regardless of bad translation or setting, you have FREEDOM and PLAYER CONTROLLED ACTIVITES!
Wanna be a bandit? Go ahead. Wanna be a police constable? Yup. Wanna just farm all day and sell wares on the market? Sure!
My day is always different. Its refreshing. Yesterday I hunted down a guy who broke the law and sent him to jail. Got a nice bounty to pocket to boot. Took that money and bought some food that will last long time. Life is great.
Combat grows on you. Its as fun as Street Fighter. Furthermore even without combat chases can be intense with the flying skills. You can literally get away from people if you use the environment well enough. I've had plenty of those types of encounters. You turn the corner and the guy is gone. It feels like a movie sometimes.
OP
-put you hands up where I can see them
-step away from the keyboard.......slowly....no sudden moves
-ok down on your knees ...hands behind your back
---you don't have anything dangerous in your pockets do you ?
OK...seriously OP...It's ok not to play an mmog
there are m a n y who just won't settle for same ole same ole that pervades todays marketplace
personally...I'm one of those.
I stumbled onto a single player game and I'm having a lot of fun
Think outside the mmog box....you may be pleasently surprised.
Have to agree when no MMOs fits you : don't forget the "single player" world. So many cool RPGs, RTS', FPS, indie games or whatever all around...
A life time is not enough to try everything that is out there now. Tonz of scams sure... but also a lot of pure jewels.
Old school french hardcore whiner. Online since T4C.
I was "Namless" and "Daroot" in AO (Rk2)
Been known as "Vindicar" (Aion (EU), SWTOR (EU), WoW (EU).
Recently Known as "Wundicar" and "Wundee" in Age of Wushu (US) and Wulin (EU)
Franky Rivera Reyes , From the Reyes Brotherhood (Star Citizen)
We all are trying to find a great mmo to stick too, but sometimes it's hard to hold on to it long due to some barriers that pull our fingers away from the game, and these barriers are stuff that some people don't like, expecially me. I'm also play World of Warcraft because for once, that game got an interesting storyline that's always innovative the more it moves on, and it's basically it's name of Warcraft., as you fight though the terrors that threatened the world and stop it, along with fighting against one major power over the other in the process of saving their world.
World of Warcraft is the only game out there that actually what make new people who are new to mmo's to play mmos, as other games out there tend to also get some attention but not much. World of Warcraft expended since launch because of how famous the series was with the RTS games of the past, and the other games developed by blizzard such as starcraft and diablo also got famous. Blizzard gain alot of positive (and probably negative) feedback to progress further, and the fans of these 3 games help make what World of Warcraft became famous and have the most subscibers until later on. World of Warcraft is like a stepping stone for gamers out there to understand the foundations of an mmo and how to enjoy it, before people moved on to other newer and older games out there. To gain experiance to move on to other mmos so your not too new of the whole mmorpg games from what I've noticed.
World of Warcraft is not perfect because like i said about barriers between the game and the gamer itself, there are some things that people don't really like. This can be the people in that particular server or have too meny encounter of bad people who just causes dissent such as hardcore PvP and Raiding guilds can be one of them. One of the barriers could be the gameplay itself where there is not much interesting stuff to entertain the gamer when he reaches the end game, dailies can only go so far till the player got tired of doing it over and over and felt this urge to not do it again, and not just the dailies, it can be the lack of options to entertain the gamer. Right now in End-Game, you can only raid certain dungeons once you require the right gear level, to get the right gear level, you have to do dungeons to gain loot and valor points, you use these valor points to purchase high raiding level gear to make your character more powerful then ever. Now one of these barriers that I am talking about is this, after you gain almost the highest gear out there, what's the point of doing dungeons anymore, as the loot in the dungeon is no longer useful, the valor points you earn is no longer useful because you are already have all the highest level raiding gear. What's the point on continue to do raiding after you done it 20 times? What other options can you do? Try to unlock Achievements? Try to do PvP? Try to do the boring dailies again and try to gain exalted on everything? What other options to do? I know some people would say "go level another character up to 90 again, and do it all over again", but think again... doing the same content that you just did over before is just as boring and unmotivational, what's the point?
It's one of the reason that i stop playing WoW in some days because i become unmotivated to move on after going though the content, doing dailies over and over just to gain rep to unlock gear to purchase my valor points on to move futher and futher to raid the same dungeons that i've beaten over and over again. It's not really as fun like starting a new on a new game, and going on the same process but on something new that makes it fun, and learning about everything about that particular game until that same barrier appears and you once again become unmotivated by the lack of wide options to futher becoming addicted to that particular game. "glue can only last so long before it falls apart".