Survey: Most Important Aspect of a Game

Red_Jibuti · February 2007

What is the most important aspect of a game?


	Quests
	Storyline
	Variety of items
	Friends playing the game
	Variety of places to explore and train
	Combat system
	Graphics
	Price
	Server Response Time (Lag Time)
	Community
	Other

kashaun · February 2007

Community for me. A strong community, a lasting one anyway, not the new monthly batch, reflects other aspects of the game.

FreddyNoNose · February 2007

Fun.

Unknown · February 2007

I would have to go with the combat system. More often then not its the part of the game we see the most, and it effects our experince more then the graphics do.

JackDonkey · February 2007

community, that's why I quit EVE and WoW

Gameloading · February 2007

Combat system. No matter which mmorpg, combat will always be the thing you do most. I can't enjoy an mmorpg with a bad combat system,because its the largest part of an mmorpg..

Apocalyptica · February 2007

I voted community as my two faves where not in the list. Individuality in gameplay and fun to play.

paulscott · February 2007

community its kinda'f a no brainer for an MMO, needs to have some fun in it too. anything else I can get else where and at a passable quality.

Wizardry · February 2007

I voted combat system because that is the whole basis behind the game.A chat line you can get for free and you dont need to pay to see nice graphics either.I can see how server lag is deffinately an issue.Cost i guess you are comparing free to play to pay because costwsie they are all on par with each other.I would expect to see a very high number from the friends option because i know for a fact that is why ALOT of players play certain games,if not then they are afraid to admit it to themselves.The community one is very limited in that it's either little kiddies or mature players.I guess that would rate up pretty high because i for one would not be caught dead playing FLYFF or any of those other kiddie games,but that would relate to combat also because in a kiddie type game combat will be very simplistic or button mashing.

Nevarion · February 2007

Community. In your spare time you wouldn't want to have retards around you all the time, would you? Hands down, even if it is so obvious for many, it's the most important aspect.

Yet the design and mechanics attract different crowds. It goes hand in hand to some extend.

EggFtegg · February 2007

I might have voted economy & crafting or politics if they were there, but yeah, from that list, it has to be combat and community. I voted combat, but a community of idiots would surely take any fun out of the game. At least you have the option of killing them if the combat system is good.

Do other people feel the same way as me?....if you're a role-player and you meet someone who's avatar looks like an adult in the game, and yet they behave like a 10 year old when you talk to them, isn't the obvious conclusion that they're retarded (from a role-playing perspective)?

Mars505 · February 2007

Voted Community

Second choice is Fun

PyscoJuggalo · February 2007

Community, that is why I still consider myself a SWG vet, though I have not played it since November 15, 2005.

MMORPGs are social experiences, without good communites, they suck.

Nagyzol · February 2007

The most important thing in MMORPGs the community. If the community arent working as we expect it isnt different from a simple solo game you play at home far from the internet.
The other important thing for me is the pvp. A good, well balanced combat system is esencial for a good gameplay. Mostly I prefer skill based games because I dont think that players should take the all chances aganst that who has skills and know well his character.
All in all as a fanatik pvper myself I love everything where I can fight against others and i have a chance to defeat them and not the gear what really matter.

Apostata · February 2007

Of listed items, combat system, because if a combat based game lacks permadeath, it's not worth playing.

GraySeal · February 2007

I would vote for dynamics, though it is not listed.

Spawning should be dynamic. Foe should spawn in nonpredictable ways. Foe should migrate. Foe should group and reactive differently dependent on group size. Foe should be aware of their environment.

Terrain and vegetation should be modifiable.

Weather should effect the world and how you are able to interact with it.

Building and destroying structures should be possible.

Chars should be destructable.

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No game is doing some of these. Some games are implementing some of the list marginally.

MMOGs will be stuck in a rut until someone does all of this. Dynamics will be the aspect which will improve MMOGs and finally take us to the second generation.

Red_Jibuti · February 2007

Thanks guys, now I can tell my friend with confidence that a strong community is very important to many active mmo players.

Thanks again,

osc8r · February 2007

PVP

Though from the list I chose combat system.

DuraheLL · February 2007

The most important thing:

To be able to play it!

Second, friends playing. This could make even the worst game playable if you've got someone to play it with. I would never in my life imagine playing a MMO alone. Well, I did with SWG but that's different (it was my first).

TristamIzumi · February 2007

Tally up another vote for Other: "Economy/Crafting", with PvP coming in a close second, though in my opinion the two are closely intertwined. There must be reasons for PvP, and what better reason than control of resources that are necessary to create the items you use on a daily basis?

nomadian · February 2007

Interface for a mmorpg. Two games put me off in the first ten minutes because of their interface(DDO/Ryzom)

Zitch · February 2007

hard to give any accurate feedback with only one choice.

Community is #1, but so many other things are involved in order to "grow community" that you can't seriously expect to gain anything from such a poll.

Without community, you don't have an MMO... so obviously that's #1

DuraheLL · February 2007

Originally posted by Zitch

hard to give any accurate feedback with only one choice.
Community is #1, but so many other things are involved in order to "grow community" that you can't seriously expect to gain anything from such a poll.
Without community, you don't have an MMO... so obviously that's #1

Yea you would. You make your own community with guilds and friends. I don't really think that opinion can be stretched so far as no players playing a game. Well it could be rougly underpopulated but it's very few I can really see it being depended on it.

b0rderline99 · February 2007

Originally posted by Apocalyptica

I voted community as my two faves where not in the list. Individuality in gameplay and fun to play.

so true, i would also like to add in feeling-of-openness

gillvane1 · February 2007

Originally posted by Gameloading

Combat system. No matter which mmorpg, combat will always be the thing you do most. I can't enjoy an mmorpg with a bad combat system,because its the largest part of an mmorpg..

I agree. Even a great community won't help a game that doesn't have a good combat system.

Zitch · February 2007

Originally posted by DuraheLL
Originally posted by Zitch hard to give any accurate feedback with only one choice.
Community is #1, but so many other things are involved in order to "grow community" that you can't seriously expect to gain anything from such a poll.
Without community, you don't have an MMO... so obviously that's #1

Yea you would. You make your own community with guilds and friends. I don't really think that opinion can be stretched so far as no players playing a game. Well it could be rougly underpopulated but it's very few I can really see it being depended on it.

If you have players that progress to a point then drop off for whatever reason, and the content requires more grouping at higher levels? you have a population problem...

But community on it's own is linked but not tied to this issue.
Commnuity exists at all levels and in most cases regardless of level (in a level game). Without it no osmosis occurs in information, items (twinks), or just the good feeling you can have in making friends.

Growing community is very important because it solves any potential population problems, and also feeds on itself by fostering more interest and longer term subscriptions due to the bonds created by it.

Community (or lack of) may not kill a game, but it can certainly cripple it.
I have to say it's #1 without question.

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