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Could you play the same game for 10 years?

KlaveKlave Member Posts: 46
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Personally, i could. If i could find THAT game, THE game, that just for some reason works, that would be enjoyable every time you played. Is there ever going to be a game world  you would be happy to play in year after year? Where you spent your time enjoying the game itself and not looking for the next big thing.

Do you think is it ever going to be possible to create a MMO world that you would be happy to play for 10 years or is the next big thing always going to drag you away?

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  • NetspookNetspook Member UncommonPosts: 1,583

    Same game for 10 years???

    No way!

  • AmaraoAmarao Member UncommonPosts: 650
    I have trouble playing any game for a month.

    I get bored fast and I cannot find an MMO that is worth that much time yet.
  • DowieDowie Member Posts: 280
    Well if a game would come out with all the things Darkfall is said to deliver (and does it well) i would be stuck forever. I needs constant updating though, i can stick with DAOC forever if there population will allow it.
  • NeuroXlNeuroXl Member Posts: 291

    everquest and ultima online ... and diablo are all coming up on the ten year mark ...

    i personally know people still playing those old dusty mmo's ...

    depends on your character i guess ... some people have that staying power ... whether it be with marriage .. a career ... or a game ..

  • CleffyIICleffyII Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 3,440
    Originally posted by Amarao

    I have trouble playing any game for a month.

    I get bored fast and I cannot find an MMO that is worth that much time yet.
    Ditto

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  • NetspookNetspook Member UncommonPosts: 1,583
    NeuroXI, oldest game on the game list here is Kingdom of Drakkar. It's 15 years old. Since it's on the list, I guess there exist ppl who play it, but that doesn mean they played it for 15 years
  • NeuroXlNeuroXl Member Posts: 291
    Originally posted by Netspook

    NeuroXI, oldest game on the game list here is Kingdom of Drakkar. It's 15 years old. Since it's on the list, I guess there exist ppl who play it, but that doesn mean they played it for 15 years



    very true .. but im sure there are a few who have played for 15 years .. in fact, if i had to place a bet on its demographics ...

    id say 100% of the people playing a 15 year old game are people who are still playing for nostalgic reasons ...meaning people who've played it for a while 

  • AutemOxAutemOx Member Posts: 1,704
    I couldnt do it probably.  Unless a mmorpg came out with a completely different scheme...  Like if they charged a ton every month but released tons of content updates.  Then I might be able to stick with it but even then it would be questionable.  I think a big part of it for me is the community too.  Once your friends leave then you dont really feel like theres anything left for you, so things would only work out if somehow you uh...  Made new friends, but kept the old...

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  • neschrianeschria Member UncommonPosts: 1,406
     I don't think a game needs to last 10 years for me. As long as I enjoy it for more than 6 months, I feel like I haven't wasted the money I spent on it. While I tried a lot of new games as they were released, I stuck with EQ1 until pretty recently, with occasional long breaks from it (or breaks from MMORPGs altogether). It turns out that this is more the exception than the rule with me, though.  I am not sure I will even find another 5+ year game.

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  • KlaveKlave Member Posts: 46
    The comparison with marriage is a valid (if disturbing one). Enjoying something so much for a year or so then looking round for something more exciting, better looking, is human nature. But often we return to what we began with. Thats why at some point i think it will be possible to create an massive mmo you could happily play for 10 years, because it has something(even if you dont know what that is). If something makes you happy you return to it even after being with it for so long.
  • CrusaderAriCrusaderAri Member Posts: 5
    It's hard for me to stick with one game for over a few months. Heck the ones I stick to I take extremely long hiatus in. Ten years? Even if a game was that amazing I wouldn't be able to continuously keep with it, though I'd probably come back to it time to time if I really did enjoy it. My goal should be staying with one game for a year...
  • IsometrixIsometrix Member UncommonPosts: 256
    They'd need to put a lot of character evolvement along the way, and do something very little MMOs do - improve the graphics over the years, but I could see myself do it if the game was open and big enough.
  • RiotgirlRiotgirl Member UncommonPosts: 520

    Originally posted by neschria
    I don't think a game needs to last 10 years for me. As long as I enjoy it for more than 6 months, I feel like I haven't wasted the money I spent on it. While I tried a lot of new games as they were released, I stuck with EQ1 until pretty recently, with occasional long breaks from it (or breaks from MMORPGs altogether). It turns out that this is more the exception than the rule with me, though. I am not sure I will even find another 5+ year game.


    I have to agree with Neschria. Provided that I've enjoyed the gaming experience, then the length of time I play a game doesn't matter. It's the enjoyment that counts. Once that enjoyment disappears, then so does the game. No drama, no fuss.

    Another poster made a valid point that a large part of sticking with a particular game is the community, and friendships that one has built up. Once people start drifting off towards different games or even out of the MMORPG genre, then it becomes difficult to sustain interest and motivation if no real, substantial change happens.

    My main problem is finding a product that doesn't ruin the game through excessive rule changes or expansions that trivialise previous content. Rather than needing to change game, I suspect I need to really stop playing generic fantasy, level and itemization based games.

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  • KelsilvKelsilv Member Posts: 1
    I've gone for two years in two different games now.  All other MMO's have been for 2 months or less.  At some point I just need something completely new, and expansions generally aren't enough of a change for me.
  • docminusdocminus Member Posts: 717
    Originally posted by Klave


    Personally, i could. If i could find THAT game, THE game, that just for some reason works, that would be enjoyable every time you played. Is there ever going to be a game world  you would be happy to play in year after year? Where you spent your time enjoying the game itself and not looking for the next big thing.
    Do you think is it ever going to be possible to create a MMO world that you would be happy to play for 10 years or is the next big thing always going to drag you away?
    Well, I admit I am a bit jealous of the people that played UO for 6 years or more, or EQ and still like it and don't want to switch. If I had played MMOs 10 years ago, then I imagine myself there as well. But nowadays, with all the choices one has, where the game is build upon an average of 1-2 years it seems, then I guess you can forget it.

    On the other hand, fun is all that counts, and once you don't enjoy yourself it's time to move on. That is the difference to marriage. You are not commited to a game, you don't have any responsibilities towards it, unless you want to (say as community manager, or something like that).

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  • solynarsolynar Member UncommonPosts: 27
    I don't see it happening in our life time. Humans crave change. Its our nature.

    Unless they make a game so huge  and changes so often and be so perfect  I don't see it happening.





    Now if it was 10 years off and on, yeah. Its about to happen in the next few years with UO, AC, EQ.
  • kb4blukb4blu Member UncommonPosts: 717

    Could I play play a game for ten years ??

    Probably not.  Heck I may not not even be alive ten years from now. 

     

  • airheadairhead Member UncommonPosts: 718
    I couldn't do it.



    Technology changes too much and too fast for an engine to be playable that long imo. It's the RPG part of the game that changes and moves faster thru time. Just look at latest Oblivion / Gothic3 / DarkMessiah to see state of the art fantasy graphics. Compare that to engines that are 10 years old. Imcomparable.



    But the MMO side of the genre... sure! I have friends i've known for 25+ years at least... married almost 20 years. That's the reason some of these games last so long. Someone above said friendships etc was a big part of the reason games last so long....Well, once you get over 5 years, it's the ONLY reason they last that long.... imo.



    So it comes down to the TYPE of friends you make in games. Being a software dev myself, having lots of techie friends, and of course being a graphics whore, I'm playing a game, then me "and my friends" are leaving to go to the next game.
  • GreatnessGreatness Member UncommonPosts: 2,188
     I could and I probably will considering the MMOs out now but 10 years with a continuous active account no. I take breaks and join back in like 3-5 months later.

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  • MeonMeon Member Posts: 993

    Originally posted by Greatness
    I could and I probably will considering the MMOs out now but 10 years with a continuous active account no. I take breaks and join back in like 3-5 months later.

    it would have be more addictive than crack + alcohol *WoW^35

    otherwise not

  • baffbaff Member Posts: 9,457

    I've played Civilisation for over ten years. Probably more.

     

    I even play the first version (286 processor) from time to time when I am using an old duffer laptop. (Actaully Diablo too).

     

    I don't play Civ every day or even every week but once in a while I dig it out, or try the newer graphics and have another session for a month or so.

    It's not really a game that improves with more powerful computers. Although it massively improved when it jumped to the PC from the boardgame. Civ 2 is perhaps my favourite version as it has nicely shot little film clips of the Pyramids and what not when you build them. Instead of nothing or some lame 3d animation.

     

    CounterStrike is 9 years old. I bet plenty of people are still playing that.

     

    I wouldn't subscribe to a game for 10 years. If I have to pay buy the month, I change games very quickly.

    If I am going to be paying extra money, I want extra content and new games provide more of it per £, than farming another asteroid/zombie.

    I play Tetris too, and of ocurse I play Chess and Backgammon still even after all these decades.

  • nomadiannomadian Member Posts: 3,490

    Played TFC for quite a few years, but not that reguarly just off and on. Would hate to have played a mmorpg for 10 years, as it would perhaps suggest addiction more than game replayability. Though, of course, I'm meaning if it was continuous/regular.

  • PyscoJuggaloPyscoJuggalo Member UncommonPosts: 1,114
    The same MMORPG 10 years straight, eh?



    Probably not.  I like meeting new people and having new situations to deal with.



    1- Meeting new people would be hampered because Veteran communities would limit the ability of newer players to succeed.

    2- Developers would not be able to create a world that is complex enough to have a player experience new situations 10 years after its creation.



    The most years I could get out of a MMORPG would probably be 5, maybe 6.

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  • Rikimaru_XRikimaru_X Member UncommonPosts: 11,718
    I don't think I would be able to deal with an offline game for 10 years. Honestly my first MMORPG (14 day trial) Star Wars Galaxies is the one game that I would want to enjoy a few years with but with all the changes they did I don't know if I want to go back.

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  • SigneSigne Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 2,524
    The comparison to marriage is silly.  I've been married to the same man for over twelve years but I doubt I could stay interested in the same MMO for even much less than ten years.  I'm not fickle with the important things in life, but games?  Nothing wrong with flitting from one to another as often as you like when it comes to something like that.  I think it's great, however, for the people who can enjoy a game for that long.  Flitting from spouse to spouse, however, is rather sad.
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