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When your love of MMORPG's grows stale...
ginetti
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I think I may be at a point where I'm just not as excited at the prospect of MMORPG's anymore...
That leaves me with a sunken feeling, as they have always in the past provided me with sheer amounts of joy at even the prospects of playing them, and I would do what I could to spend each spare hour in 'another world'.
These days though, only WAR can raise my excitement levels, but even those levels are not what they used to be.
What's going on... am I growing up?
Are MMORPG's just too boring now?
I always loved the idea of humans in another world populated by humans, from RPG's to FPS to Sports games, I needed that human element to compete against.
And i loved RPG"s, and so started with MUDS, then moved onto my first Graphical MMORPG, Ragnarok Online (the beta) and countless others after that, with the most memorable being World of Warcraft, as i Signed up just as the game was launched so i got to level at a pace with everyone else.
Years have gone by, and MMORPG's just don't seem to excite me as they used to. Here's hoping it's just a slump.
I wonder...
That leaves me with a sunken feeling, as they have always in the past provided me with sheer amounts of joy at even the prospects of playing them, and I would do what I could to spend each spare hour in 'another world'.
These days though, only WAR can raise my excitement levels, but even those levels are not what they used to be.
What's going on... am I growing up?
Are MMORPG's just too boring now?
I always loved the idea of humans in another world populated by humans, from RPG's to FPS to Sports games, I needed that human element to compete against.
And i loved RPG"s, and so started with MUDS, then moved onto my first Graphical MMORPG, Ragnarok Online (the beta) and countless others after that, with the most memorable being World of Warcraft, as i Signed up just as the game was launched so i got to level at a pace with everyone else.
Years have gone by, and MMORPG's just don't seem to excite me as they used to. Here's hoping it's just a slump.
I wonder...
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MMORPG's I've Played: World of Warcraft: 10/10 - Rappelz: 7/10 - Ragnarok Online: 8/10 - DnD Online: 2/10 - Runescape: 6/10 - LotR Online: 5/10 - Anarchy Online: 7/10 - CoV: 8/10 - Rohan Online: 8/10 - Guild Wars: 7/10 - Flyff: 8/10 - Warhammer Online: 8/10
Comments
Its just a slump. You should quit playing MMOs for a while and do something else, like single-player games or even read a book series. After a while, your enthusiasm will return. You just need to be rejuvenated, and nothing does that better than something other than playing MMOs. This same feeling happens to me every few months. I just play single-player games for a week and after that, I wake up one day and I feel excited about MMOs again. But thats just me, it might be totally different with you.
Everyone gets these types of feelings. Its completely normal to get bored of something, even when its something that you love doing. When that happens, its time to take a break from it and do something else that you like doing. The worst thing you can do however is keep playing MMOs now that you've grown tired of them and they don't excite you anymore. I've been on a break for a few months and do not plan on returning until WAR is released. Yes, I do get those urges to fire up WoW or EQ2 and start playing, but I know its best to resist it and let the anticipation grow.
Just take a break for a while. If you don,t you may end up hating MMOs and ruining the genre for yourself completely.
- - "What if the hokey pokey really is what it's all about?" - -
Perhaps we're not growing out of being MMO players at heart, but rather we yearn for something greater. I want to create something unique. I want to have an npc tell me something no one else has heard. I want to see the town I was in yesterday suddenly under the control of a new faction. I want to create or aquire a pet or a robot that I train... that grows and learns. I want to have an interface where i design the look and abilities of my sword, spell or gun. Exploring a new land and killing new mobs is cool, but we're evolving as a group, that being MMO players.
Probably both. I find myself in a similar position.
There just isn't enough creativity and innovation to generate interest among the MMO vets. The industry continues to grow and developers seem content to rehash old ideas and cater to the younger, less experienced player base. Gameplay is ever increasingly focussed on virtual materialism. I think this hurts the social possibilities of MMO's. In older games I made friends; in recent ones I made only acquaintances...
Additionally, I look around at my real world surroundings and have an increasingly difficult time justifying the time requirements of modern MMO's that provide a mediocre experience. I can do a lot more enjoyable stuff in the same 5 or 6 hours that it takes to do a raid on the weekend. I'm thinking of switching back to Quake or Tribes type games where I can jump in for 30 minutes, get a quick fix, and get out.
Yes times are changing and you probably are as well.
At one point in time I use to be able to play MMO's with just the random people I met in game. Did this for FF11 and WoW. Then I quit playing MMO's for about a year until Vanguard came out. I couldn't play Vanguard without my real life friends actively in game. I quit Vanguard at the same time as my other friends did since it was sort of crappy. Then we got LoTRO which for some reason I also can't stand being in game for more than 5 minutes when they are not on. I'm 10 levels behind their level so me getting on and doing stuff while they aren't would be a good idea but I just can't do it. It's really strange.
I'm looking forward to AoC. Getting in beta while they most likely won't be could be a helpful thing for me to not get so behind in levels (at least from the start) Or, maybe I'll feel like playing when they're not on? I don't know, I'm going to say probably not. /boggle I just get insanely bored when they aren't on.
I also get insanely bored playing any single player game now. So I haven't been able to seriously play any game for a good long while now. I've grown out of my video game loving stage I was in a kid and teenager. Getting to be almost 25 now and I just am not motivated.
Right this moment I'm not playing anything, at all. I'm not subscribed to anything, not playing ANYTHING. I'm bored in a somewhat different way. I don't have a large selection of other hobbies to pick from unfortunately and I do not like what people refer to as 'going out' as I am introvert and that is not fun.
I wouldn't worry about feelings of boredom with the current crop of MMOs - they are, by and large, boring. We've been looking at the same game in different wrappers for many years now, so the more you've played, the quicker the new clone will wear on you.
The biggest problem is that core gameplay of all these games is based on a poor design. "Press 1, press 2, press 3, repeat" was weak when it was first attempted, and remains uninspired and dull now. If your gameplay would be a disaster in a single-player game, you should not build an MMO around it either.
Add in that players often lack any real ways to look or feel unique (armor sets and rigid classes take care of that), and cannot affect the game-world in any meaningful way, and you're left with big chat rooms and flashy images, with bad games wrapped around them.
I am confident that we will eventually see some MMOs that are built first on fun and rewarding gameplay, but for now I'd suggest movies, TV, music and other genres of games are far more likely to satisfy and excite. For now, leave the hamster wheels to the hamsters.
Could be that all mmo's are pretty much the same and you are just starting to see it. Only so many wolves you can kill before you look around and go wtf am i doing? What is the purpose of this never ending cycle of boring quests and never changing worlds? Its happening to me right now.
Why should i get new gear so i can kill bigger things so i can get new gear to kill bigger things on and on. I have found that in a MMO I need to be able to enjoy just being in the world even if I have nothing to do. Games like WoW do not provide that for me. SWG used to be that game . I loved just cruising around the planets or in space if I had nothing to do. Collecting and housing is a big part of a game for me as well. Games like wow and lotro ..etc offer nothing but the need to get more and more gear. Its only when you ask yourself why you are bothering to do it that you start having problems. These games have no real purpose just endless repetition and as long as you dont really think about it you are fine.
First you shouldn't talk about love but addiction, it defines the relation between a human being and one of those virtual worlds better. If your addiction is going away, that's good news for you. It means you are growing up, and as you get away from your youngest years where you probably played video games non-stop since the NES came out, you rezalize that life has more to offer than just sitting in front of a screen.
Of course, the fact that the most popular MMO, WoW, is a simple improved version of EverQuest, is also a factor of boredom. SInce 1999, MMO players have been offered nothing else than bot-style combat and loot collection in a neverendingloop. It only got boring in the end.
Even when you look at the up and coming games, in the end it will still be hack and slash and get some lewt, whatever the developpers or the fanbois say.
I stopped MMO for 7 months now, thinking that i'd go back for WAR or Gods and Heroes. But i used the money for a new computer to go out, travel abroad, date girls... and all of this is so much more rewarding.
You are being liberated, rejoice!
My addiction History:
>> EQ1 2000-2004 - Shaman/Bard/Wizard/Monk - nolife raid-whore
>> WoW 2004-2009 + Cataclysm for 2 months - hardcore casual
>> Current status : done with MMO, too old for that crap.
(Notice I called it MMO's, and not MMORPG's, because RPG was lost somehow in the non evolution of MMO's)
maybe instead of a fantasy mmo u should try out a sci fi mmo
i kno that helps me alot
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
Im unsure whether im getting bored of MMORPGs or not. On one hand I would absolutely love to get fully immersed into a new MMO, on the other every single one I try lately results badly. I have a growing stockpile of gameboxes that I don't wish to revisit...and when I do im rarely amused.
I just recently re-subbed into EQ2, I regretted it during the installation, dumb move on my part. Ive remade 6 characters, leveling them to almost 10 and saying "bleh" and shutting the game down. No urge whatsoever to continue.
Im really looking forward to Age of Conan, not so much Warhammer..mostly because its further down the line before release i believe? At least per release dates of AOC.
That being said...I remember when I started reading about Dark and Light, I got really into what they were spouting to me. That failed horribly, I then became very interested in Vanguard...well that turned out great too. Lucky choices to get into eh?
Ive pretty much played all of the MMO's, whether it be trial or not...but the only ones that kept me were....
FFXI - Great game when I played it, my first true MMO addiction, I would have to buy the game over in order to play it so thats out
Warcraft - Ive resubbed into warcraft I think 4-5 times over the years, stayed for a few months, quit etc. I think overall the community pushes me away the most. I think Warcraft is a pretty well made game, its fun, easy to get into, I think it provides enough content to keep people busy for awhile, despite all the bad reviews it gets. But lets not kid ourselves, I also enjoy a cliche Big Mac but I wouldn't base my diet on it. ( hmm...one would be good right now though )
Guild Wars - Well...just as questionable if its in the same category, its no PVE game and it served its limited purpose
EQ2 - I have no idea what it is about this game, but it always finds a way to bore me...literally. The drab environment takes a heavy toll on me, and I very much dislike the overall look of the game to the point it pushes me away from it.
LOTRO - Though this game would captivate me for sometime, I got so bored of LOTRO so fast its not even funny. Its not even a bad game, its a fun game actually...its just...I don't know, it got so boring so fast.
I think I should back away from MMO's for awhile. Ive wasted a ton of cash on buying MMO's that I quit shortly thereafter...
On a positive note, im very much looking forward to NHL 08 and NHL 2k8^^ But the hockey gaming industry has about as much innovation and success as the MMO industry.
Online gaming was fun for a very long time.
I liked to run about and harvest my face off make nifty items and just have fun tripping over my own feet. sometimes i would even turn on CHAT, but not for long. I like to find things out on my own. If i left the Chat on it was nothing more than a spoiler, The rabbits in the farmers back 40, drops chicken eggs (chuckles) .. I did not want to know that but now i do. (if ya get the drift). (CLICK) by by chat. Chat and little RED dots and ARROWS pointing you to Santa, and some NPC jumping up N down Screaming OVER HERE., n Bends over and tosses a rock at ya in case you did not see the Little NPC DOT or your ARROW was busted... LOL shut em off i do. I remember some places in EQ it was so dark you could not see your own face. (chuckles) dem were da days....AHHHHH ....THUD.... ohhhh emm anyone out there....... two days later....... hehe. lalalala.
A fishing i will go.
I'll drink to that I guess?
All very good points. i especially agree that MMOs nowadays cater to a different crowd than us old-school gamers. Is it that we expect more, or that we just expect something ELSE? I too am a bit jaded with todays MMOs, though i've been a big fan of the genre since it's inception. All we can do is just wait and hope that someone will make a game appealing to our tastes, and not so much the new generation gamers. But who am i kidding? There's not as much money in that . . . Meh.
Well my dear friend whatever you do don't believe a WORD its all lies ROFL, thank goodness i like fishing, I found Hunting to hard to do and was way to much work. ya know when you get nothing after the third or forth flock of duck that just keep trucking on by and laughing at ya. I bet you would give up to. Call me silly will ya... I bet a dollor to a donut that after the second flock you wont toss that 60 pound Lab up there again. (chuckles). hehe ... emmm LOBSTER.. ...
Take a break. Nothing strong has come out in a while and therefore nothing takes advantage of current technology and knowledge. Give it a year and then there will be plenty to rejuvenate your interests.
Growing up? I don't really know how you mean by that. If you are implying that with age you can't enjoy certain things because you feel they are inappropriate for your age, then maybe for yourself. Its more then likely your taste have changed but the games haven't. You had your run and now its over. If you still have an interest in gaming, there are many many other genres out there and to be honest, most of them are time very well spent when you stand them up side by side with MMO's time sink, grind and tedium based formula. If not, then play football.
Crunch'em and crush'em.
I am really hoping that this genre moves in the direction it has the potential it has but as long as the same people are in charge making the same game over and over, its pretty unlikely. Until that starts to happen, I will not be paying another dime for the honor of killing 10 rats / bats / boars / elephents / goblins or ghouls or running pies or mail across town.....
/OP
I guess we are all in same boat
I guess we always loved MMOs -They have fascinated me since the minute i lay my eyes on first MUD. UO had the vision of the century .... and it all went downhill since.
MMOs are de-evolving , while they should be evolving (given the technology advancement)
People are saying that sandbox MMOs are just not fun as Quest based MMOs , and this is the reason for de-evolution
What people do not realize is that there is no reason why Quest based and Sandbox can not work together !
As for now there is no MMO that will be released in next 4 years that will break this stale. And 4 years are damn long time....
Probably same here to be honest. I looked at Warhammer clips the other day and I just wasn't really excited by them; and when that is probably on the top of my most anticipated that isn't good. Admittedly though, they were only clips and I'm a little bit more excited by AoC than Warhammer.
Ah well, back to good old Battlefield 2142.
hehehe
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MMORPG's I've Played: World of Warcraft: 10/10 - Rappelz: 7/10 - Ragnarok Online: 8/10 - DnD Online: 2/10 - Runescape: 6/10 - LotR Online: 5/10 - Anarchy Online: 7/10 - CoV: 8/10 - Rohan Online: 8/10 - Guild Wars: 7/10 - Flyff: 8/10 - Warhammer Online: 8/10
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i can't speak for u, but I feel the same way after playing WoW, friends of mine who have played and traveled with mmo's with me also feel burn out from gaming all together after WoW as well. not sure why that game did it to us, but it has left a pretty nasty taste in our mouths when we hear the word mmorpg....... we've been taking breaks for about 5 months and its slowly returning.
I kind of thought that even though most of my friends that I game with are also in their early 30's, and pretty content with gaming, that I might be growing out of MMOs. I've went through stages of hardcore, to casual, to very casual, and somewhat back to hardcore.
I really enjoyed WoW at launch, but I couldn't stomach the idea of playing any further after playing through BC beta. Granted I've played in spurts since launch, but I'm very sure that I'm completely done with it now. Then there was Vanguard.. ouch yeah *cries*. Some of the features there were very cool, and I leveled a Blood Mage to 50, then quit because of the lack of anything meaningful to do. So I took a trip back to SWG, and I messed around with Beast Master for awhile. Then one day the idea of logging in and mindlessly grinding a pet to level 90 led me to the cancel button once again.
CoV.. fun but nah. 9Dragons.. ack puke. GW.. can get into it again after all the expansions. Second LIfe.. fun when I have the creative bug, but I just can't go with the flow of that strange community. EVE.. I can understand why people like it, but it wasn't my style of game. EQ2.. too far behind friend that play it, and no desire to grind another character in that type of fantasy game.
I enjoy the human interactions in MMOs, and strong communities, but the thought of leveling a character in another clone just feels like I'd be stepping into the next void.
I am righty there as well, not just with MMOs (like a previous poster, I won't use the RPG part 'cause these games have nothing to do with that anymore), but with electronic gaming in general.
The problem here is that you are now officially a jaded cynic. The trouble is with these games is that, like anything else that takes up a LOT of time, when you havent got them in your life you get bored because you forget what you did before you had them in your life... So your first reaction is to find another MMO to fill all those empty hours, because, lets face it, TV generally sucks. The trouble is with this is that no MMO can match up to that first one you burnt yourself out on.... So, here you are now in a cycle of try a game, get bored with a game, try another game rinse and repeat... Constantly searching for that feeling of your first MMO... Some are ok, sure, but none can hook you like that first one...
You know what I did though?
I went to Amazon, bought a couple of D&D modules, got a few RL friends together and played them. So far we are all loving it
I will be back for AoC no doubt, but boy, it has some work to do...
Yeah, i'm currently GM'ing a DnD session, but we dont use moduels, though there are some good ones out there.
Nothing can come close to Pen and Paper RPG experience... endless possibilities...
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MMORPG's I've Played: World of Warcraft: 10/10 - Rappelz: 7/10 - Ragnarok Online: 8/10 - DnD Online: 2/10 - Runescape: 6/10 - LotR Online: 5/10 - Anarchy Online: 7/10 - CoV: 8/10 - Rohan Online: 8/10 - Guild Wars: 7/10 - Flyff: 8/10 - Warhammer Online: 8/10
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