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goose1009
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Im one of those guys that seems to jump around MMO's alot. Unfortunatley the only game any of my friends at work play is WoW, and i dont really care for it. Ive tried most of the other mainstream MMO's and always end up leaving due to nobody to play with or talk to about. Main reason i disliked WoW was the lack of community. I played a shaman up to 56 and had one legitimate friend on my friends list. Sure i was in a guild, but that was the extent of it. I went back and tried EQ again after four years away (this was over a year ago) and i remembered 27 names to add to my friends list. Which to me is a huge deal breaker in most modern games ive tried playing. Now admittedly, i had played that game for three years, but still, i had friends that i remembered. Mainly lately ive played CoV but even that has got boring now that the guy i usually hung out with stopped playing. Just yesterday i reactivated my launch account of LotRO and it feels like a ghost town at level 14 (hobbit). I tried DDO and didnt care for it. Probably my favorite current gen MMO was EQ2, but even there i found nobody grouping up. I transfered to the Euro servers a few months ago and quit playing like 2 days later, so no im on a server where i dont know anybody if i chose to reactivate the account.
Community is what makes me love MMO's. I figured id try out single player games and just ended up spending way too much money on games that i only played for a few days. I miss the community feel in any game that i had years ago. Now im sure a large part of it is the hours i play. Ive always been on night shift and now its even worse cause im in Germany so im off by 6 hours from the east coast.
I dont really know why im typing all this out. Maybe im hoping someone has a suggestion on somewhere i can find a good community, where i feel the need to make friends. Where people group up voluntarily, where people form long lasting friendships. I suppose that maybe that era for me is gone. I may be getting a bit too old for it.
Im up for any game suggestions if you have them. I just want to stop being bored. I dont want to play an MMO to solo my entire career. At the same time, i dont want to be penalized for playing off hours. Now this may be an impossible situation, but hopefully someone has some type of advice to offer me.
Anyway, thanks for listening to my ramblings, im not really sure what the point of this whole post was, but i had to talk to someone about my boredom.
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I think your concern - well I see it as two prongs of concern- is a perhaps better elaborated version of the complaints of many others.
I think many people are migrating from game to game looking for that missing factor (see Heerobya's post) and i mean game-play wise; I think its fair to say enough "tried and true" is being done that the fundamental GAMEPLAY model is grown STALE...
Like you; I have stayed in games because of nothing but my friends... and i hazard to guess almost every player can say the same.
It kept me in DDO ( I liked the msotly older players; myself) and kept me playing CoH after i realized i couldn't tell one mission from the other...
I'm between games myself right now; or I'd recommend my group - I wouldn't imagine a thoughtful chap like yourself having a problem making good connections on any game; or any timezone.
...perhaps if you can find a game that itself doesn't bore you long enough to find another good group?
I decided to buy a PS3... Gonna get it pretty soon. I canceled my WoW a week ago, deleted, and threw everything out. I'm just gonna play on the PS3 until WAR or AION comes out. I'm probably going to try Fury too (should be coming out in a few months). Everything out right now just doesn't interest me. WAR and AION won't come out till next year, and I don't see anything else that's worth the time (besides maybe fury). I'm going to buy a copy of Warhawk... I'm not too into shooters, but my friends are picking it up too. I'm also gonna pick up Odin Sphere (ps2). That should keep me busy for a little while. Btw I wasted money on single player games too, they were all for the PC. That's why I decided to buy a ps3, I didn't enjoy most of the PC games I bought. Most of them either had dull gameplay, or were just not my style.
Yes...i feel the same
Dont know why I am playing MMOS anymore. They certanly are not what one may expect them to be
yeh man, i hear ya.. my last mmo was lotro, i spent 115$ on that, got to lvl 15 and said fock this.. it got borring real fast.. i wish i could feel the same way i felt when i first started playing mmos, first mmo for me was earth & byond.. a space mmo.. i loved it.. but its all gone,, tryed eveonline.. just the triall i think its ok.. but nah.. now im waiting for starcraft 2... i gota get away from mmos for awhile.. maybe the fun factor will come back when sumthing good comes out..
for me tho, what really keeps me in a mmo is a real good friendly comunity and players i can become friends with.. if i dont hav that.. its not worth it i guess..
best bet is to play an FPS for a bit, that always keeps you occupied while you wait for another MMO, or get an RTS like command and conquer they make you think hard ( a lot of tactics involved)
Played: WoW, Guild wars, Eve, SWG, and more
I can't give you any suggestions because I can't find one either.
I see the problem stemming from the level grind these games now build on. Players get separated by the levels, and then separated more by the level zones. There is no "home port", so to speak.
Also, to a lesser extent, with the chat systems players can "get together" without getting their characters together. I've tried guilds in these games, and it's not much more than chatting on a message board or in IRC.
There's just no glue for community, and even if there was, it'd be unglued by the level separations.
When I first started playing MMOs it was with Ultima Online. It was a skill based game, and the difference in abilities was separated by a percentage score, 1-100. This made players abilities much closer together. The game world itself wasn't separated by level zones. There were places you couldn't go to because you couldn't handle it, but they were mixed right in to the rest of the game world.
On top of that, there were many things you could do with any other player, no matter what their skill was. Even a beginner could harvest resources or make at least some items that the top elite characters needed, there were games like chess and checkers to play, and many other things to do together.
Basically, it was a more worldly game, and this allowed players to come up with their own ideas of things to do together. Heck, players even came up with a sport called bagball to play, because players could do a simple thing that seems to be lost these days, simply picking up and dropping things on the ground. This was also used in combat situations, where players would drop items that others couldn't walk through to form a defensive wall.
But there was allot of grief, which caused allot of changes.
We, as gamers, have lost allot because of grief by players. It's really too bad. What's even sadder is that almost all of the grief could have been fixed by other means, instead the game companies just took things out of these games.
Once upon a time....
I've gone through well over 50 MMO's now, free and payed for. All the games listed here and many many more.
I'm on my third attempt to play LotRO now. and the only reason I'm giving it a chance, is because I went into the game knowing I'd be able to play with some people I work with.
Gamer by nature,
poet by heart.
Well, wish i could say its a good to know im not alone, but it really isnt. Wonder why things ended up like this for so many of us. Are we just in a Lull? not been many worthwhile MMO's out in the past few months. Seems like AoC and WAR might change some of that, but unfortunatley they are both coming out at pretty much the same time which is gonna be a saturation effect, would rather have one come out then the other 6 months later, i would love the chance to start both and decide which one to try and stick with.
For now im just gonna keep plodding along doing whatever while i realize im getting old and miss the good ol' days.
Yea goose I know exactly how you feel. I really hope AoC or WAR lives up to atleast half of the expectations, but I really wish they release about 4-6 months apart. I sit here at my desk at work thinking about trying another MMO while I wait for AoC/WAR to release and I look on the left side of the page, and just nothing appeals to me.
I've played UO, EQ1,EQ2, AC1, DAoC, SWG, Horizons, EVE, DDO, Vanguard, and WoW. Every time I think about going back to WoW I get this awful sickness in my stomach. When I think about Vanguard, I say to myself "I wonder how many people are logged on today" and I end up not playing.
You're 100% correct when you said that it's all about Community. I've been saying this for a long time myself: Community makes or breaks an MMORPG. Without the people to play with, there is no MMO. Plain and simple. I thought about installing EQ2 again, and seeing if my characters on Nagafen PVP server were still there, but I know I'd get bored after playing for 30 minutes.
Nowadays I've been playing either Rainbow 6 Vegas or Orbiter. Orbiter is kinda cool if you like space simulation games. It's by no means a space shooter. It's more of realism and the learning curve is tough, but it's a pretty cool simulator. Might want to give it a shot. The link is http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/
Take care.
If you don;t mind, I'll spil my gut here too.
I've played, ULtima, GW, EQ1&2 and WoW the last five years. I have to say I was really hooked on WoW. But now, everything seems to end, for about 5months now I've quit. I have nothing to do, since there arent any games who can catch my interest. I've played al the free mmo's around, and I might even play it for a day. But after that, I might never log on on it again.. It's so wierd...
stupid wow ^^
bye!
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Saga of Ryzom is pretty refreshing if you miss the community/real-world feel or at least the closest thing i've found. It doesn't have the outdated feel (to me) that most the older games do with actual people still running around even in the lower zones. During the first day alone there was a event going on and later that night the CSRs were roaming the trial island on small looking elephants and watching all the new people. Either way I was/am in the same position as most the people, missing their old real world social MMOs and found this game to be a nice change.
I too am wandering aimlessly in the desert.Far too many false trails have I followed.
Goose asked if maybe the MMO's were in a lull...
I spent a goodly part of my compy time yesterday trdaing PM's with Heerobya (good blogs; sir) and saw basically the same point come up on several threads.. at risk of repetition...
Not MERELY MMO's but in my humble opinion; computer gaming in general; is currently awaiting a sort of revolution...
In games; movies; books... in general the risk of investment curtails the willingness to risk innovation.
a seperate point I won't argue here is the Desire to innovate - which with many of the dev's, i question.
I will say this - a couple of days ago my GF and I played diablo2 together...
and other than graphically it didn't really FEEL much different from most of what I've been gaming lately.
people feel nostalgia for whatever game broke ground FOR THEM... (mine was Wizard's Crown; lol)
I will just credit Heerobya with saying it more succintly- but my paraphrase would be i suspect 'we' are tired of the same old TIRED and USED "tried and true" game concepts...
We have 2 games coming soon that more or less promise degrees of revlution-
and at this point to stand out i think any game is going to have to bring something NEW to the table; rather than try to appeal to "everyone".
But rather than ramble on into my own tempting tangents; let me rather say something PERHAPS useful...
Those of us willing to read and post may not be a perfect representation of the demographic/ target audiences but nonetheless....
TRY TO ARTICULATE WHAT YOU'D LIKE TO SEE.
i for one have some faith in supply & demand...