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Games are Supposed to be FUN; MMORPGs are Supposed to be FUN w/ World Immersion
declaredemer
Member Posts: 2,698
I am not sure what to do. Even Everquest bores me now, again, as it is just a level-grind game. New expansion? New levels. I ain't got time for that.
I do have time to log into an accessible, fun game where environments, features, opportunities, Quests, and so forth enhance world immersion.
The problem with MMORPGs today is not the lack of options. We have plenty of that. The problem is that the games are all missing the most important feature: world immersion.
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The easy answer is...don't give the game companys your money ! Reward company products you like....punish those you don't( by not gving them your money).Sit on the sideline (like me) until you find another game.
I think so.
I boycott EA products. I still have not bought WAR, although family and real-life friends with whom I have gamed in EQ for years (and WoW, etc.) are playing it.
I just cannot bring myself to support such a malicious, greedy, and irresponsible company. I just cannot do it. No other company has "changed" the MMORPG community for the worse. Or any games, they have acquired and destroyed so many great companies and titles.
Sickening. Truly sickening what EA has done, what they are capable of, and what they are still trying to do today: seriously, EA even tried to kill Grand Theft Auto IV. You cannot make this stuff up!
Rumors: Disney, of all companies, might acquire EA.
DO NOT EVEN PLAY MADDEN
Disney owns ESPN, and since people foolishly buy the SAME game every year - madden 99, madden 00, madden 01, ... madden 08, etc.- you can milk that consumer and integrate ESPN stuff.
Disney is also a horrible company. Ha, ha ha!
I have various issues with Disney, especially during Eisner's reign. But I digress.
They don't miss your $14
If you have a good computer you might want to try Vanguard. It is a little rough still but it has great world immersion.
Wall Street Journal:
Electronic Arts, Inc. reported a
EA's stock fell 14% on Thursday. (20% is a crash).
www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/210156
You are Right.
They do not Miss my money.
It is beyond miss; it is a desperate need before Disney BUYS them. LOL.
They tried to milk Grand Theft IV for the holiday sales.
Fail.
Wall Street Journal:
Electronic Arts, Inc. reported a
EA's stock fell 14% on Thursday. (20% is a crash).
www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/210156
You are Right.
They do not Miss my money.
It is beyond miss; it is a desperate need before Disney BUYS them. LOL.
They tried to milk Grand Theft IV for the holiday sales.
Fail.
So is this what your whole thread was about, to slam EA? You have done that btw. You thread title is misleading.
*plonk*
Not at all. But it is where the discussion lead.
My point was to discuss world immersion in MMORPGs as the feature that is lacking or absent.
It was mentioned to boycott companies and their products. I do just that with EA. And the boycott, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, is working.
We, the gaming community, are defeating EA
I am not celebrating just yet.
Hit them at the holiday sales.
Do not even play Madden.
If we beat EA this holiday sale, we can get this company back for all the harm it has done!
I don't think we have enough options. I'd like the option to take over territory in the game, and to change the game world.
I don't know what you mean by "world immersion". Do you want to eat and go to the bathroom in an online game? I don't want that.
That is really a great question: what is world immersion?
It is the most important, and difficult, feature to define.
World immersion is an experience. What is love? It is a feeling. You are, in a sense, in the entire envelope of the world. The world has its own rules. Its own life. Its own systems. But you are a part of it.
World immersion is that totality of factors and features of an MMORPG that make you feel a part of a unique, different, and special world.
That is really a great question: what is world immersion?
It is the most important, and difficult, feature to define.
World immersion is an experience. What is love? It is a feeling. You are, in a sense, in the entire envelope of the world. The world has its own rules. Its own life. Its own systems. But you are a part of it.
World immersion is that totality of factors and features of an MMORPG that make you feel a part of a unique, different, and special world.
The problem is what makes you feel immersed is not what makes me feel immersed, and vice a versa. What features do you want?
Realism, like eating and drinking?
I find that tedious, not immersive, but some people love these sorts of "realistic" features.
Does "zoning" break your immersion? That is absolutely not a problem for me. I don't mind a quick one or two minute zone into the next area of the game. I'll happily zone in games, especially if it cuts down on lag, which it usually does.
Instancing? This can cut both ways. Being in a group of say 6 players, deep in an instanced dungeon you've never seen before can be very immersive. Another group of players wandering by chatting about the phat lewt drops might actually be bad for immersion.
On the other hand, in PvP it seems much more immersive if everything is open world, rather than instanced. At least that's how it works for me.
And what about "bikini armor"? Does that break your immersion? Can you believe that a chain mail bikini really stops arrows and swords? I have no problem with that. It's magic.
The world will have some basis to our real-life world.
The virtual world, however, must have its own rules, many and varied, to achieve immersion.
In some worlds, eating and drinking might not be necessary; or there will be certain kinds of drinks and foods that are very filling. Many, and varied, details to achieve this.