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The Epic Journey: All Great Things Must End
Vladarion
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I started my journey in an Electronics Boutique Store on my 13th birthday. I came to buy a game and my mom was paying so i looked for what seemed like at least an hour. Then i saw it, Everquest, an mmorpg "Whatever that means?" i said to myself. As i read the box and what the game was about one of the workers came up and started to talk to me about it. The more he said the more excited i became. I ran to my mom asking for the game and she looked at it then back to me and smiled. "Sure, lets pay for it and go home" she said. We paid and left and in the car i read the handbook all the way home. The install took what seemed like ages, but after eating dinner i came downstairs to find the game ready to play. I jumped into my chair and started up the game. Made a dwarven paladin named Thorvan and entered the majestic world that would soon consume my every thought 24/7. After a year of epic journeys and many nights staying up late my parents decide that i need to quit the game. I had missed dinner with my family for the last time. I begged for them to let me continue to play, but they refused.
One year later my friends tell me i should play a game called ultima online and say it's an MMO. My eyes light up and go out and get the game the next day. I begin playing and this time i have friends to play with. It opens a whole new world and once again i am hooked. Being older now my parents no longer say anything about me playing games as long as my grades are up. I play all the time and luckily it's summer and i have all the time in the world since i didn't have to work at this time in my life. The game consumed my every moment and I had some of my greatest moments while playing the game. Soon though my friends leave the game and we move to FFXI. I must say now i did not play this game as long due to the deleveling feature which completely ruined the game for me, but regardless i still played a lot. A year goes by and i am playing off and on, basically wishing i had another game better to play.
This is when the bombshell came crashing down into my gaming life. I first see it in a magazine and don't really thing about it, but then I get a chance to play the closed beta and I feel like i am 13 all over playing Thorvan the dwarven paladin. The game is, as you may have guessed, World of Warcraft. As soon as it comes out I was at the store ready to buy it and race it home to play. This is my first time starting a game with a fairly large group of friends and also from the very begging of the game. Before i sit here telling you my whole story of wow let's just sum it up. I play for 6 months and get to level 46 at which point i pretty much stop. This "no playing period" goes on until The Burning Crusade comes out at which point i begin playing like crazy. In the end i have 2 70s a rogue and a mage. I play the rogue more than anything and do nothing but PvP. By the way if you have read this far i think you, i promise i am going somewhere with this. Anyways, i start to become serious with the game and it becomes more of a sport and competitive game than a fun pass time for me. I don't remember exactly when it happened, but suddenly i just started to hate the game. I left playing basically every game out there, but eventually found myself always back at WoW. Then Warhammer Online comes out and i love it. I got into closed beta and played as much as possible. The game is a lot of fun for me but slowly i just lose interest.
So here i am playing Fable 2 on my 360, mind you, having a great time. I don't know what really is happening, but I think i can't play MMOs anymore. I love the concept and the feel of the MMOs out there, but i just can't stay logged into any of the games more than a few minutes. Maybe it's because I am going to college and i just got a pretty high standing job as an IT Intern for a great company, but I just don't feel like playing MMOs anymore. I am having more fun playing on my console than playing with my friends on MMOs. Maybe it's just the process of getting older(no offense to the older gamers) or maybe mmos are just not for me anymore, but i just find it sad. I had a lot of great times and i am going to miss those, but i just wish i had that old experience i used to have all over again. I just want that one time again when i was totally immersed into the game. Anyways, i am done with this story, but i would like to know if any other people are going through this. Thanks for reading all this too, late night confessions are always fun.
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Get a life
Ah, what a costructive post to this thread. I think you should take your own advice.
As for the OP. I think you may have just burnt yourself out on MMO's and just need a short break. I started playing Everquest back when I was in 5th grade with my father, because it was the only way we could do anything together because I lived in Maine and he lived in Colorado. Eventually I stopped playing it, I forget the reason. I start playing console games with my friends, then Everquest comes out for the PS2 so I figure I might try that. I didn't like it all that much. Now I played WoW for about a year, then moved to guild wars, city of heroes, and a few free to play mmorpgs.
At this very moment I have the same problem as you, I can't play MMO's anymore. I log in and want to do something, play with friends, but I just sit there and stare at the screen until I pick up my Nintendo DS.
My suggestion is take a small break from the MMO games and relax for a bit. You'll eventually get rid of that burnt out feeling hopefully. Good luck.
I had the same feeling you had but mine when when I got my copy of AC for free online shipped to me for winning something
Aaa All games have a shelf life my friend. They get old and stale after awhile. That goes for any type of game in general, mmo, fps, you name it , gets old after awhile. You my friend need some down time. Get away from the gaming world for a little while. Don't worry, It will call you back when your good and ready. G/L mate.
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I'm going through exactly the same thing as the OP. I wish for an old school game to bring back that feeling, but honestly I probably wouldnt play it for long. The truth is many of us are just tired of MMO's. MMO's by their very nature are an endless grind of one sort or another... once you feel like they are all just a pointless grind you cant enjoy them anymore.
Sure, some will say they can make an MMO with no grinding.... to them I say I have broadened my definition of grinding... and I dont think you can come up with a "grind free" MMORPG... I dont think its possible. If there are no levels you grind money, if there is no money you grind for gear... clothing.. crafting resources.. faction...... whatever.
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I'm in the same boat as the original poster..
Only.. it's not just MMO's. It's any video game. I log in for a few minutes.. get bored and take off. It feels like sometimes I would rather stare at nothing than play a video game.. and I grew up playing Zelda, Mario.. My first MMO was Asheron's Call.. and Call he did..
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It's called growing up. As you get older things aren't as new and exciting as you were as a kid. You lose your innocence, you've been there done that many times (especially with MMO's where you invest so much time in) and you mature and have less intense emotions.
This sentence really scared me "The game consumed my every moment and I had some of my greatest moments while playing the game"
I don't think playing a video game would even register a blip as any of my greatest moments.
Well anyway welcome to being a grown-up. It's all down hill from here.
I am just the opposite. The only games I can play anymore are MMORPGS. Playing in a living, breathing world, with real people, is just much more interesting than than playing a single player game by myself.
If I accomplish something a single player game, I am the only one who knows it. But If I am a great crafter in a MMORPG, hundreds of people know it.
Actually Vlad, Many people are going though this right now. Its just the fact that many mmos nowadays dont offer more than just the standard quest and grind formula outside sandboxes.
My suggestion? Enjoy life and keep an eye on the forums for games like Earthrise, Fallen Earth, Darkfall (if it ever comes out) And ill bet you will enjoy them.. until then, just keep watching like many of us are doing.
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Can I have your stuff?
O.P., the problem may not be that you can't play MMO's anymore, but that there are no MMO's anymore. What masquerades as an MMO these days is simply a solo RPG with some multiplayer features.
Until dev's work to bring back the community, which comes from needing others to survive, which in turn comes from a dangerous PVE environment with a stinging death penalty, all these games will be glorified solo RPG's.
Can you give it a rest?
I know what you're going through. Games simply can't put out the amount of content or stay fresh long enough to stay entertaining. Some of the best games I've played only took 10 hours to play and beat. Some of those games took even less. I dare say Planescape Torment was probably the longest in my great game list.
I enjoy witty dialogue and storyline progression and challenge more so than anything, but so many games, MMOs especially, are chock full of filler material that make them boring to play. Few games have the witty dialog, few games have a storyline worth paying attention to (usually some variation of saving the world, yawn), few games are one awesome challenge after another (Shadow of the Collosus was an awesome example... Nothing but boss battles. Most of them weren't hard, but it's still a wonderful change of pace from fighting 500 mooks before the boss).
Games need to cut the crap that extends the time required to be put into them and focus on the fun parts.
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I feel exactly the same way and have been saying so for a couple weeks now.
When was the last time your palms were sweaty and you were nervous playing an MMO?
For me, it was runnin from Qeynos to Freeport, at level 6. No such thing as a map on the net, and everything was DEEEEP red to me (capable of 1-shotting me). I somehow, after a couple hours of moving very carefully, found my way to Highkeep, found the bank, banked all my stuff, just in case, stepped out of the bank area and was killed immediately.
Never had so much fun, and was so tense as during that "adventure".
I feel exactly the same way and have been saying so for a couple weeks now.
When was the last time your palms were sweaty and you were nervous playing an MMO?
For me, it was runnin from Qeynos to Freeport, at level 6. No such thing as a map on the net, and everything was DEEEEP red to me (capable of 1-shotting me). I somehow, after a couple hours of moving very carefully, found my way to Highkeep, found the bank, banked all my stuff, just in case, stepped out of the bank area and was killed immediately.
Never had so much fun, and was so tense as during that "adventure".
Thats a fun trip. I took a different route as a level one character. I went to the beholder maze->runny eye->misty thicket->kithkor->east commonlands->west commonlands->freeport.
I feel exactly the same way and have been saying so for a couple weeks now.
When was the last time your palms were sweaty and you were nervous playing an MMO?
For me, it was runnin from Qeynos to Freeport, at level 6. No such thing as a map on the net, and everything was DEEEEP red to me (capable of 1-shotting me). I somehow, after a couple hours of moving very carefully, found my way to Highkeep, found the bank, banked all my stuff, just in case, stepped out of the bank area and was killed immediately.
Never had so much fun, and was so tense as during that "adventure".
Those were good times, unfortunately most people have grown out of it. Now MMOs are made for people that only have an hour or so to play. With this you no longer have the need for grouping and thus no need to form a community and that, my friends, will be the greatest downfall of MMOs.
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mmo's did open a new gaming world for me. they take gaming to the next level no doubt. but it's a life style choice if your playstyle tends to take over. someone in college should be concentrating on two things imo. getting good grades and getting laid. mmo's don't help you get either. there will be plenty of games once your graduated.
i've had to put them down because i need to focus more time on creating music and being out and about in a social life. i love to game but i can't do it and all the other stuff i want to do at the same time. i've just had to accept that. i know i'll play again in the future, but i can't right now...
good luck
OP:
It was a good read and generally sums up my position as well. I'll probably take a crack or two for this but I think it's part of growing up.
The reason I say this is as life progresses, your situation changes. I didn't own a house at 13-15, I had one of those "everybody comes over to my house" social lives, and all the other stuff that goes along with it. Now, I'm selling my house, moving to the beach to rent a condo and finish my bachelors in the medical field. Then starting a new chapter.
I myself haven't really played an MMO in 2 years for longer than a couple of weeks. For one reason or another our interests (or at least mine) and ideas of free time spent change from growing roots out our ass to the computer chair every spare second.
It is what it is I guess.