I'm convinced after reading your article that I should leave my wife. Her graphics are dated and the grind just isn't what it used to be. I'm also suspicious that down the road she might even be going free2play. Wouldn't it just figure that I bought the lifetime subscription too... I really wish now that I had just gone with the month to month plan.
I have to say.... GREAT ARTICLE!!!!!! it was great to read it and not boring for a moment (and that says alot with a dyslectican like me who reads 1 advice in 30 min) and all u wrote was soooo true, i really loved it. I'm gonna let my best friend read it (her acount were she spent 3 years no lifing on just got hacked today) maybe she can be at some ease after she read this.
well, I hope to read more of you again,
greets from a N.L.G.
I have no money, I have no style, all I can give u is my smile:). DONT WORRY, BE HAPPY!!!!!!
I'm convinced after reading your article that I should leave my wife. Her graphics are dated and the grind just isn't what it used to be. I'm also suspicious that down the road she might even be going free2play. Wouldn't it just figure that I bought the lifetime subscription too... I really wish now that I had just gone with the month to month plan.
LoL
if this wasn't such a good rhyme-y joke, I'd be like "Dang, that sucks to be him. Unless you're his wife, then it sucks even more to be her. Either way, glad I'm awesome."
I have to say.... GREAT ARTICLE!!!!!! it was great to read it and not boring for a moment (and that says alot with a dyslectican like me who reads 1 advice in 30 min) and all u wrote was soooo true, i really loved it. I'm gonna let my best friend read it (her acount were she spent 3 years no lifing on just got hacked today) maybe she can be at some ease after she read this. well, I hope to read more of you again, greets from a N.L.G.
For a MMORPG.com article, I guess it was this good.
Of course, it was still boring, uninteresting, and completely inaccurate. But that's a basis in which all MMORPG articles are written, so it's not a measure of if it was a good/bad article.
I did enjoy this article a lot. I remember when I quit WOW..so I could never go back I sold my account. This kept me from regressing back to it if I felt a game couldn't live up to it. I played WAR then I realized after 5-6 years of MMO's I was burned out. So I stopped playing altogether and played console games. When Aion came out I joumped on it. In retro pec I thiink it was a good idea to take a break. Some times you need time apart then you can enjoy MMO's better instead of trying to find the next WOW in every game then complaining about it not being as good.
Damn would be nice if a new game came out, that had WoW features (even if Unpolished), but with new things as well. Iam tired of WoW, and I just came back after 9 months. Thinking about closing my account now myself.
The saddest days are of course when your like me and your doing #1, but your not even playing an MMO
WildStar is like if Ratchet and Clank had a baby with Beyond Good & Evil and that baby was raised by World of Warcraft and Spore and babysat on the weekends by the aliens from Space Jam. It's an ugly bastard worth a few laughs but not much else.
Pretty good article: the person who wrote really DOES understand these MMO phases. I wish I had read this the last 2 out of 4 times that I quit WoW, or rejoined CoX. But I have learned and until something revolutionary comes out (or FF XIV / SW:TOR), I am staying away from rejoining WoW/FFXI/CoX and any other game similar to WoW.
Take notes of these signs if you haven't burned out from a game, because once you burn out from WoW, playing most other games really similar to it (LotR, RoM, etc.) feels like trying to date your girlfriend's twin that has the same core personality inside.
I'm convinced after reading your article that I should leave my wife. Her graphics are dated and the grind just isn't what it used to be. I'm also suspicious that down the road she might even be going free2play. Wouldn't it just figure that I bought the lifetime subscription too... I really wish now that I had just gone with the month to month plan.
Yup. Those lifetime subs are how they make their money.
It's far smarter to rent than buy.
"" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2
I did enjoy this article a lot. I remember when I quit WOW..so I could never go back I sold my account. This kept me from regressing back to it if I felt a game couldn't live up to it. I played WAR then I realized after 5-6 years of MMO's I was burned out. So I stopped playing altogether and played console games. When Aion came out I joumped on it. In retro pec I thiink it was a good idea to take a break. Some times you need time apart then you can enjoy MMO's better instead of trying to find the next WOW in every game then complaining about it not being as good.
QFT
Haven't played an MMO in a long while and I also came back to console games for a while. I think I have put my running shoes on now though and im jogging to the 2010/2011 MMO's since I haven't touched my 360 in a bit and have been playing on Battle.net for the past two or so months.
I've done all those things with different MMOs. Glad I left WoW. Doesnt excite me anymore. I'm looking forward to SWTOR for now. APB also looks like it could be fun.
Pretty good article: the person who wrote really DOES understand these MMO phases. I wish I had read this the last 2 out of 4 times that I quit WoW, or rejoined CoX. But I have learned and until something revolutionary comes out (or FF XIV / SW:TOR), I am staying away from rejoining WoW/FFXI/CoX and any other game similar to WoW. Take notes of these signs if you haven't burned out from a game, because once you burn out from WoW, playing most other games really similar to it (LotR, RoM, etc.) feels like trying to date your girlfriend's twin that has the same core personality inside.
QTF especialy the other pourly done clone games with hops of being the new wow.
Crap post by Jon Wood. Pathetic attemt to degrade WoW.
I'm pretty sure you stick to your Free2play crap games Jon. Cuz in REAL games like wow we have serious players. noob.
Oh btw those free2play chinese games that encourage and promotes micropayments, powerlvling and goldselling. All those things that you guys at mmorpg.com dislike so much(yea right).
I hate to have to look like I'm trying to derail the thread I'm not really because the story was great thanks so much John it's good to see stories covering this.
i'm posting in the hopes that I can advise anyone who doesn't already know to steer clear of Alganon.
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These guys are nothing more than a bunch of pissed off developers/gamers that want to recoup some of their losses from having played wow by making a game of their own so similar to wow in order to mock Blizzard, and at the same time screw unsuspecting customers out of prepaid subscriptions on an unplayable game due to all the bugs! Stop buying buggy software from people that are more interested in making money off you and hiding behind copyright law to get away with it, than producing a finished product. They're closing the doors on their own beta testers in two days to go paid launch "release" despite beta testers cautions and advise.
It also has come to the public's attention that reportedly the lead dev and CEO has attempted to phish phone numbers out of prospective customers on his own forums under the pretense of customer service. Be advised this is not a joke this is one to stay away from parents be advised I repeat be advised.
They appear to be a quite happy group of people (not what I would call a community at all). It's rather disturbing IMO that after wow we're starting to see the birth of groups like this, and makes me fearful that weirdo cults like this could actually persuade someone to give them a phone number and the next thing ya know one of these weirdos has abducted someones kid or something. Online predators man it's not a joke not a joke at all.
Crap post by Jon Wood. Pathetic attemt to degrade WoW. I'm pretty sure you stick to your Free2play crap games Jon. Cuz in REAL games like wow we have serious players. noob. Oh btw those free2play chinese games that encourage and promotes micropayments, powerlvling and goldselling. All those things that you guys at mmorpg.com dislike so much(yea right).
Best regards
FYI Holst85 do you think Jon really gives a shit about your insecurities? You're nothing but another webpage hit to him. So save it.
I hate to have to look like I'm trying to derail the thread I'm not really because the story was great thanks so much John it's good to see stories covering this.
i'm posting in the hopes that I can advise anyone who doesn't already know to steer clear of Alganon. Inserting pasted content here: These guys are nothing more than a bunch of pissed off developers/gamers that want to recoup some of their losses from having played wow by making a game of their own so similar to wow in order to mock Blizzard, and at the same time screw unsuspecting customers out of prepaid subscriptions on an unplayable game due to all the bugs! Stop buying buggy software from people that are more interested in making money off you and hiding behind copyright law to get away with it, than producing a finished product. They're closing the doors on their own beta testers in two days to go paid launch "release" despite beta testers cautions and advise. It also has come to the public's attention that reportedly the lead dev and CEO has attempted to phish phone numbers out of prospective customers on his own forums under the pretense of customer service. Be advised this is not a joke this is one to stay away from parents be advised I repeat be advised.
They appear to be a quite happy group of people (not what I would call a community at all). It's rather disturbing IMO that after wow we're starting to see the birth of groups like this, and makes me fearful that weirdo cults like this could actually persuade someone to give them a phone number and the next thing ya know one of these weirdos has abducted someones kid or something. Online predators man it's not a joke not a joke at all.
Do you really think real gamers give a shit about Jon Wood?
Real gamers(you know peeps that play real games) dont play free2play since its just cash farming. Jon Wood and his mates at mmorpg.com encourage ppl to play these games with for example f2p advertisement on the site and talking shit about real games.
*sign* you msde me sad but in a way happy to go make some coffee and hope some hottie bends over in a skirt at the hardware store today. Sadly the article is pretty true to most people anymore just crap content and nothing to move on to, so you need to keep banging the fat chick til you either give up on mmo's or a new racy redhead offers better content. I mean really.....
RYL= failed
WAR=Failed
EQ= outdated
EVE= Drama what happened to small pew pew fun ( still a ok game just eh skill based 5 years was enough )
AION= Bots, spammers you need to manually block now, my server had the most shitty community ever, and just don't listen to what people want. It had alot of potental but like stated why buy a years sub to a failboat month to month and I am done after the first.
Many more sad sad games have failed so bad, it seems like you are lucky to get 3 months of good times before this article kicks in and makes sense, well unless you are a emo fanboi and cannot face the fact a game is about to fail. ( btw should do a article "fail and you 5 ways to tell you are emo fanbois" )
If a game cannot hold it's fanbase like warhammer failed, makes you wonder who is pulling strings in the PR/DEV puppet room.
So word to the wise for all to consider= Never buy a years sub, pay month to month and avoid the "buy the CE it's got uber gearz cause all you will have is a new shiny box to sit on the desk and sob over....play the game til it's boring then move on.
It does suck trying to get the friends you meet to follow you to a new game , I have lost 100's over the years to them simply not accepting the fact games fail and the new game is not everybodys cup of tea.
Heh! Love this article, it's so true. Good job. Another subject which you might fancy.. is leaving because of another player and/or players.. which always must be handled delicately.
Or you get another player who thinks they are god and tried to run the entire server like its his personal bussiness. Saw this in SWG this one guy thought he could control several different games at one time. Then would make threats of I will get you banned if you don't fall in line.
He he, I left swg a long time back I still play eq2, I still get tells from him and his 3 stooges of we will get you one day rofl.
Im sure every game/server has somebody like that. I would put them on ignore if I though they were a real threat, instead I just file another ticket and move along.
That reminded me of myself browsing several 'realm' forums on the World of Warcraft forums, especially those of well-established RP realms.....where people praise each other and are superfriends in specially dedicated " I love or Miss person X!"threads, so it seems
It made an impression on me and left me saddened, because the people I meet are either not interested in talking, let alone talking on a personal level and maintaining a friendship is something I never managed to get
Perhaps those RPers are just more sociable and friendly to one another, I dont know...I feel empty and devoid of e-friendship -.-
MMOs dont mind quite as much if you have to say "We need to see other people". I've left EvE a few times. Carrying 2 MMOs at a time for a duration is common. STO is on the way. I will give it a go. They dont get my loyalty like EvE does untill they earn it though.
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lmao, you get my vote for best reply.
I have to say.... GREAT ARTICLE!!!!!! it was great to read it and not boring for a moment (and that says alot with a dyslectican like me who reads 1 advice in 30 min) and all u wrote was soooo true, i really loved it. I'm gonna let my best friend read it (her acount were she spent 3 years no lifing on just got hacked today) maybe she can be at some ease after she read this.
well, I hope to read more of you again,
greets from a N.L.G.
I have no money, I have no style, all I can give u is my smile:). DONT WORRY, BE HAPPY!!!!!!
LoL
if this wasn't such a good rhyme-y joke, I'd be like "Dang, that sucks to be him. Unless you're his wife, then it sucks even more to be her. Either way, glad I'm awesome."
For a MMORPG.com article, I guess it was this good.
Of course, it was still boring, uninteresting, and completely inaccurate. But that's a basis in which all MMORPG articles are written, so it's not a measure of if it was a good/bad article.
I did enjoy this article a lot. I remember when I quit WOW..so I could never go back I sold my account. This kept me from regressing back to it if I felt a game couldn't live up to it. I played WAR then I realized after 5-6 years of MMO's I was burned out. So I stopped playing altogether and played console games. When Aion came out I joumped on it. In retro pec I thiink it was a good idea to take a break. Some times you need time apart then you can enjoy MMO's better instead of trying to find the next WOW in every game then complaining about it not being as good.
Damn would be nice if a new game came out, that had WoW features (even if Unpolished), but with new things as well. Iam tired of WoW, and I just came back after 9 months. Thinking about closing my account now myself.
The saddest days are of course when your like me and your doing #1, but your not even playing an MMO
WildStar is like if Ratchet and Clank had a baby with Beyond Good & Evil and that baby was raised by World of Warcraft and Spore and babysat on the weekends by the aliens from Space Jam. It's an ugly bastard worth a few laughs but not much else.
Pretty good article: the person who wrote really DOES understand these MMO phases. I wish I had read this the last 2 out of 4 times that I quit WoW, or rejoined CoX. But I have learned and until something revolutionary comes out (or FF XIV / SW:TOR), I am staying away from rejoining WoW/FFXI/CoX and any other game similar to WoW.
Take notes of these signs if you haven't burned out from a game, because once you burn out from WoW, playing most other games really similar to it (LotR, RoM, etc.) feels like trying to date your girlfriend's twin that has the same core personality inside.
Yup. Those lifetime subs are how they make their money.
It's far smarter to rent than buy.
"" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2
QFT
Haven't played an MMO in a long while and I also came back to console games for a while. I think I have put my running shoes on now though and im jogging to the 2010/2011 MMO's since I haven't touched my 360 in a bit and have been playing on Battle.net for the past two or so months.
Take a break, you won't regret it
I've done all those things with different MMOs. Glad I left WoW. Doesnt excite me anymore. I'm looking forward to SWTOR for now. APB also looks like it could be fun.
QTF especialy the other pourly done clone games with hops of being the new wow.
I got my eye on swtor as well.
Crap post by Jon Wood. Pathetic attemt to degrade WoW.
I'm pretty sure you stick to your Free2play crap games Jon. Cuz in REAL games like wow we have serious players. noob.
Oh btw those free2play chinese games that encourage and promotes micropayments, powerlvling and goldselling. All those things that you guys at mmorpg.com dislike so much(yea right).
Best regards
I hate to have to look like I'm trying to derail the thread I'm not really because the story was great thanks so much John it's good to see stories covering this.
i'm posting in the hopes that I can advise anyone who doesn't already know to steer clear of Alganon.
Inserting pasted content here:
These guys are nothing more than a bunch of pissed off developers/gamers that want to recoup some of their losses from having played wow by making a game of their own so similar to wow in order to mock Blizzard, and at the same time screw unsuspecting customers out of prepaid subscriptions on an unplayable game due to all the bugs! Stop buying buggy software from people that are more interested in making money off you and hiding behind copyright law to get away with it, than producing a finished product. They're closing the doors on their own beta testers in two days to go paid launch "release" despite beta testers cautions and advise.
It also has come to the public's attention that reportedly the lead dev and CEO has attempted to phish phone numbers out of prospective customers on his own forums under the pretense of customer service. Be advised this is not a joke this is one to stay away from parents be advised I repeat be advised.
They appear to be a quite happy group of people (not what I would call a community at all). It's rather disturbing IMO that after wow we're starting to see the birth of groups like this, and makes me fearful that weirdo cults like this could actually persuade someone to give them a phone number and the next thing ya know one of these weirdos has abducted someones kid or something. Online predators man it's not a joke not a joke at all.
FYI Holst85 do you think Jon really gives a shit about your insecurities? You're nothing but another webpage hit to him. So save it.
Wow good job hater
Do you really think real gamers give a shit about Jon Wood?
Real gamers(you know peeps that play real games) dont play free2play since its just cash farming. Jon Wood and his mates at mmorpg.com encourage ppl to play these games with for example f2p advertisement on the site and talking shit about real games.
*sign* you msde me sad but in a way happy to go make some coffee and hope some hottie bends over in a skirt at the hardware store today. Sadly the article is pretty true to most people anymore just crap content and nothing to move on to, so you need to keep banging the fat chick til you either give up on mmo's or a new racy redhead offers better content. I mean really.....
RYL= failed
WAR=Failed
EQ= outdated
EVE= Drama what happened to small pew pew fun ( still a ok game just eh skill based 5 years was enough )
AION= Bots, spammers you need to manually block now, my server had the most shitty community ever, and just don't listen to what people want. It had alot of potental but like stated why buy a years sub to a failboat month to month and I am done after the first.
Many more sad sad games have failed so bad, it seems like you are lucky to get 3 months of good times before this article kicks in and makes sense, well unless you are a emo fanboi and cannot face the fact a game is about to fail. ( btw should do a article "fail and you 5 ways to tell you are emo fanbois" )
If a game cannot hold it's fanbase like warhammer failed, makes you wonder who is pulling strings in the PR/DEV puppet room.
So word to the wise for all to consider= Never buy a years sub, pay month to month and avoid the "buy the CE it's got uber gearz cause all you will have is a new shiny box to sit on the desk and sob over....play the game til it's boring then move on.
It does suck trying to get the friends you meet to follow you to a new game , I have lost 100's over the years to them simply not accepting the fact games fail and the new game is not everybodys cup of tea.
Great article
Heh! Love this article, it's so true. Good job.
Another subject which you might fancy.. is leaving because of another player and/or players.. which always must be handled delicately.
Or you get another player who thinks they are god and tried to run the entire server like its his personal bussiness. Saw this in SWG this one guy thought he could control several different games at one time. Then would make threats of I will get you banned if you don't fall in line.
He he, I left swg a long time back I still play eq2, I still get tells from him and his 3 stooges of we will get you one day rofl.
Im sure every game/server has somebody like that. I would put them on ignore if I though they were a real threat, instead I just file another ticket and move along.
That reminded me of myself browsing several 'realm' forums on the World of Warcraft forums, especially those of well-established RP realms.....where people praise each other and are superfriends in specially dedicated " I love or Miss person X!"threads, so it seems
It made an impression on me and left me saddened, because the people I meet are either not interested in talking, let alone talking on a personal level and maintaining a friendship is something I never managed to get
Perhaps those RPers are just more sociable and friendly to one another, I dont know...I feel empty and devoid of e-friendship -.-
A lighter and good perspective.
MMOs dont mind quite as much if you have to say "We need to see other people". I've left EvE a few times. Carrying 2 MMOs at a time for a duration is common. STO is on the way. I will give it a go. They dont get my loyalty like EvE does untill they earn it though.