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HI, my name is Joe.. and I'm a game hopper
raystantz
Final Fantasy XI CorrespondentMember UncommonPosts: 1,237
Thats right. I'm the guy who can't stay in one game for more than a few weeks before I am hopping to something else. Sometimes games I have already played multiple times. Are you a game hopper?
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FFXIV on Behemoth, FFXI on Eden, and Gloria Victis on NA.
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Yeah I'm a game hopper too.
Yep, that would be me, and it really annoys my friends to no end.
Congratz! The first step is admitting your problem... hehe
I can game hop a little but always get back to them to finish em up. I don't hop many mmo's though, if i'm having fun I won't do anything else for a while.
Changing games frequently is one symptom of burn out.
If you are burned out on MMOs, quit for a time. The longer you quit the better.
Well shave my back and call me an elf! -- Oghren
Its probably more a sign of attention deficit disorder then burn out.
Godz of War I call Thee
Now now who said this was actually a problem? Maybe its just a preferred style of game play that some people have? I know personally my favorite part of any movie, book, or video game would be the beginning and what would be the best way to explore all these beginnings other than game hopping?
If it really is perceived as a problem, why not try and practice personal habits of sticking things out even when they are bad? I think there's always that part in the book, movie, or video game where you kinda have to truck along since nothing is designed perfectly to eventual get to the even better parts. Maybe this is something that has to be learned as we are exposed to so many options in media these days. I think that's a big part of it, there's so many options for MMO's these days and its easy to get caught up in this whole I-want-to-explore-it-all mentality.
At least these are my personal views on these things, just got to acknowledge your own limitations on your time and pick and choose accordingly (and decisively). Don't pick up games without thorough reviews etc and if you were enjoying the game and you run across a part you don't like, stick it out and see if it starts getting you somewhere you like.
Not sure what it is in my case. I tend to play multiple characters to around lvl 20-30 then move on. The problem is I just can't find one that keeps my attention for any long peroid of time. I have only made it to top levels in a handful of games. I need help!
Yeah, I tend to game hop quite a lot as well, though mainly for free to play games. This is probably why I'm so familiar with most of the free to play games on the MMORPG.com lists right now. But unfortunately though, I rarely spent more than a week on a game, because I'd find a game that sounded more interesting and I'd then download and try that game, only to try another game sometime later. Problem with free to play games (and some pay to play games too) is that some of them are actually quite similar, so I would tend to get bored rather easily.
For pay to play games though, I'd stay on to play the game for a month until my subscription runs out, then if I didn't like the game, I would try downloading and playing another game, and paying for the subscription as well. I do hop around pay to play games as well, though I tend to stay longer on them due to me not wanting to waste a subscription fee.
There are only some games that I return to quite often though, my favourite standby game being Guild Wars, which I'd play almost religiously if I didn't have enough money to update a subscription, followed by Dofus and Atlantica Online, though to be honest, I actually prefer Dofus, and it's because of Dofus that I've actually stopped playing Atlantica. Though Atlantica is good to come back to from time to time.
Longest I've ever spent on a game was 1 year, and that was on Guild Wars. I still consider that my favourite game.
Main characters:
Jinn Gone Quiet (Guild Wars)
Princess Pudding (Guild Wars)
Definitely. I'm afflicted with what disease it is that prevents me from putting MMOs on any higher level of importance than Tetris or Frogger. Sometimes, and I realize this is terrible... sometimes I play only an hour or two of MMOs a week. I rarely stick with an MMO for any length of time. This hopping has gone on for almost a decade now.
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
"Graphics are often supplied by Engines that (some) MMORPG's are built in" - Spuffyre
I am a hopper aswell. I equate it to the need to find awe/inspiration in a game. Like chasing that first high.......
29 hours this week... you're more than casual =P
I absolutely game hop. I like to get into any beta I can and then play at release. Some games get a second month... most don't. Then I have my stable of AAA titles that I rotate because of new expansion, content etc. The list gets shorter every year though. Currently playing EQ2 but LotRO and AoC are calling me as is CoX come April. The problem with this is you never get to the party since you aren't commited enough to one game to reach the top end game.
Your only a game hopper due to the sad state of the genre right now.
If we had better games that didn't all play the same less people would jump around.
Playing: Rift, LotRO
Waiting on: GW2, BP
Agree with this.
Ever since I left WoW two years ago (after playing hard-core for 3 years), I've just been hopping around trying everything. I always pick up the latest P2P, and in between disappointments I try a F2P. I don't even know what I'm looking for anymore. They all seem to have a major flaw with them in some area. Maybe I'm just done with the genre. But I don't like sports, fps, or single player games either ><.
For some reason I refuse to go back to WoW. Honestly, I don't even know why anymore.
Give Ryzom a try, the game is amazing.
If you stand VERY still, and close your eyes, after a minute you can actually FEEL the universe revolving around PvP.
I'm glad people can finally admit it. As for me, yes an no. I tend to buy launched games, play for 2-4 months (or less in some cases) and then walk. I have no dedicated MMO atm, beyond Wurm Online which I don't play very often at all anymore, though I feel the itch coming back sooner or later.
I've been pretty good in not hopping on games lately though, but namely because games like CO, STO, DF, etc don't interest me. I did the Mortal Online OB expecting absolutely nothing, and the game ended up being decent, if not completely broken. I think going in assuming it will be crap is the best way to go about it, perhaps it will be better than you thought... then again, that's exactly how I treated Aion and WAR, and I could only stand them for 2 weeks and 3 days, respectively.
Aion was kinda better than expected, but how they minimalized the flying aspect, and the boring zone progression had me throw in the towel. WAR though... I went in knowing I wouldn't probably like it, and dear God was I right. I played a few classes, but none of them were any interesting overall, and the game was so simple I thought I went back in time or something. Sure I was getting 27-0 kill/death ratios in Nordenwatch matches, but it really just showed me how much was going wrong when I was the master of the battlefield from spamming "impale" over and over (that's 22222 if you're not savvy).
Originally posted by Netbrat
[Not sure what it is in my case. I tend to play multiple characters to around lvl 20-30 then move on. The problem is I just can't find one that keeps my attention for any long peroid of time. I have only made it to top levels in a handful of games. I need help!]
Should be obvious. If you play X amount of characters to a certain point, you've essentially rehashed the same content X amount of times. This is exactly what most likely happened to me with Aion, because you have to get to level 10 and do an entire zone before you even get a real class configuration. I ended up doing it 8 times, figured my assassin was the most fun to play, and then went "OMG I don't wanna do this anymore" around level 18 or so. Had I stuck to a single char I would have been much further in game, and had more/ess to state my reason to leave (or not).
People need to stick to a single char and work it all the way to the perceivable end of the game, and *then* do it again if they want to. There's nothing quite like playing every char possible through the first few zones over and over to burn you out on a game for good... and sometimes it's actually the game's fault for not giving you a taste of the class-types without initial effort.
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I honestly, personally don't think I will ever stop game hopping. I play far too many hours a day to ENJOY a game for more than 2 months or so at a time, after that it becomes tedious just to play, and I switch. Now I will loosely refer to my games that I come back to every single time as "steady" games. WoW and CO are steady games for me. If D3 were to come out, and CO1 was re-released (not some pserver garbage), I think I could safely stay playing 3 games steadily for quite a while. I KNOW what I want. I want WoW, but am sick of it. I want a game like D2 minus the five acts we've all completed seventy billion times. I want Conquer Online pre-2.0 Nothing else really even comes close to stimulating me. Most free trials I quit after one day.
I am, and always will be a game hopper, who is faithful to a few certain games. Though, the person who said this genre's state is just horrible atm is correct. All of the games I return to are becoming extremely dated, and I grow tired of even those masterpieces.
One can only play five acts over and over again so many times before one says: "Hm, I must be REALLY bored to play this."
World of Warcraft isn't lacking content updates, that's for sure. The thing is, I have leveled so many characters to 60+ or even 70+ that leveling has become mere torture, and I don't like my level 80.
Conquer Online...has went to crap, ever since the lottery came out. I was playing the day the lotto came out, many of my friends who literally had gear worth nearly 2000$ for a single item had the exact same gear being won in lottery every 10 minutes. Almost all of the patches since were crap. Some exceptions: The gear quests are nice (though the exp earned from them needs to be HEAVILY nerfed), Frozen Grotto is amazing when you're not being ganked by people who want to bot in the spot you're currently in.
Also to the person that said "29 hours this week... you're more than casual =P" That's my point. I play 10-16 hours a DAY.
I'm no "real hopper", I just tend to hop between several games I like, sometimes surely I take a new one to the "hopping list"
Hopping for me goes something like this:
* Buy new SP game. Chance of finishing it 50%.
* Play civ 4, x-com or heroes 3
* Try MMO beta for a week maybe
* Play civ 4, x-com or heroes 3.
* Repeat
Once a year or so add in "buy an MMO and play it for three months maybe".
Once a year or so add "Half Life 2" to steps 2 or 4. Or maybe dungeon master, nethack or system shock 2, but I'll spend more time tuning DOSBOX than actually playing the games.
Once a year or so add in "think about resubbing to Eve", but then a flash of realization usually sets in "No, I want to have a life, friends, etc"
I've lost count of the times I've sworn I'd never buy another Piranha Bytes or Bioware game. I guess I'm that one guy who hates bioware-style RPGs. I did actually finish Mass Effect 1-- put in the effort to achieve blue chick lesbian sex so I figured I'd go all the way.
Jaded? Moi?
I can also roleplay the tower in a chess game and shout "is that a peasant at the horizon I see? I will smash it I will! Oh damn I broke one of my merlons!". -- maji
I thought I was the only one!
Some people say I have ADD, but I... HEY LOOK! A CHICKEN!
Yeh seems like i cant play a game for more than two months before leaving but at the same time i get to experience a lot more. For me it usually goes like this: wow>f2p games>eve>lotro>Any other p2p title> Console. This way i usually come back to the game when an expansion hits and content is there to play whereas playing the same end game for months.
I've been a game-hopping alt-o-holic since 1999.
It's not a bad thing, really. I get to experience a vast variety of gameplay.
The longest I've lasted in any game was 1.5 years in Lotro when it was first released. The moria expansion ruined that game for me (still have lifetime so I pop in from time to time). Made it 5 months in Conan, 6 in Aion, and I've played WoW off and on since it was released.
Everything else I never make it more than a few weeks.
Im a game hopper, been to all MMOs - P2P, F2P - being boxed retail versions, digital downloads, browser based games or whatnot. I have tried it all and i continue to do my rounds of playing the same game, sometimes i buy the game again because i cannot remember the email/username/passwords i have used.
I think at the moment game hoppers are just looking for a game that they can settle down too - i for one am waiting for SWTOR/FFXIV/GW2 to see how they deal with my problem.
Well, considering you know me personally... you already know the answer to this, but for everyone else; yes I suffer from game hopping syndrome.
For years now I have been relentlessly picked on by my boyfriend and other gaming pals for game hopping. The jokes are endless, as endless as my game hopping. Or so I thought.
I've gone over to EQ2 and have been there for over a month, which is a new record for me. I usually last two weeks and am already onto the next. Sometimes its hours! But I'm working a month and a week, and I'm proud.
I've been hopping games ever since lineage 2 got boring for me in 2004. Played almost every single MMO and counting.