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Getting slightly bored waiting for the next great mmo .
OkhamsRazor
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I started playing mmorpgs on a monthly basis in 2005 a few months after Warcraft was released . Although I had played Ultima Online prior to this for a few months in 2001 . At the time it seamed to me this was the future of gaming but I've become increasingly disallusioned with the genre . After 2 and a half years I gave up WoW and since then I've played most of the major releases at some point or another and basically settled on Lotro which I've played on a casual basis now for over 2 years . Although I enjoy it for what it is it certainly does'nt match how impressed I was with WoW in its initial few years .I now wonder if it maybe that its just I 've become jaded and bored or whether its simply that there really has'nt been that great leap forward for mmos . I hav'nt become bored of other types of games such as fps or solo rpgs and I ve been playing them a lot longer than I have mmos . As I say I m now only playing this type of game now for a few hours a week which is proberbly a lot healthier than playing wow 3-4 hours of an evening as I did 5 years ago . But still it would be nice if a new game you grab me like that again . So I guess its free to play untill something does but I wonder how many years it will be before it arrives .
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I feel you, Okhams. I'm at the same point as you. Have recently settled on LOTRO but am very casual about it, it doesn't "grab" me like other MMOs have done. I'm also wondering if it's the genre, or me? Maybe I am just burned out on MMOs or have grown out of them, I don't know. I think the titles coming out next year will give the answer though. If none of them grab me, I'd have to say it was me at that point.
I am really waiting and hoping one of this next set of MMOs really pulls me in longterm. Rift or Tera are highest on my list but I am being open minded to basically all of them.
In the mean time I have never played a TPS until getting Global Agenda and I won't lie it is a very fun game. The community, ughh, though today I thougth I was logged in somewhere else because people were actually answering questions and being relatively nice, lol. Maybe you would like it also as somethign to pass some of the time.
Thanks for the tip. I was curious about Global Agenda and was going to check it out. Will be reading up on it more.
I know how you feel OkhamsRazor, I feel the same way. As of now, I just play a few casual games which will not consume much of my time like Grandchase, Special Force, Starcraft 2 and others. But I am waiting for this game "Vindictus Online". I have watched its trailer and it looks very good.
I've played Vindictus at a few of the trade shows. Massive grinder (you can end up repeating missions multiple times to finish a quest once). Everything is instanced. Wasn't my cup of tea.
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Yep, quit WoW some months ago. It was a good game, but it has to get boring at some point. It grabbed me at first aswell (and held on tight for quite some time...)
I wonder, if there are "many" in this exact same boat as we right now, or not really. I guess there are, but I also guess that it's been like this many many times before aswell.
Personally I've tried alot of the other big MMO's out there. Some of them was fun even... For a month. Or less.
Guild Wars is the only game other than WoW that I've played for more than 6 months, really. But I played GW before WoW, so perhaps it wasn't actually That good, and perhaps it was simply New to me. GW was the first big multiplayer game for me and that could explain the amount of time played.
So, am I jaded now? Are we jaded? I think so. But I think that the new games coming out can still impress, perhaps even captivate. They just have to be excellent. Quality. Good gameplay, good controls, good feeling, good everything else. Games that makes you think "Yes, I want to KEEP playing this, this is great". Do this, developers, and you will get your money. And keep getting it.
All it takes is one bad day.
I know how you feel, I almost bought Going Rogue but then realized that the game was still the same with the exception of the small nerf to brutes. I just can't seem to find a game that doesn't give me a bad taste in my mouth.
I recently gave global agenda a try, PvE is Extremely lulzy, and by lulzy I mean easy and yet to an extent pointless at times. Being a medic solo natrually pays out better in profits/time for me, unless I get a rainbow dye from a raid. PvP/Mercenary games are rather simple and straight forward, nothing you couldn't get from Battlefield heroes, or TF2, with the exception of the jetpack experience. Which I still find suprising how many don't utilize the free range motion of the jet packs in the game, especially in PvP. Unfortunately their highest praised AvA is just a glorified PvP/Merc game. The AvA system is as persistant as staring a checkard board. The entire time that this game was in beta, I was constantly hoping that AvA would be much more like Planetside, before "Megazoids" were brought into the game. Even early WoW had great open world pvp, and I think it was that which initially hooked me into wow, but no one wants to hear about wow because everyone has their own experience.
Sure there were other imitations of true open world pvp, like WARs "RvR". Then I realized how poorly balanced the game was with CQC Brightwizards/Sorcs and issues that marauders had early game, probably because of how many classes they had to balance. Everything just fell apart for me with that game. Later I tried the game again with the new KotBS class, and upon hitting tier 2/3 RvR zones I just gave up, there was litterally 0 action at any given time.
I know what you mean about that yearning for the raids, but it was more of the accomplished feeling you got when you and 39 other players finally killed that boss that you had been working for 5-6 nights straight on. I also know what you mean when you feel a lot healthier, I lost 40 pounds since I stopped taking raiding seriously. Though I'm not to sure if its healthier or not.
I guess I just want a game where I can level up and have fun, without it ever feeling like a grind. At the same time I want to be able play with friends, and have a sense of place and accomplishment when completing some universally daunting task.
Oh well I guess I'll be biding time till that Boundary breaking MMO comes along. Hope its Planet Side2
P.S. This thread is reason I finally bothered to make an account. Had the exact same sentiment at 5:30am this morning and thought to myself NOWAI! Off to lurk on my new account, see if I can make some enemies today.
It should be painfully obvious by now that 'new' MMO's are never any good. And thats because an MMO is like a baby when its born... a miracle for sure, but will take many many years to mature.
Personally I look forward to existing MMO expansions and have several MMO's that I would love to go back to when my current addiction fades.
Burnout. People post here every day with a similar topic. They are burnedout on the MMO genre.
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Take a break.
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If the break doesn't cure your burnout, it's probably something else like you've outgrown it.
Well shave my back and call me an elf! -- Oghren
You use your periods in very strange spots. O.o
Anyway, it isn't burnout for some of us or everyone. It is clearly a lack of good quality games. I've tried everything since WoW and only a few come close to making me come back for more. Lotro and FFXI. Those are the only 2 games I can stomach for longer than a month when I'm taking a break from WoW. The rest of the games since then lack in so many distinct areas. Thankfully, the games coming next seem to be addressing this issue. Which goes back to my whole theory on "quality" games taking about 5 years or more to cook, hence the timing now. It's about right and time for some new "meat".
Since Star Wars Galaxies there hasn't been a MMORPG that made me play longer then a few months till perhaps off and on half a year to some not even a few day's, though I did last off and on with WoW about a half year after it release till BC and left to never returned a single time, but WoW never satisfied my MMORPG needs, but was entertaining never the less. Currently Fallen Earth is the first MMORPG that has truly captured my attention and enjoying the game since release. And see many more months ahead me playing it. But then again I keep saying it, I am a niche gamer when it comes to playing MMORPG and seem to want a complete different type of experiance then today's generation of MMORPG players seem to want.
You'll be waiting for some time I think. mmos actually need to become massive again for the industry to evolve past its current stagnation.
It wont be FFXIV, SWTOR, Rift or GW2...
TERA is going to be hit or miss, personally I think it's going to be just an extremely watered down take on Lineage 2, with no meaning behind anything you do in game...I don't think I will like it.
JGE is another if you're into space/sci-fi, but it seems like they are making it more like a fighter pilot space combat game with a persistant world (MMO) rather than any RPG. The Secret World also interests me quite a bit.