During WOTLK when I decided to try a Pally for the first time. I leveled up to 18 and went to Razor Fen Kraul on a dungeon run. Our highest level party member was lvl 21 and we completed the dungeon without a single death. Vanilla you needed to be lvl 24 to even stand a chance.
It made me lose all interest in the game.
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One of my favorate moments was when i dinged my first 60 in Vanilla and the first thing I did was travelled to Darkshire and got my revenge and wasted that son of a bitch "Mor Ladim" (spelled wrong I'm sure) for all the times he wasted me in the graveyard.
I got him back a few times too!
My favorite point was during the Alliance Onyxia attunement where you walk through SW. Seeing many players joining in the walk was fun! Plus the ending of the walk was awesome.
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what
it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience
because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in
the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you
playing an MMORPG?"
Playing Aion, levelling quite nicely and getting through most things with no problem whatsoever. Running a solid 80% win rate in pvp (except for forts, because we were both highly outnumbered and outlevelled), which I can only barely stand. Having a great time despite the occasional would-be ganker.
Then in the span of a couple levels my win rate dropped to a flat 0%. Armorying these characters showed full +10's in everything, compared to my 2 pieces at +2 or 3. This was a brand-new server, mind you, I have no idea how one legally obtains such a massive amount of kinah. Not to mention that I began to find it strange that every. single. one. of these 'legendary gankers' was always one of two classes (both of which could, naturally, stealth). When I finally went to Heiron and found a pack of these pvp heroes hanging out in a glitched zone where it was -impossible- to attack them back, I quit the game in disgust.
Originally posted by maplestone Quests that ask me to tortune a prisoner for information. I realize that when we step back and look at the actions we're acting out that we're all playing mass-murdering monsters, but there's something about these quests that touches a nerve and takes me out of the game with a sick-to-my-stomach feeling.
Exactly this.
And Aion - after closed beta, open beta and a CE - when I got to level 29 and discovered the grind. Unsubbed immediately.
Recently, Soulbound items in GW2. Once you have equipped them, you cannot break them down into crafting components when you equip something better. I guess their philosophy is, "You wear it. You destroy it."
Also in GW2, I get this "reward" sometimes that is a locked chest. In rarer times, I get as a reward a key to open said chests. Otherwise, I am supposed to pay to receive my reward with real cash or hard earned gold. So far, I have received 15 chests and 4 keys. Nice "reward", there, GW2.
In EverQuest, I could not advance in levels above about level 20 without having to count on other players for help. I like to group. But not ALL THE TIME!
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse. - FARGIN_WAR
The last thing that really annoyed me was: in TF2 I found a golden botkiller weapon. They are worth some bucks. And to get them, you have to spend a little bit ofmoney too, and beat several maps, which is pretty hard if your team sucks. But after spending the money, spending hours to beat that map, AND Beeing lucky with getting awarded a golden botkiller weapon, instead of the regular silver one... a glitch of the game took it away from me. Time: wasted. Money spent for the stuff: lost. Support: no answer.
The day CCP rolled on its belly, greesed up and let the elitist veterans of the game dictate CCPs original vision of a true sci-fi simulation. They gave in and instead of sticking to their guns they regressed the game back to Spaceship only... No more stations, no dreams of ground combat, atmospheric flight or planet colonization. Stuff I was waiting for for years. What a great IP, im a lover of the books and knowing CCP was working toward making that game into a fully realized universe not just point to click space ships kept me interested.
They failed themselves, their vision and the true fans of Eve Online. It was a tragedy...
Agree 100% with the above. CCP just makes me sick to my stomach sometimes. Such a corrupt, shitty company.
The ending to Mass Effect 3 not only ruined the game, but also tainted the entire franchise. I can't even look at the game boxes anymore without feeling a bit of sadness and disgust.
The locked chests in GW2 really disgust me. I have 15 of those things just sitting in my bank collecting dust. Maybe if the keys would drop once in a while I wouldn't get so upset over them, but as it is once the official forums go up Arenanet is going to get an earful from me on the subject.
Red Faction: Armageddon. What a disgusting POS that game was. I bought it thinking that it would be an open world game and boy, was I wrong. It's a painfully linear 3rd person shooter with horrid gameplay. I don't understand why they took such a huge step back with it, truly mind-blowing.
The upcoming XCOM shooter (not Enemy Unknown, which looks fantastic). Before I knew there was a tactical game in development, I was just blown away by that complete and utter misuse of a fantastic IP. Got myself banned from the 2K games forums for laying into them about it, in fact.
I can't think of a particular gaming moment that ever disgusted me.
I would say if anything has disgusted me pertaining to gaming it would be the fact that many people seem to have forgotten how to just play games.
There's an ever growing trend of people applying an almost job-like mentality to their game time i.e, playing games like they're a list of tasks that must be completed as quickly as possible instead of just playing the game for fun.
It's reflective of society's gradual movement away from living in the moment, to living in fear of being wrong.
Finding a cave in LotRO and seeing "you cannot enter here without x quest"
Not being able to enter an entire zone in LotRO without doing a level 50 quest.
Doing my 7th "kill 10 wolves quest" (literally) in the span of 2 days, all with reskinned wolves.
How anyone could be simple enough to be entertained by that busywork, or how anyone can praise LotRO for its "world" is beyond me.
LotRO is the MMO that always puts me to sleep. It's a fairly solid game, but they could done so much more with the IP. Middle Earth, one of the most popular fantasy landscapes of all time, feels far too generic and uninspired.
Finding a cave in LotRO and seeing "you cannot enter here without x quest"
Not being able to enter an entire zone in LotRO without doing a level 50 quest.
Doing my 7th "kill 10 wolves quest" (literally) in the span of 2 days, all with reskinned wolves.
How anyone could be simple enough to be entertained by that busywork, or how anyone can praise LotRO for its "world" is beyond me.
LotRO is the MMO that always puts me to sleep. It's a fairly solid game, but they could done so much more with the IP. Middle Earth, one of the most popular fantasy landscapes of all time, feels far too generic and uninspired.
They DID do a lot with the IP... in alpha. But when WoW became big, 9 months before open beta they scrapped most of the features they had and rewrote the game to focus on questing and combat. It was originally a sandbox game called Middle Earth Online. Most of the devs got reassigned and they brought in a lot of college age devs to finish the transition.
It's a shame so few remember what was once a great game. LotRO is the epitome of boring WoW clone.
Harassment and wtinessing harassment to players is totally out of hand and just seems to get worse.
Sometimes I feel like I need a shower with some of the filth I have read in that game. Trion is pretty much flacid in terms of dealing with the offending players and it just keeps on going unchecked.
You know you have a fail game on your hand when you have to take a xanax before you log in!
The day CCP rolled on its belly, greesed up and let the elitist veterans of the game dictate CCPs original vision of a true sci-fi simulation. They gave in and instead of sticking to their guns they regressed the game back to Spaceship only... No more stations, no dreams of ground combat, atmospheric flight or planet colonization. Stuff I was waiting for for years. What a great IP, im a lover of the books and knowing CCP was working toward making that game into a fully realized universe not just point to click space ships kept me interested.
They failed themselves, their vision and the true fans of Eve Online. It was a tragedy...
Agree 100% with the above. CCP just makes me sick to my stomach sometimes. Such a corrupt, shitty company.
The ending to Mass Effect 3 not only ruined the game, but also tainted the entire franchise. I can't even look at the game boxes anymore without feeling a bit of sadness and disgust.
The locked chests in GW2 really disgust me. I have 15 of those things just sitting in my bank collecting dust. Maybe if the keys would drop once in a while I wouldn't get so upset over them, but as it is once the official forums go up Arenanet is going to get an earful from me on the subject.
Red Faction: Armageddon. What a disgusting POS that game was. I bought it thinking that it would be an open world game and boy, was I wrong. It's a painfully linear 3rd person shooter with horrid gameplay. I don't understand why they took such a huge step back with it, truly mind-blowing.
The upcoming XCOM shooter (not Enemy Unknown, which looks fantastic). Before I knew there was a tactical game in development, I was just blown away by that complete and utter misuse of a fantastic IP. Got myself banned from the 2K games forums for laying into them about it, in fact.
Forums are up. Give it to them.
I remember when people called me a troll for say keys wont drop in live.
In EverQuest, I could not advance in levels above about level 20 without having to count on other players for help. I like to group. But not ALL THE TIME!
Just have to say, this isn't really true. Quite a few classes could easily solo to max. Also once Kunark came out, even melee could solo easily with a fungi tunic. Wasn't hard to get one either if you worked the trade market. That became even easier once luclin came out, I became so rich utilizing the bazaar, it was sick.
Even later on, some solo classes could get AA faster than groups, like a necro in PoFire.
Harassment and wtinessing harassment to players is totally out of hand and just seems to get worse.
Sometimes I feel like I need a shower with some of the filth I have read in that game. Trion is pretty much flacid in terms of dealing with the offending players and it just keeps on going unchecked.
You know you have a fail game on your hand when you have to take a xanax before you log in!
You must not pvp huh?
My worst was when I was playing DDO. I had just got this [muck bane] which I guess was pretty badass. So I sold it for like 40 plat. The next day I went to the mail box to collect my plat only to be given a "You must upgrade your account. This beyond the free plat limit."
Note: In this thread, you are not allowed to be offended. Please, keep it civil!
There's a wide array of games I play. I play console games, I play PC games, I play RPG, FPS (all types), RTS, turn-based strategy, racing games - arcade and varying simulators, action, adventure, platformers... anything thats "good" by the standards of the fans of that particular genre basically. Only games I don't play are fighting games and old-school, but even there I sort of see why someone might find it fun. There have been games and features, however, which I have been utterly disgusted, and didn't see why anyone in their right mind would enjoy it. For example:
Crafting and gathering in Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
This was so mindnubmingly tedious and repetitive I didn't think anyone would enjoy this - and you had to do a lot of it to get to making "the good stuff". It further annoyed me that everything in it was designed so that designing a macro or a bot to do it would be harder than in your average MMO: the buttons in the crafting menu switched places and nodes respawned in different locations. I had never been more tempted of making a macro or a bot. I would never craft or gather voluntarily in that game.
Whereas i absolutely loved and miss the entire crafting/gathering system in Vanguard. I still almost weekly think about going back just so i can play my crafter. That was one of the last games where being a crafter actually meant something. Took some actual dedication. Now, crafting in MMO's is designed to be so easy that literally everyone can do it. Because its more "content" they want to make sure their customers see and use. And by the wayside it becomes 100% useless.
"Exploration" in Eve
More than the feature itself, which is basically grinding a handful of events which appear randomly, I was disgusted about some of the players which called this "exploration". I would've been fine if they were just honest and said: "you grind these events in hopes of phat loot which you can then sell for ISK". Every system is basically same, cause there is no terrain, and every event comes from a fairly short list of possible ones. Call it "exploration"? What bull-.
Thats EVE. The whole game is about making money, whether its from blowing up other people and looting modules, mining, running missions, etc.
"Patrolling" in Fall of Mankind
Now this game was unfinished, it wasn't why I was disgusted by it. The metagame was the thing that really put me off of the game. I RP'd in this game - which is rare, but I can do it - and we were patrolling this area which, we were told, had enemy activity in it. We roamed around for a good 40 minutes with no action at all after we settled on this white beam of light. The "sergeant" told us to stay put, set up perimeter and put 3 guys in a line in next to the beam pointing towards the beam with theri submachine guns. Next thing I knew, they were shooting enemies which appeared in the beam and it dawned on me: this is spawncamping. Fuck patrolling we were spawncamping! As people logged on and got out of their "apartment" they appeared in this white light and we killed them. They had no way of getting out. We prevented them from playing the game. At this point the spell wore out and I quit without saying a word to my "team".
Now it would be a lame thing to quit and uninstall a game just because of one incident but lets just say it was the proverbial last straw.
Can't speak to this one /shrug
What moments of disgust have you had?
The point is everyone enjoys different things.
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
In WoW: The elitist cliques and guilds that emerged, talking so much smack on people, bringing them to tears.
I won't go into detail, but an adult female guild member nearly was at the point of suicide after a portion of the guild left and was revealing personal real life information/making fun of her in trade chat/forums and what have you, and blizzard doing nothing about it but issue-ing multiple warnings over a month due to harrassment. (Just put them on ignore they said.)
Well, ignore doesn't stop the spread of information and other people seeing their filth in chat channels.
The depths that people will sink to get their lols, and the fact that "trolling" is seen by a lot of people as funny and a good trend to join.
Since the WoW incedent some years ago, I find myself not wanting to get serious with any guild, as I do not want to be involved emotionally in the drama that tends to pan out. sometimes it is better to play "un-attached" than it is to play oh so very involved.
I am entitled to my opinions, misspellings, and grammatical errors.
Quests that ask me to tortune a prisoner for information. I realize that when we step back and look at the actions we're acting out that we're all playing mass-murdering monsters, but there's something about these quests that touches a nerve and takes me out of the game with a sick-to-my-stomach feeling.
Yeah but...after the prisoner finally talks...did you give him a few extra jolts from the torture device? (Or was that me...)
Finding a cave in LotRO and seeing "you cannot enter here without x quest"
Not being able to enter an entire zone in LotRO without doing a level 50 quest.
Doing my 7th "kill 10 wolves quest" (literally) in the span of 2 days, all with reskinned wolves.
How anyone could be simple enough to be entertained by that busywork, or how anyone can praise LotRO for its "world" is beyond me.
LotRO is the MMO that always puts me to sleep. It's a fairly solid game, but they could done so much more with the IP. Middle Earth, one of the most popular fantasy landscapes of all time, feels far too generic and uninspired.
This and Star Trek Online. Two magnificent IP's turned into dumbed down, simplistic garbage.
I'm sorry OP but when you say Vanguard's crafting disgusts you when it is regarded as one of the best crafting systems ever is beyond me and quite frankly that statement is a joke.
Flying mounts in WoW, lead to a world that felt empty, cheap ganking from the sky and no doubt ment blizzard had to design a world around the fact that any one can go anywhere, imaging what they could have done with the wrath gate in WOTLK if you could not fly over it, could of been a big pre-patch server event such as AQ where you have to break down each gate before your server unlocks the raid and dungeon... ah well.
Originally posted by darker70 I'm sorry OP but when you say Vanguard's crafting disgusts you when it is regarded as one of the best crafting systems ever is beyond me and quite frankly that statement is a joke.
Gotta agree with that.. but not everyone wants a complex crafting system I suppose. Some see it as just a simple button to press during downtime while talking to guildies. In Vanguard, its just about as involved as adventuring is.
ya i am the same wey i played or tried about everygame out even old school crap i am old school since the first online game a maze wars type game we had fun killing each other in a maze but i could go on and on in each and every game but the biggest upset i had was in AOC after years of off and on playing and building my funnest toona rainge rof bad assness! the moment when funcom made him weeker than ever and took away half his skills oh god i was wtf so i get on and tell funcom reps what i think and they are we dont care about you we dont give a damn re roll your toon and learn a new wey of playing i was so you want me to chainge everything about my toon re rool and play difrent you relize i have spent years and years building this charicter and 1000 of dollors on him and now your like hey start over or quit i wa sfine i quit and they were good we dont need you in are game ! for realz whish i would have saved the conversation but oh well so i rant and rave foaming at the mouth i fist go of on guildys and g quit and then start hella pvp and rant and rave and quit and take half the server with me that games never been the same
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I got him back a few times too!
My favorite point was during the Alliance Onyxia attunement where you walk through SW. Seeing many players joining in the walk was fun! Plus the ending of the walk was awesome.
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Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
Playing Aion, levelling quite nicely and getting through most things with no problem whatsoever. Running a solid 80% win rate in pvp (except for forts, because we were both highly outnumbered and outlevelled), which I can only barely stand. Having a great time despite the occasional would-be ganker.
Then in the span of a couple levels my win rate dropped to a flat 0%. Armorying these characters showed full +10's in everything, compared to my 2 pieces at +2 or 3. This was a brand-new server, mind you, I have no idea how one legally obtains such a massive amount of kinah. Not to mention that I began to find it strange that every. single. one. of these 'legendary gankers' was always one of two classes (both of which could, naturally, stealth). When I finally went to Heiron and found a pack of these pvp heroes hanging out in a glitched zone where it was -impossible- to attack them back, I quit the game in disgust.
Exactly this.
And Aion - after closed beta, open beta and a CE - when I got to level 29 and discovered the grind. Unsubbed immediately.
Recently, Soulbound items in GW2. Once you have equipped them, you cannot break them down into crafting components when you equip something better. I guess their philosophy is, "You wear it. You destroy it."
Also in GW2, I get this "reward" sometimes that is a locked chest. In rarer times, I get as a reward a key to open said chests. Otherwise, I am supposed to pay to receive my reward with real cash or hard earned gold. So far, I have received 15 chests and 4 keys. Nice "reward", there, GW2.
In EverQuest, I could not advance in levels above about level 20 without having to count on other players for help. I like to group. But not ALL THE TIME!
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
Let's play Fallen Earth (blind, 300 episodes)
Let's play Guild Wars 2 (blind, 45 episodes)
Agree 100% with the above. CCP just makes me sick to my stomach sometimes. Such a corrupt, shitty company.
The ending to Mass Effect 3 not only ruined the game, but also tainted the entire franchise. I can't even look at the game boxes anymore without feeling a bit of sadness and disgust.
The locked chests in GW2 really disgust me. I have 15 of those things just sitting in my bank collecting dust. Maybe if the keys would drop once in a while I wouldn't get so upset over them, but as it is once the official forums go up Arenanet is going to get an earful from me on the subject.
Red Faction: Armageddon. What a disgusting POS that game was. I bought it thinking that it would be an open world game and boy, was I wrong. It's a painfully linear 3rd person shooter with horrid gameplay. I don't understand why they took such a huge step back with it, truly mind-blowing.
The upcoming XCOM shooter (not Enemy Unknown, which looks fantastic). Before I knew there was a tactical game in development, I was just blown away by that complete and utter misuse of a fantastic IP. Got myself banned from the 2K games forums for laying into them about it, in fact.
WoW being a success.
Finding a cave in LotRO and seeing "you cannot enter here without x quest"
Not being able to enter an entire zone in LotRO without doing a level 50 quest.
Doing my 7th "kill 10 wolves quest" (literally) in the span of 2 days, all with reskinned wolves.
How anyone could be simple enough to be entertained by that busywork, or how anyone can praise LotRO for its "world" is beyond me.
I can't think of a particular gaming moment that ever disgusted me.
I would say if anything has disgusted me pertaining to gaming it would be the fact that many people seem to have forgotten how to just play games.
There's an ever growing trend of people applying an almost job-like mentality to their game time i.e, playing games like they're a list of tasks that must be completed as quickly as possible instead of just playing the game for fun.
It's reflective of society's gradual movement away from living in the moment, to living in fear of being wrong.
LotRO is the MMO that always puts me to sleep. It's a fairly solid game, but they could done so much more with the IP. Middle Earth, one of the most popular fantasy landscapes of all time, feels far too generic and uninspired.
They DID do a lot with the IP... in alpha. But when WoW became big, 9 months before open beta they scrapped most of the features they had and rewrote the game to focus on questing and combat. It was originally a sandbox game called Middle Earth Online. Most of the devs got reassigned and they brought in a lot of college age devs to finish the transition.
It's a shame so few remember what was once a great game. LotRO is the epitome of boring WoW clone.
Rift
Harassment and wtinessing harassment to players is totally out of hand and just seems to get worse.
Sometimes I feel like I need a shower with some of the filth I have read in that game. Trion is pretty much flacid in terms of dealing with the offending players and it just keeps on going unchecked.
You know you have a fail game on your hand when you have to take a xanax before you log in!
Logging into Star Wars Galaxies on November of 2005 and playing a abortion gone wrong.
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/star-wars-galaxies-2005/667893p1.html
Reading this article still get's me pissed!
Forums are up. Give it to them.
I remember when people called me a troll for say keys wont drop in live.
Just have to say, this isn't really true. Quite a few classes could easily solo to max. Also once Kunark came out, even melee could solo easily with a fungi tunic. Wasn't hard to get one either if you worked the trade market. That became even easier once luclin came out, I became so rich utilizing the bazaar, it was sick.
Even later on, some solo classes could get AA faster than groups, like a necro in PoFire.
You must not pvp huh?
My worst was when I was playing DDO. I had just got this [muck bane] which I guess was pretty badass. So I sold it for like 40 plat. The next day I went to the mail box to collect my plat only to be given a "You must upgrade your account. This beyond the free plat limit."
That was the last day I played.
The point is everyone enjoys different things.
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
1) Loading up EQ1 again after alot of years and finding they got rid of corpse runs and added mercenaries (facepalm)
2) When WoW added Tokens and dailies during BC, I quit.
3) When Lotro added their medallion/token system after Lothlorien, I quit.
4) Semi-disqusted with the the last three AAA Themparks with their hype.
In WoW: The elitist cliques and guilds that emerged, talking so much smack on people, bringing them to tears.
I won't go into detail, but an adult female guild member nearly was at the point of suicide after a portion of the guild left and was revealing personal real life information/making fun of her in trade chat/forums and what have you, and blizzard doing nothing about it but issue-ing multiple warnings over a month due to harrassment. (Just put them on ignore they said.)
Well, ignore doesn't stop the spread of information and other people seeing their filth in chat channels.
The depths that people will sink to get their lols, and the fact that "trolling" is seen by a lot of people as funny and a good trend to join.
Since the WoW incedent some years ago, I find myself not wanting to get serious with any guild, as I do not want to be involved emotionally in the drama that tends to pan out. sometimes it is better to play "un-attached" than it is to play oh so very involved.
I am entitled to my opinions, misspellings, and grammatical errors.
Yeah but...after the prisoner finally talks...did you give him a few extra jolts from the torture device? (Or was that me...)
This and Star Trek Online. Two magnificent IP's turned into dumbed down, simplistic garbage.
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Gotta agree with that.. but not everyone wants a complex crafting system I suppose. Some see it as just a simple button to press during downtime while talking to guildies. In Vanguard, its just about as involved as adventuring is.
The first screenshot for SW:TOR
The last moment I logged out of SW:TOR.
And everything in-between.