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how long per title til you uninstall?
Silkraven
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just curious
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I'm assuming by uninstalling you mean stop playing? I'm only saying this because I hardly ever uninstall games, got countless MMO's on my computer I don't touch, really need to sort that out!
I always stop playing an MMO after a few weeks, a month tops, WoW being the only exception to this statement.
I can see myself playing FFXIV for longer than a month though, it's has the same feel and hold on me WoW does - I'm so unsure if I actually enjoy the game, but it's so addictive, and I can't stop thinking about it and playing it (When I get on.)
Depends on my reaction and first impressions.
Ewww- right away
Meh.- Couple of days
Awesome- until i stop playing
This is terrible - Within a day of giving it a chance.
It's not bad - Maybe a month if friends don't come along.
Friends playing and it's good - Whenever we get bored of it.
Awesome game - Screw you guys, I'll make new friends who like this game!... Until the company breaks it or something awful happens to ruin it for me.
Kingdom of Knights - Community Manager
Uninstall a bought game? alpha/beta version?
Alpha/Beta: I uninstall once beta is over and I might have no intention of buying the game.
Bought game: I uninstall after a few months to a year sometimes even longer. With MMORPG's many things can change, so can my wants and needs for a game.
hmmm, difficult. Really depends on a number of factors.
The game, the community, the fun aspect and the cost. Then there is also the factor of something new coming out that is better than you currently play. However tend to play and jump between games I like (don't pay for 2 subscriptions at the same time).
E.G My history have been
Legend of Mir 2 (game network) 2-3mths (plus open and closed beta that was about 8mths long). Left through all the BS they kept giving out, the continuous server lag, being conned out of gear I had by own guild members really did it for me, and then just went onto private servers.
Ultima Online (think it was lord blackthorns revenge) but the game failed to run and load/connect to servers after 4 days so I took it back and exchanged it for a game I knew and had just finished an open and closed beta that I was again lucky to get into.
Dark Age of Camelot was the game and I loved this, but at the 2nd (or 3rd expansions Atlantis) most the people I knew and friends had left the game for other pastures. I was lucky to have been able to get in to a series of other beta (open and closed and 1 alpha testing) stage on several games. My time with Daoc lasted just over 2yrs.
After and during some testing games I was also on some F2P games (but these tended to reap your wallet and cost umpteen times more than a subscription game would cost.
Everquest 1 - issues with this game and a collectors edition box purchase that did not work, after months of speaking online I sent the game back to the software house via recorded delivery (good job too) as they said they never got it and took another 2 mths before I got several crushed and sun faded box's back, which only had a game CD inside, no instructions, no manual and no collectors edition items or maps that I had with the box and a scrappy and torn piece of paper saying Appolgies for the delay, we did not have any more collectors edition copies in stock and hope this would do. No they wouldn't they had released another expansion during my issue and had changed the collectors edition to include this. Needless to say after a week I left this game, I never touched SWTOR because of this fact and tried to avoid Sony Online EnterPainment as I call them.
Yes, I did try Everquest 2, bought it from amazon as collectors edition and only because all 4 of my friends banded together to get me to give SoE another chance. Left this game after 2 months (3 if you count the free month you get with the game), it had issue's and back then the game required a group mode after lvl 10. However I loved some factors about it and the crafting. Crafting I believe was nerfed to crap and other things I liked about it were removed. They have gone from group requirement to (I belive) nigh on solo play, what ever happened to 50/50 or even 60-40, not 90-10 or 100%
World of Warcraft - Left EQ2 for this game, it was fun, yes it had issues at the start, but they were fixed quite quickly. Back at the start community was great. Still play it now, but not as much (9/10 yrs later). However servers are empty, community is not as friendly as it used to be, and most stuff is solo played.
Vanguard saga of heroes is another I purchased and played and quit very quickly, every patch fixed 1 problem and opened up several new ones. SoE were slightly involved but to me it had the running and control of them all over it, even though everybody said they only ran the servers and had no other involvement than that. I left after paying 1 month game renewal and even to this day I don't know why, I was gone less than a week into that month. A couple of months later SoE announced they had acquired the game, I simply just said they always had it from the start and still do. I will NOT be touching EQnext.
Right now, games I am playing WoW (off and on), Neverwinter Online and Rift because these are the 2 best F2P games that are out there. I did play Starwars the old republic but stopped playing (bored), never touched it since it went F2P as it is several restrictive and you would be better to subscribe than to use the item shop (else it would be much more costly), however I believe (from what people have said) you would not be able to use items and a lot of stuff if you let your subscription slide, unless you renewed. You would need to purchase the requirements from the store.
Lord of the rings online was another game I was in open and closed beta and also played until the end of mines of moria (codemasters). Since it went F2P and codemasters handed it back over, I lost everything and am not going to purchase everything I once had again, so I have never touched it since, nor likely to either. I also hear it too is restrictive in F2P form.
There are probably a few other released games I have forgotten and many many beta staged games I have not mentioned, I started my online gaming with MechCommander (when mplayer, zone and heat.net were around). all the way back in 98/99 and the very old 33.6kbps modem (being flashed to 56k) before broadband
it's easy to spot if a game is good or not typically.
The only mmo's I havent thrown away in 1 day is:
Wow(5 years). Probably the most well rounded mmo I've played.
Pristontale(½ a year). First mmorpg I played, played it with my two brothers and 3 rl friends boring game but I didnt know at the time.
Rift(½ a year, playing atm) Good game, has it's problems namely: Horribly grindy 50->60 and the rep at 60. Tons of bugs with the pet system. No depts to the pet system, comparing it with wow where you can tame pets, here you get 3 pets 1 for pvp, pve dps, solo tanking.
Tera(3 months then quit, came back at f2p played for 2 months then quit again - the enchanting rng system is the stuff nightmares are made of. And the ui bug foring me to play either without my ui with 50 fps+ or with 10 and the ui shown best combat system bar none, pity the rest of the game is badly made.
Defiance (1 month) probably the most fun mmorpg I've played, I did every quest and achievement in the game (except for weapon leveling achievements because I cba grinding for 5 hours/weapon level for an achievement) problems with it is: The pvp is dumb, heat seeking infectors stealth+shotgunt oneshots makes it unplayable imo, non existing progression, past 1000 ego points there is zero point in leveling anymore. There is no item progression same items at 1ego as at level 2000 ego except for secondary effects -> nothing to do after youve done quests+achievements -> =(
Guildwars 1 roughly 14 days, got boring fast sadly unable to jump really ruined it for me.
Some games I have tried and thrown away in 1 day because they quite frankly suck are:
Guildwars 2, neverwinter online, lotr, dragons prophet, age of wushu, dk online, raiderz, dcuo, the secret world, eve, with a ton more but these spring to mind because they were huge letdowns.
Worst game of the year award goes to:
Tied between neverwinter online and eve.
Depends. 5min up to a hour.. maybe even longer. Depends on the complexity or of what can be expected after some initial play time.
If it can convince me, i can play a very long time. But just a few ever made it that far.
UO 3-4 years.
DAoC 3 years.
Shadowbane 1 year.
WoW 7month.
GW2 2 month.
EvE only on and off a few month of play time.
WAR 1 month.
EQ1 2 weeks.
AoC 2 hours.
Neverwinter 30 min.
With present day's HD space it is rather stupid to uninstall really.
2 TB could hold 50 + games with ease.
The game has to be really bad......
LOTRO, RIFT, SWTOR,WAR, FF14, STO, DDO, WOT were deleted though. Terrible games.
Idiotic even.
others reside there forever like wow, eve, potbs, cod, magic on line.
d2 and D3 will be there until earth will explode.
Uninstalled? Until i ran out of HD space. I have a few hundred Gs of games on my computer. I rarely uninstalled until i have to clear up space.
The above is my personal opinion. Anyone displaying a view contrary to my opinion is obviously WRONG and should STHU. (neener neener)
-The MMO Forum Community
Pretty much through the tutorial area, if there is one. A little past that if I am not immediately turned off by the experience. If there is no tutorial area, maybe between level 5 and 10 which equates to what... a couple of play sessions?
I am NOT going to suffer through days or weeks of unsatisfying game play to get the "good stuff."
- 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