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Why are you on this forum and not playing games?!?

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  • SavageHorizonSavageHorizon Member EpicPosts: 3,480

    I'm always playing mmo's at work and working plus following this site, you ever heard of windows mode?

    I'm playing lotro as we speak, i'm actually in the Prancying Pony. I'm standing in front of the fire smoking pipe weed and listening to someone playing music.




  • NadiaNadia Member UncommonPosts: 11,798
    i was a message board junkie long before mmos image

    EQ2 fan sites

  • KenFisherKenFisher Member UncommonPosts: 5,035

    I'm working.  I can pop into the forum and be done in 10 minutes, while something is running that I have to wait for.

     

    10 minute instant gratification activity... ZOMG I'M a CASUAL!

     

    Ken Fisher - Semi retired old fart Network Administrator, now working in Network Security.  I don't Forum PVP.  If you feel I've attacked you, it was probably by accident.  When I don't understand, I ask.  Such is not intended as criticism.
  • Mors.MagneMors.Magne Member UncommonPosts: 1,549
    Originally posted by Kyleran

    Well at the moment I'm at work but when I first read this post this morning I was sitting in the loo. image

    When I am playing games (DAOC freeshard at the moment)  they have substantial downtime between fights, sometimes several minutes so plenty of time to check in on the forums and post even. 

    Heck, EVE had gate camps that let me write my first novel, pay my bills, watch all 3 LOTR titles etc.  You fast action combat/MMO fans are missing out. image

     

    What novel was that?!   :o)

  • Mors.MagneMors.Magne Member UncommonPosts: 1,549

    Thinking about ideal games is better than playing real games.

     

    It's wonderful to explore your imagination.

  • Ice-QueenIce-Queen Member UncommonPosts: 2,483
    All the good mmorpg's are 10+ years old atm, and everything that's been released the past few years is copies of other games done poorly, and way too casual friendly. Waiting for a good game like UO or AC1, but it's not looking like that's coming anytime soon, sadly.

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    What happens when you log off your characters????.....
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  • rodingorodingo Member RarePosts: 2,870
    Originally posted by Kyleran

    Heck, EVE had gate camps that let me write my first novel, pay my bills, watch all 3 LOTR titles etc.  You fast action combat/MMO fans are missing out. image

     

    Nah, those of us who play fast action combat/MMOs just write our novels, pay bills, and watch movies either before login or after logout.  Multi-tasking is for wusses.  image

    "If I offended you, you needed it" -Corey Taylor

  • apocolusterapocoluster Member UncommonPosts: 1,326
    I post on breaks and lunches at work.  Otherwise I'm gaming. 

    No matter how cynical you become, its never enough to keep up - Lily Tomlin

  • Ender4Ender4 Member UncommonPosts: 2,247

    Because no good MMORPG have come out in the past 5+ years now?

  • PhaserlightPhaserlight Member EpicPosts: 3,078
    Even on a smartphone, in my car waiting for the rain to let up, I could be playing my game of choice right now. (thanks to Android and Safari)

    Why I'm not is because I had a good session last night on the Ouya with my significant other. Couch gaming...

    "The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
    Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance

  • dave6660dave6660 Member UncommonPosts: 2,699
    Because forum PvP is more entertaining than most mmorpg's.

    “There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”
    -- Herman Melville

  • jazz.bejazz.be Member UncommonPosts: 962
    Dual screening with GW2 on one screen and MMORPG on the other screen exactly now.
  • LoktofeitLoktofeit Member RarePosts: 14,247
    Originally posted by SavageHorizon

    I'm always playing mmo's at work and working plus following this site, you ever heard of windows mode?

    Same here. There's always an MMO or gaming forum of some kind (usually EVE and MMORPG.com) open on one of my screens, if not on several of them.

    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

  • AzureblazeAzureblaze Member UncommonPosts: 130

    I actually find that I read and research more about games of interest than play them, and I'm not even in the gaming industry.

    It's more of looking for something that I really want to play, which is getting harder these days.

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  • Iceman8235Iceman8235 Member UncommonPosts: 205
    No good MMO's out there for me right now.  I spend time here hoping to find something I missed even though I know in the back of my head that I won't.
  • Cephus404Cephus404 Member CommonPosts: 3,675

    Because there are no games out there worth playing right now and especially, no good communities out there anywhere, therefore I haven't logged into any MMO in close to a year.  What else should I do than hang out in various forums?

    Played: UO, EQ, WoW, DDO, SWG, AO, CoH, EvE, TR, AoC, GW, GA, Aion, Allods, lots more
    Relatively Recently (Re)Played: HL2 (all), Halo (PC, all), Batman:AA; AC, ME, BS, DA, FO3, DS, Doom (all), LFD1&2, KOTOR, Portal 1&2, Blink, Elder Scrolls (all), lots more
    Now Playing: None
    Hope: None

  • BladestromBladestrom Member UncommonPosts: 5,001
    Because I don't play mmo's when I'm on a train or in bed :)

    rpg/mmorg history: Dun Darach>Bloodwych>Bards Tale 1-3>Eye of the beholder > Might and Magic 2,3,5 > FFVII> Baldur's Gate 1, 2 > Planescape Torment >Morrowind > WOW > oblivion > LOTR > Guild Wars (1900hrs elementalist) Vanguard. > GW2(1000 elementalist), Wildstar

    Now playing GW2, AOW 3, ESO, LOTR, Elite D

  • picommanderpicommander Member UncommonPosts: 256
    Still waiting for an MMO with the quality of skyrim. NOT *like* skyrim of course, that would be impossible but an MMO with comparable rich content.
  • JaedorJaedor Member UncommonPosts: 1,173

    Because I troll this forum while I'm at work? :P

  • AntiquatedAntiquated Member RarePosts: 1,415
    Originally posted by Cephus404

    Because there are no games out there worth playing right now and especially, no good communities out there anywhere, therefore I haven't logged into any MMO in close to a year.  What else should I do than hang out in various forums?

    And I am seeing less and less point to the "hang out on the forums" part with pretty much every day that passes.

    No one's mind ever changes, and it's been an endless repetition of the same arguments daily since--at least--2004. A decade, folks.

    There's nothing new in the gaming world, but doesn't look like there's anything new in the gamers, either.

  • FinalFikusFinalFikus Member Posts: 906
    Originally posted by Antiquated
    Originally posted by Cephus404

    Because there are no games out there worth playing right now and especially, no good communities out there anywhere, therefore I haven't logged into any MMO in close to a year.  What else should I do than hang out in various forums?

    And I am seeing less and less point to the "hang out on the forums" part with pretty much every day that passes.

    No one's mind ever changes, and it's been an endless repetition of the same arguments daily since--at least--2004. A decade, folks.

    There's nothing new in the gaming world, but doesn't look like there's anything new in the gamers, either.

    So start something new.

    "If the Damned gave you a roadmap, then you'd know just where to go"

  • EncephalitisEncephalitis Member UncommonPosts: 78
    Because (to me) there is nothing worth playing, that's why I'm on here.
  • daltaniousdaltanious Member UncommonPosts: 2,381
    The only thing that bothers me is when people that OBVIOUSLY have ever played certain game (or at least not past level 1), bash that game constantly.
  • apocolusterapocoluster Member UncommonPosts: 1,326
    Originally posted by daltanious
    The only thing that bothers me is when people that OBVIOUSLY have ever played certain game (or at least not past level 1), bash that game constantly.

    ..and you empower them by having it bother you. Ignore the idiots. 

    No matter how cynical you become, its never enough to keep up - Lily Tomlin

  • jayartejayarte Member UncommonPosts: 450
    Originally posted by MMO-Veteran
    Well I'm not dedicated to any games at the moment but ... I guess I'm just interested in maybe one day finding a game that reignites that flame I once had for the genre... but something tells me my adventures in these games may be coming to a close for a while.

    This is exactly how it is for me.  This forum feels like my last on-going connection to the genre, sort of like better than giving up on it all entirely.  I also often have the feeling that this chapter in my life has closed, but can't quite let go of the hope that somehow, sometime in some game I'll have the same immersive fun with lots of online friends that I used to enjoy.

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