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General: The Daily Quest - What's Your MMO Sin?
BillMurphy
Former Managing EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 4,565
Anonymity sometimes (maybe often) makes us do things we wouldn't normally do. This is never truer for me than in any number of MMORPGs. I'm not a loot ninja or anything, but I've been known to cut my own fair share of quest mob lines. Today's quest... tell us your MMO sin.
Most people could probably say "The horrific murder of thousands of innocent, bears, boars, crabs, murlocs, and other wildlife." But that's how the game is played against AI. What about what you do to other players? Things whose real-world equivalent would quickly get you labeled an A-Hole?
For me? It's simple: I will gladly always steal a quest target kill if there's no shared tagging, and I will always try to beat someone to a resource node if there's no shared looting. For these, I could blame the faulty design (later fixed by Guild Wars 2), but even with a solution many games still make this something necessary to partake in. As far as my competitive streak goes, I'll definitely race down my target to get the rewards before I'll let some random stranger have my goodies.
So that's me. How about you? What jerkface things have you done in your MMO playtime?
Try to be excellent to everyone you meet. You never know what someone else has seen or endured.
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The thins Bill mentioned plus in Darkfall Online there was this thing called battle looting where you would stop to loot a player while the fight was still going. Guilty. It was shunned upon greatly, mostly because it would deny others the ability to get good loot, but also because the fight wasn't over yet. Though whenever a player using good gear went down there were very few people who wouldn't stop to loot.
Amen to the million alts.
My biggest sin is lack of interaction with other players.
I am far too much of an introvert, both in MMO's and in RL. I enjoy being around people, I just don't have the knack of interacting with people I don't already know. (And how do you get to know people you don't interact with?)
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
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Was leveling an alt in Anarchy Online sometime like 12 years ago... Some other guy comes on "my field" and starts shooting "my targets". I logged off my alt just to log in my main and one-shot everything on the field, until the other guy leaves.
In the game, you leveled by killing mobs. I had an "ideal path" to follow, in different zones, with packs of mobs that gave "good XP per hour" for each level. At the level my alt was, one of the best spots was a pretty small field of about 12 mobs. By the time you killed the last mob, the first two respawned.
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Try a MUD today at http://www.mudconnect.com/I agree, but it isn't going to happen. Way too many people like it.
The killing of innocent wild life is how the game is meant to be played however, killing another armed player is considered being an A-hole?
Just kidding, I got what you were saying
I done a few trains without letting the zone know in my early Everquest days, mostly because I couldn't type back then and I probably would of died in the process.
Sorry...
That's not a sin, that's old testament.