I am definitely a game hopper. I used to just play SWG, but became a game hopper when it shut down. I guess I'm hopping around, hoping to get that SWG feeling back that I know I'm not going to find.
Funny you bringing TV into it. I used to follow several things week to week but I stopped doing that. I rather wait for the season to be over and binge watch it... I guess Netflix changed me.
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Funny you bringing TV into it. I used to follow several things week to week but I stopped doing that. I rather wait for the season to be over and binge watch it... I guess Netflix changed me.
I do binge watch some shows .. but it is much more fun to have a variety of shows to watch. Some really well made, serial shows, like House of Cards, or Jessica Jones are fine to binge watch.
But i certainly do not want to binge watch the typical 20-22 episodes seasons of broadcast tv, particular those with more self-contained stories.
It depends on the genre. If its MMO's, I play a variety with no attachment factor. If its an MMORPG, I only play one for immersion purposes. I understand the difference between an MMO and an MMORPG, and I play each genre accordingly.
I have always been a one MMORPG type of person more or less, hence why there is only a handful I've spent any amount of time in. The rest I didn't try or spent less than a week in.
WOW being the only exception simply because when the NGE happened in SWG, my guild moved there and I tried really hard to enjoy it based on that, I lasted 3 weeks (lvl 29 or so) ....settled for the NGE until AOC released.. then TOR... ESO and that's about it (though I recently purchased FFXIV in a Humble bundle for 5 or so bucks) Which I installed this week. . Spending less and less time there and still enjoying ESO more, doubt I'll make it 2 weeks in FF.
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I would be willing to pay about 100-120 dollars a month to have a single good quality MMO to play.
really?
I would not even be willing to spend $100 a month on all video games (excluding hardware). Given steam sales, f2p MMOs, video game is a cheap hobby. Even if i buy a AAA $60 game a month (which i won't have time to finish .. i finish much fewer than 1 game a month), it won't be $100.
Not that i won't spend on my entertainment though. As a point of comparison, a decent meal (restaurant hopping is my go-to hobby with my wife) costs $100. A fancy one cost more than that.
I am also willing to spend more than $100 on a piece of collector toy (I do collect toys too). And i am not even talking about wine yet.
As a comparison, video game is really cheap compared to most other hobbies that I have, except TVs and novels.
I've been continuously subbed to Vendetta Online since November 2004. The 2-year plan works out to ~$7 a month, which is right smack dab in the Goldilocks zone for a subscription game for me. The total number of hours I have officially logged on the production server is 1,627.
Otherwise, I also subscribed to WoW between 2005 and 2007 (I don't remember the exact dates). I have a level 30-something Troll Shaman (edit: Shadow Priest) named "Dasdingo" on Firetree.
Therefore, the greatest number of MMOs I've ever simultaneously subscribed to is 2. I've "sampled" many others, but I haven't spent any more than 12 hours here (Rift open beta) or 6 hours there (Dragon Nest).
...and several MUDs back in the day (these I found quite interesting, and probably spent a couple hundred hours on all told).
So... if you were to stack this up as a pie-chart, the vast majority would be comprised of Vendetta Online, with World of Warcraft and assorted MUDs occupying much smaller slices and a smattering of other games occupying a tiny sliver.
There were also several MMOs I installed and tried to play, but for whatever reason I either could not get them working or the experience was incredibly rough: among these are Cabal 2, Jumpgate TRI, Ascent: The Space Game, and Shores of Hazeron.
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“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
But i certainly do not want to binge watch the typical 20-22 episodes seasons of broadcast tv, particular those with more self-contained stories.
WOW being the only exception simply because when the NGE happened in SWG, my guild moved there and I tried really hard to enjoy it based on that, I lasted 3 weeks (lvl 29 or so) ....settled for the NGE until AOC released.. then TOR... ESO and that's about it (though I recently purchased FFXIV in a Humble bundle for 5 or so bucks) Which I installed this week. . Spending less and less time there and still enjoying ESO more, doubt I'll make it 2 weeks in FF.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
I'll usually be playing that, but I might pick up a different MMO and "mostly" ignore EvE for a while.
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I really admire those who will treat games like women and stick to just one. Personally, i don't treat my wife the same as my games.
really?
I would not even be willing to spend $100 a month on all video games (excluding hardware). Given steam sales, f2p MMOs, video game is a cheap hobby. Even if i buy a AAA $60 game a month (which i won't have time to finish .. i finish much fewer than 1 game a month), it won't be $100.
Not that i won't spend on my entertainment though. As a point of comparison, a decent meal (restaurant hopping is my go-to hobby with my wife) costs $100. A fancy one cost more than that.
I am also willing to spend more than $100 on a piece of collector toy (I do collect toys too). And i am not even talking about wine yet.
As a comparison, video game is really cheap compared to most other hobbies that I have, except TVs and novels.
Otherwise, I also subscribed to WoW between 2005 and 2007 (I don't remember the exact dates). I have a level 30-something Troll Shaman (edit: Shadow Priest) named "Dasdingo" on Firetree.
Therefore, the greatest number of MMOs I've ever simultaneously subscribed to is 2. I've "sampled" many others, but I haven't spent any more than 12 hours here (Rift open beta) or 6 hours there (Dragon Nest).
I have also tried:
Ryzom
Istaria
Eve Online
Neocron
Realm of the Mad God
War Thunder (not an MMO, but w/e)
Urban Dead
Kingdom of Loathing
Progress Quest (SP idle game that parodies MMOs)
...and several MUDs back in the day (these I found quite interesting, and probably spent a couple hundred hours on all told).
So... if you were to stack this up as a pie-chart, the vast majority would be comprised of Vendetta Online, with World of Warcraft and assorted MUDs occupying much smaller slices and a smattering of other games occupying a tiny sliver.
There were also several MMOs I installed and tried to play, but for whatever reason I either could not get them working or the experience was incredibly rough: among these are Cabal 2, Jumpgate TRI, Ascent: The Space Game, and Shores of Hazeron.
"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
"It's pretty simple, really. If your only intention in posting about a particular game or topic is to be negative, then yes, you should probably move on. Voicing a negative opinion is fine, continually doing so on the same game is basically just trolling."
- Michael Bitton
Community Manager, MMORPG.com
"As an online discussion about Star Citizen grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Derek Smart approaches 1" - MrSnuffles's law
"I am jumping in here a bit without knowing exactly what you all or talking about."
- SEANMCAD
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