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At what point did you loose hope, if at all ?
delete5230
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Opening day for any mmo is so exciting to me. So many first days on a new release or even an older game I'm getting into were very much fun, I was like a little kid.
My first time in feeling disappointment was the release of Warhammer Online. I studied this game so much and the anticipation was unbearable !....... On log in, I instantly didn't like the graphics and I'm not even a graphics fan. Then the small zones, then two weeks later the feeling was done.
Still, my hope remained high. I had the same feeling with Guild Wars 2. With my guild in place and all ready to start. I was instantly subjected to my story line, this was ok and played a few days, but the dynamic of everything did me in, I only lasted the first 30 days. It was well done, very well done but everything was too handed to me so easily. This was a turn off.
This is when the magic was gone and have been searching since.
Do you have a breaking point, or are you enjoying everything ?
My first time in feeling disappointment was the release of Warhammer Online. I studied this game so much and the anticipation was unbearable !....... On log in, I instantly didn't like the graphics and I'm not even a graphics fan. Then the small zones, then two weeks later the feeling was done.
Still, my hope remained high. I had the same feeling with Guild Wars 2. With my guild in place and all ready to start. I was instantly subjected to my story line, this was ok and played a few days, but the dynamic of everything did me in, I only lasted the first 30 days. It was well done, very well done but everything was too handed to me so easily. This was a turn off.
This is when the magic was gone and have been searching since.
Do you have a breaking point, or are you enjoying everything ?
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I retired retroactively..Haha
Remember when you used to log in and make zero progress that night because you were just shooting the shit for 3 hours?
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Hope is a useless activity that only serves to keep small children quiet when they are waiting for Santa.
Hope is an excuse to sit around and do nothing. Be a victim. Even fear and anger are more useful emotions than hope.
If you don't know what I mean, talk to any MMO player who had an emotional meltdown when SWG closed. That describes it perfectly. What a sad lot they were. Comical, really.
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As far as hope goes.. I am never bereft of it.. Would I love to see many current MMOs redone? Of course.. Deceased MMOs resurrected? Absolutely.. Its not enough to slap a shiny new bow on an old game or produce a new game with the same old gameplay.. My hope is always to see the genre evolve.. And my greatest hope is to learn the design process and one day make my own game..
..because we're gamers, damn it!! - William Massachusetts (Log Horizon)
I had the same experience with Warhammer.. and was my first real big disappointment.
I feel like Guild Wars 2 was the biggest blow to my soul though.... was soooOOOo disappointed, felt like crying real tears..... lol
Pretty excited about his new Darkfall version coming out May 5th though! I played the beta and know what to expect. Incredible changes.
I played seriously 20 games though the last couple years hoping to find a hidden gem of some kind but they were all crap!
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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?"
Then it's all about economic gain, while several MMO's offers several ways to play the game, most people will do the META, the meta will rule the MMO and nothing else matters.
The META for me causes the worse impact, instead of playing how you want, you'll end up playing as the meta instead, and any attempt to balance that is one absolute nightmare.
Your enjoyment threshold is simply lower than mine. Im happy youre happy. But i need something more.
You just haven't realized yet, you got older, the things that appeal to you in your youth don't anymore. That includes MMOs, Crayons, Legos and Ketchup on Chicken Nuggets.
You are clinging to your youth trying to relive the great feeling of a 40 man raid. Its not going to happen, its unhealthy. Move on, play another game, different genre. Take your MMO blinders off, there are 1000 games around you. Have a NEW glorious experience instead of trying to revive the ones that's 10 years old.
I moved to League of Legends for years, now I'm on For Honor, next month I might be playing some survival sim. Don't you ever get sick and tired of playing "Catch" on the playground? Lets try Frisbee
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some people need more than what the plebs enjoy, otherwise they might feel like they have some sort of common ground with people that are obviously below them. . .
highbrow sarcasm . . . :awesome:
It became apparent that Companies are unwilling/unable to
1. Provide well scripted combat AI for all mobs
2. Provide fun non-skinner box gameplay
3. Provide faster pace of hand-made content
4. Provide cheat free gaming enviroment
At same time it became apparent that
5. Budgets are falling
6. Scaling, semi-procedural and cheap (i.e. waves of enenimes) type of content is gonne be increased
7. Faceroll difficulty will be set for 90-95% with exception of few raids for harcore raiding crowds. Even if somehow nice, itneresting difficulty level will be set for quests or normal dungeons - it will be NERFED, usually fast as well.
8. Microtransactions are gonna stay for a long time in MMORPGs.
EACH SINGLE points became deal breaker, not acceptable anymore - and it became apparent that comparies are unwilling or unable (type of reason does not matter) to adress those.
That is when it became apparent that MMORPG genre is finished for me.
The arrogant attitude exists only in your imagination. And how would my standards be too high if what i want is available and was available years ago? Clearly my expectations were met.
And it's, "[i]who[/i] are obviously below them." People are referred to in plural differently from objects.
Trick question; did you detect the arrogance in that advice?
I am dead serious about that
Please do not respond to me, even if I ask you a question, its rhetorical.
Please do not respond to me
Devs no longer wanted to invest big so they started to make smaller crappier games and used marketing/advertising/DISGUISED advertising to sell those crap games.We got cash shops and early access to crowd funding,to founders packs.
At the same time websites began to partner up with these crappy developers to cash in on the lousy games.So then they hired writers and contracted employees to help peddle their disguised advertising.
It became one massively huge blemish on gaming,instead of devs competing with their product,they began using outside PAID help to market their product.
We are not seeing ANY indication that developers will,fund,complete and sell a quality finished product.Instead small increments to try and weasel money out of naive people bit by bit and over long periods of time while NEVER finishing a quality product.
Oh there is yet more.....
Look no further than the sister site rating games 9.8>9 it's like god himself delivered these games,they must be some amazing games,oh wait no their not even top 20 on Twitch surpassed by crappy games with less than 1 million dollar budgets.
With all of these TACTICS,it is screaming in our face...CRAP GAMES but hey let us talk you into buying them anyhow !!.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
what so many dont see because they are not from the outside looking in is that the 'top tier' of the gaming industry are experts at manipulation. hype up a game, get as many pre-orders has possible then go hide.
Then wait about 3 months for everyone to forget and then do it again.
Please do not respond to me, even if I ask you a question, its rhetorical.
Please do not respond to me
When it gets to the point where you hardly even read quest text because it is NEVER necessary to.
When there is simply no atmosphere to the game, merely tactics.
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When EQ2 launched we actually saw the first game where HALF of the game had a world and the other half didn't. The sheer oppression of the evil side, drew the players together and they treated each other better than the good side which was a candyland which drove the players to nodesteal etc. EQ2 was a pretty nice psychological experiment at its launch.