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Have You Ever Returned To An MMO You Previously Just Could Not Get Into? | MMORPG.com
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Have You Ever Returned To An MMO You Previously Just Could Not Get Into? | MMORPG.com
Not every game is made for everyone. This is known. Yet even games that seem to have wide-spread appeal don't always click either. However, that doesn't mean they won't click later on. Have you ever played an MMO and initially hated it, only to return and enjoy the same game months or years after you first tried it?
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I also started playing Elder Scrolls Online, and it was awful. from the 30+ hour patch to get the game playable in the beginning to horrifying lag, and absolutely un0fun PvP, I quit. Later, I came back after I was assured all of these issues had been fixed, or at least made tolerable. So I went back and had a marvelous time, playing nearly 2 years before I quit to play Star Trek Online again.
The world is going to the dogs, which is just how I planned it!
I tried 3 times to get into Titan Quest. Bought it, sold it, bought it again, sold it again, finally got it on steam and decided I WAS going to finish it. Game finally clicked for me and I'm still playing it.
SWG (pre-cu) - AoC (pre-f2p) - PotBS (pre-boarder) - DDO - LotRO (pre-f2p) - STO (pre-f2p) - GnH (beta tester) - SWTOR - Neverwinter
Whenever I switch to other games, I simply categorize it as one of my adventurer's dreams. She always returns to the woke Eorzean life to do whatever it is she does or not do whatever it is she won't. She's always there for me - consents to every action I input into the keyboard (except when my ffxiv disconnects randomly or for server maintenance, I've accepted this to mean it as a gesture of rejected consent from my adventurer). We witness each other live our own lives - she in hers and I in mine - we learn and draw inspiration from each other.
All else seems to follow.
7 years later I returned and had fun for a good nine months or so.
Got a little stale so started playing LA on a lark, but I might go back to ESO once next expansion comes out.
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I also remember being very much annoyed at Bill here because he was so much in love with that game made me puke.
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I've tried playing LOTRO for years, but being a poor kid who could not afford to buy the content or had the attention span to grind it out, I made myself believe the game isn't good (the fable about The Fox and the Sour Grapes). But since 2021, I finally decided to take the plunge, got into it and bought everything except Fate of Gundabad, I'm having tons of fun.
I could never get into PW as a kid, because it was grindy and I didn't have the attention span to deal with that, but now it feels just right.
Eldevin was also a game I've tried to get into, but never could, but finally found its charm and it's so good.
Too bad I can't juggle between multiple MMOs and while I wish to play these two along with Turtle WoW and Project Gorgon, I just really can't spread my attention so much and now my focus is LOTRO and everything else is plan B if for whatever reason I decide to not play LOTRO anymore.
I've gone back to DAoC a few times, some longer than others. I think I might stay if some old friends were still on.
If in the first moments I feel limitations and lacking in basic things like character creation, classes, generic missions and lack of creativity in the outfits, boring OST, or its possible see that the devs are limiting themselves I drop the game and will never return.
Couldn't get into them the second time either..
or the Third ..or fourth.. or all the other times my static would ask me to play.
Eve, had few problems with it as I had read up on what to expect. There was a lot of information on what to do and exactly how to do it in forum posts, and such, even pirate websites talked about what types of ships they went after and what types they normally left alone. Played it for about two or three years, many many years ago.
Gothic, I played got quickly killed on the beach and left it alone for years, then went in one day and got addicted to it. Played all factions and have liked most of the games in the series ever since then.
Another good idea for an article would be what games have you hated playing but couldn't stop playing them? Lineage2 I cursed every time I played that game yet couldn't stop logging in everyday. Talk about a love hate relationship.
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I like the mod ability in WoW and all of the battlegrounds, but they're too heavy in borrowed-power systems and Arena-gating of PvP gear. They're going completely in the wrong direction for casual players.
To me Rift has the best mechanics but when it went free-to-play it became too expensive to play. They time-gated free play but let you pay real money to jump ahead in gear. Killed the game, or at least the community that was thriving at the time.
GW2 is probably the most casual-friendly but I don't like some of the story lines they force you to play through to unlock zones.
Dark Age of Camelot would great if they did a modern remake.
It's a mess ..from my POV. I can barely understand wtf happens on my screen. Fighting is nice tho'.
I tried Eve Online for like 5 times ...until one day. I stick with it for like 2 months. It's a very, very nice game. It can be chill with amazing atmosphere, or get your blood spike high when you are in low sec or in Worm Holes, where most of my time was spent there. I was a Relic and Data site ..hunter and I love this "mini-game" in Eve...until I was hunted down lol. 4 times, where with which one I lost around 200 mil + isk. So almost 1 bill.
I still have a decent ship and all to go back. Maybe I will after I'm done with LA.
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Only one I can really think of that I wanted to like, and should have, from my other games I enjoyed, was WildStar.
Pretty much hated that from minute one and, was the same no matter how many times I tried it.
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