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What you hated most at the MMORPG's you played?
Glemoran
Member Posts: 68
I mean: it was the gameplay? the community? the graphics? the bugs? the customer service?
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Nerfs and customer service.
Button mashing mouse clicking arthritus giving interface.
I would say Dark & Light, but I'm just going to move to my second most hated, because I can't be bothered to write an essay.
I'll just mention what I hated with DDO. I received the game at launch, and started in a guild before I even started playing. It looked good from the box, and I was determined to do my best to enjoy it. After seven hours of continuous gaming, I hated the way it was made. The city is cramped, instancing is annoying (I played EQ2, and you didn't load that often, at least the zones were big).
There were things I did like about it though, like how you can you certain weapons on certain mobs, like maces work best on skeletons, whilst bladed weapons are better on say... a zombie.
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EQ2- didn't like graphics style or the give 100 unfun quests.
EQ- Went too raid focused, and completely different from the original game.
Dragonraja- poorly translated and masochistic clickfest.
Legend of Ares- clickfest and poor graphics, graphics isn't a big deal but if it doesn't offer anything more or different why would I want to play that over something with better graphics?.
Anarchy Online- didn't like sci fi theme.
AC2- vitality sucked! and not really enough people. Tradeskills were repetitive, and the content of the game seemed very well developed at the start but later on not so impressive.
Earth and Beyond- fantasy abilities applied to ships, and a bit linear.
Each of those has chased me off one MMO or another.
Lag is very irritating these days, I'm too used to high quality speed. Grind is normal, and even tolerable if all other conditions are right. The community is important to keep my mind off the grind. Not asking for utopian society, just that many players have a modicum of respect and having fun more than grinding to be #1. Hackers/botters/farmers kill any MMO where a player economy could be a major part of the fun. Any MMO that keeps this under control certainly has a lot to be said for the staff.
In the end, if the game is without much lag, it's hackers that bother me most, followed by a bad community.
Although the "gfx vs. gameplay" debate is a dead horse, I do find that I'm getting a bit more picky about the quality of graphics in games than I used to. Perhaps that is because the bar has been raised considerably, what are others thoughts on that? I play quite a bit of retro games, maybe I've overplayed them a bit
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Also maybe interface falls under the graphics category, but after playing World of Warcraft and EQ2 which both have highly customisable interfaces I tend to look for games that have a similar set up. Oh and they must have autorun function
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Thing is you put a lot of hours into these types of games, they may as well be great to look at and have a user friendly design.
No annoying animated GIF here!
The thing I hate the most is a bad community.
I can tolerate bugs, grind, and other faults, but a bad community will make me quit a game quicker than anything.
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UO - graphics. if they'd just update the graphics!
horizons - graphics and lack of information, both ingame and anywhere online for instructions on what's up.
ryzom - housing is pretty much just a big backpack to put stuff in.
daoc - graphics
shadowbane -graphics
guild wars - pve was retarded to an extreme and just couldn't get into the team vs team battles which really seemed to have no effect on the gaming world, you weren't fighting for anything.
swg - graphics, bugs in things like BH missions (which were jacked from the very start), the CU, and the NGE, customer service
wow - the post 60 zerg-bore-fest, lack of variety in character builds (talents, stats, toon look) and equipment, the community both ingame and forums (yes out of all the games i've listed this is the only one where i list community as garbage), lack of a player run economy (because of no item decay/loss, no high end craftables, and other elements), no player housing, housing in the game was pretty much the same everywhere you went, they just had different colors and some looked newer and pristine and some looked rundown. customer service. no death penalties (which breeds idiotic suicidal players). not much in the way of original ideas, you have stuff stolen from every movie/tv show starting with 'land of the lost' to 'silence of the lambs' and a million others. even their grand BG - alterac valley, comes directly from the wc3 mod - dota (defense of the ancients). idiots (kaplan and pardo) ran off the talent (blizzard north) and everything becamse garbage very quickly and moreso with every new raid patch.
eq - graphics, customer service, boring marathon raids
eq2 - crafting was like a job. i really like crafting if i get bored with pvp in most games, if it's got crafting i don't enjoy, that REALLY jacks the game for me. only played a month, didn't see anything but like low/mid gameplay.
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
I won't list each game individually... in general, 3 things have consistantly gotten me to leave games-
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Vagabond Spirit in search of a home...
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Which FF Character Are You?
It's surprising for me that almost every major MMORPG on the market received a negative vote (and this vote was sustained usually by lots of reasons). Well now I understand when people says they will quit the MMORPG genre for a while...because I feel the same...almost all the games I played weren't good enough for a reason or another (well except the original pre CU Star Wars Galaxies that I just loved - but that is only my opinion)...
Indeed I played Dungeons& Dragons Online for a while with high hopes (it was D&D!!) but that stupid city bored me quickly...and btw: is there any Dragon in that game?
WoW is indeed like a Cartoon Network game
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Now I'll try the Saga of Ryzom...let's see if it's any good at all...(and btw: I think ALL companies should offer a free trial period: they can't expect you to buy accounts, and give them money, before playing at least for few hours).
kids
and i really am not having a dig at young people here but immature kids old or young who spoil mmorpg
o yeh n ddo was truly shocking
uh... I I do agree with you about a free trial...
erm... companies do expect you to give them money... they do it... although I have found that many do offer a free trial at start up, but also ask for your payment information so they can bill you the very second your free period is up... oh well...
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Vagabond Spirit in search of a home...
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Which FF Character Are You?
AC2 - felt like you were playing a third of the game it was supposed to be. Did the same damned quests over and over again. Game that you tried hard to like, but couldn't. It felt doomed.
UO - got to be like playing 3rd rate Diablo. Had a lot of depth but was just miles behind the times with the immersion and fun factor. Got old.
AO - nowhere near being the game that was promised. Soon turned into sci-fi EQ. They came with some wonderful videos that expanded on the Clan-Omni thing, but that just died in the arse. Getting back to a mission after you died got old very fast.
EQ - got old. Having to fetch your corpse is a relic from another age.
2. Grind: Repeating a process over and over again to gain the next level. Why is that?
3. Comunity: If I can't relate to people I probable can't interact with them.
4. Gameplay: I like some originality so if its the same old shit i'm not interested.
5. Artwork: the graphics don't have to be high standard but a suprising artwork can keep me interested.
Immature people due to the games being so easy to reach. Attracts too many kids.
It's all about levels and items.
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Waiting on Guild Wars 2
Whenever i step outside, somebody claims to see the light
It seems to me that all of us have lost our patience.
'cause everyone thinks they're right,
And nobody thinks that there just might
Be more than one road to our final destination--
My biggest pet peave in any MMO is any dev who's idea of a quest is "go kill 10 X and bring back Y".
I was designing entire worlds at the age of 13 when I DM'd for my friends. There is absolutely no excuse for making a 'quest' that is that mind numbingly boring. It's ok to make quests with the goal of killing a monster but at least make it interactive and more compelling than "go kill x and get y'.
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What I hate the most? Raiding. Without a doubt.
My hatred of raiding comes from my days in EQ, which was my first mmorpg. In the early days I loved that game so much I literally couldn't get enough of it. But over time it changed into a game that basically required you to join a big player organization and spend an inordinate amount of time on those long, boring raids.
God I hate raiding so much. It's so...damn...boring. And I hate being treated like a flunky by some pre-pubescent, struting, little jerk. I hate the fact that the worst and most obnoxious players in a game can be the most successfull simply by being willing to go on raids and showing up.
And even if I liked the people who are drawn to raids as a way to coast along and could tolerate the boredom; when you get right down to it raiding is just not my idea of what fantasy adventure should be. Milling around in a whole crowd of people and being led around by the nose so that you don't have to think for yourself as you overwhelm things with numbers.....that's not adventure. It's more like punching a time card when you show up for work in a factory and then keeping a low profile and trying to look busy so that the foreman doesn't chew you out.
I'm not saying that everything else about EQ was perfect. To be honest I think the whole nature of EQ type games is antiquated now and the genre should be moving on to deeper and more complex games (should be). But raiding is the thing I learned to hate the most while playing EQ. I passed on WoW in large part because I knew it was going to be all about raiding at the end as well. And I'll pass on any game that forces people to raid or be left behind.