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Why am I so bored...?
bobafett573
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ok i've loved MMORPGs ever since i started playing star wars galaxies a few months after i came out. i played for a while and then started playing planetside simultaneously. i played both those games until the NGE was released and then dropped them both due to my anger at SOE for pretty much ruining my gaming life. however, i started playing WoW and thought it was ok and it entertained me enough to keep me busy until May '06 when i finally got bored with the same old endgame content where the only thing you looked forward to were the friday and saturday night MC raids. For the past 45 days or so, i've been going around trying both full version and trial versions of some of the most talked about MMORPGs out there. I've played Anarchy Online, EVE Online, Everquest 2, Final Fantasy XI, Saga of Ryzom, and even picked up Planetside again. I gave each one a fair shot and played about a week on each of them yet none of them excited me. I just don't understand it. Is it possible that all the MMOs out there these days just suck or what? Is it possible to get "burned out" of MMOs? I bought Far Cry just 3 days ago and already finished the campaign (the original reason I bought my first MMO was because i was tired of beating games so easily). I don't know. It just seems nothing holds my attention these days. Has anyone else experienced this feeling before or feel this way today? Any help here is appreciated, given that my gaming life is practically nonexistent anymore. i'm so depressed 
P.S. Sorry if i posted this is the wrong forum. admin plz move if so!
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I understand man.
Have you played Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion yet?
If not... well worth the cash. Great graphics, insane freedom, and just an all around amazing game with tons of content. Oblivion is one of those once every five years kinda games that just oozes quality.
If you are looking for an mmo, perhaps an mmo with more content and depth would keep you intrigued longer. Ultima Online, Asherons Call, and Everquest (1) all blow to shreds all of the newer mmos out today content wise. You will take a pretty big hit in graphics, but the depth level might just amaze you for such old games. There is a good reason these games are still played today. If you want fantasy play with better graphics in an mmo, then you might check out "Dark Age of Camelot" and grab the EPIC EDITION. It is a very good game with about 100 times the content that WoW has.
Regardless of your choice(s), Best of luck to you in your fulfilling game search.
- Zaxx
Yep. I think that Dark Age of Camelot just might be the cure to your mmo/video game sickness.
Try it for free bro.
Click HERE for a 14 day FREE TRIAL of DAoC !!
Download it. Play it. Relax and have FUN. DAoC is a very good game.
- Zaxx
As Morphues would say: "I know ...exactly how you feel."
In the past 3-4 years I have played (in order of appearance):
*AC2 for about 4 months from shortly after release (it was the one of the first second-gen MMOs and a good jumping-in point to the genre for me).
*EVE beta--the last two weeks of it.
*SWG for two months after release.
Nothing for quite a while...looking forward to UX:O and what a great game it was going to be.
*FFXI for all of 3 days.
Nothing for a while longer.
*November 15, 2003 (yes, I remember the exact date) I was invited to the WoW Friends and Family Alpha. I played for almost an entire year. It was my longest time in an MMO ever, to this day.
*EQ2 from release until about two months later.
Nothing for about 4 months.
*WoW for about 3 months.
Nothing really for the next 4 months, though I briefly came back to EQ2...for about a week.
Tried a one week trial of SWG about a week after the NGE, wandered aloud to myself "OMG, WTF?!? They've totally ruined this game." Took all of about an hour for me to figure that out and I never played again. Oh, how fond I am of my brief stint in SWG at release.
*Eve a few weeks later for about a month, then a tornado struck the neighborhood I lived in on Nov. 6, 2005. So, I kind of needed to cancel my sub for a while.
*Wow a month later and for about a month, got bored and canceled.
*Eve for about a month, got bored and canceled.
*EQ2 for about 2-3 weeks, got bored and canceled.
And here I sit now. My current EQ2 sub ends on August 4th. I recently purchased F.E.A.R. and Titan Quest. Both great fun, but the MMO itch is still there.
There's something about newness that really helps the MMO genre along. Third-gen games are due out later this year. Of the new up-and-comers I am excited about: Chronicles of Spellborne, Warhammer Online, and Vanguard. That's the order of most to least interest for me. However, at the same time, I still fundamentally realize that each of those games won't cut it somehow. It's been that way with every MMO. Here's this great concept, yet a somehow intangibly flawed one.
I can never really put my finger on it, they just always seem to fizzle out after a month or two. What held WoW's alpha and beta longevity for me was that each push (a.k.a. phase) was always something different--up until the end anyhow. That first month or two we were all playing Dwarves and you could be any class you wanted so long as it was a Paladin, Mage, or Priest. Then we were all Undead, with the added bonus of now being able to play Warriors and Warlocks. A few months later and it was Tri-Horde Push. Orcs, Taurens, and Undead, oh my! Towards the end of Tri-Horde beta applicants began to noticeably trickle in; circa May 2004. Not too long after all races were opened up and the Gnome and NE hating began. I say with a glint in my eye: "I don't Troll. I Gnome!" I'll always be a Gnome at heart.
See, the thing that keeps an MMO exciting and players wanting to play is the newness; the spleandor of what-may-be. There's always something new and cool to discover. ...Up until you've "been there" and "done that."
Which brings us to our quandry. I like to think of it as "The Fruit Cake Effect."
Everyone loves fruit cake, right?? Sure! But there's just so much of the stuff you can take around..oh...I don't know....Christmas, maybe? Now don't get me wrong, fruit cake is good stuff; I like it. But when you have large quantities of it...it sits forgotten; doomed to the fate of one day becoming indistinguishable from a cinder block. Well, all the folks who produce games for this genre are essentially serving us fruit cake. Sure there are some differences; dehydrated fruit versus fresh fruit for example. But it's still fruit cake. The variations of fruit cake are always....still fruit cake.
Can't I have some pie for a change? There are so many varieties and while they're still fundamentally all "pie," at the same time they're not JUST pie. Heck, you can have a different pie each day of the week and it's still a new and fresh experience. Now if an MMO could figure out how to stop serving fruit cake all the time and give us a large assortment of pies, we'd be all set.
Very good post Thand1...
What really sucks is when you're enjoying an awesome piece of pie and some dude grabs it, pinches a healthy loaf off in it, mulches it up and then tries to re-shape and re-bake it into the form of a fruit cake, pinches your nose and shoves it down your throat. Then he stands there and wonders why you are blazingly pissed at him, and then more or less states 'it'll taste better, you'll just have to get used to it' as you're vomiting on his shoes.
Sorry, I just can't let it go....lol ugh...you all know what I'm talking about I'm sure.