Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Quick Links
What keeps you playing a mmorpg?
iceboxqs
Member Posts: 8
Hello,
I am curious as to what keeps people playing mmorpgs.
First a rate these things (if you wish) that keep you playing the game rate these 1 - 6.
-Friends (the games community)
-Game Content (new items, new combat styles, housing, etc)
-World Content (new areas, more areas, bigger areas)
-Game Play (how you do combat, how you move around the world, trade skills, mini games, etc)
-Graphics (eye candy)
-Dynaimc World (cities fall and grow, factions gain and lose ground, the map changes, etc)
By all means after the list if you feel the need to write why you listed them as you did or just want to spout about the whole idea do so.
Here is my list
- Game Play
- Dynamic World
- World Content
- Friends
- Game Content
- Graphics
Maybe as you can tell from my list I find most mmorpg rather boring because the game play is so static and repitative. Most game worlds are not very dynamic as well.
I've found a few that I enjoy; Battle Tech 3025 Online (canceled due to downsizing 
) and Asheron's Call 2.
I really enjoyed both these games caues the game play was fast and kept you on your toes. BT 3025 had the best blend of action and strategy I have ever seen on a mmo game.
Anyhow what do you guys like in a mmo game?
Comments
I guess what attracts me 1st to a mmorgp is
1. Game Play
2. Game Content
3. World Content
4. Graphics
5. Friends
6. Dynamic World
And after 3+ years... what keeps me going.
1. Friends
2. Game Content
3. World Content
4. Dynamic World
5. Game Play
6. Graphics
1 content
2 content
3 competition with other players/realms
4 gameplay
5 content
Can't stress the importance of solid content enough. Not just levels, but loot, adventures, encounters...ect.
-=-=-=-=-
Chess the original hardcore PvP game!
Bartle: A: 93% E: 55% S:3% K: 50% Test learn what it means here.
Yee: Ach: 85% GRE: 65% AFF: 15% Imm 15% Test Click here to learn about it.
-=-=-=-=-
Achievers realise that killers as a concept are necessary in order to make achievement meaningful and worthwhile (there being no way to "lose" the game if any fool can "win" just by plodding slowly unchallenged). -bartle
Bartle: A: 93% E: 55% S:3% K: 50% The Test. Learn what it means here.
It's better be hated for who you are, than loved for who you aren't.
It's better be hated for who you are, than loved for who you aren't.
Simply put, Friends, nothing else keeps me playing. If I don't have people I know and like to play with then there's no point in playing it, might as well go play a single player rpg. Friends are also a majot determinate in picking the game to start with, have a group of friends who have gone through 4+ games now all together, so we tend to talk about where we're going next, etc.
Richard J. Cox
"There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
That's about it for me and no matter what anyone tells you the 3 G's ALWAYS come first for everyone. If not then everyone would still be playing UO or Meridian 59. And just look at the first thing that comes out of people's mouths when they see a new MMORPG: 'Man the graphics look nice!' LMAO.
If a game is graphically sound(graphics), with a learnable UI/programmable macros(game play), loads of customizations/things to do(game content), be able to communicate effectively/make contact with others(friends), in a huge world(world content) and sever side events(dynamic world), then you have the makings of a MMORPG for me!
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
My reasons for playing mmorpg's/computer games.
- Malkavian
"When you find yourself falling into madness... Dive." - Malkavian Proverb
"When you find yourself sinking into Madness, dive"
Content- 40 %
community -20 %
customer service -10%
gameplay -10%
server stability/bugs-15%
graphics-5%
Now graphics i don't mind i don't notice it after a few weeks anyhow.However a minimum standard is required in this year 2004.I see AC2 are a good standard for graphics for 2004.
Content
Community
Graphics
Gameplay
Conten and Community are like about 80% of what gets me in to the game. Graphics and Gameplay make up the other 20%.
Marduke|Skirmisher
Marduke|Skirmisher
I'm not sure how I'd rate any of these, but what gets me interested initially is an immersive gaming experience. While that kind of encompasses everything mentioned above, mostly I'm attracted to graphics and good content. A dynamic world that seems to be alive helps a lot.
In the end, what keeps me interested is community. Having friends I can share the experience with is ultimately more important than anything else.
1. PvP 4. world content
2.gameplay 5. graphics
3.game content 6. friends
1)Gameplay
2)Game Content
3)Dynamic World
4)World Content
5)Friends
6)Graphics
"Put your foot where your mouth is." - Wisdom from my grandfather
"Paper or plastic? ... because I'm afraid I'll have to suffocate you unless you put this bag on your head..." - Ethnitrek
AC1: Wierding from Harvestgain
Tarthus@mmorpg.com
AIM: Tarthus Darkmist
well... right now I'm playing hoping to relive the experience I had playing my first mmorpg...
and if i can't with the games that are coming out this year... well.. i just may go back to rpg/rts games...
Game Play
Dynamic World
World Content
Game Content
Friends
The first thing I notice is prpbably the graphics, but to actually purchase the game it needs graphics, content, and dynamics...in that order. What keeps me playing is content and friends.
~*~
neschria
Bludgeoner of Bunnies
...
This is where I draw the line: __________________.
What keeps me playing is the competition with other players, and also to live a life outside my own. If i want game play i will go to a nononline game. The reason i keep playing is for that feeling i get when i know i am better than most other players in the game. That is where my drive comes from.
1 Game content
2 Game play
3 Graphics
4 Friends
5 World content
6 Dynamic world
-{_______________________________________________________}-
Which shall it be, Evil taking over you? or you taking over the Evil!
http://www.aimoo.com/forum/freeboard.cfm?id=559646&NoCaches=Yes
^My Board about my game^
Please go and post!
1. Gameplay
2. Game Content
3. World Content
4. Dynamic World
5. Friends
If game sux is cheaper and easier to chat with friends some other way.
==============================
And besides, like it or not, people do try to "win" massively multiplayer RPGs. The rules of engagement are something like this:
* If there is a status bar, make it grow bigger
* If there is a number, make it higher
* If it moves, either get a mission from it or kill it
==============================
And besides, like it or not, people do try to "win" massively multiplayer RPGs. The rules of engagement are something like this:
* If there is a status bar, make it grow bigger
* If there is a number, make it higher
* If it moves, either get a mission from it or kill it
1.Gameplay
2.Game Content
3.World Content
4.Dynamic World
5.Friends
6.Graphics
1. PvP 4. World content
2.Gameplay 5. PvP
3.Game content 6. Friends
Fun keeps me In the games --- I work for a living -- I do NOT want to WORK in my Games .. I do not want to spend 10 hours a day in a game to make it meet its ends .... I do not want to spend a whole Day gathering up the supplies to make a weapon ... only to have that weapon be one nobody wants anyway and I am just making it to get better at it ....
THE game has to be fun .... not Tedium and NOT Time consuming ..... Sitting down to rest to recover hit points -- mana (magic) is Tedium - give me potions .. spells ... something... Anything to let me keep going ... DO NOT give me Time Sinks -- Waiting for hours for something to appear that I need to continue game Play is not my idea of FUN -- So do not put stuff like that into MY perfect Game...
DO not take abilitys or anything AWAY from my characters ... IF you feel I have some gift or attribute that is to good then GIVE all the rest of the players something to compensate - or EVery single MOB something to compensate --- WHEN WILL COMPANIES learn that Takeing AWAY is BAD BAD BAD mojo for thier Paying Customers ??
Look to the stars to know HE is with us. HE hung them as markers, of times and of seasons.