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Posted January 06, 2012
I don't play MMO's, I do (or did, rather) play subscription-based games in single-player mode. At least that's how I played World of Warcraft from beta until a year ago, excepting very scarce instances of having anything to do with another player (I doubt I'm lying by saying those times were fewer than a dozen).

As for why I happily threw away 25€ every two months? I guess I liked the idea of experiencing Warcraft from the viewpoint of a single individual.
Post edited January 06, 2012 by Miaghstir
Posted January 06, 2012
can anyone recommend a good free MMO?
and a MMO I used to play was Ragnarok,even though I only played when it went free.the problem is that soon it got infested by hackers,noobs,trools,beggars and bots.but I highly recommend it.
Posted January 06, 2012
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l0rdtr3k: can anyone recommend a good free MMO?
and a MMO I used to play was Ragnarok,even though I only played when it went free.the problem is that soon it got infested by hackers,noobs,trools,beggars and bots.but I highly recommend it.
I couldn't believe it myself but the Lord of the Rings Online is actually really good (and I don't play MMOs)
Posted January 06, 2012
I'm a massive achievement whore, why else?
Posted January 06, 2012
I don't play MMO's. I played WoW for less than two months because it weas fun to discover the big world which I known and liked from previous Warcrafts.

Got bored, though, as all the grinding to get somewhere got tedious and tiresome.

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lowyhong: Games have historically been about progression, otherwise they'd be boring. You wouldn't want to play Robotron without an indicator of your wave and score. Item looting offers another perspective to progression, but the issue with MMOs is that they focus too much on the acquisition of the loot, and too little on any other aspect that is can be an equal auxiliary. Gameplay, as can be loosely termed in this sense, then devolves into just finding better loot over and over again. It's why the richest, smartest players in EVE have runners to do the lower-level tasks such as mining, while they themselves go AFK - literally AFK until they come back just to check their Assets.
That's probably one of reasons I was never sucked into MMO's. Even those games played only for score or wave bore me. I need something that drives me forward in game, usually story, otherwise I don't see point in playing. In WoW I wasn't driven forward too much by good loot because I grew attached to my old stuff which helped me in some sticky situation and felt no need to throw it quickly away to get something bigger and better.
Posted January 06, 2012
I don't play MMOs though I've recently thought long and hard about SWTOR for no other reason than the franchise. I loved Kotor 1&2 and am somewhat of a SW fan. I never got into SWG but I would be so pissed if not only the devs changed game fundamentals on me or ( like an increasing number of MMOs these days) someone decides to shut down the servers killing the game. To know I've invested so much time and money in game and have it explode in front of my very eyes has me incredibly paramoid. No, regular games and maybe multiplayer is the key for me, just too bad TOR wasn't Kotor 3.
Posted January 06, 2012
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StingingVelvet: These fucking things destroy my soul. I have played 2 of them now, WoW and TOR. I played both for the pretty areas and story. I played WoW because it was the pinnacle of the genre and I played TOR because it's Bioware and story-focused.

The entire time I play I see the manipulation. The entire time I see the ways they lengthen my playtime, annoy me and then try and rope me in with loot, progression and a feeling of power of others. The game is so blatantly rigged and there is no attempt to hide it. Playing to enjoy yourself is shunned, you're meant to play it like work.

In every other genre things are getting more accessible, more focused on fun, more focused on streamlining. In MMOs the focus is on making you play as long as possible to achieve little candy pellets. It's fucking terrible! Endless trash mobs, like literally endless. I think I am having nightmares of a valley filled with mobs a level below me and a quest objective in the middle of them. Death penalties, closed off content, endless, ENDLESS nonsense.

And it's a shame, because both WoW and TOR had awesome aspects I appreciated. WoW's design work and production quality was great, I still have that goblin city music in my head since the one month I played. TOR has an excellent story, the imperial agent storyline quests felt as good as something from KotOR 3, had it existed. The punishing and downright soul crushing gameplay of both games kills me though. I honestly feel dirty for having played it for a couple weeks.

So... why do you play these things? What makes it enjoyable for you?
Never played one. Closest equivalent would be BBS Door Games like Tradewars, LORD, Food Fight, etc....and they were all free.

Which is one of my biggest gripes with MMO games for the longest time is that you had to pay for most of them....and for the ones you have to pay a subscription fee you also have to pay for the game? heh No thanks.

The other gripe is that there is never much if any story compared to single player (which is all I care about)

Oh and people.....I hate people. Have to deal with them all day at work.....why would I want to do that in my free time? No thanks.

Another thing I hate is that eventually the game will not be around anymore. I can take any of my single player games, pop it in and play it. MMO? Nope.
Post edited January 06, 2012 by DosFreak
Posted January 06, 2012
I Play Lineage 2. I have been playing off and on since the second chronicle (6 or 7 years) Now that it has gone free to play I have been spending more time with it. I love exploration and doing quests. I like progressing my character(s) and interacting with my clanmates. I have many different toons so I play who I am in the mood to play.
Posted January 06, 2012
Never even installed one. Ain't playin no MMOs sir, no.
Posted January 06, 2012
I don't play MMO's because in every area of real life, there are people who are better than me that are more than willing to tell me so. It was the same way in MMO's. In single player games, I'M the unstoppable badass savior of the world, and I'm keeping it that way. Unless, of course, I choose to set it on fire. But I don't want to. I just want to light a flame of...yeah.
Posted January 06, 2012
I occasionally play them because I want to understand why so many people love them.. unfortunately I still haven't figured that out.
Posted January 06, 2012
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Rohan15: I'm a massive achievement whore, why else?
Then you definitely need to farm (fish, more precisely) Old Ironjaw that has a <1% drop rate in Ironforge. /s

Tbh, I spend two-three hours fishing, trying to catch it, and gave up. Came back the next day, got him on the fourth try.
Posted January 06, 2012
Like Prydeless in an eve player.

It is huge, 99.5% of what goes on in the game is controlled by the players.

About the only thing that isnt player driven is basic blueprints for building stuff and some of the buy orders are npc.

I like it
Posted January 06, 2012
i don't really have an answer... I only played age of conan and i am playinn The old republic right now. I've been a star wars geek since i was a little boy so the old republic seems like a no brainer for me. Love the world, gameplaywise, there is something addicting about it but a lot of things annoy me.

Paying monthly and when you stop you lose your game, it's always the same 5 minutes over and over again (but somehow those 5 minutes are quite addictive). Being unable to do everything on your own unless you come back to that area a month later for that singel enemy, being clunky in inventory management and everything that has to do with it.

The thing is (i think) you have to be fascinated by the world. Age of conan fascinated my because of how it portrayed a world for adults and the fact for it's time it had some jawdropping visuals. Loved the combo system until the made i more like WOW and by doing so removing the only thing that made the combat exciting. Also if you have a group of friends who play regulary i guess that's probably fun too
Posted January 06, 2012
I've played many mostly just for a couple of months many with friends for much longer. And thats the thing they allow me and some of my best friends who now live hundreds of miles apart to still get together and enjoy something.

I think our next game though will be the secret world the out of game experience makes it a much more interesting prospect than many games out there.
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