General Discussion

Does anyone really play MMOs anymore or do they just start them, race to the top level, get nerfed by the devs, have there gamed changed in some major (or minor) way and then quit after a few month come here and bitch about it how "this was a great game until" or in light of recent releases "this game sux because" and of course the best "no one should play this game and teach the producer a lesson because....".

Really does anyone just PLAY these games with out tearing apart every particle, reading every word in print and watching /looking every video/pic looking for a reason to hate a game? We are killing games that haven't even come out yet. Most of the post for games that are in developement are very negative, by reading the posts here all the games coming out are going to launch like V:SoH,  crash like DnL, and be relegated to F2P because no sane person would pay to play this cookie cutter piece of WoW wannabe crap.

Who here actually spends time playing an MMO, enjoying it, adapting to changes the devs make, building the community, and general glad to do it?

I would say i actually play them... I always get caught up in exploring instead of doing quests i should be doing.

I'm not playing mmos at the moment. Fan of them but can't play them forever!

It seems hard to imagine, but I'm sure some do - myself included.  I recently attended the SOE Fan Faire and seemed out my element in the discussion panels, mainly because all anyone talked about were the calculations and technical functions of the different aspects of the games.  I felt lost because those are the things I don't care nor think about when I'm playing a game - I just play it.

I don't know if that makes me a minority or not, but I just don't like getting to know the technical and indepth aspects of the games I play. /shrug

It's in the humans nature to find faults, especially on the intrawebz. I think a bigger problem is that some people aren't open to the possibility of having many MMORPGs in the market. Like with the AoC and WAR war. They choose one MMORPG and start bashing the other because... Well, I don't know why they do it. To those people: If you don't like the other game and think it's going to go straight west for some irrelevant reason, we don't really care.

I am actually trying to do "spends time playing an MMO, enjoying it, adapting to changes the devs make, building the community, and general glad to do it?" with TCoS, and probably will play that for quite some time, unless of course I really don't like it.

I love all MMOs so no, I never get tired of any of them. Then again, I have never reached a level cap before, so I don't really know too much.

I certainly wish that most threads run this well. I agree that to many MMOs are about the numbers and think this plays right into the personality that "Chooses an MMO and bashes the others".  When I first started with EQ it was about playing for me and my friends but it is odd how people get into the numbers and the raiding and the uber loot, that it is just no fun anymore. Of course they leave you behind because you are more intrested in the game.  I am glad to see that some people still "Just want to play a game".

The problem is developers are not making games to be "just played" anymore, they are making them to be addicting, number crunching, and generally dull until you reach the higher level. We are being programed to believe that the good part is just around the corner but when we finally get to that point we find it not as appealing as they said it was, and either leave the game or sit around and mope waiting for the next big addition so we can race once again to the "fun part".

While this is the case, this doesn't mean at any point in time that MMORPGs were really fun. When MMORPGs were new we  let our imaginations fill in the missing pieces (well I did), but now that we are passed that stage developers have to add real content and most are just not up to that challenge. They will continue to let the new player pool run dry and once that's gone we'll see a huge change in developers thinking that will most likely come from a massive drop in players from the community.

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Lately, it DOES seem that I like researching, reading about, and trying new games more than I do actually playing them.