Have you ever been addicted to an MMO?
What MMO?
Did you stop playing?
Why?
Would you go back if you could?
I’ll go first.
EVE Online
I stopped because my onboard gfx card was unsupported after an update.
I will go back soon after my Radeon HD 6670 comes in the mail soon.
FFXI
I ran out of subscription money
I might go back if I had the cash.
Does playing a game because you’ve beaten all other relevant releases in a given time period count as addicted? If yes, than sure. Several times.
Played WoW and played for maybe a week before getting bored of it. I don’t see how people play that for thousands of hours but I guess someone that plays WoW might not understand how I play the games I do so much.
I ended up just picking flowers to raise my alchemy skill before quitting. I don’t particularly care for the genre in general.
I played WoW since the release date in 2004, I was bad at first, but played anyways. Once The Burning Crusade came around (the best time in the game), I was into raiding and PvPing, I stayed that way until patch 3.3 (Trial of the Crusader), where Wotlk bored me and I quit, I came back to WoW about a year ago and played for 6 months, Cata was alright, I raided and PvP’d again, but the game doesn’t have the feeling it used to for me. I’m counting on Guild Wars 2 to fill the gap left by WoW.
I’ve never been in a position where my consumption of media interfered with other life functions so I am not sure if I have an addiction to video games or if simply enjoy them.
MMOs are fun if you’re willing to farm.
And farm.
And farm some more.
Probably the only MMO I actually spent time on was Runescape when I was around 11-12. Played for a year or more before exhausting everything I could do as f2p and finally quit.
Played WoW a little bit recently but it definitely doesn’t live up to the hype, in my opinion. That game really is just farming until you’re bored. Every quest was constant ‘kill this many enemies’, ‘collect this many things’, ‘take this from Point A to Point B’. Give me something interesting to do!
I’ve played a few other MMOs but they’ve all proven the whole genre is almost entirely farming, with a few neat quests that you can only do after farming for about ten years. The only MMO that looks promising would be TOR, it looks very cinematic and gameplay looks nice. There may be some farming but from what I’ve seen it focuses on story.
In my opinion, farming should only be for those who want to max out everything, and it most certainly shouldn’t amount to every quest.
As for addiction, I’m not so much addicted to gaming as I am passionate. Okay maybe I’m a little addicted but at present, I don’t have much else to do until I can get a job.
Wow has greatly degenerated over the years, it used to be so much better than it is now.
I only played the f2p of that, too. I guess it’s set during the most recent expansion but I was hoping I could start from the beginning. Maybe that’s why I can’t get into it.
I’m into the MMO idea, but the fact that the RPG element in them across the board is almost exactly the same every time is what turns me off. The shit combat, the grinding… can’t stand it. The most likeable MMORPG for me was Vindictus, and that was only for 15 minutes till I got bored of the missions just being dynasty warriors with less enemies.
The only MMO I’ve ever been able to sit down and play for longer then an hour was Asheron’s Call, and that’s because it’s radically different from other MMOs (and the combat in other MMO’s is much more passive compared to it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WQCpzY8Yis < here’s a lot of reasons why
GW i played for a while but that was only because it lacked monthly subscription and my friends wanted me to play with them.
I’ve always leaned towards offline games/not massively multiplayer like the entire TES series, Dungeon Master, and Diablo games because I enjoy games more when they emphasize atmosphere which MMO’s don’t really convey as well.
You’ll be disappointed if you didn’t like WoW. It’s mostly the same, but with each class having it’s own story. Plus space combat. Other than that, it’s pretty much WoW with a Star Wars skin. The main difference in gameplay between TOR and WoW is, in WoW, as a melee character, (and hunters) you autoattack, where in TOR, your basic attack is not automatic.
I’ll be honest, I played WoW from soon after it’s release to soon after the release of the first expansion. Like, all the time. I put it down until the second expansion came out, tried to get back into it, and couldn’t, so put it down again. I’ve been playing for almost a year during the newest expansion, and it feels quite a bit different than when it was new. Everything is more polished, sure, but it feels lacking compared to 2004-2006.
I played Everquest 2002-2008 and I was addicted to it for a while. It was fun for a long time however I just grew tired of the same tasks such as grouping killing things and turning quests in and them realized I was just kinda wasting time, everyone in a while I get nostalgia to play but after a half an hour or so I realize why I got tired of mmos… I’d like to try Everquest 3 whenever it comes out to
I don’t think I’ve ever been “addicted” to an mmo per se, but I did play Perfect World International, Eve Online, and Global Agenda quite a bit each. I got really into them. But, in each one, once I hit the first really big milestone in the game (PWI - getting TT weapons, Eve - getting a battleship, GA - playing a DDR), I suddenly lost interest. I guess I just realized, after I came down from the elation of the achievement, that things were just going to get harder from there on out, and most endgame content wasn’t going to be something I wanted to do. Like faction wars - I just can never commit to joining a clan or faction or anything like that, because I have a job and a pretty active social life and it would just be too hard to be actively doing raids and wars and stuff all the time. Most clans expect a lot of devotion out of their members, and have all sorts of stupid drama all the time, so there was nothing really left for me to do but the quit the game after that.
I’ll probably pick up TOR and play for a while though, since I have a friend who plays too.
I’m thinking about giving PlanetSide a shot. It’s old but is it good?
I never tried it but I always heard about it, apparently a sequel by the same people is coming soon and its F2P
I played Ultima Online for about 6 years, ever since, wow for a couple of months and for the last couple of years I´ve been playing EVE
not an MMO, but LOL has been sucking up SO much of my time lately… schoolwork be damned!
Counter-Strike Online.
Played WoW 'till Wotlk, but since haven’t paid the subscription yet
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