I played World of Warcraft once with a free trial. I got bored after the first day & didn’t try playing again until the trial ran out. I didn’t really get the appeal of it.
I used to play lots of DDO, but then I got a life.
WoW was great when it was new. It was still organic and lots of random stuff happened. I remember a constant back and forth between the Crossroads and Everglade (or what was the name of that nearby Alliance outpost?).
Or that little undead outpost near Undercity. These spontaneous PvP events were so much fun. Battlegrounds were pretty okay too.
Agreed, at least for the most part. I keep my char in the noob corp, I don’t feel like joining a clan or faction. I have 2 accounts, 1 flies a Hulk and T3 Cruisers and the other flies a Retriever and I’m training for an Orca. No one can really say I put too much cash into it, because I payed for my second account with in-game PLEX.
I played WoW for a few days, then got bored and never played it again
played WoW from launch, on and off again upto cataclysm, got way too easy and aimed at casuals; then with the MoP expansion coming it looks like it just gets worse. Waiting eagerly for GW2.
Final Fantasy 11 Online.
Started and stopped probably 4 times, each time plugging away 30 days of total play time.
Had to stop because the community died and the ridiculousness of having to HAVE a party to move forward in the game made it impossible to get anywhere. It was all grind and no play.
So, has anyone in here ever actually been addicted, or are you just throwing around the word “addicted” as a synonym for “I played it lots and then got bored of it?”
Who cares?
Everyone has their own interpretation of addiction and the different levels of addiction.
I have a friend who’s really addicted to WoW, he regularly sells high level accounts and works the same shitty customer service job since that fucking game came out.
The way I see it, a serious MMO addiction can be worse than a mild drug addiction, at least my addiction requires going outside to the real world every once in a while.
I’ve been playing Eve online for just over two and a half years now,
quit for about 4 months with the whole monocle/door incarna thing but came back for crucible and the ship spinning counter.
I just threw “addiction” into the title to attract more people, honestly who would care about a post named “MMO’s”. Addiction adds some sort of interest or mystery to the subject and heats things up.
Literally my exact same situation.