Am I the only one that hates MMORPGs?

Seriously. I get bored with every one I play. Especially WoW.

@OneManFreakShow: You're not alone. MMORPGs don't really hold my attention long enough for me to enjoy them.

If it acted as a honeypot to all the RMT and other crap, leaving the other MMOs mostly clear of them, then by all means bring it over.

@Hopanoe:

I generally love RPGs, but MMOs are way too "HEY KILL THIS TO GET THIS" for me. Besides, I want a story.

@OneManFreakShow: I can't stand them either. Get bored after a week or less and moves on. Guild Wars is the only one I play a bit every now and then, not very often though.

MMO's can be fun for me, but just as many seem kinda pointless.

I used to play Runescape, but anyone who knows much about its current state knows that they want to lose members now, or something, with the updates they've been throwing out. It was really a great game, but now...sheesh.

@Tuor: I guess you missed the point.

And otherwise aspire to a mythical "purity" of game play, Indeed.

Just finished reading the story, I love reading articles like this about MMO's, it makes everything seem so epic.

I love MMO's but atm i'm just waiting for another one to be released. WoW was good, but i think i'm just bored of the WoW universe now and want to play somthing new. WoW in a way has also spoilt me since when i tried to play some of the other MMO's i played before WoW i oculdn't help but compare them.

That sounds...like a really bad MMO.

The article seemed fairly biased towards making a point that seems contrary to the evidence. MMOs are supposed to be about being social and earning your character and status.

I think Blizzard is pretty satisfied with the market they have reached by appealing to people who actually want to play, rather than the kind of vapid consumers who just want a quick fix then ditch the game.

As a note, my comment is in regards to the gray "sidebar" Southern Weekly article portion.

The overall article reads more like a bizarre short story and I found it sort of weird and dramatized.

I enjoyed the article, thanks for linking it. I do wonder if there's a way to incorporate the whole "pay to skip the early levels" with the "standard" MMO fare for those who want to work through it, without game-breaking mechanics like it experienced.

The more I think about it the more it sounds like you pay for exclusive content that only paying people can go to to prevent the influence on the normal game... which just ends up kinda "meh." There has to be some medium, even if it isn't happy, right?

Well I suppose if we're lucky China will collapse into a sea of gamer lawsuits.

this is the worst MMO can be, totally designed to be substance abuse.

I know, I wish I'd thought of it actually.

@SSJPabs: me too!

(;_; )

Slightly off topic: Something that amazes me is people's burning need to contribute by informing others of either their lack of interest or lack of knowledge of the subject currently under discussion in any conversation.

Just look at the top 5 comments here.

It's like you're talking to a friend about computer hardware, and some person feels the pressing need to say: "Oh, I don't know anything about that computer stuff..lol". Or "That kind of stuff doesn't really interest me" when you weren't bloody talking to them in the first place...

Geez.. humans..

@Tarislar: or when people talk about things that the post wasn't even origionally about! am i right?! man i hate that!
(i'm only kidding Tarislar!)

The article itself was bloody interesting. A really long read, but worth it. Most interesting is the differences/similarities between Asian and western gamers. A lot of the issues that were noted with regard to Asian player behaviour are very much the same as western players, but it's expressed in a slightly different way.

There are so many things about this article I want to discuss.. I just don't know where to start.

@HAWAIIANACTOR: I'm just sick of every article featuring anything to do with WoW or MMOs in general starting off with a bunch of comments from people on how/why they hate MMOs.

It would be like me commenting on every thread involving FPS games and saying how I hate/don't play/am not interested in FPS games. It's annoying that I have to wade through this crap that people likely don't even realize they're doing.

The only MMORPG I've really enjoyed was Guild Wars...mostly because it didn't really have much grind, and power-leveling was pretty much useless.

wow, she spent way too much time and real money on that MMO. Pay to level, then pay to open chests for gear, and most chests offered crap? That game is a scam, no fun found anywhere in there. The creater, must be rolling in dough now, that bastard.

I like City of Heroes for the gameplay dammit.

Figures though. People looove wasting money.

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@OneManFreakShow:

Nope I hate Grinding MMO's

Though AOC looks pretty good.