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My stepson had been begging to play WoW.
I told him that he needs to play a F2P MMO before I consider spending money on him.
I asked him why he doesnt play the F2P MMO anymore. He said, "It doesnt give you anything." I told him that you need to level up to do more things. He said, "Ya I did level up and it still doesnt give you anything." I said well it has to give you something while your playing.
The reply I get is, "It gives you different monsters to fight and area to level in, I already had that."
*pokerface* Did I just get owned?
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Truly marvellous! A wise kid you have.
I always believed that adult gamers are just made to believe that grind is fun. We are programmed like the dog of Pavlov. When a new expansion pack of WOW came, I read many people write stuff like "Yay, new factions to grind!" and I thought... WTF? It's not fun. Period. But we are programmed, manipulated to think a treadmill is fun.
A hamster wheel looks like a career ladder from the inside.
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People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert
This
I remember getting my daughter and son Everquest Accounts(then 9 and 10). My son and I used to group together and do stuff. My daughter rolled her eyes and went picking flowers or some such. At the end of the day, I looked over to her computer still logged on (although by then she was reading a book) and she had over 300 plat, this on a level 12 toon she had created the day before. I asked her how she had got so much cash (much more than I had at that stage), she rolled her eyes again and said "boys are dumb, they give you stuff if you act nice".
If you get him WoW, his grades will go down and his weight will go up.
MMOs are for people out of school.
If you get him WoW, his grades will go down and his weight will go up.
MMOs are for people out of school.
That very narrow minded....
Wouldnt it be better advice to say "everything in moderation"?
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Some of my fondest memories are playing SWG with my son. He was 11 at the time. His favorite thing to do was catch me questing in Restuss and he would run in, kill me and then hit his macro that said "You just got pwned Dadio".
As I said, he was only 11, but he ended up being one of the most feared PvPers on Tarquinas server.
Are for people with jobs, wives and children that can only play 2 hours a day right?
OH WAIT...
If you follow this line of thought mmos are for single people on college -.-
"It has potential"
-Second most used phrase on existence
"It sucks"
-Most used phrase on existence
Great quote. Summed up pretty much every MMO in a single sentence.
The wheel movement might be hypnotic for the hamster, he just runs to see the same movement being done and thus feeling joy or fullfiness
"It has potential"
-Second most used phrase on existence
"It sucks"
-Most used phrase on existence
Tarq! We like it <>, not < >.
I miss that server.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
The reviewer has a mishapen head
Which means his opinion is skewed
...Aldous.MF'n.Huxley
Tell him that that's what WoW gives you when you level up, too.
What is the goal when playing MMOs? Seems to me that there is none, just spinning the wheel at ever higher levels and gear ratings.
At least the Hamster gets a good cardio workout, what is the reward for an mmo player? Good gear? It can't be. The gear becomes obsolete with the next patch.
The hamster wheel accurately describes what MMOs feel like to me lately, if you feel different, why don't you recommend a game that isn't all about the grind? And don't say GW2...
Don't be terrorized! You're more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder! More people die every year from prescription drugs than terrorism LOL!
daddy you just got owned )
give the boy his wow!.. he certainly seems to be able to handle it, why not give it to him
There are people who play games and then there are gamers.
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total win.
"There are at least two kinds of games.
One could be called finite, the other infinite.
A finite game is played for the purpose of winning,
an infinite game for the purpose of continuing play."
Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse
says the man with the American Psycho avatar >.<
"There are at least two kinds of games.
One could be called finite, the other infinite.
A finite game is played for the purpose of winning,
an infinite game for the purpose of continuing play."
Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse
Not sure about you, but the entire purpose of swings for me was to propel yourself to out jump the other kid
Wow you step child has more common sense than most adult MMO gamers. And for a moment I thought the new generation of youth were more stupid. I stand corrected.
Philosophy of MMO Game Design
My son asked me to cancel his mmo. I asked him why. He says patch after patch, they dumb it down for grown ups that don't have much time to play.
What happens when you log off your characters????.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFQhfhnjYMk
Dark Age of Camelot
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And people always blame the "kiddies" for supposedly ruining the MMO genre...