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Why do most current MMOs suck? Why do we keep buying them?
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As I see it, you should try out TSW.
The pvp still needs development, but the pve game is pure awesome and will make you smile, laugh and stay up longer than you are supposed to. The quests are very well made and will make every other games quests feel even worse after you have done them. Especially the investigation quests! Dont use a spoiler, and you will learn how to play again.
The hardest part is getting used to thinking while questing... all the other games have made follow the map marker, kill 10 rats, pickup whatever you see that is glowing and spend absolutely 0 time thinking. You didnt even need to read the quest, just go on autopilot!
In TSW you will learn that you have to pay attention. Follow the clues. Investigate. Think. Fail. and then finally succeed. And experience joy and happiness from completing a single quest!
And the best part... you only need to make 1 character... Healer one moment, change skills/gear and you are the damagedealer or the tank. No need to make 10 alts before you finally decide what you like.
So dont wait, go play TSW! Its Buy to Play!
Narius has NO DATA. I repeat NO DATA. He has fragments of it. Ask for his link, he will gladly show it to you. IT SHOWS NO DATA OTHER THEN BASIC STATS. If you have the money I am sure the company will gladly let you know how many of those players are individuals, how many play both P2P or F2P, or how many play just one exclusively, and I am sure if you pay they will even tell you how long the average player actually plays a F2P. DO NOT LET HIM FOOL YOU WITH STATS HE CANNOT COMPREHEND!!!!
Well, the reason I don't play my old games is because they've been taken away from me.
SWG, Seed, CoH...seems I can't ever stay in a game unless it's closing on me.
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I was thinking it was going to conclude as a "nobody who played mmos before WoW likes mmos anymore because WoW ruined them all." debate. Actually that was more of a statement, but mark my words someone will say it or something similar to it.
The only way these food analogies make sense to me is if they all charge the same price (or fairly close to it). It probably makes a little more sense today than it did a few years ago when the whole WoW = McDonalds thing first started but it was really off then. If everyone is paying 14.99 for their food, then they would go to wherever has the best food. But, generally the 5 star places charge more than McDonalds and thus the analogy breaks down. We can claim its marketing, but marketing cannot get people to pay a sub. It can get them to buy the box, but if they don't like it they won't pay anymore.
I'm quite agree.
Even if it finished with limited content and if people get bored in 2 or 4 months - result will be the same.
Free to play = pay for show off, pay for might = kill depth of the game where already was nothing much to do.
Nobody make like I feel it should work:
1. Make great quality game with small content, sell box, take money and develop.
2. Sub can be handy but can be annoying for many players. For example, worst I hate it when I miss to re-sub, I can't get in and see (not even play, just check) how my account goes.
3. To avoid sub problem, I would prefer buy more boxes and use some cash shop for: cosmetic items (nothing to have with game content); may be buy hard challenges for hardcore players as main game should be casual level or it can be easy/hard x-packs to give fun for each category of players.
I think this system will give less contradictions and more profit.
try before buy, even if it's a game to avoid bad surprises.
Worst surprises for me: Aion, GW2
^this. I dont understand why people generallize so hard and think thar view is the view of the majority.
Because nobody wants to pay a sub anymore, because there are to many games we all want to try.
So developers have to take this in to account not giving them the resources to create better games.
Its a mix of to many games and player game hopping. whos fault? no ones I guess. We do need to control our urges to play all mmo's hopefully bringing down the stampied of crap games.
Guess it sucks to be you then cause most of the current MMOs are awesome for me.
Yes, I don't even have to 'buy' much due to how many of them are F2P.
So I play MMOs that are fun without paying much of anything.
Go me!
Gdemami -
Informing people about your thoughts and impressions is not a review, it's a blog.
And i don't understand how they will think people will spend hours playing stuff they don't think is fun.
Do they do that? I don't. Every single game i spent more than an hour on .. is fun to me. I understand they may not be fun to everyone .. but they definitely have to be for me .. otherwise why would i spend the time in the first place?
The OP gets it, people claiming otherwise are either young(new to the genre)players or easily satisfied.
The future of mmo's will be sandbox with open world pvp and city management/FPS Style combat(And no Tab Target, 1,2,3,4,2,3,1 button mashing), mark my word. Its only a matter of time. Time that is being slowed by new players to the genre who are not yet bored with games like WoW. But you will get bored of it. That also is just a matter of time, and then you will look back at us(us as in players who curse nowaday mmos) and think, damn they where right.
The reason that there are no better games then WoW(whom i played enough to judge) is because the ''Themepark mmo''
is perfected by blizzard, and can not, and wil not ever be better then it already is. Do you realy think that if there is a better formula, blizzard didnt already come up with it, with their 1,5k employees.
Watch out for games like, Embers of Caerus, of wich the developers are gamers themself and understand what innovation is.
their are few to non sandbox/open world pvp/city building games with FPS style combat out there, and those that are out have poor development. If Embers of Careus wil deliver the game with all the features they have in mind succesfuly, then it wil be a new era in the gaming history. And more companies will follow their formula, until its chewed out to the bone.
If only blizzard made a game with features of Ember of Caerus, but ever sinds they merged with those idiots Activison, they have gone down hill. Real money Action House in D3? WTF? Not allowing you to distribute your own stats?!?
Take a look at Path of Exile, also a company of gamers who made their dream game, and it turned out 10 times better and more innovating then D3.
But hey, keep eating that crap, and call it good.
Same reason movies, music, and food all suck now. Shareholders. Until games are funded without them we are going to have to play what ever call of duty players want.
Hurray for crowdfunding.
I can grab and play old video games (from all genres) that were great games.
If old MMORPGs were great people would still be playing them (some old MMORPGs are still played a lot).
Currently playing: GW2
Going cardboard starter kit: Ticket to ride, Pandemic, Carcassonne, Dominion, 7 Wonders
Same reason you created this topic even tho there are 10k+ of the same topic and at least 100 of them were still active.
You cant get enough of the mmos you dislike