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How many of you REALLY went back to a MMO?
Elikal
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Its something I ponder. I realized, often I leave a MMO on my HD for a long time, but in the last 2 years or so, when I stopped played a MMO, I never returned for more than a few weeks. Most of the time after 2-3 weeks the same badness begins and I play less and then not anymore again. Best is 6 weeks, and then I leave again, when some big expansion pack came. When I leave a MMO, I usually see it has reached its max. potential for me, and often when I come back out of a whim or curiosity or boredom, after some weeks I realized it was right to leave. I just dont find me way back into games, once I quit.
Do you really return and stay and feel the MMO really has changed? Examples??
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I usually check MMOs that I have left in the past, usually after a year or so. I usually subscribe for a month and try to get the feeling of the world. I'm especially interested in the state of all the things that led me to leave in the first place. If a part of those are fixed and new features are also introduced, I tend to stay longer.
Come back and play the expansion (usualy 3-4 months) then leave again and wait for the next one.
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depends on why i quit. if it has something to do with gameplay then i rarely return and when i do if the same problem is there i quit within 2 weeks. if it has something to do with technical issues, bugs, computer hardware, i tend to stay once they are gone. and if its about friends, if they are not playing and im left alone, well i feel old, its hard for me to join a new tribe
, i simply dont return.
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Several MMOs I own can be activated with All Access Pass.
LoTRO, WoW, DAoC,and CoH...the only one I have tried again was CoH, but that will change in the future when I give LoTRO a serious try(didnt first time....couldnt get into it). I will run CoH again, in the future sometime, cause I luv the fighting....pity the game bores me to tears.
I have swapped PCs several times since launch of DAoC, thus it isnt on my more current PCs. I have thought about getting one of those $10 trials just to check it out again, but doubt I ever will(lost original info and they claimed they had no record). Would just use coem back offers otherwise.
I havent installed WoW on the PC I have now, although I have thought about running it on the free game time before. If I do it will have to be re-installed. I dont ever intend to pay for a sub though.
Asking Devs to make AAA sandbox titles is like trying to get fine dining on a McDonalds dollar menu budget.
Never gone back and never intend to. But i will stay as long as i am enjoying the game still. Played Vanguard from beta till 15 months after release (and it still had beta bugs in it). I dont mind bugs as long as i like the gameplay. Can fix bugs but hard to redesign the gameplay after launch and when companies do like SOE with SWG it turns off existing customers, never a good thing.
But i also either like or dont like a game within hours. A few hours/days of playing LOTRO, DDO, EVE and various other mmo's i just havent been sucked in even thou i know people who loved em. The beauty of having choices.
This. Although I usually play for about another year before it starts to wear thin. I'll pick up again a month or so prior to a expansion release then the cycle starts all over again.
SWG and runescape are the only games I have been able to go back to. Every other game I try it just has lost its luster and can never get it back.
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Well, I can say I haven't really done that to all my MMO's. Only one. And its F2P - ragnarok online. I play on the private servers run on eAthena and if you find a good one, with a good community its a fun game. get to max level and hang out with your friends. PvP is fun as hell, and you cant complain about anything because its free, unless you donate that is.
But pretty much every other game, except swg and i think city of hero's I just completely bailed out on.
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The past two or three years, I have played them all but really played none of them.
All were lacking in important features for why I play MMORPGs:
Today, the features are focused on:
I quit. I am not subscribed to any MMORPGs.
Many great single-player games currently on the market.
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Call me when a game with SWG + innovative, and deep, features is released.
I will play that. I swear. Whether it is elves, modern, future, sci-fi, apocalyptic, etc.
I ALREADY GOT (1) trivial questing, (2) trivial customization, (3) raiding, (4) PvP. I want something different, new, and more ... "involved."
It's almost as if I wrote that! Anyways I feel exactly the same. (Going backward chonologically) I played War for about 2 weeks... it sucked, I played AoC for about 2 months and I got bored, I played Potbs for about 2 months but it felt too much like a job, I played WoW for about 6 months and got bored, played Lotro for about 3 days and got bored . Vanguard SOH was the best game I have ever played. I played it for about a year and I forget why I quit but I want to go back.
I don't see why it's necessary for a game to have changed in order to go back to it. I've often gone back to single player games. Play a game for a while, get tired of it, don't play it for a few years, and then it's fresher when you return.
I played Infantry for about 20 months, quit for a couple of years, and then went back for 2 months. I played A Tale in the Desert for about 10 months, quit for a few years, and then went back for about 8 more months. Someday I'll go back to Guild Wars for a while again.
Games built around leveling are a lot harder to get back into. You spend a lot of time to get high level the first time, and then if you come back a couple years later, you're way behind in levels again.
My answer here varies, between yes I go back and stay to yes I go back but then quit after a bit.
Example: WoW - Quit. Expack launches, come back, get max level...see endgame still breaks the game I loved when leveling, quit. Rinse and repeat.
EQ2 and LOTRO - Play, enjoy for a little bit, but find something, can't pinpoint what exactly, is wrong, quit. Come back in a year or so, see some new cool, great things, but still...something tickles my mind that "something" is missing. Quit.
FFXI - This one has done all of the above and then, boom, lately, they changed what always made me quit before with something so simple, called Level Sync. This game is so DEEP it is almost scary. If I quit this, it will only be temporary due to burnout or just needing something different for a bit, but every time I play this game I fall head over heels for it all over again.
I still look forward to STO and the Wheel of Time, and I will probably go back to LOTRO, if I could get over the stupid level 30-45 leveling wall and enjoy the new xpac. Same with EQ2, I think with LOTRO and EQ2 it might be about how the combat feels, they change that, they have me at Hello.
I've had several games I've quit and returned to, and some that I never looked back on.
DAOC comes to mind, Played it for about 9 months, quit for 3 months to play SB, came back and played it for another 1.75 years. Quit again to play Lineage 2/WOW and returned one more time a few years later for a 3 month stint on the classic servers, and I agree, it wasn't the same. (mostly because I couldn't play on the FFA server Mordred, which was my real love)
WOW was another one. I played for 9 months, quit for 3 months then came back for another 12 months and the quit for good. (2 yrs and 2 months WOW free!!!)
Finally there is EVE. I did take a 3 month leave this year to play AOC, and a one month leave to play WAR. But since I kept my accounts up and training, it doesn't seem like I really left, because I would log on to dink around and run a few missions and stuff in the interim. Not sure you ever really quit EVE, just put it on hiatus from time to time.
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Same here, which is why I hesitated to post. I often leave and come back but it's never my intention to quit EVE, just to take a break here and there to do something else.
Only game I have gone back to and played extensively when I went back was Guild Wars. Any other MMO I eitehr never got hooked, or quit after I got hooked and any attempt to play again only lasted a couple of days.
Tried: LotR, CoH, AoC, WAR, Jumpgate Classic
Played: SWG, Guild Wars, WoW
Playing: Eve Online, Counter-strike
Loved: Star Wars Galaxies
Waiting for: Earthrise, Guild Wars 2, anything sandbox.
I went back to EVE after about 3 years, had fun for a while but two months in I quit again for pretty much the same reasons I quit originally.
I then went back to WoW after an 6 month break and I am still playing it 8 months later. I got the raid burinout out of my system and I am enjoying the a game as much as I did before I got pulled into raiding.
Originally posted by Elikal
Do you return to games you once had quit?
Star Wars Galaxies, tried the game many times after the NGE and never felt like continuing, even subbed a few times and never got more then a few day's play out of it.
Until 2007, got back into the game but instead of getting back to my old toons, I made new toons and started fresh, lasted 8 months playing the game again and had lots of fun, but in that period many things happened in rl and time became very limited to keep playing.
I did return to other MMO's or MMORPG's as well, but no other got me back, mainly cause most where fantasy based and I really long for a sci-fi MMORPG.
Im a pretty tolerant person, and the MMO developers have to really piss me off to get me to quit if I am having fun playing a game, but once I reach that point, I tend to take it personally and never return simply on principal.
Getting burned out is another story. I've been burned out on lots of games and took a break, to find it pretty entertaining when I return, at least for a little while.
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I have played several. There are some that I quit and won't go back to, there are some that I go back to occasionally for a few months at a time (like CoH) and there are some that I take a month or two off and then go back full swing for many more months.
The latest games that I quit focused way too much on graphics than they did on world or character development. I don't think anyone really stays with an MMO for its graphics.
I've returned to eve, then quit again. I've returned to everquest 2 a couple of times, and quit. I've returned to Vanguard, then quit again. I TRIED to return to tabula rasa, but my account got screwed up. I will never return to final fantasy 11 (not my play style). I've been itching to return to warhammer (although I hear the game really has made little progress in the issues that caused me to quit.)
Finally, for WoW, I've quit and returned, quit and returned, quit and returned.....the cycle has gone on for nearly 4 years.
Ever since I let SWG and went to EVE I never looked back, I take 2 months out of the year for a break and play some single player stuff and some old school games then go back to EVE ready to go again.
The only one I went back to for a serious amount of time was in DAOC's revival. Had great fun. The move on to the new releases
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I've left and come back to a few games: City of Heroes, Everquest 2 and Eve.
Switching to another game helps me to avoid getting burned out and never wanting to look at the game again.
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I've gone back to a couple of the games I've played, but when I leave a game for another I usually don't make the old game into my main game again
I quit playing FFXI for about 3 years to play other games. I returned, and started again from scratch. This was about a year ago.
Although I play it less regularly than before I still reckon it's my favourite game. Changes to the game since I left have made it better and I still like the group-centric gaming.
I've pretty much decided that FFXI is my nearest-to-perfect MMO.