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Me first,
I'm not playing any mmo right now. Reason :
1) Cash shop, I've never gave a dime to a cash shop.....They don't belong. Sub or maybe B2P only.
2) Small zones. It's not immersive if your loading.
3) Short 30 day games. Graphics seem to have to be high end for the picky players, yet they complain about not enough content.
4) Dungeon finders, it's an mmo they don't belong. ( give better social tools to find groups )
5) If the mmo has cross server anything it will not last.
6) Easy, fast leveling, solo content, with dynamic events. Well then it's not an mmo.
Each one was introduced within the last five or six years, and each one is an mmo killer on there own.
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Yeah no way this cross server fad will last...WoW is done....
That's actually exactly what MMOs like SWTOR, GW2, TSW and ESO were going for. MMOs where the journey was meant to be fun instead of just a boring grind to end game.
But the only correct answer to this thread is:
Today's MMOs are bad. Like soooo very, very bad! (It's a Deletenumbersomething thread. They are all the same.)
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When I started playing MMO's they had the most out of this world experience available to me at that time.
They provided me with another world to go to everyday in a format(online game) that didn't exist when I was growing up.
Now the world has gotten so crazy and moves so fast that worlds I found interesting 10 years ago seem slow/boring/dull.
Turn on the news and I see a real life GTA or Call of Duty happening right before my eyes.
I now look for "quick fix" video games to fit into my busy schedule which are mostly AARPGs or MOBAs.
If an MMO is made that gives me good reward/time spent like those types of games I will probably play them again.
Do not have to be innovative to be fun.
The last 3 years have been the most fun I've had in the mmorpg world.
I'm a pen and pad gamer at the core. 3 years ago I started Age of Wushu. I had never played a more immersive, believable game. From there I went to ESO. I've spent the past year in Cyrodiil creating new ways to play with the TES lore as a backdrop. ESO character customization takes back to my early days of pen and paper gaming. I'm able to develop and play my character the way want.
This forum needs a /like button! This couldn't be more true.
Most notable?
Cheaper productions costs over last couple years.
Unfinished game releases disguised as early access,Alpha tests.Tough to disguise when you charge money to play as any FINISHED product would do.
smaller content updates,yet devs TRY to brag about how big and expansive they are,so in essence just lying.
More and more instance content rather than game world
Continued hand holding and gaming on rails.
I'll end it there as that is enough to show how poor quality game design has become.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
You could insert this same idea for any game or genre and not be wrong. It generalizes so heavily that it's actually a little sad. If you can't see the innovation in ESO, GW2 and SWTOR then you are completely and utterly blind or have a standard of innovation that is completely unrealistic. It seems like the only game that would be innovative to you would be one where you walked around upside down. Thing is, that doesn't even seem like a fun feature. Why the hell would I want to do that? Or I need to play with inverted controls. There's a balance between innovation and usefulness that always needs to be maintained. You don't innovate just for the sake of innovating or you die on the sword.
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Ofc i play MMO. All the time. Got hard time commiting to one after wow (all are supbar to me) but still playing them. WS maybe will go b2p or f2p to cant wait for it.
Playing lol and watching Walking Bed currently.
I think the genre is ramping up toward a second golden age.
I feel the same on 1,2 and 3. 4 isin't an issue for me I got too much free time if anything. I'll also add that I feel msot "mmos" have lost the mmo aspect for the most part, in most of them you don't really need other players till level cap. What happened thr the classics like ff11 before square wrecked it by making it a joke? Where you had to group up to do anything really. The leveling up also felt like a journey since its not over in 2-3 days, well now a days you can go from 1-99 in a day so now it doesn't count, I am talking back before Abbysea came out, thats what ruined FF11. The community in FF11 also was not very toxic like most, mainly because you required people to do things, and if you had a bad rep people would avoid you like you had ebola or some other highly infectious illness.
I also miss big worlds with stuff to find via exploring that are not on the beaten path of the quest hub. FPS games for example are just as bad, most fps games your doing nothing but walking down the same tunnels over and over, no secrets, no hidden things or anything of the sort anymore. See this image for example:
I believe all the casuals have ruined mmorpg and gaming in general, since every devoloper pretty much caters to their whiney asses, resulting in mostly horrifically dumbed down games coming out that hold your hand every step of the way.
Being a pessimist is a win-win pattern of thinking. If you're a pessimist (I'll admit that I am!) you're either:
A. Proven right (if something bad happens)
or
B. Pleasantly surprised (if something good happens)
Either way, you can't lose! Try it out sometime!
With few exceptions, they all feel like the same game I've been playing for a decade. I started out liking them. Then I accepted them. After that I began to dislike them. Now I don't even want to play them. Stupid ass AI, hotbar combat, least possible resources invested in creation questing, tacked on crafting, 'convenience' features that shrink the world and lead to splintered communities and isolated players, instances everywhere, tiny worlds and on and on and on. If your game has these, then I've fucking played it before and grown sick of it, so don't bother.
How in the name of fuck can I enjoy the physical act of playing EVE more than any hotbar action MMO released in the last half decade? How does that even make sense? EVE's ui is something you have to get past to get into the game, not something that should depress you less than any other game out there in the genre.
If devs decide to actually put some damn resources into all of the bits of their game that they've just designed on autopilot since ever, maybe I'll like MMOs again. If they keep trying to pass off 2003 shit as something that's acceptable in this day and age, they're just making something I've already played a dozen times and don't need to play again.
I'm generally positive about MMOs (the ones I play at least). It's certainly true that there is as much trash as there is treasure.
I think (and I've made this point before on here) that it's what you make of it; nobody forces you to play one or any of these games and if they're not fun, don't play them. If the community is asinine, don't play. If the PVP is unbalanced, don't play...the list goes on of features that may be unsatisfactory but the omnipresent reminder is that you're choosing to spend your time and / or money playing a game you don't enjoy. The solution seems obvious to me.
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My turn. I am playing Marvel Heroes, Warframe .. and may be some more MMOs. Reasons:
1) F2P ... you get part of the fun game for free .. why not?
2) convenient lobby games .. jump in a level and play .. 15 min a session .. don't need to "commit" to playing.
3) Enough content for a long long time
4) Dungeon finder ... turning the games into lobby games .. which i like
5) Both of these games last for a long time ... without a persistent world.
6) Fast leveling, solo content .. probably not a old style mmo .. but i don't play old style MMOs, i play fun (to me) games (which more and more MMOs tends to be)
I pretty much agree with this. I'd add a few things:
Once upon a time....
Overall feelings for MMO's, i would have to say its really good, there are more good MMO's in the type that i enjoy playing, than i can realistically commit to, the MMO's that i play are fun, social experiences and depending on what i feel like playing at any given time i can log into my game of choice and have a fun experience.
Which is more than can be said for when i first started playing MMO's when choice was severely restricted, and there were few really good games, they were fun, most certainly, but i had far far less choice then than i do now.
So i am reasonably happy, and i don't see any clouds on the horizon either, good times
Oh man where do I begin.... Why I don't play MMO's anymore:
1. Immersion completely ignored the past decade
2. MMO's have turned into solo console games with a chat window
3. Lack of forced grouping has breeded the worst communities on earth, yes it's the developers fault
4. F2P is an illusion, we all pay with immersion and stripped/monetized gameplay
5. Companies far worse then blizzard making shitty WoW clones is painful to watch for the n-th time
6. Every game trying to make you a legendary hero at level 1, the moment you log in for the first time.
7. Terrible exaggerated asian combat animation spam. An ability called "punch" should not have 50 flashing lights and five movements associated with it. Worst offenders: FFXIV, ArcheAge, EQ2
8. Mindless solo questing from 1 to max level in every game. Do you guys really enjoy this? Which brings me to my next point:
9. Poor innovation. Man this is huge, the lack of ground covered in the MMO market for the past ten years has been astonishing. Maybe WoW was ahead of it's time but MMO's have offered almost nothing new since then.
10. You no longer have an attachment or feel of accomplishment with loot because it's given to you after every quest, or 4 pieces of armor per dungeon, etc.
11. Stupid/Nonsensical looking armor and weapons+cartoon/disney character models=shoot self
12. Games now designed to hold your attention for 2 months or less. They rather make 1 million today with a bad rep then 5 million tomorrow with a decent rep
13. Gameplay beginning to take a back seat to graphics, though this isn't just an MMO problem. Every game on every console is going in this direction except for random steam games.
14. Absurd leveling speed. How can you appreciate achieving max level when you gain 2 levels per quest, not to mention all the low level content wasted as you speed by, it's silly
15. Mindless button spamming "action" combat. Few decisions need to be made these days. Your choices are either spamming the same rotation over and over(WoW) or spamming everything until it comes off cooldown(GW2).
16. Pointless tradeskills and character classes. It boggles my mind how developers can leave entire professions useless for years. It's such an easy fix to make every tradeskill semi useful. Have some raid mobs drop tradeskill items FFS
17. Slow patching. Everyone could really learn from League of Legends here. You may hate MOBA's but they CARE about their game. If something is imbalanced it is patched within 1 or 2 weeks, if not days.
You need to play Darkfall. It is none of those things.
I think too many recent MMO's have no risk vs reward. They have NPC's that order you around and really nothing else to do other than be ordered around and told where to hunt and what to do.
Agreed. I don't see how people can actually believe that the genre hasn't improved or innovated.
Combat and skill systems are some examples where there has been a lot of innovation.
pure, unadulterated disappointment. i've yet to see or play anything in years that i thought was 'amazing', let alone 'good'. i can barely find games that are 'acceptable' or 'meh', and i don't even have standards for things anymore.
Why bother distinguish them? Some MMOs *are* single player games.
Yeh .. D3 combat is phenomenal .. with all the combo of physical effects. I have high hopes for Lost Ark too.