Truth be told I am a fan of MMOs, I did, at one point, play World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings Online. But I stopped because of the amount of childish people on the servers.
Lets examine World of Warcraft...Its a fun game, going around and killing bad guys and noobs. Leveling is fun too, but the games loses its fun quality when you hit the level cap. Then all you do is sit in trade chat spamming "LFG ICC 10/25 MAN" only to get invited into a group and kicked because some guy who created an add-on decided that your gear score is too low or he doesn't like your race (yes this has happened to me before, I was a Blood Elf mage at the time)...now I can understand the value of having good armor and all that jazz but what I don't get is that people ask for these crazy specs and gear scores for like the beginning level raids.
So I was like "Ok, I guess I have to find some people with the same problem and create a group" the problem with that is that no one wants to seem like they're a noob...so you get stuck emblem farming to get ok gear and when you finally start to raid the game developers decide to add a new raid or nerf your skills...so you get stuck in an endless painful spiral of spamming and farming then fall into a crazed state of gaming. So to combat this the developers make the game easier which in turn makes all the old salty dogs of the MMO world angry. They start to make it almost impossible to do anything because the requirements the set up are so crazy that only the handful of people who care enough to play the game for 12 hrs at a time can fulfill them.
This is the problem in my mind about MMOs and I know people will say "Then don't play the game bro! You don't have to hate on this game. >.<!!" My response to that is STOP BEING A NOOB play the game with an intent for fun and stop trying to make yourself look cool over the Internet...its only a video game.
ITS TRUE, ITS TRUE. Thats why I quit playing Lotro, Conquer, and Wow. Now I play old games like Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and Pokemon. Power to the Nerds!
ReplyDeleteI stop trying to make myself look cool over the internet a long time ago!
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