Mine was in UO when greater dragons first came out, and me and this girl went to take one. They teleported to you at the time, and you couldn't cast spells. It took us 5 hours, and I kept dying. Atone point I got so pissed I broke my keyboard in half ha-ha. We did end up taking the dragon though.
I have had stuff stolen, but that never really got me to angry. Thieves sadden me more than anger me.
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what
it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience
because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in
the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you
playing an MMORPG?"
For it would probably be the industry and how it caters to casuals now and cash shop p2w/p2advance policies and the hype developers promise on games that never deliver. Also add to the fact that, despite sandbox trying to come back is in no way good. We should have advanced the games during the golden mmo era with fps combat, no instances, ect but instead we get dumbing down.
Individual games:
Aventurine screwing over their fanbase and lying for 3-4 years, then making a new version of their game which in every aspect is worse than DFO.
Potential games that never come to fruition: Dcuo, AoC, PS2, ABP.
When I started playing Lineage II, it was the most hard core pvp game created in my opinion. People there didn't play around back in the day....literally.....they would attack you so fast and that when you died, your game crashed and so did your computer...virus attack! They were badass!! Now that game is weak. I still love it...but I remember those days when you had to crazily watch your back or your computer was fucked lol and usually the ones that would attack like that had xx's before and after their names...which now isn't really allowed a lot on names in games...but names like xXx_Sinister_xXx or xxxchoiuqxxx ...things like that....I would always look for names like that and steer clear lol, wasn't always a tell-tale sign, but usually they were hardcore pvp'ers.
Originally posted by mgilbrtsn They are video games, and I've never gotten made over one. I can get frustrated, but that's about as high as I go.
So either your completely dead inside, a monk,or a troll trying to make people feel bad for getting angry. I'm guessing dead inside.
Definitely the NGE.
Those that say they don't get mad over games likely have never had their time, money, and overall most enjoyable hobby taken from them by company greed. If that doesn't make you mad because its a "video game" then you don't understand how hobbys effect your... "real life"
Originally posted by makasouleater69 Originally posted by mgilbrtsn They are video games, and I've never gotten made over one. I can get frustrated, but that's about as high as I go.
So either your completely dead inside, a monk,or a troll trying to make people feel bad for getting angry. I'm guessing dead inside.
Definitely the NGE.
Those that say they don't get mad over games likely have never had their time, money, and overall most enjoyable hobby taken from them by company greed. If that doesn't make you mad because its a "video game" then you don't understand how hobbys effect your... "real life"
That, or real life is so tough you've never had the energy to get upset over a game, or even play many games. In which case you probably don't even have a computer, or if you do you're busy working 80 hours a week with no time to actually use it, so who cares? Either way, you aren't posting on this forum.
Guess we're the lucky ones. Which doesn't mean we have to shut up and take any old crap devs feed us without complaint.
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
Easiest one is when Khrolan(ArcheAge "Producer") announced that bridge blocking(douchebag griefing tactic) trade carts was "emergent gameplay". I fucking quit the game with 2 Patron accounts the next day forever...
I only ever really get annoyed with discourteous players, the type who kill the boss while you are killing the ads, or sprint for that node you are about to harvest.
Hmm... I was in a time+ guild in Everquest 1, a guild that I was in when it conquered the 4 elements and up through doing parts of the expansion 1 beyond that uqaa? Been a while. They didn't respect their shamen enough -- really they burned them into the ground over time, and on a time run I was given an order from one of the guild lieutenants which I followed and then was punished for with a huge dkp penalty because it worked out badly (really only in the short run actually) and supposedly he wasn't high enough to give the order I was given. Like I was going to refuse? At any rate that was the last straw and I migrated to everquest II which had just come out. (You could chat back and forth across the games and actually me leaving (they were being carried by three main shamen) caused a chain reaction with the second and then third quitting the guild.
Lineage 2 moment for me as well. Back in the early days of the game I'd been leveling an Ork monk and playing some dwarf trade/farmer characters on the side. That was my first foray into MMORPGs and I was still learning the ropes. I spent weeks playing on my alts to buy/trade/farm all the materials needed for my next set of fist weapons and enchants for my Ork, found a reliable crafter, got them made, and on my FIRST hunting expedition left off without my scroll and got over run by mobs and killed. Had to run back because OF ALL THE THINGS TO DROP ON DEATH IT WAS MY NEW FISTS! I come over the hill just in time to see someone looting my stuff. Logged out, cancelled my account, never went back. Still makes me mad to think about it.
It all started when World of Warcraft started the dungeon finder.....This ended group play, then other mmos followed.
Asian mmos all had cash shops. I considered these games as just fun little time wasters to give you something to play around with as you waited for another REAL mmo to be released. Now all mmos have them !
I can't really recall rage quiting outside of WoW. I had worked hard to level up and go thru that portal only to get shot dead in seconds by a pvp player on my first trip to the high level zone. My epiphany that I hated world pvp and was to bored of World of Warcraft to continue playing. I suppose I was upset at the time but that was long ago. I've had so much fun in other games.
Worse moment was staying in a party where the party, in bored chat, found out one of the members was flaming gay and the rest of the time we got to "hear" him get harassed for it. I couldn't defend him or I'd give the troll food to work with. We ignored the troll hoping he'd shut up but he never did. Leaving a party in FFXI wasn't polite as it took a lot to get one so I was stuck.
Everytime a subscription based MMO adds a Cash shop.
It doesn't matter if It's cosmetic only, I'm paying a monthly subscription, what the hell man?
The bane of MMOs, I don't mind if its cosmetic but as we all know, it is cosmetic for a month or two and then becomes gameplay breaking.
I had some stuff nicked in AC once, I was fuming. But I had the guys name, found the guild, contacted the guild leader. Gear returned inside of 20 mins with an apology.
Prolly my most angry moment is Lineage II when we lost the Dion castle (Devianne times, so waaaayyyy back) in the last half hour of the siege.
Not the loss of the castle was the actual rage moment, but the way it happened. Enemy attacks (known cheater/botter clan at the time) and each and every one of our clanmates got hit only once by melee - nothing serious, I even thought it was bare hand and only by 1 party attacking. Next thing we know is that our whole clan (every one that got hit) gets a massive DC and while we were recovering (and waiting for the forced 5-minute logout timer) the enemy clan had engraved the crystal and thus taken over the castle >:(
Angry? Don't think so. Though i was a bit sad the day CoH's servers went down cause i was there. 30/11/2012: the mmo world became a lot less interesting since that day.
The wife and I were having some money issues, so I decided I would sell my WoW account full of top level characters in raid gear. I found a buyer relatively quickly and funds went into PayPal. I asked for a check to be cut, and everything seemed awesome. 2 days later, PayPal calls to tell me my account is frozen, that I could not have possibly delivered what I sold in 30minutes (explained it was just a user name and pass) and that his funds had been contested by the credit card company he used. Considering we were looking down the barrel of losing our home, I was furious. Money thing worked out, but I had an epiphany a day or two afterwards. The credit charge came from China. Now, I could immediately have Blizz freeze the account and prove it's mine.....or I could wait a few weeks and see if I hit the Chinese farmer douchebag thief lottery and see what was on my account. Apparently, it was used to transfer funds since I was a long time sub (more legit I guess). When I got my toons back, EVERY SINGLE ONE had max gold on them. Thanks, Chinese farmer douchebag thief!
Circa 1997, Boyfriend and I played EQ together. He was a druid and I a ranger. He was grouped with some friends farming goblins in permafrost and part of the way through decided to go pick up dinner and asked me to play his druid.
He pointed out which spells to use to heal and off he went. Needless to say it all went horribly wrong. Someone pulled too many, I panicked and healed like a madwoman burning mana like crazy.
After all but one of the group died I ran and got totally lost in the maze of tunnels. My boyfriend came back with dinner to hear me yelling at the monitor, mouse thrown across the room. It took almost two hours for us to find and retrieve his corpse. The next day our neighbor asked if everything was alright as he heard some terrible yelling and banging from our apartment. I don't think I ever lost it like that in a game since!
As a former guild leader and raid leader, there have been numerous times when I've had to deal with morons who think that, just because they play a lot, they were good enough to be part of our progression raids. You argue, finally give in and let them have a chance to prove themselves, then they continuously fuck up all night wasting everyones time, then blame someone else.
However, most angry / disappointed moments always seem to follow Jeff Hickman.
For some reason, Jeff keeps getting put into positions of power for MMOs with great potential and a good IP. He seems to ruin all of them. Not only is he not very intelligent, he has absolutely no imagination, so great ideas get turned into pathetic clones, all the while Jeff claims that his ideas are the greatest ever and his games have never been so good. What a lying tosser!
This all finally came to a head with me just before the release of SW:TOR's first expansion. The initial game had been a disappointment with tons of features missing or broken and a core design philosophy that was so obviously flawed I don't know how anyone even authorised the game to be made. However, I love Star Wars, so I gave it the benefit of the doubt, stuck with it, paid my money, tried to enjoy the content, all the while submitting suggestions for ways to improve the core game.
Then they announced the expansion: no improvements to underlying systems. No improvements to the leveling process. No improvements to gearing. No improvements to anything! Just more regurgitated shit.
I quit. I'd spent too many years of my life paying monthly subscriptions to games that get ruined by absolute fuckwits like Jeff Hickman. I finally realised that my voice and my opinion just doesn't matter, the only real difference I can make is voting with my wallet.
Since then (2012) I've not paid a single penny towards any MMOs. I wont play any free-to-play MMOs. I try to get into Betas for all new big MMOs so I can test them out, give my opinions before release, but unfortunately none of the big MMOs seem to be willing to take risks (FFXIV remake aside) and so all we get are the same shitty design decisions resulting in the same flawed games that are fun for 2 weeks and then turn to shit.
In my anger about shitty game design, I even tried to do something positive about it: I joined the games industry. I started in QA and tried to work my way up. You know what? Its worse than you think! In the first company I worked at, only about 5% of senior staff were even gamers! Even the actual designers weren't gamers: they were analysts who looked at the competition and attempted to design their games by taking features from other people! Whenever you tried to suggest improvements or pointed out holes in their design, their eyes would generally glaze over as they wouldn't understand what you were talking about, they'd nod and say thanks, then never act on it. Its no wonder so many games are just massive disappointments.
I'm also beginning to think that the reason older people play less games isn't because they've "grown up" or because they don't have enough time: they've simply been around long enough to have seen all these mistakes before and have just got fed up
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I have had stuff stolen, but that never really got me to angry. Thieves sadden me more than anger me.
So either your completely dead inside, a monk,or a troll trying to make people feel bad for getting angry. I'm guessing dead inside.I agree. Besides, why do people let themselves lose control like that?
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Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
For it would probably be the industry and how it caters to casuals now and cash shop p2w/p2advance policies and the hype developers promise on games that never deliver. Also add to the fact that, despite sandbox trying to come back is in no way good. We should have advanced the games during the golden mmo era with fps combat, no instances, ect but instead we get dumbing down.
Individual games:
Aventurine screwing over their fanbase and lying for 3-4 years, then making a new version of their game which in every aspect is worse than DFO.
Potential games that never come to fruition: Dcuo, AoC, PS2, ABP.
MurderHerd
Maybe I just havent been around for long enough
Waiting for:
The Repopulation
Albion Online
Definitely the NGE.
Those that say they don't get mad over games likely have never had their time, money, and overall most enjoyable hobby taken from them by company greed. If that doesn't make you mad because its a "video game" then you don't understand how hobbys effect your... "real life"
So either your completely dead inside, a monk,or a troll trying to make people feel bad for getting angry. I'm guessing dead inside.Definitely the NGE.
Those that say they don't get mad over games likely have never had their time, money, and overall most enjoyable hobby taken from them by company greed. If that doesn't make you mad because its a "video game" then you don't understand how hobbys effect your... "real life"
That, or real life is so tough you've never had the energy to get upset over a game, or even play many games. In which case you probably don't even have a computer, or if you do you're busy working 80 hours a week with no time to actually use it, so who cares? Either way, you aren't posting on this forum.Guess we're the lucky ones. Which doesn't mean we have to shut up and take any old crap devs feed us without complaint.
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
~Albert Einstein
Warhammer Online... "And this will be in at launch, and this will be in at launch and this will be in at launch!" At launch.. nothing.
AION, the listed requirements to run the game was a lie, I bought it and it wouldn't run. $50 down the draaaaaain.
Warhammer fanatic since '85.
It all started when World of Warcraft started the dungeon finder.....This ended group play, then other mmos followed.
Asian mmos all had cash shops. I considered these games as just fun little time wasters to give you something to play around with as you waited for another REAL mmo to be released. Now all mmos have them !
Half of you people like this crap ?
Everytime a subscription based MMO adds a Cash shop.
It doesn't matter if It's cosmetic only, I'm paying a monthly subscription, what the hell man?
I can't really recall rage quiting outside of WoW. I had worked hard to level up and go thru that portal only to get shot dead in seconds by a pvp player on my first trip to the high level zone. My epiphany that I hated world pvp and was to bored of World of Warcraft to continue playing. I suppose I was upset at the time but that was long ago. I've had so much fun in other games.
Worse moment was staying in a party where the party, in bored chat, found out one of the members was flaming gay and the rest of the time we got to "hear" him get harassed for it. I couldn't defend him or I'd give the troll food to work with. We ignored the troll hoping he'd shut up but he never did. Leaving a party in FFXI wasn't polite as it took a lot to get one so I was stuck.
The bane of MMOs, I don't mind if its cosmetic but as we all know, it is cosmetic for a month or two and then becomes gameplay breaking.
I had some stuff nicked in AC once, I was fuming. But I had the guys name, found the guild, contacted the guild leader. Gear returned inside of 20 mins with an apology.
Prolly my most angry moment is Lineage II when we lost the Dion castle (Devianne times, so waaaayyyy back) in the last half hour of the siege.
Not the loss of the castle was the actual rage moment, but the way it happened. Enemy attacks (known cheater/botter clan at the time) and each and every one of our clanmates got hit only once by melee - nothing serious, I even thought it was bare hand and only by 1 party attacking. Next thing we know is that our whole clan (every one that got hit) gets a massive DC and while we were recovering (and waiting for the forced 5-minute logout timer) the enemy clan had engraved the crystal and thus taken over the castle >:(
I had fun once, it was terrible.
He pointed out which spells to use to heal and off he went. Needless to say it all went horribly wrong. Someone pulled too many, I panicked and healed like a madwoman burning mana like crazy.
After all but one of the group died I ran and got totally lost in the maze of tunnels. My boyfriend came back with dinner to hear me yelling at the monitor, mouse thrown across the room. It took almost two hours for us to find and retrieve his corpse. The next day our neighbor asked if everything was alright as he heard some terrible yelling and banging from our apartment. I don't think I ever lost it like that in a game since!
As a former guild leader and raid leader, there have been numerous times when I've had to deal with morons who think that, just because they play a lot, they were good enough to be part of our progression raids. You argue, finally give in and let them have a chance to prove themselves, then they continuously fuck up all night wasting everyones time, then blame someone else.
However, most angry / disappointed moments always seem to follow Jeff Hickman.
For some reason, Jeff keeps getting put into positions of power for MMOs with great potential and a good IP. He seems to ruin all of them. Not only is he not very intelligent, he has absolutely no imagination, so great ideas get turned into pathetic clones, all the while Jeff claims that his ideas are the greatest ever and his games have never been so good. What a lying tosser!
This all finally came to a head with me just before the release of SW:TOR's first expansion. The initial game had been a disappointment with tons of features missing or broken and a core design philosophy that was so obviously flawed I don't know how anyone even authorised the game to be made. However, I love Star Wars, so I gave it the benefit of the doubt, stuck with it, paid my money, tried to enjoy the content, all the while submitting suggestions for ways to improve the core game.
Then they announced the expansion: no improvements to underlying systems. No improvements to the leveling process. No improvements to gearing. No improvements to anything! Just more regurgitated shit.
I quit. I'd spent too many years of my life paying monthly subscriptions to games that get ruined by absolute fuckwits like Jeff Hickman. I finally realised that my voice and my opinion just doesn't matter, the only real difference I can make is voting with my wallet.
Since then (2012) I've not paid a single penny towards any MMOs. I wont play any free-to-play MMOs. I try to get into Betas for all new big MMOs so I can test them out, give my opinions before release, but unfortunately none of the big MMOs seem to be willing to take risks (FFXIV remake aside) and so all we get are the same shitty design decisions resulting in the same flawed games that are fun for 2 weeks and then turn to shit.
In my anger about shitty game design, I even tried to do something positive about it: I joined the games industry. I started in QA and tried to work my way up. You know what? Its worse than you think! In the first company I worked at, only about 5% of senior staff were even gamers! Even the actual designers weren't gamers: they were analysts who looked at the competition and attempted to design their games by taking features from other people! Whenever you tried to suggest improvements or pointed out holes in their design, their eyes would generally glaze over as they wouldn't understand what you were talking about, they'd nod and say thanks, then never act on it. Its no wonder so many games are just massive disappointments.
I'm also beginning to think that the reason older people play less games isn't because they've "grown up" or because they don't have enough time: they've simply been around long enough to have seen all these mistakes before and have just got fed up