All my years here I've been at odds with the posters here. I'm sorry, I'm still right.
Here's why:
- It seems that the majority, no infact everyone feels its the NEW GENERATION OF PLAYERS that want what we have now.
You think developers are up standing citizens and giving the players what they want. I get it, it's very noble of people to think of the good in people.
- On the other hand you think developers know what their doing AND KNOW WHAT PEOPLE WANT.
Two possibilities Here, But one thing for sure you blame the players/new generation, not Developers !!!
Developers get away with murder here. They have the populations think EVERYONE ELSE BUT "YOU" ARE LOVING THEIR PRODICT OF SIMPLE EASY.
It's a publicity stunt......I think back around 1990 or so Hollywood made a Superman movie, they advertised is more heavy than any other movie played for weeks on many channels..... They claim "Its the best action move ever"...... How can they claim that ? It's not even released yet !!!!!
It flopped and was a humiliating time for Hollywood.
Publicity stunt.......This is mmorpgs make the single person feel wrong verses the majority.
OK, now the point of all of this !!!!
Companies, will make mmorpgs their way regardless of the real population, why.... cost and lack of professionalism.
To put it simply, to make you feel like you stand alone in not liking their product.
One last thing....If you like the crap we have now, you don't count.....This is for the real mmorpg players.
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I thought perhaps I logged in MoP or something, but no, I'm in the right place.
Realize you are accusing posters here of not being critical enough (since they don't agree with your extreme viewpoints) while more than a few gamers on other forums or subreddits consider MMORPG.com to be a "cesspool of negativity."
Developers, games and other posters opinions are regularly lambasted or vilified but everyone of course does not all agree on which ones or why.
Much of what is said here is based on observation of the gaming landscape today and it seems a pretty safe assumption many gamers enjoy what's available today in terms of designs since they have no problem paying sometimes far more money than I would ever dream of spending.
Despite our impeccable tastes who are we to tell others what they do or do not enjoy playing? They really aren't all marketing brainwashed drones, well no more than everyone else is, just the nature of living in a consumer based economy.
As Madonna once famously sang so very long ago, "You know that we are living in a material world"
Present company excepted of course.
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Why is this Forum almost dead ?
Simple, nothing to talk about.
Also much of the conversation has shifted to other mediums, countless subreddits, Discord servers, social media platforms such as Instagram, Twitter etc and of course, Twitch streamers.
Posting in free, gaming related forums is a dying art I'm afraid, some of the larger ones like Eurogamer or PCGamer are flooded with ads and always pushing to get customers to sub for additional services or support.
My son loves to play video games on PC, Playstation and Switch but my guess he almost never posts comments on gaming sites on any medium, he prefers to spend his time just playing games.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
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" Lately I been somewhat desperate for a new MMO to play".
Thousands of post EXACTLY LIKE THIS ONE in the last 10 years.
Yet this calling out goes ignored for a good answer, usually the standard "Have you tried ESO ?"....that's the only thing most could come up with.
Face it mmorpgs suck now.
Your one of the noble ones I talked about in the original post. Good for you remain positive in the time of crap, I respect that
Of course companies can lead the public down the wrong path but we play are part too. Going to a restaurant is a social experience, eating at home is economical, but ordering in from a restaurant has neither of those benefits but it is the most convenient. That business has boomed, but we are the ones sacrificing social or economic benefits for convenience, it is our choice.
This is similar to what has happened in gaming, difficulty is replaced with ease, depth is replaced with pick-up-and-play, but it is more convenient and that almost lazy attitude is what has driven so much of what we see as technological "progress" today. We always loose something, the question so rarely asked is are we gaining more than we lose?
Wrapped up the Witcher Blood Origins mini series last night and completed my "chores" in New World.... Whoo hoo!
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
You want to know why gaming companies don't cater to you? It's because they want to actually make a profit from their 10's to 100's of millions of dollars investment and your tiny little demographic of gamers aren't going to cut it when it comes to ROI.
The older ones have totally soured my memory of them. I tried quite a few times to play later versions of WoW with the dungeon finder. My healer role was very much abused and this was while my fingers were far more nimble than the calcified state they are in now. I told myself at some point that playing with strangers with foul mouths were not why I log in to play a game. I wanted to spend my time more pleasantly online. I gradually drew away from MMORPGs.
I have been lucky in some guilds but my inability to keep up with the grouping because of my real life commitments made it impossible to turn up for raids and also earn money to pay for consumables. You cannot expect your guildees to carry you because that isn't a comfortable position to be in and quite honestly it is very unfair to the others who do spend the time and deserve a spot far more than I do.
I started soloing a lot and gradually drifted to pet classes where I can group or solo and I grouped a lot in City of Heroes which I enjoyed immensely. For a time I also enjoyed the pet class in Phantasy Star Online 2 where you're automatically grouped when you enter raids and I was able to contribute and even be a top performer at times to my utter astonishment.
I think the way things are now isn't really conducive to the type of MMORPGs I long to play. My age has prevented me from fully playing the current ones with a reasonable degree of competence. The genre has moved on and left me behind.
MMORPGs have become too monetized and a nightmare to navigate as far as their different systems to advance, storage restrictions, currencies and gear upgrading is concerned. This has turned me off as I really have no wish to spend hours and hours trying to gain resources only to lose them to a bad gamble at an upgrade. This RNG gear upgrading is a nefarious gambling hole that I have no wish to participate in. Yet every new game has this in some form or another and while creating this system they give you the solutions that you can pay for in real money. Well fuck that.
I think my interest has also changed and I no longer want to raid all that much either. This genre has lost its shine and I am not buying newer MMORPGs. Yet the MMO genre itself has grown enormously and there are multiple subgenres that have drawn millions to its fold. The MMO genre itself is a huge money maker and it does not need the type of games I am craving for. It won't make them because there is a larger market out there willing to gamble and strut about with their paid cosmetics for them to even worry about the players they have lost.
This genre has evolved and it has enough participants to be extremely profitable. Why in heaven's name would any company want to go back to the meager earnings they once made with the type of MMORPGs we wax about here. Look at Genshin Impact, it's a mobile game making so much money and I watched my son play it and he was playing it totally solo and for hours and hours.
You can blame any number of factors but the bottom line is that gaming companies do not need players like the OP or me. They are not making games for us any more because we are not the demographic they want to court. We are useless to them. The genre itself will thrive and change and go on without us as clearly evidenced by the bot infested Lost Ark. Any game that can boast that number of bots must indeed be very successful as bots don't proliferate in unsuccessful games.
I still play games daily but I don't play MMORPGs any more. I don't think I am alone in this and I doubt this will change in the future.
You could always try a like minded guild, there are players out there with exactly the attitude and issues you have. Not saying that's easy but they are out there.
Secondly, for you to be correct about "they want to actually make a profit" are you saying MMORPG's from EQ to LotR did not make a profit, a huge one at that? Or that classic has not done well in the various MMOs it came out in? I think modern MMOs need a revaluation about the best way to make a MMO and all the answers don't come from old school, but some do. For example better action combat would obviously come from the likes of co-op games not EQ!
Wednesday was a great show, I was relieved it wasn't like watching Riverdale or similar.
But I do take your point, game design has gone down a route of being more streamlined and convenient, for better or worse depending on one's preferences.
I think you were the person who said increasing the overall level of difficulty in games is rarely the direction developers take these days, with a few rarer outliers like Dark Souls / Elden Ring and the like.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Now I will admit when I gather resources in MMOs that's what I consider 'meditation gaming' as your mind just drifts, so I could have done something else while doing that but chose not to. Like listening to music, you don't have to always do something else while listening. And if you have to watch an episode twice your game is saying play me!
The other problem is that this is a MMO Fan site. So it stands to reason there will be alot of fans from current MMO's here because this site covers current MMO's.
This statement right here is why you feel everyone is against you. Its because you are fighting yourself. This contradicting statement is the problem. You said above you are the only one that doesnt like what we have now. Then you who are you directing this statment too? Yourself? I am confused.
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But some of the poor dead horses have been absolutely pulverized over the years...
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
They make crap games.
No one likes them.
Therefore mmorpgs are worthless to make
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Facts are facts even if its 20 to 1 in favor of it being an orange.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo