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Worst MMO ever: "IRL" - Its rubbish!
faselei
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I been playing this game for 26 years now and well I think it pretty much sucks, "IRL" (In real Life).
For a start upgrading your character requires hours of grinding. The noob area takes 16 frickin years to get through! The missions include ‘survive depression when 15’ and ‘don’t get hooked on drugs’ as well as ‘getting laid’. Since then the games got even worse, I wanted to improve my fitness and stamina stats so I have to got on the training missions like ‘ride your bike up hills’ and ‘swim for hours and hours’. Its rubbish.
Then there’s all the missions and sub missions you have to do every day, for example in order to earn female faction points the player has to keep, the Mother, Girlfriend and Sister NPCs happy. Mini missions such as ‘changing a lightbulb’ and ‘mowing the lawn’ help with mother. Sister was placated with ‘design and build a pc’ mission which had mini missions, like ‘trawl the internet for parts’ and ‘build the bastard thing’. Girlfriend is a different kettle of fish all together, simple favours and tasks won’t do the trick here, instead hours and hours of carefully designed crafting and dialogue are required, but the main method, is given her 100% attention during your waking hours.
Instead of riding a horse you get a ‘car;. This car requires constant bloody attention and the other day a random event meant some little shit broke into it and nicked the stereo. This requires re-buffing the car‘s stats so the door will open.
You can’t just run around slashing mobs to collect money, you have to ‘work’. This is actually the thing which takes up most of your time… 9-10 hours a day grinding missions and profession stats. A Gamemaster NPC called ‘your boss’ passes constant random missions and tasks to you ALL day. If you don’t do these mission he shouts at you, fail enough and you get sacked, then you run out of gold and cant buy food, which lowers, strength, stamina and health stats.
Every day you have to go to the toilet, this is disgusting and annoys the hell out of me. If you don’t wash you smell, and you’ll lose female faction points and will find it hard to find groups for missions (called friends in irl) and you may get sacked. The worst bit is sleeping, where every 16 hours of so you have to find a secure, comfortable horizontal area, to lose consciousness for 8 hours, how much of a chore is that? I mean wtf? You have to do it every night, even if your in the middle of somthing.
Plus as you level up, whcih is based upon surviving years rather than exp (its skill based afterall), your abilities actually go DOWN! Even by mid lvl 20, little things start to go wrong with your avatar, achy back, clicky knees, the list goes on. By lvl 80 you can hardly walk!
Oh an i almost forgot the pets, do they go and savage mobs? Do they buggery, my cat just sits around and occasionally sick in my shoes.
Frankly I don’t recommend this to anyone, there is an exit button, but well … I guess not.
(Hook up with me: Lvl 26, Engineer, UK Server).
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excuz me ,what is the "IRL"??
MaDSaM
Do you dare to adapt?
Heck I sit and play them all the time. Sadly this does make your Stamina, Strengh, and Attraction skills sink pretty fast. But hey. I'm having fun.
Just play the game like you want to.
Right now im working on skillups in "Sugar-daddying". This involves camping Girlfriend(Elite) 24-7. Admitted it can get a bit annoying..especially considering camp-stealers, but when she finally pops, it is worth all the effort :P
Altho this camp involves a lot of "down"-time, there is a fair chance that she will drop "Ice-cold Heineken" and that will refill all gauges for her next pop.
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(Seriosuly though great minds think alike i guess).
Believe me, it isn't any easier if you're a female character trying to work on your male faction. The AI for males sucks, and the quests tend to be short and boring, with frustratingly small gains in faction. And then there's the charisma stat, which is important to most female characters, and requires some combination of spending gold on items and doing missions like "go to the gym" and "don't eat the cake" just to keep it from degrading.
Whether you're male or female, you've got to grind away hours at this stupid game to get anywhere, and if you don't, you fall behind and noone wants to group with you anymore.
It sucks. Is there a negative rating that I could give IRL?
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This is where I draw the line: __________________.
This is getting to be one of the best post ever
*waits for more Fun*
MaDSaM
Do you dare to adapt?
Well, I guess I could be called a Credit Farmer then dammit.
(Although my name is not aassddffghhjjjjkkk).................
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I usually picture the Career builder commercial with the room full of monkeys and upside down sales chart when thinking about the SOE/SWG decision making process.....
SOE's John Blakely and Todd Fiala issued a warning: "Don't make our mistakes." Ref NGE
Winner of the worst MMOS goes to.... the NGE and SWG..!!! http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm?loadFeature=1034&bhcp=1
The PvP in the 'wars' is so realistic also I must point out. If you don't do well in the many months of realistic training the 'Army' gives you,one shot can lead to permadeath. But you can also kill another player in one shot.
Although I've heard some people come back as 'ghosts'; whether these are hacks or not we are unsure,but needless to say the 'ghosts' scare people and need to be nerfed.
Mind you,then there's the server population. 7 billion and counting,all on one server. The global developer is thinking of making another server called 'Mars',but doesn't have the resources at the moment. Not that many people get to speak to the developer.
Originally posted by faselei
I been playing this game for 26 years now and well I think it pretty much sucks, "IRL" (In real Life).
For a start upgrading your character requires hours of grinding. The noob area takes 16 frickin years to get through! The missions include survive depression when 15 and dont get hooked on drugs as well as getting laid. Since then the games got even worse, I wanted to improve my fitness and stamina stats so I have to got on the training missions like ride your bike up hills and swim for hours and hours. Its rubbish.
Then theres all the missions and sub missions you have to do every day, for example in order to earn female faction points the player has to keep, the Mother, Girlfriend and Sister NPCs happy. Mini missions such as changing a lightbulb and mowing the lawn help with mother. Sister was placated with design and build a pc mission which had mini missions, like trawl the internet for parts and build the bastard thing. Girlfriend is a different kettle of fish all together, simple favours and tasks wont do the trick here, instead hours and hours of carefully designed crafting and dialogue are required, but the main method, is given her 100% attention during your waking hours.
Instead of riding a horse you get a car;. This car requires constant bloody attention and the other day a random event meant some little shit broke into it and nicked the stereo. This requires re-buffing the cars stats so the door will open.
You cant just run around slashing mobs to collect money, you have to work. This is actually the thing which takes up most of your time 9-10 hours a day grinding missions and profession stats. A Gamemaster NPC called your boss passes constant random missions and tasks to you ALL day. If you dont do these mission he shouts at you, fail enough and you get sacked, then you run out of gold and cant buy food, which lowers, strength, stamina and health stats.
Every day you have to go to the toilet, this is disgusting and annoys the hell out of me. If you dont wash you smell, and youll lose female faction points and will find it hard to find groups for missions (called friends in irl) and you may get sacked. The worst bit is sleeping, where every 16 hours of so you have to find a secure, comfortable horizontal area, to lose consciousness for 8 hours, how much of a chore is that? I mean wtf? You have to do it every night, even if your in the middle of somthing.
Plus as you level up, whcih is based upon surviving years rather than exp (its skill based afterall), your abilities actually go DOWN! Even by mid lvl 20, little things start to go wrong with your avatar, achy back, clicky knees, the list goes on. By lvl 80 you can hardly walk!
Oh an i almost forgot the pets, do they go and savage mobs? Do they buggery, my cat just sits around and occasionally sick in my shoes.
Frankly I dont recommend this to anyone, there is an exit button, but well I guess not.
(Hook up with me: Lvl 26, Engineer, UK Server).
RL game has the best grafics ever made
gameplay is ok...boring sometimes...education grind suxx
btw female faction dont realy needed...if you arent badly gimped by gamedesign or some bugs by char creation^^
Yeah, it feels like some people are getting rich off our own monthly fees. I mean I see people owning double houses and posh cars; obviously the 'political elite'. Yet it seems like the developer is favouring them.
I wouldn't play IRL but I'd have nowhere else to go to.
well, at least the lore is amazing...
Also, i think the developers should listen more to their customers.
The combat is amazing! And makes Age Of Conans "hit points" look pathetic!
You can actually poke somone in the eye and they hurt there! Even go blind perminently! Talk about amazing coding!
PS.
I heard this game has the longest production time EVER.
Sady tho when you are dead, you cant restart.
This game has a good crafting system though.
While I continue to play IRL, I only gave it a 7. I would suggest WoW, or EVE online, all have more fanbois than IRL and the communities are better.