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When you can't find an MMO to play...
sunandshadow
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Does it make you depressed? Anxious? Or are you more on the frustrated/angry end of the spectrum? Or just OMG so bored kill me now...?
I want to help design and develop a PvE-focused, solo-friendly, sandpark MMO which combines crafting, monster hunting, and story. So PM me if you are starting one.
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Pick up some TV shows and start binge watching them. I recently gave House of Cards a try and I couldn't put it down until I saw all episodes over a few days.
A few I can recommend are Banshee and Justified
Download some audio books if you don't feel like reading or listen to some good podcasts. I personally like The Joe Rogan Experience
Last but not least, try some indie games on steam. Some of them are surprisingly good.
There's always something to do when you want to procrastinate. If I get really bored then I just troll random Christian message boards under the synonym 'The Burning Bush' but that's just me
Played: UO, EQ, WoW, DDO, SWG, AO, CoH, EvE, TR, AoC, GW, GA, Aion, Allods, lots more
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I didn't really intend this thread to be asking for personal advice; was actually trying to talk about community emotions, what it feels like to be an unappreciated audience segment, or what MMOs provide that other games/tv/books don't...
For me personally, I have been playing other types of games for months, and I always read, even when I'm actively playing an MMO. But MMOs are my preferred genre of game, and I feel like I've been waiting too long already, I need to find some more active way to evaluate all the currently available MMOs and try the least-bad looking one that I haven't already played. There are lots of recommender engines for music, books, etc, why does there not seem to be one for MMOs? Seems like it would be easy to make a spreadsheet of features, let a person pick their preferred feature set, then show the five games which most closely matched...
nah ... i have tons of things to do. Other form of games, TV, anime, novels, movies, ......
MMORPG is barely on my list at all.
"People who get the jitters because they can't play an MMO need professional help."
Says the guy who admittedly hasn't played an MMO "in years" who posts constantly on mmorpg.com.
oookayyy.
Aparently the "people" out there aren't the only ones with the jitters.
"Mr. Rothstein, your people never will understand... the way it works out here. You're all just our guests. But you act like you're at home. Let me tell you something, partner. You ain't home. But that's where we're gonna send you if it harelips the governor." - Pat Webb
Approaching 20k posts and not on your "list at all".
Something isn't quite adding up here, bud.
"Mr. Rothstein, your people never will understand... the way it works out here. You're all just our guests. But you act like you're at home. Let me tell you something, partner. You ain't home. But that's where we're gonna send you if it harelips the governor." - Pat Webb
I post on lots of forums. Just because I don't play them doesn't mean it's not fun to talk about them. Try again.
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If that is (the consistently, and I mean consistently, anger filled/negative posts) what you call fun, then more power to ya
"Mr. Rothstein, your people never will understand... the way it works out here. You're all just our guests. But you act like you're at home. Let me tell you something, partner. You ain't home. But that's where we're gonna send you if it harelips the governor." - Pat Webb
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
There are significant problems with MMOs, you simply identify anything that goes outside of your comfort zone as angry. It's not angry. There are problems that ought to be addressed and most people aren't willing to actually deal with them, they just whine and keep on playing the games they hate because they are addicted, they cannot simply walk away and find something else to do. I'd rather have MMOs that are worth playing but the biggest problem with modern MMOs isn't the design, it's the people who play MMOs.
We need an entirely better class of people.
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Hell no. Those are some extreme feelings to have over a game.
When no MMO interests me i focus on other hobbies in my free time.
I played Planetside for almost two years straight, then one night I was tired of it. I decided I wanted a new game to play with new people and I wanted a sci-fi game.
I found this site while searching for something like MMORPG games. I clicked on the game list, sorted by rating and EVE Online was at the top of the list AND it was sci-fi. Win win! This was '05, after EVE had been out a couple of years, but I didn't let that stop me.
The problem is that EVE spoiled me. It has so much freedom of action, so many ways to create a character, so many hundreds of ways to earn money, so many different ways of PVP'ing with other players.
Now when I try a new MMO, it's always the same limiting factors that very very quickly bore me to tears. Every single AAA MMO ties my character down with a class. Then it limits my character growth with levels. Then it tells me that every object in the game is coated with magical super glue so I can't sell half the shit I own to other people. Then I get halfway out of the starting zone and realize that the idiotic slotted bag I have is full. Limits, walls, limits+walls, more walls, more limits, more restrictions, restrictions+walls+limits.... it just blows my mind how walled in every other MMO is outside of EVE.
I keep trying. The latest AAA will drop and I'll grab it and try to get enthusiastic about it, and then I'll start running into the walls and limits again and quickly realize that EVE Online is a real asshole for showing a world with very few limits. Those jerks at CCP have single-handedly made pretty much every other MMO I've ever tried... suck.
I am currently uninterested in any particular MMO at the present. The last two I played were LotRO (still pop in occasionally just to BS with people) and TSW. I've played most of the AAA games now on the market and revisiting them holds no allure for me. While many people are frothing at TESO's release, I am not one (though an ES fan.)
In place of MMOs I am playing Skyrim again and boning up on Ancient Rome.
Hedonismbot: Your latest performance was as delectable as dipping my bottom over and over into a bath of the silkiest oils and creams.
Not too bad like that, it not like MMOs are only way to have fun in life.
And MMO wasn't only type of game out here .
"Mr. Rothstein, your people never will understand... the way it works out here. You're all just our guests. But you act like you're at home. Let me tell you something, partner. You ain't home. But that's where we're gonna send you if it harelips the governor." - Pat Webb
I had fun once, it was terrible.
I agree that it's a reflection of humanity, that doesn't change the fact that, in the MMO community, it's the single most prevalent reason why people play solo, because they don't want to play with the general assholish community that exists in MMOs. Unfortunately, there are those who point fingers at soloers as the cause of the problem when they most certainly are not, they are a symptom of the problem and nobody wants to address the actual cause. Usually, the people pointing the fingers are the assholes themselves. Whether it's an easy problem to solve or not doesn't stop it from being a problem that needs to be solved. Dreams not required.
Played: UO, EQ, WoW, DDO, SWG, AO, CoH, EvE, TR, AoC, GW, GA, Aion, Allods, lots more
Relatively Recently (Re)Played: HL2 (all), Halo (PC, all), Batman:AA; AC, ME, BS, DA, FO3, DS, Doom (all), LFD1&2, KOTOR, Portal 1&2, Blink, Elder Scrolls (all), lots more
Now Playing: None
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17k posts in 6+ years is averaging less than 8 per day. Plus, what does posting here have anything to do with playing MMOs?
Talking about them does not mean that i like them enough to make them my main hobby, does it? It is a completely separate hobby.
I've tried many times to develop a game, but ultimately I'm a designer, design is my primary skill and I've got a bit of art and writing skill to go with it. Programming's not for me, nor business (I can do the real basics in both but I have no talent for them or enjoyment of doing them). And that's the same reason I don't have much in the way of personal funds to put into developing an MMO - because I don't have the kind of talents that the high-paying jobs want.
If you want to go at it alone, you are probably much better off starting small .. say an indie small iOS RPG, then a MMO.
You are not going to get anywhere with no money (unless you can get free labor somewhere else) if you want to build even a rudimentary MMO.
This week I've had the problem that someone recommended to me as an MMO a game that's not an MMO (Pox Nora). It's a pretty cool game, though I'm a bit baffled by the deck building, but it's just not an MMO.