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POLL: Are mmo's too fast?
Stupersting
Member Posts: 31
Hey, since theres always a big discussion around how mmos are too quick to finish these days, I think having a poll display the results would be a good idea.
Feel free to discuss/explain your position in a post.
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+1.
I just hope the journey lasts as long as possible if the game is good. As long as there's progression, i keep playing. When it's over, i either reroll or quit playing.
The pace of MMOs is too uneven, in my opinion. They are too fast at the first 10 or 15 levels, and too slow past the midpoint in the level curve.
As far as endgame, a lot of sandbox content can be left up to the player whether to do it in between levels or after they are done leveling. Minigames, mount racing, card games against other players, leveling crafting, are all things that can happen independent of the player's combat level.
Ditto. I am actually finding far more enjoyment from the plethora of roguelikes out there as those are games that you can play nearly for ever. Now, if only I could find the Star Trek game I played back in the early 80's.....
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7300033012
Yeh .. the majority don't even care that much about MMOs .. .there are so many other types of games to play.
My endgame is crafting, exploring, and helping others level.
That's true, there's no MMOs on top 10 best selling computer games in 2013, not even one. Also, there's no MMOs on top 36 best selling computer games all time.
Using that logic, MMOs shouldn't even exist because majority don't like them..
My endgame is moving on to a new game.
I thought people like to interpret labels literally ... if MMO has to be massive, doesn't endgame has to "end"?
We are still on a MMO site right? Talking about MMO's and people who play them?
Just making sure I'm not replying to the village idiots, two stupider brothers.
I believe it comes down to the type of game you want. EQ may have been a bit to grindy at times for the majority of people and to Pen and Paper like in terms of classes and rules.
I think Ultima Online might have been on the right path. Have no levels and skills that can always go up. I think there was a cap on the total skill points and when you passed that cap one of your other skills would go down to compensate. This allowed you to always evolve. There were many different things you could do in game like craft, go exploring to find places and kill monster, build houses, theft via pickpocket or PvP, etc.
Maybe the games shouldn't be about leveling, but trying to create a world where people can jump in and do everyday tasks in a fantasy world. If they don't want do everyday tasks they can still go and kill things for loot. Items would eventually break making crafting worthwhile and give crafters something to do. I am not a big crafting fan myself, but some people like it.
Raid type content could be there for people who enjoy that, but I wouldn't make it the main focus of the game.
I feel perhaps games should stop focusing so much on loot and leveling. Those were a means to an end, but no that's all the games are about. They were supposed to convey a sense of progression, but they have become the sole focus in MMOs. There needs to be other things to do then just leveling, killing, and looting. I would like to see more RPG elements in games.
1) MMORPG is broadening their coverage to include non-MMO
2) We don't have to only talk about MMOs and the people who play them. Talking about people who don't play them is fair game since it is related to MMOs. You didn't read all those who are disgusted with MMO here, and currently are not playing one?
Diablo shows that there is a huge market for focusing solely on loot & combat.
Surely not all games need to do that ... but it is also not necessarily to unfocus every game from that.
It should take a year to progress, crafting should be in real time + years to create something magical. Monsters shouldn't respawn, once the limited troops of evil are culled you are SOL there is no more experience to gain until a new evil arises a few years later (it takes time to amass evil armies), but by then your characters age progression would kill them off. Dungeons can only be explored once and they are non instanced so literally can only be done once. Even the best players are lucky to reach level 3.
Would this be hardcore enough for the mmo's aren't hard enough crowd?
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How about lot's of endgame and an achievement system instead of levels with skill based combat. I think that would be ok. No levels, no problem!
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Heh, seems like I've started and abandoned 5 or 6 different replies to this thread. For the record, I chose the final, "no endgame," option, but that was on the understanding that what the OP meant by "endgame" was the abomination that has appropriated that term in the MMO-sphere. Also more as an ideal than a belief that a commercially viable MMORPG that I'd actually want to play would ever be made on such a basis -- at least before AI advances to the point of being able to create interesting content as fast as players can chew through it (since I find it hard to get into the style of game where players are just left to chew through each other).
(This is not really a reply to the above, which I take it is a reductio ad absurdam of one or more of the various "hardcore" positions that get advanced on this site, but takes its cue from a couple of things you say.)
Sometimes I think about what kind of online RPG I'd *really* like to play. Something that would be analogous to being in a "shared universe" pen and paper campaign where you had many groups of PCs running round the world doing things, carving out their own legends, &c., but not so many that the world would be reduced to a barren wasteland with all monsters hunted to extinction within an hour of the servers going live -- in other words, it would not be massively multiplayer. PCs are top predators, for an ecosystem to be -- I hesitate to use the word "realistic" here, but to have the slightest vestige of credibility, there are only so many that can be supported.
So: if the Dark Lord gets defeated, he stays defeated (unless of course, whoever wins the loot roll is foolish enough to actually put on the Black Spiky Helmet of Doom, having missed the hint that on looting said helmet from the Dark Lord's corpse, the face beneath it looked remarkably like the leader of the last band of heroes to ride out against the Dark Lord, who were assumed to have all died). The abomination of having a boss "on farm" would be simply impossible. If a dungeon gets cleared, it will be repopulated before too long, but it will take longer before the denizens have anything worth stealing; whatever repopulated it will be different to what was there before and the same tactics won't work against them.
Ah well, I can dream. What I describe might be doable as a text-based MUD or on a private NWN server; because of the sheer amount of time needed to write interesting content, unless and until AI gets advanced enough, it's not going to be a commercially viable prospect.
This really misses the point; it's about hours of playtime, not how many days you can stretch those hours out over.
I voted the last choice, wanting the "end game" to just disappear in some MMOs. Raids do not have to be just at the end game. PvP can be scattered throughout the whole game, not just at the end, as can crafting. "Dailies" should be shot and put to rest.
I also think that there should be MMOs for every kind of player, including fast leveling, end game heavy MMOs. The current trend for the "fast leveling" is getting out of hand. It is not meeting some of the players wants/desires.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
I've never got to end game in any MMO I've played. I love taking my time. I'm not one of those players who click quest givers and don't read the text then jump off into the distance like a demented loon. I see it all the time, they can't be enjoying the game surely. I've a character in WoW I've played on and off for 5 or 6 years now, and I think he's level 58 or something.
It's not the MMO at fault it's the player IMO.
I'm for equal end game and mid game content.
I've noticed a few games (mostly very cheaply made) were very impressive at the beginner's zone then copy and paste at mid level. I want to be surprised in the middle of a game with content I never knew was there. Keep surprising me all throughout.
Some games lead you by the nose and force you to end game. Not appreciated. But sometimes it's the players that get in this mindset they can't seem to rethink. It does NOT have to be about end game and my level is higher than yours.