MMORPGs are the worst thing to ever happen to gaming.

-Because it brings elements of community and gaming together in a way that no other genre could ever touch.

-Leveling a character with elite gear can be rewarding, as can raiding huge dungeons over vent with 20-odd people.

-They can be epic, both in lore and in the size of the worlds. I've never seen a non-mmo come close to WoW or LotRO, when it comes to detailed, open worlds.

-They are usually very deep games, with a massive level of customisation. Even "casual" MMO's like WoW are many times more complex than any console game ever released.

-The emergence of MMORPG's has barely effected that of non MMO RPG's. Even if you hate everything about them, how can say that they are the worst thing to happen to gaming? Perhaps you should be venting your spleen towards MS and it's Live service. Live's ability to make tiny, incremental DLC highly profitable has led to a generation of greed with companies these days often coming out with on disc DLC and incomplete games like Prince of Persia 08 and Mafia II.

-Because they can be FUN. I don't care if you want to say that having fun isn't a valid point of contention when discussing a genre of gaming, because quite frankly, that is utterly ridiculous.

I thought the Wii was??

if the title was "Free mmorpgs are the worst thing to ever happen to gaming"

I would agree.

EVE-Online is built on the concept of a mmorpg community and it's so advanced most people stopped playing during the training segment.

I don't get how a single one of the points listed in the OP is "bad" for gaming.

-Because it brings elements of community and gaming together in a way that no other genre could ever touch.

-Leveling a character with elite gear can be rewarding, as can raiding huge dungeons over vent with 20-odd people.

-They can be epic, both in lore and in the size of the worlds. I've never seen a non-mmo come close to WoW or LotRO, when it comes to detailed, open worlds.

-They are usually very deep games, with a massive level of customisation. Even "casual" MMO's like WoW are many times more complex than any console game ever released.

-The emergence of MMORPG's has barely effected that of non MMO RPG's. Even if you hate everything about them, how can say that they are the worst thing to happen to gaming? Perhaps you should be venting your spleen towards MS and it's Live service. Live's ability to make tiny, incremental DLC highly profitable has led to a generation of greed with companies these days often coming out with on disc DLC and incomplete games like Prince of Persia 08 and Mafia II.

-Because they can be FUN. I don't care if you want to say that having fun isn't a valid point of contention when discussing a genre of gaming, because quite frankly, that is utterly ridiculous.

if the title was "Free mmorpgs are the worst thing to ever happen to gaming"

I would agree.

FrostMTG

I disagree

I thought the Wii was??

Shirokishi_

FPStation 3 Sonicplys

Yeah. A genre that has not affected any other genre is the worst thing to happen to gaming..

Addictive is listed as a bad aspect. :lol:

i never liked them anyway,very tedious and boring

Without MMOs there would be no vibrant continential asian gaming market.

Meh to MMORPG's...........but i want a Planetside 2!

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-Because it brings elements of community and gaming together in a way that no other genre could ever touch.

-Leveling a character with elite gear can be rewarding, as can raiding huge dungeons over vent with 20-odd people.

-They can be epic, both in lore and in the size of the worlds. I've never seen a non-mmo come close to WoW or LotRO, when it comes to detailed, open worlds.

-They are usually very deep games, with a massive level of customisation. Even "casual" MMO's like WoW are many times more complex than any console game ever released.

-The emergence of MMORPG's has barely effected that of non MMO RPG's. Even if you hate everything about them, how can say that they are the worst thing to happen to gaming? Perhaps you should be venting your spleen towards MS and it's Live service. Live's ability to make tiny, incremental DLC highly profitable has led to a generation of greed with companies these days often coming out with on disc DLC and incomplete games like Prince of Persia 08 and Mafia II.

-Because they can be FUN. I don't care if you want to say that having fun isn't a valid point of contention when discussing a genre of gaming, because quite frankly, that is utterly ridiculous.

Dead-Memories

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Without MMOs there would be no vibrant continential asian gaming market.

DogOfWarIII

I definitely don't agree. I think the whole making games tailored for EVERYONE including grandma would be worse IMO

dude, without WoW, what would Mr. T play?

Look at runescape, sure its a love hate thing with Runescape. The free to play can get dull but the membership is very awarding.

• Just like with all other good MMORPGs, Runecape has a large free-to-play community and a large pay to play community
• With ftp (free to play) alone, you get more than 14 thousand hours of game play on Runescape, with hours of game play dramaticly increasing when you look at ptp (pay to play). You look at other MMORPGs, you will find that they are probably similar in hours of game play for both free and pay
• It is constantly updating, you start playing, and you find that it is not up to your standards, so you "quit" and then you come back a year later and find out that the game's graphics have dramaticly improved, there is more content then ever before, and the community has grown. Ofcours there are other things that could change over a period of time after susposetly "quiting." Im not sure about others but Im sure there are a few that update weekly/ monthly, always adding new content/ improving the old content
• With MMORPGs like runescape, it has no replay value, but then again it never did, since new content is always being released, you have never actually technically beaten the game
• It is extremely fun raising your states and having reason to call people n00bs
• You can interact with the community outside the game in the forums. And you will find that it is always active. You can also interact with the developers of the game on the forums and make suggestions on how to improve the content of the game/ gameplay and the Devs actually respond and sometimes even impliment your ideas. As long as you dont act stupid, you wont get flamed or bashed (which isnt allowed anyway).
• plus alot of them (the MMORPGs with lesser graphics like Runescape; though I do need to say that runecapes graphic quality has been improving over the years and soon might become too great for the web broswers) can be played on the Web Broweser, no super computer/ gaming system required. Oh and no Broadband internet connect needed either (for runescape atleast)

Now there are many more reasons why MMORPGs are not even close to being the worst thing to ever happen to gaming. But that would take too long to list them all. Now the worst thing (person) to happen to gaming is... Bobby Kotric (lol I fail if I spelled the Devil's name wrong)