Who else can't get into MMORPG?

I can't seems to get into MMORPGs, it's sooo boring and complex. I've bought and played many MMORPGs (Champions Online, EVE Online, Guild Wars, Rappelz, Runescape and many more.), non of that seems to be interesting, yet most of my friends love them, especially WOW. So who else find MMORPGs boring?

me, I try but I just can't get into them.

The beggining can be boring but it's the end game that is fun. I can understand why you don't like them as it takes months of pointless grinding before you reach end game.

I was addicted to WOW for a couple of months, 10 hour days it wasn't a pretty sight.

i cant get out of MMORPGs... everytime i play an MMO i always ended up spending 100% of my time playing, limiting my sleep to be able to play more etc.

when i play an MMO i get massively addicted pretty instantly.

me, I try but I just can't get into them.

LegatoSkyheart

^ this. I actually own most of the MMORPGs around, waiting for one I can really get into. Up to now, only Ragnarok and Guild Wars managed to get me in for more than a few weeks/months :S

i've played MMO's for practically all of my gaming life, I remember playing EQ when I was like 10 years old and recall being so captivated by the amount of depth and exploration that was available to me, and in retrospective, it had one of the best communities of players I had ever played with. been hooked on them ever since,

played Star Wars galaxies since it came out all the way into they ruined it with the leveling system (SOE failed epicly), then I moved on to WoW, for about 4 years on and off.

I have spent SO MUCH MONEY on mmo's but I really don't regret it at all, sure I could have spent my time doing other things, but they were still fun and unlike any other gaming experience imo.

Here's hoping to continue my MMO carreer with The old republic.

I don't see what's so special about them.

Most MMOs leave a bad taste after a few hours. WoW was one of the few that didn't. It was such an amazing game back when I started. First character was a Night Elf Druid & being thrown into Azeroth not knowing much was awesome. Even after 4 years of playing I always missed the feeling of being lost & not knowing where everything was. The world was so epic & awesome to explore. Haven't played for a year now but when I remember the early days I feel like getting back into it, but then I remember what it's become & I come back to my senses.

With that said, I'd give up my social life once again if I could go back to the early days of WoW.

Most MMOs leave a bad taste after a few hours. WoW was one of the few that didn't. It was such an amazing game back when I started. First character was a Night Elf Druid & being thrown into Azeroth not knowing much was awesome. Even after 4 years of playing I always missed the feeling of being lost & not knowing where everything was. The world was so epic & awesome to explore. Haven't played for a year now but when I remember the early days I feel like getting back into it, but then I remember what it's become & I come back to my senses.

With that said, I'd give up my social life once again if I could go back to the early days of WoW.

Twin-Blade

when the deadmines was a hard instance to beat, good times.

I could never have the time to put any real investment into the MMORPGs.

I can't seems to get into MMORPGs, it's sooo boring and complex. I've bought and played many MMORPGs (Champions Online, EVE Online, Guild Wars, Rappelz, Runescape and many more.), non of that seems to be interesting, yet most of my friends love them, especially WOW. So who else find MMORPGs boring?

stevoqwerty

Getting into mmos, a genre that truly is not for everyone, is really about finding the right one. Bad impression in your first contact with mmos will have a great effect on how you perceive them later. So when starting your mmo jurney dont ever play f2p games first. Even if the fans of the game claim its just like WoW but its free (Runes of Magic) it is really not. Its a great compliment to RoM but doesnt make the game anything like WoW. For example WoW=polish. A constant stream of updates has made the game the most polished experiance in the genre. F2P games always have problems with this aspect. To me they also seem to have a tiny array of things that bother, that in time become annoying and bring down the experiance. These can be elements of the ui, animations, movement. Seeing at the first two games listed I am not surprised that you did not find your mmo. EVE is insanely complex and a niche game becouse of it. It is a game you need to invest a ton of time in to be succesful. I would not say its as bad as lets say Lineage 2 which basically ask you to play for weeks to get to the "good stuff." Champions...was and still is a missed opportunity. A good superhero mmo although with alot of bland instances is City of Heroes. Champions is a stripped down version of that. Guild Wars to me is not an mmo at all=) Its a coop rpg. A good one though.

I always suggest that people try WoW first becouse like I said it is the most polished mmo and it has pretty much all elements of mmos. WoW does nothing great, but does everything well enough is what I say. Also another mmo I could recommend to get a taste for some more complex gameplay is Fallen Earth. A hard game with a great crafting system that is made very accesible by the wonderful community and help channel in the game chat that has gms and a group of volunteers answering all question posed by players.

closest thing I ever got into like that is PSO and that's not really the same.

[QUOTE="Twin-Blade"]

Most MMOs leave a bad taste after a few hours. WoW was one of the few that didn't. It was such an amazing game back when I started. First character was a Night Elf Druid & being thrown into Azeroth not knowing much was awesome. Even after 4 years of playing I always missed the feeling of being lost & not knowing where everything was. The world was so epic & awesome to explore. Haven't played for a year now but when I remember the early days I feel like getting back into it, but then I remember what it's become & I come back to my senses.

With that said, I'd give up my social life once again if I could go back to the early days of WoW.

Dead-Memories

when the deadmines was a hard instance to beat, good times.

vanilla wow was awesome.

I just hate how blizzard releases expansions... making all my epics outclassed by green items? It pretty much ruins progression knowing that no matter how much time you spend working to get items, they are gonna all be worthless once the next expansion rolls around. After hitting the level cap in TBC i just stopped playing because it removed my incentive to farm for gear that was going to be worthless.

I much preferred everquest's expansion style... where you still needed to get alot of the old raid items to be able to raid the new expansion tiers.

I guess you need to play with friends from the get go.

I've played a few on and off. In the end I always leave since the constant messing about with gameplay and characters just gets boorishly complicated. For example WoW Started with I think 9 classes and level 60 skill. Soon it will be 10 Classes and 85 skill point, plus there's extra racials to think about.

Keeping up to date with which class/build combo works with or defeats class combo X, and constantly updating your frikken "Mods", dps spreadsheets gets boring. I also played Age of Conan, they totally revamped my char. It has more of twich gameplay, so I had to re-train my muscle memory and get a new program to bind my mouse buttons. In the end, you realize there's newer more interesting games come out, that actually have a you know a story - and your these newer games are probably more worth your time.

I guess you need to play with friends from the get go.

I've played a few on and off. In the end I always leave since the constant messing about with gameplay and characters just gets boorishly complicated. For example WoW Started with I think 9 classes and level 60 skill. Soon it will be 10 Classes and 85 skill point, plus there's extra racials to think about.

Keeping up to date with which class/build combo works with or defeats class combo X, and constantly updating your frikken "Mods", dps spreadsheets gets boring. I also played Age of Conan, they totally revamped my char. It has more of twich gameplay, so I had to re-train my muscle memory and get a new program to bind my mouse buttons. In the end, you realize there's newer more interesting games come out, that actually have a you know a story - and your these newer games are probably more worth your time.

hywel69

Something about MMORPGs that I just can't stand. I need to spend most of my time to finish quests and I have other games to play, MMORPGs are just boring and time consuming. And I got crappy not so fast internet and mid-range rig.

none as much as PSO on Dreamcast...

none as much as PSO on Dreamcast...

Scoob64

Is PSO classified as an MMO?

Ultima Online was the only one I really really enjoyed alot.

You're lucky....

being addicted to wow wasn't fun......

I can understand the appeal, but I'm more of a quality over quantity type of guy.

The star wars old republic MMO looks pretty interesting tho.

I find it odd that the TC has a Reach sig.

My guess would be that he pays for Live and plays 3-4 hours a day online for credits to buy items and will never have a way to "finish" the online play.

Remind you of anything?

BTW You can level with Eve with out even playing more then 10 min a day. :P

I find it odd that the TC has a Reach sig.

My guess would be that he pays for Live and plays 3-4 hours a day online for credits to buy items and will never have a way to "finish" the online play.

Remind you of anything?

BTW You can level with Eve with out even playing more then 10 min a day. :P

FragTycoon

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I find it odd that the TC has a Reach sig.

My guess would be that he pays for Live and plays 3-4 hours a day online for credits to buy items and will never have a way to "finish" the online play.

Remind you of anything?

BTW You can level with Eve with out even playing more then 10 min a day. :P

TheShadowLord07

I can't seems to get into MMORPGs, it's sooo boring and complex. I've bought and played many MMORPGs (Champions Online, EVE Online, Guild Wars, Rappelz, Runescape and many more.), non of that seems to be interesting, yet most of my friends love them, especially WOW. So who else find MMORPGs boring?

stevoqwerty

Guild Wars was the only mmo I likedohthemanatee

I want to like them, as I have bought many throughout the years with most recently being WoW. But I can't seem to invest the time necessary to get to the higher echelons where I imagine the game is really fun

I've only tried WoW, LOTRO and Aion. I didn't like WoW and LOTRO (played them for a couple of weeks each) but I thought Aion was pretty decent. Played it for about two months or so.

I'm not interested in any MMOs until free-to-play black prophecy (scifi mmo) comes out next month. been following it for the last 3 years and tried at least 3 times to get into the closed beta subscription. honestly the best looking MMO to come out in years:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d615RVe5enU

other than that, no other mmo's really interest me :X altho I did have a top tier raiding mage from the start of WoW (MC + BWL + ZG etc) until the burning cursade (quit after we killed kil'jaden in sunwell). after all my raiding gear didn't mean crap for a 2nd time I gave up and decided it was nothing but a time sink.

I find it odd that the TC has a Reach sig.

My guess would be that he pays for Live and plays 3-4 hours a day online for credits to buy items and will never have a way to "finish" the online play.

Remind you of anything?

BTW You can level with Eve with out even playing more then 10 min a day. :P

FragTycoon

I do pays for Live and play 3-4 hours a day, but I also own a PS3 and PC and I like them all equally. PCs are for RTS and Indies and PS3 are for RPGs and Fighting, Xbox are forFPS/TPS and Racing. I just can't stand MMORPGs, it take soo much time to get good at and it's so confusing.

Trying to get into LOTR online but I'm playing BC2

Loved wow when I played got to lvl 33 in about 50 hours or so... game was pretty addicting with endless things to do. I would still be playing if I didnt have to pay for it every month.

My problem is that I get to the end game stuff and then sit there waiting for content to be released. It's quite boring to pay to wait for content. Guild Wars got rid of the paying as have a few others lately, but not the waiting. Most MMO PvP is also meh, so that doesn't help much.

They're complex? Since when?Ringx55

Hey, 11112223333 is as complex as it gets. Maybe throw another 111 in there.

MMO's when executied properly are my favorite genre...

Ultima online, Star wars galaxies, WoW...the old republic next.

They're complex? Since when?Ringx55

Its not the actual game thats complex, its understanding how everything works and knowing how to play it...

If you think you're going to join a game (lets say WoW) and PVP (Arenas) you are out of your mind...you need some serious keyboard skill, macros to really be ANY good and get past 2000. If you mean leveling up, any dumb @#$# can level up....but ive met people who can heal their asses off, or tank better than others...it really does take SKILL, just like any game thats involves thinking and using your brain.

[QUOTE="Ringx55"]They're complex? Since when?SRTtoZ

Its not the actual game thats complex, its understanding how everything works and knowing how to play it...

If you think you're going to join a game (lets say WoW) and PVP (Arenas) you are out of your mind...you need some serious keyboard skill, macros to really be ANY good and get past 2000. If you mean leveling up, any dumb @#$# can level up....but ive met people who can heal their asses off, or tank better than others...it really does take SKILL, just like any game thats involves thinking and using your brain.

[QUOTE="SRTtoZ"]

[QUOTE="Ringx55"]They're complex? Since when?Dead-Memories

Its not the actual game thats complex, its understanding how everything works and knowing how to play it...

If you think you're going to join a game (lets say WoW) and PVP (Arenas) you are out of your mind...you need some serious keyboard skill, macros to really be ANY good and get past 2000. If you mean leveling up, any dumb @#$# can level up....but ive met people who can heal their asses off, or tank better than others...it really does take SKILL, just like any game thats involves thinking and using your brain.

As a mage, rogues in world pvp make me more angry than arena. Such a cheap class imo.