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• • mmorpgs are complete rip offs

  • Originally posted by ArchAngel102 

    Average lifespan of a video game for me? Two weeks to One month.

     

    Result? MMORPG's are EXTREMELY cheap. I can subscribe to FOUR MMO's for the price of ONE PS3 or PC game...

     

    You are playing the wrong games. Ha, ha ha!  Aside:  I wish people with your "financial logic" would shop at my brother's online store more. 

     

    I play Warcraft III online, for free, in fact playing as I type this.  I play online regularly.  The game is timeless, and players can customize all sorts of maps from roleplaying to PvP style to more strategy - you name it.

     

    I also play CoD online.  I continuously play Sim City as well.   My games have a much (much) longer lifespan than yours. 

  • Posted: 12/01/08 1:49 AM
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• • Your Gaming Preference

  • You could almost take your list and put it in reverse order for ME.  I , too, have an 8800 gtx, yet graphics for me are the least important.

     

    I like to be fascinating.  I like to "feel" as if the character that I develop is unique and part of something large in the world I am exploring.  Content is crucial in all respects from grouping to Questing to tradeskills.  Community is increasingly important, I think, because I enjoy the social aspect to MMORPGs more, today, than ever before.  

     

    1. World Immersion
    2. Story-book feel
    3. Content
    4. Community
    5. Audio
    6. Visuals (aka graphics)
  • Posted: 11/30/08 11:52 PM
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• • Barter Economy

  • Everquest (the original) was exciting, and fun, because of the social aspects to it. 

     

    In Everquest, e.g., you did not have an auction house and had to -gasp!- communicate, and haggle, your way to trade/sell/buy items.

    
    
  • Posted: 11/30/08 11:50 PM
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• • mmorpgs are complete rip offs

  • The OP makes an interesting point, and I think people are mixing apples and oranges (please see above posts comparing playing World of Warcraft to eating dinner, which is a necessity).

     

    The retail price in addition to monthly fee amounts to an expensive game - and customers should rightfully expect more when a monthly fee is levied.  Speaking for myself, though price is a minor (minor) factor, I am about to quit MMORPGs altogether because I have not found one with with the creativity, depth, sophistication, and immersion that Everquest (the original had).  In fact, I have multiple accounts at Everquest - but this title has been dry since the game became raid-focused, anti-community guild, and abandoned challenging/rewarding group gameplay.

     

     

    The "new" MMORPGs are not worth the retail price, let alone 15.00 a month for me to (1) grind and (2) raid.

     

    Edit
    

    I would gladly (glady) pay 15.00 if a game had world immersion, character customization, deep/optional Questing, and more.
    

    Today, these developers/companies want me to pay retail and 15.00 a month to (1) grind and (2) raid or (3) PvP - and I dislike ALL three.I want to (1) customize my character; (2) explore a world; and (3) participate in deep, but optional, Quests.  I will pay you for that.

    Been there.  Done that.  What happened to innovation (player empowerment, evolving world)?

     

     

     

    Aside

    Briefly, linear gameplay is intellectualyl offensive because it limits options (and freedom) and makes gamers feel stupid; some of us want to develop, explore, and "build" our characters in a unique, and authentic, way.

    I have not bought an MMORPG since Vanguard - and I am a "gamer."  I used to buy them all just to try them for a month.  Not anymore.  I am wiser consumer in this industry.

    These companies will not fool me - again.

  • Posted: 11/30/08 11:34 PM
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• • First casualty of the Holiday Season

  • What can you say about this?

     

    I never seen a more pathetic site - in my LIFE.  In my life. 

     

    The person will be buried, someone's husband, brother, father, because people had to rush-in Wal Mart to buy discounted prices.  Truly goods is more important than human life.  The guy, probably working in this economy, to support himself.  Maybe working two jobs.  And gets trampled upon by people. 

     

    Hard to believe.   Is this what we have become?  

  • Posted: 11/28/08 2:17 PM
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