[Please don't get triggered or offended, this was/is just a thought that popped into my head. Yes this is my first post, no it isn't a troll post....or to start any kind of arguments. Its just a thoughts I wanted to share and discuss]
Note: For me an MMO, generally is an RPG or any game that is online and has player base could be considered an MMO
I've been playing World of Warcraft for the last 10 years of my life, and I've come to a point where I'm not playing as much nor do I feel like playing as much as I used to not because the game is bad or anything just because of the world...it will always have the same feeling to it, the combat will always have the same feeling to it and this has made me look to other avenues for my play time in an MMO World.
I tried Swtor,Wildstar,ArchAge,GW2,FFXIV,Rift,Aion,BDO,DCUO,NeverWinter. (But I have yet to try ESO to any extent)
And all of these games failed at grabbing me as my first couple of days on Azeroth did for one reason or another. Some of them I know, and some of which I'm not completely sure of.
- But a major problem I can tell you is the combat isn't fluid in these MMO's that have come out over the years, it just never feels as fluid as it should as how far some other MMO's have come and progressed in terms of combat.
- Another huge factor is alot of these games are already dead (Yes this means the couple thousand of you that still play). Not saying these games are bad but they weren't given a chance after a few release hiccups the hype crowds that joined the game thinking it will be green fields and rainbows right away all left leaving the game with a couple 100 thousand (If they were lucky) that stuck it out...sometimes only for awhile...some still sticking it out. But these games were then forced to go F2P with a cash shop that would hopefully keep them a float from shutting down. These games are not fun to get into because much of the world created has been explored, used, and played through by everyone still playing that MMO so the world is completely Barren besides whatever is current content and that's if a new update was released to make the players still playing even log ON. So besides a few lowbies you might see here and there the game is empty. Which isn't a good feeling for any MMO...I mean kind of defeats the purpose. Which even if you catch up to level cap, you need people to do things, and that's if people still/ do or have a purpose to do whatever content you need to do to gear up to current levels. Alot of these games weren't given a fighting chance or the chance to build player investment within them. So nobody else, really had the opportunity to in some cases
- The worlds weren't convincing, weren't immersive enough and not fully giving the player the feeling to want to care about the world or anything in it with boring quest objectives, text, or even lazy dialogue in some cases. The world is something the player is supposed to spend is time in and want to look around it. If its boring, not immersive, it gives little desire.
- ...Some of these games just have very shitty UI's, and if they support addons...sometimes those addons are pretty shitty too(Sorry to the creators, but,well its true somtimes)
Other reasons these games either have a screwed up economy so you will never be ever to buy certain things you might want or need on the AH, some are stuck with terrible F2P models and terrible Cash Shops where you can buy power, sometimes these powerful items only exist on the Cash Shop for a certain time already putting you above the rest if you play alot and often spend money on the game and some just suck.
Now for what I really want to talk about...lol...venturing through these games and feeling these ways and having these thoughts always had me returning to World of Warcraft sooner then I expected to in all cases to be honest with you...I had high hopes that one of these games could steal my life away.
But it didn't happen, now back with Ole' Faithful WoW...but still looking, I sought hope another MMO could come out take players in, and become a new game I can stick with for years...but looking at list after list of upcoming MMO's just...left me hopeless for this genre. A lot of these "MMO's" not really being like the MMO's before it in many regards. Most of them just being huge PVP battles, with some of them having a player driven economy, or some type of building gimmick, players building the world and creating quest themselves. No traditional World story, lore, character building,PVE/PVP system/dynamic,quest or much of what makes most people know an MMO as an MMO. (More like a werid subgenre that is forming within) So I'm left off doubting the production of future MMOs as I know them and love them,sticking with the same thing I've known for years....its kind of like I'm married I guess
Does anyone feel this way about the state of current MMO's and the future of them? Do you like this new genre that seems to be forming under the banner of an MMO? If you know any MMO's being created that should be known post them