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I've played quite a few MMOs and they're probably my favourite genre alongside RTS and sandbox games.
They're pretty maliciously designed to be both addicting and a massive timesink. Naturally WoW is the most prominent at this and I think everyone's kind of realizing they're just putting out the same stuff over and over. WoWs name will generally crop up when you mention MMOs, being the largest by miles - but that's also a problem with the MMO market in general. While Blizzard has pretty much no competition, they'll continue to neglect their playerbase and half-ass stuff they used to do well (see: WotLK cinematic, the climax to Warcraft 3, the Frozen Throne, in comparison to what they've just released).
And then there's pricing, most of us have no interest in spending £9 ($15) a month on a game which gets new content every 4-12 months, especially not multiple subscriptions. And on that it brings me to the Free to Play model - a model in which you get the vast majority of the game for free and pay for additional non-core features or extra story arcs. This failed when implemented in Champions Online however because they literally made more than half the game unavailable unless you pay, mostly defeating the point in F2P.
I'm hoping over the next few years the F2P model catches on, I'd quite like to play Eve Online and such but no interest at all in subscribing monthly to more than one MMO.
Kaiden wrote:I'm not paying £50 (£40+£9 sub) to play a game I might not even like. Will wait for price reduction.
James wrote:Of course I do I'm living the dream!!!!
DJ wrote:wat dream
Chloe wrote:me, ofc
James wrote:It shits on KOTOR2 and treats Revan like shit.
Tantalus wrote:HE'S RED NOW. MEANS HE'S DARKSIDE.
James wrote:Let's talk about the gather quests and 1 mob bosses, the stuff they promised not to do.
Also the animations, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
James wrote:I don't remember people running like they're soiling themselves, or a cutscene where random guy is shooting at random guys and doing a chugga chugga animation without a gun and blaster effects come out every 1/3 of the chuggas.
Chugga chugga.
~þsÿçhø~ wrote:My laptops screen is broke, how can i fix it?
James wrote:THROW DARK SOULS AT IT
James wrote:I think I have the threads/archive/images of them. Bioware/EA are seriously horrible.
Oh yeah people got banned for "im 12 and what is this" meme posts on the forums, because apparently that means you're under 13 and that breaks the terms of service.
God this game has brilliant horror stories, glad the playerbase shrunk dramatically since release.