The people. The end.
Okay, okay, I suppose I ought to elaborate. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are plenty of great people in the MMORPG universe, and I'm sure just about any fan would claim that they've made countless friends playing WoW or EQ or whatever. Fine. I can acknowledge that. Maybe I'm just unlucky, and haven't found these people.
Of course, maybe my standards are too high. I'm a console RPG nerd. I love Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Shin Megami Tensei, and so on. I like to be immersed in a fantasy world while I game. It definitely does well to kill my immersion when I'm constantly bombarded with other players saying stuff like "goldz plz," or "seling armr plz buy" or what-not. I can say right now that if I picked up, say, Final Fantasy XIII, and was met with the NPCs begging for gold and items, and conversing in broken, garbled english, I would be horrified. I guess I'm just spoiled. Then again, it likely doesn't help that I mainly play games to AVOID contact with people.
To jump topics somewhat, the success of WoW has made things hard for a gamer. There's an absurd influx of MMORPGs, to the point where you can hardly browse the internet without stumbling over a dozen or so shiny new MMOs. I know it's a popular genre right now, but seriously. The sad thing is, that although they all may have somewhat different visuals, or some other gimmicky selling point, they're all fundamentally the same. Grind grind grind. Grind grind. Grind. Reach the level cap... And... Well... I don't really know. It's not like there's an ending or anything. I just don't get it. Bah!
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Minus the asian gold farmers, 12 year old's spamming for help and munnies, MMO's aren't too bad, the over saturation in the market is bad, its like WOW went to a whorehouse and spawned a boat load of illegitimate love childs. Free MMO, in which there are a few, actually turn out to be better than pay2plays. There are a few console RPG's I would love for them to be continuous via game patches, addons whatever, it is a matter of compromise, is the meeting the potential bff4life outweight the noobs? oh the joys of the block player list, though I have yet to play a MMO in which suffer you with a limited block PM list haha.
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