Alt Addiction - who else has problems?

[fatal2704]

Alting has turned me off to plenty of games with class systems, a few examples would be WoW, Dragon Age, and Nwn 2. Pretty much anything with a large amount of character customization. Does anyone else have this problem, or am i the only one?

 

[Jaded Scribe]

My 20 WoW characters (with 6 being 78+, though admittedly, my Horde alts are all lowbies I don't touch very much, with some new race/class combos sitting at level 1) said I should say hi.

 

[Aetera]

I definitely have an alt addiction. I have five WoW characters above 80, two of which are 85, Three more in the 60-79 range, and about a dozen more. I also make tons of new characters in Dragon Age and DA2, because I feel the need to try every combination of decisions ever. I'll also restart a game hours into it if I come to hate how I designed the character's looks.

 

[Fr]anc[is]

Oh god yes. DA:O is currently the worst. I play through the origin and maybe Ostagar, and 4/5 I'll want to start over as something else. Did it when I was trying WoW as well. For some unknown reason I remade the exact same characters several times.

 

[kampori]

I absolutely LOVE creating new characters. I rarely level them to the max (for MMOs), or finish the story with them, but I just love creating them. Making the perfect class & looks for different situations, and RPing with them.

 

[Galliam]

I have a theory that this is mostly because we want to create a world for our characters to live and not be alone in. Plus all those achievements for doing the story different ways don't hurt either. Hell in DA:O you need a minimum of 6 playthroughs at least to Ostagar to get every achievement, one run as a girl and one as a dude to get all the romance achievements.

But yeah, I used to have that problem, but I feel I've actually gotten over it for the most part, even though there are some lowbie WoW alts I can't bring myself to get rid of.

 

[NeutralDrow]

My first MMO was City of Heroes. I'm pretty sure that's what's called "enabling."

But yes, absolutely. It's not just CoH, but other games (especially MMOs and RPGs) as well. I just want to try everything at least once. Hell, I have about a one-man commercial empire (for certain values of the word "empire"), mainly because I like having at least one character for every profession.

 

[Vampire cat]

I'm addicted to alts, but I rarely if ever make any real progress on any of them, some times it completely stops me from playing a game to the end at all, I just keep making new characters and starting over with them...

 

[WolfEdge]

My first MMO was City of Heroes. I'm pretty sure that's what's called "enabling."

But yes, absolutely. It's not just CoH, but other games (especially MMOs and RPGs) as well. I just want to try everything at least once. Hell, I have about a one-man commercial empire (for certain values of the word "empire"), mainly because I like having at least one character for every profession.

I've made at least fifty or sixty different COH characters, and NONE of them have made it past level 20

When I played it, I pretty much paid fifteen dollars a month or whatever it was just to compete in costume contests.