Poll: What turns you off about MMOs?

[BRMXJzjsoawk321]

The endlessness of MMOs overwhelms me.

That and I played MMORPGs from when I was 4 until I was 12. I'm pretty burnt out on them.

 

[Danpascooch]

ToR is only $10 a month!? I thought it would be $15! WOO!

Anyway, $10 a month is very reasonable if you like the game, I mean can you honestly say you get an average of 6 months of play out of all the new release console games you buy?

your only logic fail with this is you still have to pay for the initial game. so it'll be like 50-60 dollars when it comes out (in my country) and so paying for more after that is what throws many people (especially me) off of it, i fucking hate subscriptions for one game, i dont care that it pays for servers and dlc, i just dont want to pay for it.

I like MMOs, I really do, but I refuse to pay an extra $15 a month on top of the game's cost to play the damn thing. I kinda like the idea of lifetime subscriptions, but I'm not paying $300 for a game, ever. Thus I do not play MMOs.

Oh, and don't give me that "it pays for the servers and added content" shit. I get it, they have an excuse to charge for it, that doesn't make it worth the money.

ninja'd, i completely forgot to look for it.

And how much is WoW now? It's like nothing for the original game.

Not to mention, if you play for a year or more, that original game cost is so spread out over the months it becomes insubstantial anyway.

im not sure, but any other mmo especially that has come out in the past year is a decent chunk of money that is worth a non subscription game, and i have tons of games i go back and replay for over a year/years to come, so their costs get spread out too technically then

Your AVERAGE game gets you 4 months of play? I find that a bit hard to believe.

did i say that? but whats so hard to believe about that?

some of my games i have had for over 2 years, still play em

No you didn't say that, but I chose "average" game because if MMO's give you more hours of play than your average console purchase for the same price, it makes no sense to complain about the price.

Yeah, everybody has "some" that last that long, but on average?

And this is assuming you actively play for all four of the months, I don't believe that you play any of your non subscription games more than twice a week for 2 years.

well it actually does. i dont want to keep paying for something for the same game a monthly fee, i know the reasons behind them charging, but i dont play one single game that much. ever. i dont care what you say its just ONE game that much gets boring to me, no matter how many different quetss and whatnot there is.

and yes actually, i KNOW which games i like and dont like, and the ones i do pick up are gems and i have been actively been playing them for years

kotor/jade empire/dragon age/mass effect/gears of war/socom/halo/final fantasy

(im gonna test out baldurs gate I and II soon

i switch between all those games in a perfect cycle year round, i tend to throw an odd game or two in there, otherwise those games you will always see me playing a few times a year at the least, all those games have lived way past their costs and i get to play them when i want to,for free.

and obviously many people on here agree with me if you go through the posts and the poll, we dont want subscription fees, especially for one game. if you want to thats perfectly fine, but the games i have where i dont have to pay for that have kept me more than happy enough and obviously alot of other people too, otherwise we would all creep to mmo's eventually.

ONE MMO is a lot different from ONE single player game, MMO's are always very long, with a massive amount of content, and a player driven world, they have many more times re playability than a normal game. Funny, I that HALF of the games you mentioned were from Bioware, you even had KOTOR for god's sake, you should try ToR, you never know, you might LOVE it.

I believe in playing plenty of normal games, and being subscribed to one MMO.

All I am saying is that the pricing is a bad reason to not give MMO's a chance, because from what I just showed, at least 90% of gamers get less playtime for their cash with their average game purchase, I couldn't imagine playing those same games over and over and over in a cycle like you do.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

snip.

while i understand that, completely, i used to play runescape (i know not a good example, its not even a taste of a real mmo) and i watched a few friends play WoW, and yes they are substantially longer than regular single player games, and they do have infinite more amounts of quests, i just dont have the time to money ratio to dedicate that to a single game to make the 15 a month worthy, i just would get bored with it after a few hours more then likely as mostly do base it around player driven/quest driven games,which is why i picked so many bioware games, most of their games are story/character driven games, which is what i live for.

(as from my list, i am a bit of a bioware fan(boy), i do recognize they aren't the greatest games in the world for everyone though, and i dont scold ppl for not liking them.)

and yes, i actually might, i thought about it long and good and when it comes out i will highly consider getting it, depending on my money at the time (im buiding a new computer right now...so wont have much money for gaming besides the computer) but i will eventually get it im sure, unless the reviews and gameplay videos i see are really not what im looking for (very doubtful i wont like it though)

and while you can't imagine it, its just what i love about games..story/character driven games have me by the nutz for some reason. and i can EASILY, EASILY say i have played kotor over 100 times, and i am not sick of it yet.

 

[Danpascooch]

snip.

while i understand that, completely, i used to play runescape (i know not a good example, its not even a taste of a real mmo) and i watched a few friends play WoW, and yes they are substantially longer than regular single player games, and they do have infinite more amounts of quests, i just dont have the time to money ratio to dedicate that to a single game to make the 15 a month worthy, i just would get bored with it after a few hours more then likely as mostly do base it around player driven/quest driven games,which is why i picked so many bioware games, most of their games are story/character driven games, which is what i live for.

(as from my list, i am a bit of a bioware fan(boy), i do recognize they aren't the greatest games in the world for everyone though, and i dont scold ppl for not liking them.)

and yes, i actually might, i thought about it long and good and when it comes out i will highly consider getting it, depending on my money at the time (im buiding a new computer right now...so wont have much money for gaming besides the computer) but i will eventually get it im sure, unless the reviews and gameplay videos i see are really not what im looking for (very doubtful i wont like it though)

and while you can't imagine it, its just what i love about games..story/character driven games have me by the nutz for some reason. and i can EASILY, EASILY say i have played kotor over 100 times, and i am not sick of it yet.

I understand, I'm not saying it's wrong to dislike MMO's, it's a matter of personal taste.

I am just saying that for the average person, the "it costs too much" argument falls a bit short.

 

[RatRace123]

The other people primarily, the lack of story second, the PC exclusivity third (God damn you Champions Online, you were supposed to change that! What's a matter? Being the bastion of a console MMO surge too much for ya'?)

I'm sufficently disappointed about SWTOR, it's supposed to have a deep and engaging story. And yet, for me at least, it would be ruined when I see a bunch of idiots running around twirling their lightsabers and asking if anyone wants to trade, or "where's this location?"

Another reason I have a disdain with MMOs is the fact that they seem to take up the largest quantity of creative, interesting universes. But they're wasted on just MMOs.

Single Player World of Warcraft, put it on a console and you have an oblivion killer
SWTOR, Single player, put it on consoles and you can call it KotOR 3 and the fans would love it

City of Heroes/Champions([sub]damnyou[/sub]) I don't think there's ever been a super hero RPG like it on consoles, we need one.

 

[RobfromtheGulag]

The people. Before I played MMORPGs I feared what dealing with others would be like due to the crass attitudes on message boards. These fears were quickly realized to be actualities.

The stories are fine, I'm sure if I bothered to read them it'd be immersive. The monthly fee is peanuts if you take into account all the money you WOULD be spending during the times you're playing. The menial quests are annoying but you can imagine it's progressive.

Nothing takes you out of a fantasy universe faster than multitudes of grammatically inept acronym spamming other gamers. [Refer to Penny-Arcade's 'Greater Internet ****wad Theory'].

 

[nimbylive]

I hate, HATE, the crappy kids that get onto some games. I know this is not every young person that plays, but I can still remember an occurrence on Diablo 2 that essentially ended my online playing of that game. a guy wanted a trade, I offered something I felt fair, and then he proceeded to call me all kinds of things... nasty stuff that did not even make sense. I got really turned off about the whole thing and to this fay do not really enjoy playing MMO's.