Poll: What turns you off about MMOs?

[Vampire cat]

Of the alternatives, you retard assholes, no doubt =3. I played Runescape yesterday (haven't played for sooo long now, it was a lot of fun XD) and in the first few hours alone some jackass tried to steal my armor cause he was going to "show me how to make gold-lined armor" and wanted to take me to his "secret place" which obviously was in the PvP area... I told him to suck off and he started crying about how I was an idiot and he was sooo rich and powerful... Keep it to yourself, I just want to enjoy the game!

But mostly, really, that such a massive part of quests available in all MMOs are "kill X of that thing" or "collect X of those"... The only game I know of that never does this is Runescape, every single quest has a new story and something new and entertaining to do. Not many (if any) MMOs can say the same, and this is the only real reason I enjoy Runescape. I so wish people online would grow up tho...

 

[demoman_chaos]

I hate people, plain and simple.

 

[Dark Prophet]

1. The missions or quest or wathever you call them, but the fact remains that they are all a big fucking grind.
2. Other peopele, they could be more like IA, there to help me not to get all social and shit or yell at me or both.
3. The monthly fee, I payed you once now fuck off, I know that not all MMOs have that problem but they are even more shit then the ones with the fee.

 

[nin_ninja]

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?

Don't know price, just making one up. What I like about games is that you canplay them and then come back to them later after a break. I wouldn't want to have to pay for that break.

 

[TheFacelessOne]

Seconds jobs that you have to pay for aren't cool.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

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.

 

[PDizzle418]

The amount of time that they take away from life if you become addicted.
Dealing with a whole bunch of people who I don't want to talk with.
Paying a subscription fee.

Those are the main ones.

I agree with these three statements.

and I would like to add that many MMOs are too complex for me to fully enjoy. Often times you need to spend a lot of time out of the game trying to figure how exactly your going to set up your character and that just bugs me, I like games you can jump into and play, I don't care about being the top geared anything.

however I do genuninely like MMOs, it just depends on what game it is. My brother loves anything MMO and I've played a lot of different ones with him.

I guess as long as the game itself is entertaining I can get over the lack of story. Plenty of games have launched themselves and gone far with limited story. as long as the game is fun and plays good I have no problem.

I played wow for quite a while and the mainr eason I stopped is because my brother got deployed so I didn't have anyone to play with, that and I was coming home from school for the summer and decided it was a good time to stop it from sucking time out of my life. I always end up sinking mroe time into MMOs because they are filled with small objectives that are short and easy to accomplish.

so basically I don't like how much time they take, even though they are fun.

 

[Hurr Durr Derp]

For me, it's three things:

- Playing with other people is fun, but I generally don't like games that are designed entirely around the concept of multiplayer. Even games like Team Fortress 2 don't hold my attention for long, and that was actually fun. It doesn't help that playing solo in MMOs is almost always boring and/or nearly impossible.

- The lack of a good story really makes me feel it's pointless to keep on playing, especially when a lot of 'quests' end up being boring and repetitive. The number of MMOs that actually have a good story (without resorting to lame tactics like throwing oodles of lore at the player and pretending that's an acceptable substitute for a plot, or even more lame exclamations of "you should check out the book/comic/movie/whatever if you want to understand the plot!") is pretty much zero. The point of playing most MMOs is just to level up and get new gear so you can fight bigger baddies so you can level up and get more gear. That doesn't attract me at all.

- The monthly fee. Admittedly this is the least of my problems, since I fully understand why most MMOs have a monthly fee, but it's just something I don't want to put up with. Either make me pay for the game once and then let me play it for as long as I want, or give me the game for free and then charge me for a subscription. Doing both just seems excessive to me.


I could put up with any of those issues on their own, but combined they make almost the whole genre unattractive for me. It's no surprise then that my favorite MMO is Guild Wars, which can be played solo almost all the way through (using heroes and henchmen to replace fellow players), has several decent storylines with a clearly defined beginning and end, and does not have a monthly fee.

 

[Vhite]

The constant boring grinding.

This.

 

[Cyphrus Kain]

All the horrible step and fetch quests. In my experience most of those quests only give useless amounts of xp and money as rewards. Luckily, with Warhammer I don't have to put up with any of this crap to level since PvP is easy to get into. At least for the trial version.

 

[Scove]

love the gold sellers and the "OMG your level 2, you wanna join *insert random clan name*" there always a hoot to chat too! as for paying, im not fussed, isnt exactly alot and if u cant afford then dont play tbh! gotta say tho its difficult to find a hard balance in a game where its not just "collect 10 bear hides" wow u have made a super potion so "collect me 10 bear paws" and ill give u a necklace... that gets soooo tiresome so fast!

thing is if u get with a good group of people and they dont just wanna rush through, and you can enjoy the game i think thats the winner.. a good community!

 

[King Kupofried]

I do love MMORPGs myself.
The one thing that irks me quite significantly about most newer ones is the emphasis on Single Player gameplay.
Call me crazy, but I hate logging into a massive wide world with somewhere between thousands and millions of players running around and feeling like I can very easily ignore every single other player.
Now the game should not twist your arm and make you feel like if you aren't playing with someone else you shouldn't be playing at all, but it should make others feel needed. You need some perspective that other players are actually needed and not just another mass of polygons there to take items that you might want.
I feel confident in saying that player attitude problems in something like WoW would be somewhat reduced if it held a system like FFXI which makes you go and find a party of people if you want to level grind in the most efficient manner. It also helps make it feel less dull to actually be playing with others through the grinding portions.

 

[Lekonua]

Monthly fees. They're the only thing keeping me from becoming hopelessly addicted to WoW.

I absolutely refuse to pay for any game more than once. DLC and expansions, those are fine. But paying JUST to play the game itself is where I draw the line. (Heh. That rhymed.)

 

[ThreeKneeNick]

I used to love MMOs but as i played more of them i realized they have two components, the leveling game and the endgame, the endgame being what i like about them, and the leveling game being something I'm disliking more and more. The fact that you have to go through boring quests you don't care about to get to the good bits, and than do it again with your alt. I think Shamus Young wrote about this sort of thing here. But for the most part i still like MMOs.

 

[Nossy]

The WoW-esque of MMOs.

More recent MMOs that I've played (Star Trek, Conan, Tabula Rasa) just feel like they're ripping off WoW, like combat and how quests are done. Maybe thats why I loved Star wars Galaxies before the CU and NGE, it was all completely different. Yes, it did come out before WoW, but I saw very minimal similarities.

I just wish I could play the old SWG. I wonder if that group of people are still working on the emu?

 

[octafish]

How do I pick all of the above except PC exclusive and I like MMOs?

 

[TOGSolid]

The never-ending grind. You grind for levels to get better gear to grind for more levels to get better gear to get to the end game where all you do is grind for gear to inflate your e-peen.
MMOs are some of the most pointlessly shallow and vapid games ever conceived. They're no more complex than your average Zynga Facebook game.

 

[OmegaXzors]

There's no story.

It just goes on and on and on.

Like real-life? That's basically what an MMO is. Guild Wars doesn't even have a cost.

MMO's are just another genre. Xbox Live costs money but there's less bitching to that?

 

[AngryMongoose]

Endgame grinding. Don't mind the endless quests, because while doing them I'm visiting new areas, exploring. But after the 500th time i've gone to MC to try and get geared for the next raid, which will also take 500 runs, in the same fucking place each time... Blarrgegj,... No thanks.