Has this game turned you "off" to MMOs in general?

I think 95% of the people here played World of Warcraft and had a great time with the game at some point. You get tired of a game and angry with the way the changes/expansions are installed which is understandable...

This game had so many Star Wars fans licking their chops and thinking that this would be the next great thing, because it's STAR WARS... and I had sworn allegiance to this game no matter if I hated it even before I played... but I hit Battlemaster about 2 months ago and stopped playing shortly after. Man I wanted this game to work.

I find myself still coming back to these forums because I care about the game and I invested so much to the forums leading up to the game.

I think we wanted this game to save us from the MMO genre that we knew as "WoW," but I think it turned me off to the whole genre as a whole and I have now lost faith.

I do however hope that this game succeeds (but I don't see that happening) and I hope people continue to casually have fun with it.

And seriously, you can have my stuff. First person to send me a message gets my stuff.

Good luck with the game!

Cheers!

no, this game hasn't turned me off to other mmos. Other mmos have turned me off to other mmos.

TOR: spacebar spam through conversations, tbh. We both know most players do this. I actually made the hilarious mistake of listening to some of these quest dialogues on my first character. So much faster to read the subtitles.

I don't play text-based MMO's (or, as we call them, MUDs) anymore because they have no spacial representation for combat. Now that's a feature that matters. Right?

They don't understand that our games we prefer to play don't exist in that form anymore. The majority of MMO product have all conformed to the WOW model in order to get a bigger slice of the pie.

AO Classic for life.

They absolutely DO exist. You just don't want to play them, and can't admit it. Play AC1. It hasn't changed sustantially. DAoC. Same.

EQ1. I can log on right now to my 45lvl Paladin and go grind undead in Katta Castellum. I could log in and retrieve my lvl 10 Warrior from Kael Drakkar, run back to East Commonlands and whack on Orcs till my fingers bled. You can still do this! Why don't you?

It's not about being read aloud to. It's about enjoying a cinematic experience. WOW, for instance, doesn't have that in it's quests. Most people that play games like that have no clue why they're doing a quest. They just accept them all and then mindlessly complete them as they race to max level. TOR has changed the genre for the better, IMO, by making the leveling process fun again. The journey actually means something in TOR.

Also, if graphics, presentation, cinematic, etc don't make a difference, why aren't you still playing text based MMORPGs?

Because after playing games like TOR, games like EQ1 make me want to pull my hair out. I recently downloaded EQ1 and my level 35 Warrior and 38 Druid were still there... 8 years after I unsubbed. I attacked one undead MOB standing around these ruins and like 4 more joined the fight. I got down to about half health and then ran for it. I had to run around about 10 minutes with them chasing after me the whole time until I finally found the zone entrance. I used to love that game...... not any more.

Funny you mention WoW quests. I'm a fan of Yogscast, and everytime they do a WoW spotlight, it's a pet peeve of mine that they NEVER read the quests. Half the time they're not even sure what they're doing...they simply follow the cliff notes version of the quest, follow the quest marker.

You see some players here trying to emulate that same behavior by 'spacebarring' through the stories. No wonder they don't like the game. And frankly, the game can do without them.