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Can anybody beat my WOW nerdiness?
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SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
This thread is like the scared straight prison special on HBO. Scary stuff.
So the best way to make an addictive game more fun is to add compulsive gambling?
Megafoo Chavez said:
So the game isn't fun unless you are constantly acheiving a better status than other players? I think there needs to be some kind of improvement in the gameplay.Aurora said:
Fallofmart said:
So the best way to make an addictive game more fun is to add compulsive gambling?
:lolcatfish said:
So true.{Mike} said:
Slurpy2k20
Member
Assuming the week ends this second, he's played so far an average of 11 hours per day.
Thats 9am-8pm, non-stop, every single day.
Congratulations. You better not start a "why cant i get laid", "my life sucks i want to end it", "Im not comfrotable around people" etc type threads because noone will have an ounce of sympathy.
Thats 9am-8pm, non-stop, every single day.
Congratulations. You better not start a "why cant i get laid", "my life sucks i want to end it", "Im not comfrotable around people" etc type threads because noone will have an ounce of sympathy.
Megafoo Chavez
I love EGM
the funny part is most people in this thread have no clue about any of the end game content of wow expect "oh wow, i gotta raid to get it."
you have no clue what it takes to have that amount of people and deal with their shit
you don't have no clue on how people have to play and grind for rep, working professions to better their raid so they can drop bosses.
as before, most of you are fucking idiots. why? because i said so.
you have no clue what it takes to have that amount of people and deal with their shit
you don't have no clue on how people have to play and grind for rep, working professions to better their raid so they can drop bosses.
as before, most of you are fucking idiots. why? because i said so.
SapientWolf said:
Pretty much, for a lot of people it's a 1337 factor. The game has stolen a lot of the good players away from a lot of FPS clans. Certainly a lot of people play it to be superior to someone else. People don't make level 60 in 6 or so days of release of a server because they had an enjoyable time doing it.
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Megafoo Chavez said:
You don't have no clue what a double negative isn't is.
Slurpy2k20
Member
Megafoo Chavez said:
And after all that, its still a videogame you douche, that hes dumping almost 12 hrs a day in. Noone is discussing the damn gameplay. So everyone points still stand.
Megafoo Chavez
I love EGM
it's the gaming-age force, where they gotta show who is on top on gaf, but people who want to be better than others in wow is OH NOES.
good show guys.
good show guys.
Yeah, I think the only way to fix this is to limit the game extensivly after a certain hallmark has been reached. Like perhaps billing by the hour, so when you pay your 20 USD for a month of wow, or whatever its sitting at right now, you can only play for 40-60 hours that whole month.
Some folks would think its a ripoff but there are 60 dollar games that offer 10-15 hours of enjoyment and this would encourage people playing the game to go out and get a fucking life.
They'd have to implement certain scenarios though, like I'e heard that doing an endgame run in WOW can take a good 2 hours + , so perhaps the game simply wouldn't let you even start that quest if you didn't have enough hours left or there'd be penalty fees, like maybe you could keep going but you'd get no item drops or no experience.
All I can say for sure is that something needs to be changed with these games, companies makign money off of them are no better then governments who make cash of gambling addiction without offering a community ban on VLT's or something to that affect.
Some folks would think its a ripoff but there are 60 dollar games that offer 10-15 hours of enjoyment and this would encourage people playing the game to go out and get a fucking life.
They'd have to implement certain scenarios though, like I'e heard that doing an endgame run in WOW can take a good 2 hours + , so perhaps the game simply wouldn't let you even start that quest if you didn't have enough hours left or there'd be penalty fees, like maybe you could keep going but you'd get no item drops or no experience.
All I can say for sure is that something needs to be changed with these games, companies makign money off of them are no better then governments who make cash of gambling addiction without offering a community ban on VLT's or something to that affect.
Kabuki Waq
Member
I think Megafoo is being sarcastic or something.....
anyways 81 hours this week? WTF? parents need to cut oyu off the credit card.
anyways 81 hours this week? WTF? parents need to cut oyu off the credit card.
MrPing1000
Member
Atm I'm thinking about mmo's again, pretty sure I'm gonna try one again soon.
WoW popped into my head and I watched the new trailers for 1.11 and the expansion. They reminded me of why I quit in the first place, avoided that pit for now.
I've also been thinking about the greatness of UO and how over the past 6 years how it has been raped to hell. Garriot must cry himself to sleep some times. I had an active account for 5 years, the last 1.5 of which I barely played but I didn't want to loose my Tower etc. UO was so awesome, I got scammed out of my first tower, but I rebuilt a fortune in a day when a large tower collapsed. There must have been about 30 people there but I had one advantage that nobody else had. The 3D client had been available for a while but NOBODY and I mean NOBODY used it because quite frankly it was shit. However it did have one super advantage to the 2D client. You see in 2D when items are stacked u had to move items out of the way to get deeper in the pile. In 3D this was the same, but you could ctrl right click the pile and a list of every item would pop up and u could pick up whatever you wanted. In the mad dash that followed I walked about with a server birth rare and some other stuff. Got myself a tower in Felucca near Yew Gate. Good times. Piece of shit now adays, with badly bolted on quests, ELVES ffs and loads of stats that have removed the game from why it rocked, RISK. There is no risk in UO anymore, you can just make all your items unlootable so Murderers and Thieves died out. I was a pretty damn good Thief back in the day, it's impossible to do these days. What made UO was the players and their imagination, roleplaying, house decor, general naughtiness. All that is gone and not a single MMO has ever come close to recreating the total openess of UO and I don't think it'll ever happen. The problem is most MMO's and UO has fallen into the same shitty hole is that it is all about stats and equipment. In Old UO if u had yur skills in our fun was always to be had. Thieving was just awesome. The whole picking of targets, snooping them find an item, running past the guy stealing and KEEP RUNNING. I also was a disarm thief when it was viable. Steal from a warrior, wait a while come back, they attack u disarm steal their uber weapon. Laugh. Repeat.
MMORPG's now adays all follow the same shitty path. I wish NCSOFT would fuck off because all their efforts to date have been shitty grindathons. I have somefaith in Tebula Rasa, please PLEASE let it not suck.
In recent times I've played City Of Heroes/Villians, Guild Wars, Auto Assault and yesterday I d/l the Matrix Online Trial. Guild Wars and COH will keep u maybe a month AA is ass, and in my 3 hours of playing MxO or so it seems utter poo to. The EQ model has ruined the genre before it had started.
Which brings me to EVE. I've had 4 seperate months of subcription to eve. I don't think any of them occured one after the other. It is such a strange beast and try as I might I never figured out wtf I should have been doing, the lack of a corp hurt me badly I guess. But I am yet again VERY tempted to boot it up and yet again figure out what the point is. I know theres awesome stuff in that game I just never found it *cry*
Jesus I went off on one there.
WoW popped into my head and I watched the new trailers for 1.11 and the expansion. They reminded me of why I quit in the first place, avoided that pit for now.
I've also been thinking about the greatness of UO and how over the past 6 years how it has been raped to hell. Garriot must cry himself to sleep some times. I had an active account for 5 years, the last 1.5 of which I barely played but I didn't want to loose my Tower etc. UO was so awesome, I got scammed out of my first tower, but I rebuilt a fortune in a day when a large tower collapsed. There must have been about 30 people there but I had one advantage that nobody else had. The 3D client had been available for a while but NOBODY and I mean NOBODY used it because quite frankly it was shit. However it did have one super advantage to the 2D client. You see in 2D when items are stacked u had to move items out of the way to get deeper in the pile. In 3D this was the same, but you could ctrl right click the pile and a list of every item would pop up and u could pick up whatever you wanted. In the mad dash that followed I walked about with a server birth rare and some other stuff. Got myself a tower in Felucca near Yew Gate. Good times. Piece of shit now adays, with badly bolted on quests, ELVES ffs and loads of stats that have removed the game from why it rocked, RISK. There is no risk in UO anymore, you can just make all your items unlootable so Murderers and Thieves died out. I was a pretty damn good Thief back in the day, it's impossible to do these days. What made UO was the players and their imagination, roleplaying, house decor, general naughtiness. All that is gone and not a single MMO has ever come close to recreating the total openess of UO and I don't think it'll ever happen. The problem is most MMO's and UO has fallen into the same shitty hole is that it is all about stats and equipment. In Old UO if u had yur skills in our fun was always to be had. Thieving was just awesome. The whole picking of targets, snooping them find an item, running past the guy stealing and KEEP RUNNING. I also was a disarm thief when it was viable. Steal from a warrior, wait a while come back, they attack u disarm steal their uber weapon. Laugh. Repeat.
MMORPG's now adays all follow the same shitty path. I wish NCSOFT would fuck off because all their efforts to date have been shitty grindathons. I have somefaith in Tebula Rasa, please PLEASE let it not suck.
In recent times I've played City Of Heroes/Villians, Guild Wars, Auto Assault and yesterday I d/l the Matrix Online Trial. Guild Wars and COH will keep u maybe a month AA is ass, and in my 3 hours of playing MxO or so it seems utter poo to. The EQ model has ruined the genre before it had started.
Which brings me to EVE. I've had 4 seperate months of subcription to eve. I don't think any of them occured one after the other. It is such a strange beast and try as I might I never figured out wtf I should have been doing, the lack of a corp hurt me badly I guess. But I am yet again VERY tempted to boot it up and yet again figure out what the point is. I know theres awesome stuff in that game I just never found it *cry*
Jesus I went off on one there.
Tom the Enchanter
Member
Christ.Azazela said:
I hope you never played EQ...and, if you did, I'm surprised you didn't kill yourself when you died.
Y'know, stuff like this makes me say, "Hmm, that whole 'pay for time spent playing' schtick sounds pretty good."
Asheron's Call! For the win! Meridian 59, too!MrPing1000 said:
KyanMehwulfe
Member
Is Tabula Rasa going to be anything at all like UO?
Not in setting or combat of course... but in community?
I always felt that Koster was the real father of UO. To this day he remains passionate about that sort of game-as-an-ant-farm design.
Not in setting or combat of course... but in community?
I always felt that Koster was the real father of UO. To this day he remains passionate about that sort of game-as-an-ant-farm design.
Megafoo Chavez
I love EGM
me, sarcastic and starting fights?
absolutely not.
absolutely not.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
I am. If he's going to waste his life away on a game addiction he might as well play a game that isn't boring and monotonous. If he was drinking himself to death on Miller High Life Light I would have to intervene there as well. That is a crappy tasting beer.Paradoxal_Utopia said:
Archie said:I haven't played EQ in 2 years and my friends took over the accounts I used to play on, but I checked the EQ website to see if my characters were still around and:
I shared an account with a friend, I probably have half the days played on this one.
This character was used by everyone in my circle of friends, I probably only have 1/3 of the total time played on this guy.
MMORPGs are addictive. I'm really glad I quit EQ. D:
9k hours?
Jesus did I do that right?
Dr.Guru of Peru
played the long game
I checked this thread a few hours ago and he only had ~mid 70 hours this week. It's gone up to 81 now. Wow.
Maxwell House
Member
2894 hours times $6.25 per hour working at a McDonald's = $18,800+. Good grief man, you need to start being productive. Don't you feel like crap that you have wasted over a year of your life??? I can't imagine being on my computer pretty much every waking hour for an entire year.
Netrunner2k2
Member
Dahbomb said:
But how many STOPPED education for it?
Shamrock7r
Member
Dahbomb said:
Do you have any actual proof of that or are you talking out of your ass?
Fact is, the guy is jeapordizing his future for a computer game that will never benefit him.
Tom the Enchanter
Member
Not rly.Dahbomb said:
I hope the OP at least bathes. Daily.
Pack of Wild Rats
Member
I don't think I've put that much time into all games combined in my entire life.
Tornado Condor
Member
this makes me think, who has the longest time ever played into one game?
Netrunner2k2
Member
salva said:
It was probably some nutbag EQ or Lineage player in South Korea.
Tornado Condor
Member
Netrunner2k2 said:
know the time?
MrPing1000
Member
I'd imagine there are at least a few original EQ players that have played from launch still at it. And Lineage is still pretty damn big. Ahh Asians and their gameplay lacking mmo's
Fallofmart
Member
SapientWolf said:
Yes that's exactly what i'm saying. Well done.
If you were a MOD on IGN, then it should not be that difficult to track user accounts and their posting history. Some people I have seen acquire about 10,000 posts in less than 2-3 weeks and they are online at IGN way too often.Shamrock7r said:
Peope will be surprised as to see how many people spend a lot more times on message boards than actually playing the games or doing something else.
Netrunner2k2
Member
Dahbomb said:
Posting on a message board is a lot more accessible than playing an MMORPG, since you can post at home, work, school, and even cellphones.
If I had a 2+ hour class or worked at boring job, you bet I'd have a lot of posts.
Fallofmart
Member
Dahbomb said:
And I have just over 400 since december. You can't generalise us here without proof. There is proof however of how long the OP has spent in WoW.
KyanMehwulfe
Member
You may be surprised by just how popular playing MMOs from work or away from home on labtops is. It's certainly not common but I see it enough that it no longer surprises or even phases me anymore.Netrunner2k2 said:
Netrunner2k2
Member
KyanMehwulfe said:
Oh I know it happens, but as you said, it isn't common. Posting on those devices is a lot more common.
Like I said, it is more accessible.
Oh wow LOL, look at all these people being defensive about their board activities. :lol
I just find it funny how people are making fun of this guy when they themselves have probably done something worse (if you didn't catch it, the message board was just used as an example, though a light one). Of course no one is going to come outright and admit that they have... :lol
I just find it funny how people are making fun of this guy when they themselves have probably done something worse (if you didn't catch it, the message board was just used as an example, though a light one). Of course no one is going to come outright and admit that they have... :lol
Tom the Enchanter
Member
ATTACK HIS WEAK SPOT FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE! Set phasers to "social situations"!Gallagher said:
anyway, despite my posts in this thread about stuff like my ubernerd asshat raid leader, if someone's enjoying WoW still, more power to them. I don't, so I'm letting my account run out (maybe before then I will resubscribe, but I'm not sure really) but if you enjoy it to the point that it's the only game you play, then that's not so bad.
If you're wondering where I'm coming from: say you budget your time so you have like 4-6 hours of free time to devote to gaming (or more, and hopefully people here can man up and admit that they do spend a lot of their free time playing games). If WoW is the one game you're enjoying, so your block of gaming time is pretty much pure WoW, I don't see the harm. If anything you're saving money by spending $15/month on one game instead of $50 per game and possibly finishing it that same week.
If you're wondering where I'm coming from: say you budget your time so you have like 4-6 hours of free time to devote to gaming (or more, and hopefully people here can man up and admit that they do spend a lot of their free time playing games). If WoW is the one game you're enjoying, so your block of gaming time is pretty much pure WoW, I don't see the harm. If anything you're saving money by spending $15/month on one game instead of $50 per game and possibly finishing it that same week.