empyblessing Posted February 10, 2013 Posted February 10, 2013 I'd love to start an FDR/ancap guild if anyone is interested. I used to play wow/gw2 but could be interested in trying out a new mmo. Drop a reply here if interested. Even if you played in the past and quit, I'd love to talk about what makes you attracted to mmos. Thanks.
DoubtingThomas Posted February 11, 2013 Posted February 11, 2013 I've sworn off MMOs due to my predelction for becoming addicted; however, I did spend (far too much of) my young adulthood on WoW so I can dish on that subject. What attracted me to the genre? A massively cooperative role-playing environment. Subliminally, I can only assume this was because the real world was full of uncooperative family and my role was unfulfilling. Secondly, a desire to defeat "the content," because it was a weighty accomplishment in the game community. I had no such avenues for accomplishment in life, therefor the game offered a compelling substitute. I could go into more detail, but I think the bulk of it hinges on those two points.
empyblessing Posted February 12, 2013 Author Posted February 12, 2013 I've sworn off MMOs due to my predelction for becoming addicted; however, I did spend (far too much of) my young adulthood on WoW so I can dish on that subject. What attracted me to the genre? A massively cooperative role-playing environment. Subliminally, I can only assume this was because the real world was full of uncooperative family and my role was unfulfilling. Secondly, a desire to defeat "the content," because it was a weighty accomplishment in the game community. I had no such avenues for accomplishment in life, therefor the game offered a compelling substitute. I could go into more detail, but I think the bulk of it hinges on those two points. I walked away for a few years because the community turned sour. I had trouble finding and keeping a guild and the one's I did find turned out to be malign. I transferred from a pvp server to a pve serve in hopes of enjoying the game more and cutting out some of the stress involved but I couldn't find any interesting people in the community. I played an mmo for so long solo that eventually I just gave it up. The game is meant to be played with friends. Then when GW2 came out I gave that a try. I liked it for a few weeks but the same dull cowlike people seemed to migrate from wow to GW2. Those who weren't vacuous were voracious predators trying to harm anyone as much as they could. In the end it was the community itself that drove me away from playing them but I still enjoy the games themselves and I remember when I did have a good time playing. In fact, I met some really great people when mmos were young, and the chan crowd of semi-autistic sociopaths didn't dominate.
DoubtingThomas Posted February 12, 2013 Posted February 12, 2013 I concur with most of that. My, rather unfortunate, observation has been that the sociopathic make up the bulk of the playerbase who play the game with any kind of depth.
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