Do you play any MMPROG games?

[Ansar]

I ussed to be an addict of Diablo II LOD.Multiplayer version.

 

[Kyriakos]

I once played Ultima Online. I met a german who had a lumberjack character. After talking to him for a while i suddently attacked him with the plan to murder his character and collect his items. This resulted to my death. Afterwards we talked more, and he said that he spent over 8 hours playing Ultima Online in the weekends, and fewer hours on weekdays. I then decided that i shouldnt try to do the same.

 

[Chieftess]

I don't - for a few reasons:

1. Too time consuming. Partially for #2.
2. You need to pay a monthly fee. If you don't have much time, you're paying for something you're not even using.
3. The monthly fee quickly adds up to 2-4 games a year in value. If I don't have a lot of time to play the game, well, then I'm not gonna waste $500 finishing it.
4. Suppose a MMORPG came out that was a classic hit, but I wanted to play it 15-20 years down the road. Will the servers even be up? Will the company even be around? Even if they are, do they still support the game? (i.e., take your money so you can play online). Even if they do, there's bound to be the stragglers who have nothing better to do than cheat because they've already played it end over end.

 

[LLXerxes]

I can't, for some reason I can't connect to any multiplayer games on this PC.

 

[punkbass2000]

I'd wondered what happened to you, bz I play WoW, BTW.

 

[SolarKnight]

EVE online all the way

Has a great community.

Playing as a gallente specialist.

 

[punkbass2000]

2. You need to pay a monthly fee. If you don't have much time, you're paying for something you're not even using.

As beta mentioned, this is not always the case. Guild Wars, at the least, has no subscription fees.

3. The monthly fee quickly adds up to 2-4 games a year in value. If I don't have a lot of time to play the game, well, then I'm not gonna waste $500 finishing it.

I don't know if this is always the case, but typically you can't "finish" the game, partially because there's no way to win and also because of regular new content releases.

4. Suppose a MMORPG came out that was a classic hit, but I wanted to play it 15-20 years down the road. Will the servers even be up? Will the company even be around? Even if they are, do they still support the game? (i.e., take your money so you can play online). Even if they do, there's bound to be the stragglers who have nothing better to do than cheat because they've already played it end over end.

Honestly, I don't doubt that WoW will be around for years to come (assuming the West, etc. keeps on). New features come out all the time (been out less than one year and already has nine major content patches) and a new expansion taking the game even further is slotted soon.

 

[silver 2039]

The only one I've ever played was Runescape and I lost intrerast with that.

 

[Ansar]

Actually Chieftess, some MP games dont require money, likke the one i listed in my last post. Also, some games like Runescape only require money for a "special" membership. Or are these not MMPROG games?

 

[Rambuchan]

I spent a year and a half becoming an absolute god in one MMORPG. Then I checked out others and found I had been playing a bunch of crap all that time (it was Runescape and I was Devastrix). So then I switched to a far better one called Anarchy Online (I was Vitalo). Then I realised within 6 months of being totally immersed in a very complex andrich game, that if I played anymore of it, I would surely lose all my friends and charisma. So I deleted the account and haven't touched them since then, well over a year ago now I think.

Smurf and I were posting shots of our characters in this thread a while back, some cool ones

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=123571

 

[Reno]

I don't really play multiplayer games (Or games in general) that much anymore. The only really something that would get me back to playing games is Civ IV. Currently the only real "game" that i'm playing now days is NES. (Never Ending Stories) And that's not really a game but Story Telling.

 

[FredLC]

I don't. I mean, feels like a job having to play a number of hours every day or else see your caracther fall behind average in experience points.

Why would i pay to work?

 

[TheDervish]

I played SWG and WoW. SWG was pretty much ruined by SOE. WoW was fun for a while, but once you hit level 60, it's very tedious -- all it is is a race for more and more loot. You're in a 40 man group, and you have 5-8 people of the same class competing for the same class item. And then you do this same instance, again, again, and again. Booooooo-ring

 

[Rambuchan]

Why would i pay to work?

And that is MMORPGs in a nutshell. 'The grind', is another way of putting it.

 

[betazed]

@FredLc, @Rambuchan: I am not sure about other games of this type but at least in GW you do not have to play continuosly in the fear of falling behind. Because there is a level cap i.e. after some time you cannot raise your level by anymore exp points. From that point on it is pretty much a game of skill alone. So someone playing 10 hours a day does not necessarily have any advantage over you unless he actually plays it more skillfully than you do.

I know this was a major problem with WoW (or at least that is what I read in the reviews).

 

[silver 2039]

Does anyone have any recoomendation for decent free MMORPG's?

 

[Mise]

Does anyone have any recoomendation for decent free MMORPG's?

The only decent "free" mmorpg I can think of is Guild Wars, where there's no monthly fee but you still have to buy the game (like any other game). All the female characters are latvian crack addicts.

Also, does anyone else pronounce "mmorpg" as "muh-morp-guh"?

 

[Rambuchan]

I pronounce it just saying out the letters.

@ Silver: think twice before you sell yor soul!!!!

@ betazed: Thanks but not thanks man. I've been there.

 

[TheDervish]

Does anyone have any recoomendation for decent free MMORPG's?

www.irealms.com

 

[betazed]

@ betazed: Thanks but not thanks man. I've been there.

Smart thinking.