Any MMO-Playing Sifters Out There?

1 month 1 week ago • 317 views

I'm sure there are plenty, but I was wondering who out there plays MMOs and what you are playing?

I've been playing Vanguard lately and BF2 every once in a while.

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I've played WoW and Warhammer online. Recently quit war and restarted in wow again. I tried Eve for the trial period, but I couldn't get into it. I seriously considered trying Aion instead of starting in wow again, but social concerns made me play wow instead, so I could play with UsesProzac.

Related post: http://www.videosift.com/talk/Do-you-play-WoW

written by gwiz665

| 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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I played quite a lot of EverQuest back in the day. I've tried the beta and/or demo for pretty much every other major MMO, but the only other one I've actually bought was WoW, which I still play on a fairly regular basis.

written by Sarzy

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The Sift IS an MMO.

written by Ryjkyj

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nope. I stick to the "traditional" addictions: drugs, sex, rock n' roll...

wait can you do those things on games these days?

written by rottenseed

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I used to play a LOT of EQ. First few years just soloing, then I got sucked into raiding with my Shadowknight.. Ugh. 4..5..6+ hours every night, about 7 nights a week. Talk about addiction.. It was fun getting flagged for Time. After that, it just sucked and I should have stopped when it stopped being fun and was more like a task. Eventually I got the picture.. get out while you are still sane!!

ANYWAY: I am better now

I am playing a lot of WOW, but just doing antisocial soloing and lots of tradeskills. I have 2 level 80s and a half a dozen 60+ levels and all tradeskill to +400 levels, a bunch to 450. Yes, I play a lot, but I am not obsessed and I can take a day, or a week or two off whenever I feel like not playing.

Obviously I get addicted to things very easily.. like to EQ and VS.. I start, and I feel like I need to be the best! It took a while to see I don't really need to do that.. I can be good without being obsessed

I love this place, but I really, really needed to slow down.

One day, I might be cured. If not, oh well..

written by mintbbb

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I played EQ for a year and a half; had a 56 necromancer. Some real life friends got me into it. Eventually, my real life friends dissed me for their guild. Can you believe that shit!? Anyways, once I /timeplayed and realized how much time I had squandered, I decided to invest time into a game I could play with other people. In real life. And thus began my climb from a 700 level chess player to a 1500 level chess player. You can catch me now at chess.com. I just started an account and will give free lessons to those under 1200.

written by MrFisk

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I've played most of the early MMO's, mainly as research. For the last decade plus, I was working for the company that made the first game to hit 2000 simultaneous players (well before UO was released). I've played UO, EQ, DAoC, and probably 12-15 others. The longest any of them ever kept my attention was about 1.5 months, until EQ2, and WoW. Those kept me paying for around 3 months each. Perhaps part of the reason I could never get deeply involved in any of these games is that I don't really care for most online communities (especially gaming-related ones). I play solo, as I tend to find the average level of maturity in these games to be juvenile and irritating.

Lately, I've gone back to City of Heroes for the third time, and I find myself very impressed. It's probably not coincidence that this is the first time I've played an MMO long enough to hit the level cap.

A couple years back, the holy grail was "user-created content", and every pundit out there swore that it was the only thing that was going to save the genre. Fast forward to today, and you hear next to nothing on that topic. The only game I've seen that actually got it working was CoX. Every player now has the option to create missions for the game, and publish them for other players to play. Highly rated story arcs can even get migrated out of the Mission Architect system and into the game, just like the ones the devs wrote.

written by Stormsinger | 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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I never got into WoW, just didn't feel right for me I guess. What's left of the VG playerbase seems mostly mature, I wish more people would check it out. I guess a disastrous launch and terrible system requirements can be a big turnoff.

written by littledragon_79

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NERDS!

written by blankfist

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I've played WoW on and off for a few years. Got one 80, another 72, and a bunch of lower toons. Each patch has made it easier to level, so they're all slowly moving up. But I never play consistently enough to join a real guild, so I miss out on all the end-game content.

I mostly play when I start feeling poor and stop buying tickets to the theater and movies and such. A month of WoW only costs as much as one of the pricier movie tickets...

written by MaxWilder

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^Great point, Max. I find I too play mainly when money is tight. Where else can you get 60-100 hours of entertainment every month for $15?

written by Stormsinger | 1 month 1 week ago | CH

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If anyone decides to give VG a try, let me know and I'll make a new toon and show you around.

written by littledragon_79

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I was totally addicted to WoW before it went gold and right after it. Then, I had no time and hated monthly subscription for 0-2 hours per week plays!

written by ant

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I play WoW. So does my husband. We both have three level 80s, we raid three nights a week, and we're (reluctant) officers in a guild.

We consider WoW to be our in-home entertainment. We don't have cable or satellite TV. If we did, what would we do all evening? Probably sit on the couch and watch cable, which costs about $50/mo here. What do we do instead? We pay about $30/mo and sit in front of our computers all night. *shrug* We save about $20/mo, it's interactive, and we've met some really cool people from all around the world.

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