Posted By Pocus on 31 Mar 2008 12:54 PM Â I'll say it now in earnest if I get Jumpgate beta access and love it, SWG could fall by the wayside lol. I dunno I guess i'm just not as frivilous with my money anymore. Holly and I have both said that when we're better off financially we might even go back to LOTRO. Ulitmately we're a very unpredictable bunch when it comes to MMO's Pirates downfall in my case was it needs far more content (how many times can you run through that same jungle) before it becomes a proper game, which hopefully in time it'll get. That and it confirmed my love for being the underdog, when the Brits got their act together it just didn't seem fair to play as silly as that sounds and I was hardly going to roll another nation 
Hadn't thought about it, but yes, that's very trueÂ
(horde syndrome imo) 
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I also could be persuaded back to Lotro but than I've always been a fickle mmo-er
Never got to the "end game" in any mmo I've ever played - it's the mechanic of it that annoys me; broadly the more time you put in the "better" you are - where's the skill in that ?
I know practise makes perfect etc, but I feel as a player you're developing a physical/tactical skill in an FPS.Â
Where MMO's could score better is in the plot-line/story stuff but a lot of that seems to go by-the-by and you end up with: click-click-click "kill n x's and loot a's to give to b" (about as complicated as most quests get).
I think Eve is good from the angle that players are motivated by economics, and I liked the way pirates tried to bring that element in without the harsh double-dealing that also happens in Eve.. but it ain't perfect either.
That is of course my opinion, other opinions are available.
In short though, I don't think we'll ever take an MMO or in fact any other game too seriously...we ain't that kinda party. What I think we will do is play enjoyably and with style and dare I say panache  |