For those against monthly payments in MMORPGs...

[Paladin2000]

Don't know about you guys, but I stay away from MMORPG is because:

1. Don't want to commit my time and money

2. Get tired/bored of games easily, even if there are new quests here and there being added or updated on regular basis.

3. slow connection.

4. Poor PC peformance.

I guess we each have own reasons to get indulged or not to get indulged into MMORPGs.

[RoSs_bg2_rox]

Well if you get bored of the game then you don't have to pay the money any longer. Although I suppose the time is an issue, some people get totally immersed in MMORPGs and just spend all there days playing, eat, play MMORPG of choice, sleep. Pretty sad life really.

[Stratos]

It's not like I can't AFFORD to play MMO's, it's just that I don't play enough games nowadays to make it worthwhile to buy the game and sign up for a subscription.

[Kakero]

My only reason for not playing MMORPG is that I always end up playing alone.It kinda lonely you know. If I do have friends they always use macro/bot. I message to them but they don't reply. Like what happen to me in Ragnarok Online.

[Harkoliar]

Originally posted by RoSs_bg2_rox: Well if you get bored of the game then you don't have to pay the money any longer. Although I suppose the time is an issue, some people get totally immersed in MMORPGs and just spend all there days playing, eat, play MMORPG of choice, sleep. Pretty sad life really.

thats what i have been doing for the past 4 days. heh.. its really addicting although i think ive gotten most of it out of my system to play regularly now [img]smile.gif[/img] . slowly but surely im starting to act normal again. [img]tongue.gif[/img] .
for people who cant really escape from eq2 then they have a problem

[Harkoliar]

Originally posted by Kakero: My only reason for not playing MMORPG is that I always end up playing alone.It kinda lonely you know. If I do have friends they always use macro/bot. I message to them but they don't reply. Like what happen to me in Ragnarok Online.

yeah it sucks when that happens.. thats why you should make new friends online with the same time period as you if possible. i joined a guild and we have met up several times in the game already when they are bored doing quest and stuff.

[RoSs_bg2_rox]

Originally posted by Harkoliar: quote: Originally posted by RoSs_bg2_rox: Well if you get bored of the game then you don't have to pay the money any longer. Although I suppose the time is an issue, some people get totally immersed in MMORPGs and just spend all there days playing, eat, play MMORPG of choice, sleep. Pretty sad life really.

thats what i have been doing for the past 4 days. heh.. its really addicting although i think ive gotten most of it out of my system to play regularly now [img]smile.gif[/img] . slowly but surely im starting to act normal again. [img]tongue.gif[/img] .
for people who cant really escape from eq2 then they have a problem [/QUOTE]Hark what you are saying you do is understandable. I was exactly the same with WC3 (I know it isn't an MMORPG but heh!) and I got addicted 3 times and played for days. But there are some people out there who actually live in game. They will play all day. That is quite a sad existence I think.

[aleph_null1]

Originally posted by RoSs_bg2_rox: But there are some people out there who actually live in game. They will play all day. That is quite a sad existence I think.

When I first left home in early '98, my girlfriend and I got an apartment together in the city. We would play Ultima Online together (actually at two side by side computers) for hours and hours on end, mostly PK'ing. I think our record was two days straight, barring restroom breaks.

Looking back, it was pretty weird ... but I don't at all regret those months.

[Calaethis Dragonsbane]

Originally posted by Luvian: Show me a single player game that give you that much. Are there any single player game that give you a new expension every month for 10$. I don't think so...

NWN's is both a single and multiplayer game - and it does have offical mods you can buy and dl. Maybe not each month, but you can. But you can also download a lot of free ones too. Far more variety, imo.

Originally posted by Luvian: Come on, it's 10$ a month.

It all adds up. Frankly, I've better things to money on - much better just to buy NWNs, pay for the occasional offical expansion and dl the rest of the free mods, per example.

[Luvian]

Fan content don't count. it's not part of the game.

Yes, now they have 3 modules you can buy. It's still pretty far from a module a month for 10$.

Also, all those are different "games". It's not more element in one. You can't just create a character and play him in basic, the 2 extensions, and then into the pay modules. You also can't play your character into all those fan made modules.

You could of course import him, but it would ruin all those storylines and be very unbalanced.

Over here, NWN plus extensions cost 150$ +15% taxes. For that price, I can buy and register a mmorpg for at least 6 months.

Renting 2 movie a month also add up. Buying a couple candy bars a month also add up. So is buying a beer or two. I spend more money on coka cola every week than I spend on my mmorpgs.

If you consider "money adding up" as a reason not to buy something, you're going to die of hunger...

I'm assuming you're not going to get D&D online either, right?

[ 11-18-2004, 01:37 AM: Message edited by: Luvian ]