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.My wife and I have decided to cancel World of Warcraft, and head for a new virtual world.
You might think we have grown bored, or are tired of the grind, or find the endgame unsatisfying, but in the end you’d be wrong about our reasons. So why are we leaving Azeroth?
The conundrum is that we like the game TOO much…
But I do not always feel like playing, or at least playing City of Heroes. I may spend half a night messing around with flash games or going out with my wife. When I am away from internet access, I do not feel the need to log in. It is nice to have a break and see the real world sometimes, although the big room with the blue ceiling is perhaps over-rated. I can go for a walk without worrying that I am falling behind my friends.
I never feel obliged to log in. It is not something I am required to do. I have no raids to keep up with, although we might plan on running a task force on a given night (usually: no planning). It is not a job, not a drudge, not a grind. Okay, it is inherently somewhat grindy, but I never log on with a resigned sigh. I play when I want to play and wander off when it is not exciting me.
The icon is always there, ready to be clicked, but it does not call like a dark siren.
: Zubon
I am logging in and playing every day, and I love it. I am just having a great time. City of Heroes is constant rock ’em sock ’em action. We crash through the enemies, set fire to things and send them flying across the room, then pause for no more than six seconds before rampaging on.
We almost always have a few people on Teamspeak, with our core group being very active lately. We might run a task force, or perhaps someone has something that s/he is working on today that we can join. I check the consignment house with my badge-whoring blaster who is working on the Fabricator badge: 7,921 crafts to go.
I hope everyone in the U.S. had as wonderful a holiday as I did. I took the week of the holiday off to celebrate a special occasion, my graduation from college! I’ve just completed a bachelor’s degree for game design and development. That’s right, I are a game designer! :-P Sort of… Continue reading Post Holiday Thoughts
Getting a supergroup member her last three bubbles of experience to level 50. Tank: drunk. So drunk he occasionally stops because, his girlfriend reports, he is distracted by his fingers. Blaster: drunk. So drunk that, her boyfriend reports, a single stair has caused her to fall down in laughter. Her chances of successfully making it to the bathroom are not as good as we thought.
: Zubon
Yes, she got 50, woo!
A blogger’s problems with Sony VAIO customer service have me wondering how customer service is with the online games. Many people don’t seem to like SOE. Personally, I have never played anything from them except free Planetside, so I have no experience from which to speak, although I have complained about waiting for NCSoft customer service. Commenters have reminded me of Comcast customer service.
Thoughts?
: Zubon
A chicken! Dude!
Yeah, that’s about all I have to say. I will need to borrow someone’s lifetime subscription for a few minutes sometime.
: Zubon
A few days ago I wrote about the new “Session Play” being added to Lord of the Rings Online. One of the developers spent some time adding a little fluff to the game. They explained that it is but a small part of the upcoming content patch. The comments on the forums covered the entire range from praise to complaint. I can’t imagine what goes through the dev’s mind when they read this stuff. Must have thick skin I guess, because you can’t please them all.
In our last episode, I pondered whether city-building and -defense was a path to certain MMO failure. Robin Hanson has some words that apply well to this or any other radical departure from Yet Another Fantasy MMORPG:
To have the best chance of succeeding in a radical project, you should instead choose just a few related dimensions on which to make radical choices, and then make conservative conventional choices on all the other dimensions. This strategy minimizes the chance that some other project dimension will go badly wrong and take down your central radical idea with it.
While all-dimension-radical freethinker projects have little chance of success, their looming wreckage can be a great place to look for promising radical ideas to pursue…
Or as it has been phrased elsewhere, don’t innovate for the sake of innovation. It is hard enough to think through the implications of one radical change. One commenter adds, though, that sometimes one radical change forces you to change a lot of things.
