Legion
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- Aug 24, 2005
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- Iam Flatline Legion
So sad but so true. What he didn't bring up though was the friendsship in-game that makes players keep playing. If you get super gear and unique items but no one to show it off to, then it has lost a big part of it's value to own.
Also many of the ones who have quit playing, in for example Entropia, often come back to "just say hello to my friends". But they might end up dropping a few bombs, getting a reward and bam, they are back playing like they never have before.
Hooked once again
For myself i played less sports and games in rl because it was frustrating alot of the times finding enough people to play with who were as competative as i was and serious about playing the game. With online gaming you never have that problem because your playing with the planet population, you log on and in minutes your playing with serious and competitive players. RL cant do that unless your PRO and those spots are few in availability.So filling spare time is made easy online.
Interesting that you can compare the "experience" of MMO's with real life interaction in sports, particularly intrigued by the competetive nature of the experience. In EU or whatever they now call it, apart from perhaps PVP the only element of competition is to be regarded as the best, and in an environment where it doesn't really take skill to be the best (although some have indeed slogged away at skilling) just real and serious cash, there isn't any competition - its just illusory. Maybe the reason, and I don't make any criticism here is a desire to be one of us, part of the crowd, to belong - who knows?