05-10-2005, 04:20 AM
What it comes down to, in the end, is that everyone is different. If you're happy with 200 DVDs and new silverware, that's great. If you're happy playing MMO's - hey, that's just great too. Not everyone likes watching movies and would rather spend money to play an online computer game... oh noes, the world is going to end because people are paying to play video games.
No one's trying to "convert" anyone else to the dark side of MMO gaming, just trying to point out that either viewpoint is completely valid given the correct reasons.
I played DAoC for two years, paid $12 a month (plus a second account for about a year), and was completely happy. I haven't been playing MMOGs for a while and am, surprise!, still completely happy. In fact, I recently got oldschool RPG nostalgic and downloaded an emulator and some ROMs and am having a blast. But that doesn't change the fact that playing MMO's is still much more cost effective than most hobbies... buying a game for $10 and keeping it for three years is not the norm for anyone, but rather an exception.
In fact, I pay nothing for my ROMs and am therefore infinity times more cost effective than anyone else in this thread and you all therefore make me sick with your tremendously gluttonous spending habits. :blush: Or something like that :)
Also, I'm going to have to agree that it's borderline ridiculous to expect the same level of graphic quality from an MMO as an FPS. You can't have 200+ people on a screen at once in an FPS and you don't have the huge open spaces in an FPS like you do in an MMO. You need completely different things out of the engines that power these two different genres of games.
No one's trying to "convert" anyone else to the dark side of MMO gaming, just trying to point out that either viewpoint is completely valid given the correct reasons.
I played DAoC for two years, paid $12 a month (plus a second account for about a year), and was completely happy. I haven't been playing MMOGs for a while and am, surprise!, still completely happy. In fact, I recently got oldschool RPG nostalgic and downloaded an emulator and some ROMs and am having a blast. But that doesn't change the fact that playing MMO's is still much more cost effective than most hobbies... buying a game for $10 and keeping it for three years is not the norm for anyone, but rather an exception.
In fact, I pay nothing for my ROMs and am therefore infinity times more cost effective than anyone else in this thread and you all therefore make me sick with your tremendously gluttonous spending habits. :blush: Or something like that :)
Also, I'm going to have to agree that it's borderline ridiculous to expect the same level of graphic quality from an MMO as an FPS. You can't have 200+ people on a screen at once in an FPS and you don't have the huge open spaces in an FPS like you do in an MMO. You need completely different things out of the engines that power these two different genres of games.
--Mith
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London