General Discussion

I frequent these forums and often find myself defending games that I could honestly care less about on the sole basis that every game has fine points about them while the negative points always get blown out of proportion.  Why is everyone so negative toward any MMO? 

It's not even limited to just AoC (which had a rough release, but is a pretty good game in the end) and WAR (which has already begun to be "nerfed" according to players and losing players because of rumors and unconfirmed content), but all of the MMOs ranging from WoW to EQ and even Guild Wars and EVE.

- need for attention.

- gamers who play games to compesate for shortcomings in their RL (professional success, relationships) - and thus have too high expectatios of what a game should be

- bored

- deeply pessimistic

- need for attention, again - I know, I said id above, but I think that's one of the main points

- it's becoming some sort of forum-sport to be the troll

- valid concerns

.... and so on

OP plays Mabinogi...nuff said.

Just natural it seems. We're all very angry children :)

Because as games go more and more into the mainstream we are met with more and more streamlined, simplified, lack luster "blockbuster titles" that don't meet our ever increasing expectations. And because we're in a huge MMO slump right now, ever since WoW came out really. At this point, if you don't like WoW, you're pretty much screwed.

Because it's the negatives that really stand out.  An MMO can have lots and lots of positives, but it only takes a couple negatives to ruin a game.  That's why I think too many gamers and devs concentrate too much on individual points.  It's not unusual to see posts on this forum about what your favorite aspects of an MMO are.

My personal opinion is that MMOs should be looked at as works of art.  Every part of it needs to compliment the other parts in order for it to really work well.  That is not an easy thing to do and why most of them aren't that great.

Originally posted by Lasastard

- need for attention.

THIS!

..what?

In other genres, you always get hit with a new title like once a month its impossible to keep up (fable 2, Star wars unleashed, mercenaries 2, etc the list goes on and on). Then you come to MMO sites everyone keeps talking bout the same played out games at some point you gotta start complaining because this just plain sucks

Because MMO players are bitter hateful people.  And I hate them all.

Non-MMO/console gamers on the other hand love almost all new games that come out.  probably because they can rent.

Originally posted by GreenChaos

Because MMO players are bitter hateful people.  And I hate them all.

Non-MMO/console gamers on the other hand love almost all new games that come out.  probably because they can rent.

Haha thats not true. Most console gamers, when they aren't bitching about bad sequels, bitch about the games that they don't get to come to their consoles, or they bitch about the other consoles games sucking.