Guys I've been trying to get into a couple quest based mmos and i'm finding myself becoming uninterested in a day or two.

When I start a game up i play it hardcore for like one day and then i get this "Been there done that" feeling and over the next week my playtime drops off then i finally give up.

There are games on the market that I would like to experience fully like EQ2, Lotro and Aion but I just can't shake that feeling.

I mean I leveled maxx characters in EQ, DAoc and WoW but since then i just can't do it anymore.

I can still play Eve because it basically levels without me but if i have to actively go through a motion to raise levels i become uninterested really fast.

Maybe I'm trying the wrong games? any quest based leveling experience that's unique? one that chnges shit up with all types of activities to keep me from getting bored?

I'm for a loss atm.

Okay, this is a familiar problem with me, it just does that in one single day for me.

Anyone can help?

Basicly exhausted your self in mmos becouse you done a few to max level and now nothing compares to it,

What id do is give anarchy online a go becouse it is only mmo i know where a level 20 can twink them self to use level 200 equipment becouse items go of states and not levels, The game is really depth and really huge i mean 4% wow size and you goto new places from early levels. Also the mechs are cool if you buy all the expansions and there is a free game where you only get basic game no expansions to it. you will love it i do .

your brains trying to tell you to leave the mmo's alone for a year or two.

I've been in the same position a few times in the past. It's just burnout.

It sounds like you're focusing on a single game then rapidly burning out again. When it's happened to me, I was able to overcome it by scaling back my time investment and varying my gaming habits. Instead of spending 4 hours in EVE, I'd spend an hour playing an FPS, then a couple hours on a single player RPG and finally popping onto EVE for an hour.

Originally posted by Rockgod99

 

Guys I've been trying to get into a couple quest based mmos and i'm finding myself becoming uninterested in a day or two.

When I start a game up i play it hardcore for like one day and then i get this "Been there done that" feeling and over the next week my playtime drops off then i finally give up.

There are games on the market that I would like to experience fully like EQ2, Lotro and Aion but I just can't shake that feeling.

I mean I leveled maxx characters in EQ, DAoc and WoW but since then i just can't do it anymore.

I can still play Eve because it basically levels without me but if i have to actively go through a motion to raise levels i become uninterested really fast.

Maybe I'm trying the wrong games? any quest based leveling experience that's unique? one that chnges shit up with all types of activities to keep me from getting bored?

I'm for a loss atm.

If you really like PvP, try Warhammer Online. It's far from prefect, but you can PvP as much as you like and level that way. Right from level 1.

Aion might be the worst game to experience something new since its design specifically avoided anything new as much as possible. Its more of the same as the older MMOs.

EQ2 is a classic already. So it too has many things old.

Yeah, it's burnout. I find that when it happens to me the only way I can get over it is to give up gaming for a while. It usually happens in the late spring/early summer and usually lasts through the fall. During that time I spend a lot of time riding my Harley or playing with the dog outside, just about any kind of activity that is outdoorsy will usually be more attractive to me than sitting at my desk playing games. On rainy days I'll play but usually for an hour or 2 ten I'll catch up on movies I have wanted to watch but haven't had time to yet.

I also find that as I get older I'm finidng myself less interested in games in general. I start feeling the been there done that feeling towards any vidoe game. Maybe it's because I've been playing them since the atari 2600, maybe it's because I'm closer to 40 than I want to admit. I know for sure though that it's burnout and only time makes it go away.

Originally posted by local93bc

your brains trying to tell you to leave the mmo's alone for a year or two.

You think? some people say it's burn out but I havent leveled a character to max level since guildwars lol.

Had like four 70's in WoW and since then just haevnt gotten passed level 20 in any mmo on the market.

I havent really played a quest based mmo in a 2-3 years (other than a trial and a free month here and there).

Someone suggested WAR I already play an unlimited trial its goodtimes.

I would really like to get back into one and put sometime into it.

Originally posted by Rockgod99

Originally posted by local93bc

your brains trying to tell you to leave the mmo's alone for a year or two.

You think? some people say it's burn out but I havent leveled a character to max level since guildwars lol.

Had like four 70's in WoW and since then just haevnt gotten passed level 20 in any mmo on the market.

I havent really played a quest based mmo in a 2-3 years (other than a trial and a free month here and there).

 

Someone suggested WAR I already play an unlimited trial its goodtimes.

I would really like to get back into one and put sometime into it.

I don't think not having maxed toons proves anything, to be honest, if you're sick to death of questing it's hardly surprising you haven't gotten past level 20 in any game recently.

All playing trials and the occasional free month will do is reinforce your opinion (not that I disagree with you) that it's all just the same stuff in different clothes, with the occasional game having some unique quirk that sets it slightly apart. But only slightly.

I'd suggest putting down the trials and free months and walking away from the genre completely for a bit. Come back in a few months and see how you feel. That doesn't work and there's 2 options: 1. Only play true sandboxes, no questing, user-created content that changes the shape of the game. or 2. MMOs as they curently present themselves are not for you.

It sucks that you're not having fun with the genre, but I doubt you're alone in it.

Originally posted by local93bc

your brains trying to tell you to leave the mmo's alone for a year or two.

QFT.  OP sounds like he is suffering from burn out.

Take a break.

Burn out is nature's way of getting us to try new things.

Last I heard, rockgod was playing Ryzom which doesn't have levels.  Why did you give up on Ryzom?  Got tired of it?

Originally posted by uquipu

Originally posted by local93bc

your brains trying to tell you to leave the mmo's alone for a year or two.

 

QFT.  OP sounds like he is suffering from burn out.

Take a break.

Burn out is nature's way of getting us to try new things.

Last I heard, rockgod was playing Ryzom which doesn't have levels.  Why did you give up on Ryzom?  Got tired of it?

I put Ryzom down for Eve. With my limited playtime I have much mroe of a variety of things to do in 5-10 hours a week in Eve than I would in Ryzom.

Once my time frees up ill resub to Ryzom.

But this is beside the point I was looking for a quest based mmo to enjoy... oh well.

It's come to the point of me (with the exception of 5-10 hours of Eve) playing single player games exclusively.

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Originally posted by Rockgod99

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Originally posted by uquipu

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Originally posted by local93bc

your brains trying to tell you to leave the mmo's alone for a year or two.

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QFT.  OP sounds like he is suffering from burn out.
Take a break.
Burn out is nature's way of getting us to try new things.
Last I heard, rockgod was playing Ryzom which doesn't have levels.  Why did you give up on Ryzom?  Got tired of it?

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I put Ryzom down for Eve. With my limited playtime I have much mroe of a variety of things to do in 5-10 hours a week in Eve than I would in Ryzom.
Once my time frees up ill resub to Ryzom.
But this is beside the point I was looking for a quest based mmo to enjoy... oh well.
It's come to the point of me (with the exception of 5-10 hours of Eve) playing single player games exclusively.

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Have you tried fallen earth Rockgod?

It is not as sandboxy as Ryzom or Eve, but you could fairly easily skip 90% of the missions if you wanted to. Like Ryzom, some things are leveled by use, crafting harvesting. Other things are just leveled by experience and point allocation, more like AO. Almost everything gives you experience, you can level by crafting & harvesting, rifles, or meleeing. The crafting can level you offline as well. That is an oversimplification, but that is it in a nutshell.

Also, it has some of the better written quests out there. And i'm apt to click thru without reading, but 1. as I said they are well written and 2. sometimes they give hints to puzzles that will not be obvious from the saved journal text.

Well, i myself havent had still yet a single fully leveled character in any F2P MMO yet, only games i've been close are CABAL Online and Drift City. I'd love something fast paced combat with quests but unfortunately, theres only two types, grind with fast combat and questbased with sllloooow combat.

I experience the same thing. Although unlike some here saying you are suffering from burnout, which could be the case for you, but if not....it could be because every MMO now is a cookie cutter of another. The only difference between most of them are the character models and game/NPC names. Gets old faster that way. No originality to speak of anymore, so none of them are fresh changes of pace. Sad state the MMO genre has become.

Someone else said it already, but I find it holds true for me as well.  When I find myself in the same position where I'm bored to tears leveling or doing just about anything in any game, I just walk away completely for a while.  Go find things to do that don't involve logging in.  A lot of times, that's all it takes.

The problem for me is that so many MMOs these days are the same basic thing with different skins that it can and does get a "been there, done that" feeling pretty quickly.  Sometimes a break is all that's needed.

Good luck.

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Originally posted by uquipu

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Originally posted by local93bc
your brains trying to tell you to leave the mmo's alone for a year or two.

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QFT.  OP sounds like he is suffering from burn out.
Take a break.
Burn out is nature's way of getting us to try new things.
Last I heard, rockgod was playing Ryzom which doesn't have levels.  Why did you give up on Ryzom?  Got tired of it?

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I'm going to disagree with the traditional burnout reason and try to offer another theory. Looking at the title of the thread: leveling, the been there, done that feeling. Why are we generalize our games so much to the point of just tasks and numbers?

Maybe there should be something in an MMORPG that catches your interest outside of the "I want to level a character from X to Y bit". Do it for the story. Do it because you want to be the first at something, anything. Do it because you are competitive and want to be the best at something. Do it because you enjoy interacting with a gaming community. Maybe you just have to place the gaming experience in a different context or light.

Just please, don't generalize the MMO experience to just leveling or else there might not be much reason to look forward to the next game. If you can't find any other reasons to play an MMO outside of leveling, then maybe consider an entierly different genre. If it really was nothing but leveling, you should just be playing single player games, they provide more depth, difficulty (or scalable difficulty) and more "enriched" story experiences (at least until Bioware's SWTOR comes out to prove deep story can work for MMO's).

You can:

1. Play a game with no levels;

2. Wait for a new game that doesn't have levels; e.g., The Secret World;

3. Play a game with a mentor system where you can play with people of different levels; e.g., City of Heroes;

4. Play a game that lets you level by PvPing;

5. Play a game that starts you out at a pretty high level; e.g. original EQ now has a server like that;

6. Wait for a game that doesn't suck so you don't mind the levels, like I am doing.

Originally posted by Amathe

You can:

1. Play a game with no levels;

2. Wait for a new game that doesn't have levels; e.g., The Secret World;

3. Play a game with a mentor system where you can play with people of different levels; e.g., City of Heroes;

4. Play a game that lets you level by PvPing;

5. Play a game that starts you out at a pretty high level; e.g. original EQ now has a server like that;

6. Wait for a game that doesn't suck so you don't mind the levels, like I am doing.

Im waiting for APB (Beta winkwink) and Forsaken World from Perfect World Entertainment :)