Wow, I'm actually supprised at how many people are playing MMO's on this forum. I figured that most would be like me (I dabble in a beta here and there, try something new out for a couple of days) But I havn't played a real MMO for any real period of time since 2010, and that was WoW (sad I know)

So now I fill my long days with Minecraft, and Skyrim. 

Originally posted by SlickShoes

I had all my eggs in the SWTOR basket and I just can't get into it at all, I think I am completely burnt out on MMO's. I have tried almost everything and I get excited by the new game hype but in reality I haven't lasted past the first month in any game released in the last 5 years.

I think it's time for me to move on, accept I have had my fun with the genre and start reading books, I hear there are a lot of them.

I agree with this, although I don't want to move on and accept it :/

or read books

I played FFXI religiously since ps2 release, left it for too long and couldnt get back in.

nothing has filled the void aside from lotro for about 1/2 a year..

I tried AoC, EVE, WoW, Aion, FFXIV, Rift, SWTOR, WAR.. probably a few more, nothing holds me like ffxi.

Originally posted by lizardbones

 

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Originally posted by SlickShoes
I had all my eggs in the SWTOR basket and I just can't get into it at all, I think I am completely burnt out on MMO's. I have tried almost everything and I get excited by the new game hype but in reality I haven't lasted past the first month in any game released in the last 5 years.
I think it's time for me to move on, accept I have had my fun with the genre and start reading books, I hear there are a lot of them.

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If you haven't read the Dresden series of novels by Jim Butcher, I'd recommend them without reservation.

 

I'd also recommend the Redwall series by Brian Jaques. Your villians and heroes are in form of animals and not your typical orc / elf / human characters.

I play Pirates of the Burning Sea for several hours every night to just kick back and relax. 

Its the first game in a long while I actually see myself staying with off and on.  Good fun. 

The last MMO I played was ATITD and I was dropping 8 hour days. I did play a bit of Warring Factions but I didn't like the way the current round shaped up. I did drop 12 hours first day probe spamming.

I am currently prototyping my own MMO as a web game. It will never be published have pretty graphics or a big player base but I enjoy writing it and I enjoy testing it and I set it up so I can play by myself and add a sort of allied npc to compensate for minimal players. Not as efficient as players because npcs have limited capabilities.

I am planning on playing The Repopulation in the future and maybe some AA or GW2. I do occassionally boot up GW from time to time and I bought merc hero slots to let me solo content since I don't have time to make friends to play with.

I feel like Im unable to actually play MMORPGs right now more than maybe a few hours here and there and then not enjoying it, awaiting the releases of 2012/2013, mainly archeage otherwise I dont know what to do really...

Originally posted by lizardbones

 

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Originally posted by SlickShoes
I had all my eggs in the SWTOR basket and I just can't get into it at all, I think I am completely burnt out on MMO's. I have tried almost everything and I get excited by the new game hype but in reality I haven't lasted past the first month in any game released in the last 5 years.
I think it's time for me to move on, accept I have had my fun with the genre and start reading books, I hear there are a lot of them.

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If you haven't read the Dresden series of novels by Jim Butcher, I'd recommend them without reservation.

 

Cheers, just looked them up and they sound good definately next on the list, I am 1 and  a half books into Game Of Thrones series so far and thats the first book I have read since I was 17........

I actually shelved MMO's for the past few years for the most part and I dabbled here and there. I started playing SWTOR, and am actually still having fun with it. Though , like a few in this conversation, I actually read alot now. I promised myself that when I burn out on SWTOR that I am done with the genre, completely. Gave this genre more than 10 years of my life and it is NOT improving, only continuing to degrade.

8+ hours a week is a relatively small amount time considering how much people are known to play.

Personally I've been been going at it with beta after beta, and even some re-reviews. LOTRO was one of the games I took the time to take a 2nd look at it, turns out I hate it even more due to the freemium limitations, it's literally a giant free trial. Though whats more depressing than lotro not actually being a f2p game, is the amount of western mechanic adoption in eastern mmos. By "western mechanics" I mean "WoW clonage", its getting pretty absurd. Honestly it's almost as depressing as the general ignorance level in America.

On the other hand, I would be incredibly impressed if a new comer opened up with a mind blowing game that featured some of the craziest idea. If such a beast were to ever exist, I would probably throw my wallet at it.

I play Istaria, usually from 18:00 to some 23:00 (with breaks for food, phone...) on working days and almost all day on weekends. So approximately 40 hours a week. Chosen option 1.

Alot of people i have seen on forums are saying they have already clocked in excess of 400+ hours in SWTOR..in 4.5 weeks.

That's over 12hrs a day, every day, non-stop - or 89 hrs a week. These people, unless suffering from an illness that makes them housebound or incapacitated (which i have met ingame before, so no issue there), that's a sad waste of a life if otherwise healthy. I have done my fair share of 12hr days in MMOs in the past, but i sure felt guilty about it in later life, meaning i now struggle to play more than a few hours an evening. Even then, unless it's something productive or exciting, i'll log. If i feel a grind, i get flashbacks and log.

Now that's out of the way, i have shortlisted some games that i will try, in order, until April. If the first sucks, i go onto the next.

1. Entropia Universe - I'm not going to judge it until i've tried it, Crysis 2 sandbox is enough for me to try it.
2. EvE - Deserves another shot to try and get into a good corp
3. Age of Conan - Apparently massively improved and an amazing PvE. Bit grindy apparently, but looks a living world.
4. Fallen Earth - Played a few months, lack of social or grouping activity, will be a last resort.

By March/April, there should be some things being released, such as TSW, so i doubt i'll need to go further than EvE.

Originally posted by Dewm

 

Wow, I'm actually supprised at how many people are playing MMO's on this forum.

Um, you did notice the little MMORPG part of MMORPG.com, I hope?  Kind of tells folks that people who come here have an interest in, and probably play, MMORPGs.  Little hint. 

Anyway, I still do the 8+ hours per week of gaming thing, but it comes in spurts.  Weekdays, I play for an hour or two after my daughter goes to bed and the wife is watching her shows - the ones where every other word is bleeped out.  Then I head to bed and, yes, I read books.  So, you see, the playing of games and reading of books are not mutually exclusive activities - you don't have to quit games just to read, nor vice-versa.

Currently I'm alternating books from Terry Pratchett (humorous fantasy) and Steven Erickson (more of the "epic fantasy" genre), with a little writing of my own here and there.  Enjoy thy lives, folks.  Game, read, play with your kids - and if you don't have em, practice making em...

Originally posted by jdlamson75

Originally posted by Dewm

 

Wow, I'm actually supprised at how many people are playing MMO's on this forum.

Um, you did notice the little MMORPG part of MMORPG.com, I hope?  Kind of tells folks that people who come here have an interest in, and probably play, MMORPGs.  Little hint. 

 

Anyway, I still do the 8+ hours per week of gaming thing, but it comes in spurts.  Weekdays, I play for an hour or two after my daughter goes to bed and the wife is watching her shows - the ones where every other word is bleeped out.  Then I head to bed and, yes, I read books.  So, you see, the playing of games and reading of books are not mutually exclusive activities - you don't have to quit games just to read, nor vice-versa.

 

Currently I'm alternating books from Terry Pratchett (humorous fantasy) and Steven Erickson (more of the "epic fantasy" genre), with a little writing of my own here and there.  Enjoy thy lives, folks.  Game, read, play with your kids - and if you don't have em, practice making em...

Haha touche, But no. what I meant was, you hear all of these people complaining, about this MMO or that. and I know we are the minority here, but still this site must be full of hypocrites. I mean one thread after another about how much SWToR sucks...but then it looks like half the people on this site log several hours in a day.

So I guess it supprised me, because I was expecting more people like myself. I don't like where the genre is going, and I don't play new MMO's...sure I try them for a couple of days, but I havn't played a MMO for then a few hours in like 2 years..

So I guess thats why it supprised me. 

Tried TOR and was disappointed, before that I played for a month and i just so bored of the repetive fedex quests. I still have some mmos in mine such as Undead Labs Class 4, Dust 514 and waiting to see Trions console mmos. Yep, I am more excited about future console mmos than pc mmos. I'm still holding out though for GW2 and Blizzard's Titan mmo.