In these forums many people talk about things they enjoy in a MMO that they are playing so I thought it would be interesting to see what results we would see in a poll. 

Cheers,

Rhino.

I voted "alternate reality" because that most closely entails all that I want. But many of the other options are part of that.

Basically, I want the fantasy of a world that's "magical", and I want depth in a worldly sense. "Living" in a fantasy world, but not just living, I want excitement, lore, and that feeling of ancient danger and mystery. 

Originally posted by Amaranthar

I voted "alternate reality" because that most closely entails all that I want. But many of the other options are part of that.

Basically, I want the fantasy of a world that's "magical", and I want depth in a worldly sense. "Living" in a fantasy world, but not just living, I want excitement, lore, and that feeling of ancient danger and mystery. 

Great answer Amaranthar! I can see how many of the other options would be included in that.

Community interaction

Depth of content, objectives, options

Character progression/development

Exploring

there are others but these are some of the main ones.

at it's core, because "I have a lot of time and MMOs take a lot of time". But relating to your questions, community interaction.

being a small dot among many other small dots and making big things together ... or breaking/killing big things together has a great appeal. Teamwork when going well is amazing regardless of which world it takes place in.

Originally posted by Amaranthar

I voted "alternate reality" because that most closely entails all that I want. But many of the other options are part of that.

Basically, I want the fantasy of a world that's "magical", and I want depth in a worldly sense. "Living" in a fantasy world, but not just living, I want excitement, lore, and that feeling of ancient danger and mystery. 

Yes I agree with this. It's exactly why I play MMOs. However, I have not found the mmo I would consider to be the "one".

Originally posted by Brabbit1987

Originally posted by Amaranthar

I voted "alternate reality" because that most closely entails all that I want. But many of the other options are part of that.

Basically, I want the fantasy of a world that's "magical", and I want depth in a worldly sense. "Living" in a fantasy world, but not just living, I want excitement, lore, and that feeling of ancient danger and mystery. 

Yes I agree with this. It's exactly why I play MMOs. However, I have not found the mmo I would consider to be the "one".

http://soundcloud.com/nan-6/sma-fireside-6-1-13

while not a fantasy game, players can relate very tightly to their groups and their territory. They "live" in it as much as a virtual world can allow. Listening to this speech, you might get a feel for how much INTO the game the speaker is. He's not trying to tell anyone this is more than a game, but at the same time he's not showing any less enthousiasm towards it.

Originally posted by Brabbit1987

Originally posted by Amaranthar

I voted "alternate reality" because that most closely entails all that I want. But many of the other options are part of that.

Basically, I want the fantasy of a world that's "magical", and I want depth in a worldly sense. "Living" in a fantasy world, but not just living, I want excitement, lore, and that feeling of ancient danger and mystery. 

Yes I agree with this. It's exactly why I play MMOs. However, I have not found the mmo I would consider to be the "one".

Neither have I. UO came the closest way back in the early days, but I always considered it a very raw beginning loaded with social problems. But the right idea at it's core.

I haven't played an MMO in over 2 years now. Some of the stuff under construction might draw me in, but I don't really see the true Sandbox base that's needed for this.

Originally posted by Rossboss
I'm personally the guy who likes to figure out everything about classes. It's fun learning about how things work in video games in general. I play for character progression, I spare no class and leave no skill unturned. I also love to make a persona for my characters whether or not others know that I am doing so.

I envy your style as I only had patience to havdle a couple of characters. It was usually too time consuming for me to attempt to master every class.

Afraid this isn't appropriate to the "choose one" polling method.

I'd pick at least six, and maybe all of them.

Would be a nice 1-10 scale poll, if this website offered that option.

Originally posted by rojo6934

Community interaction

Depth of content, objectives, options

Character progression/development

Exploring

there are others but these are some of the main ones.

^ pretty much what I was going to say.  

Character progression/development

Obtaining awesome rewards

Feels like you're in an alternate reality

Community interaction

Exploring

After those 10 years of playing mmorpg I became addiced to having imaginatory copy of myself in fantasy world. I am not doing it because I am somehow not satisfied with myself in real life, quite the opposite. But its maybe because I enjoy these times spent ingame more than time spent doing IRL things and I LOVE Fantasy :)

Originally posted by Icewhite

Afraid this isn't appropriate to the "choose one" polling method.

I'd pick at least six, and maybe all of them.

Would be a nice 1-10 scale poll, if this website offered that option.

Yes Icewhite a scale system would have been ideal so my idea here was to try to make us think about the most appealing  aspect and choose.  Most options I'd imagine would appeal to many of us.

Originally posted by Rhinotones

Yes Icewhite a scale system would have been ideal so my idea here was to try to make us think about the most appealing  aspect and choose.  Most options I'd imagine would appeal to many of us.

Ok, then divide "community interaction" as many ways as you divided "character development". :shrug:

If you're getting the impression that I don't think much of mmorpg.com's polling system, you just might be right.