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• • I guess buying a shuttle ticket is too much work for NGE players

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    Originally posted by Suvroc
    

    Man, that is so disheartening.

    Will people ever stop rushing through a game and try living in a simulated environment based on a work of fiction?

    In other words, will people ever stop and smell the virtual roses?

     

    This is why I gave up on MMOs and went back to Second Life. I'm sorry but I've seen it in every MMO I've been in since the release of WoW.  This genre of games has been taken over by lazy ass gamers.

  • Posted: 4/19/08 10:31 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Best proof of how bad things are ?

  • When it comes right down to it, any smart gamer will wait for a trial or word of mouth. All of you who are so eagerly anticipating this or any other game, doing the pre-order dance, etc - don't come back here freaking complaining if the game sucks.

  • Posted: 4/19/08 12:03 PM
    Age of Conan
• • World of Warcraft: Latin American-Spanish Beta Begins

  • This is going to be huge for Latin American gamers!! Maybe now they will go inside and play WoW instead of chasing the poor emo kids around and beating them up! :)

  • Posted: 4/17/08 12:00 PM
    General Discussion
• • After 5 months of playing this "chat room with legs"...

  • Wow, to the OP, your post was incredible. You're right on the money with your review of Second Life as I have had very similar circumstances although didn't take my time in Second Life as far as you did. However, after yet another round of playing the standard MMOs, I am now asking myself again, what do I want? A game or virtual world? The more and more I keep spinning my wheels pointlessly playing one MMO after another or retrying the same MMOs I've tried a million times hoping for something different, the more I realize I sorely need something more out of my online existence. I want so much more than just a game.

    Today I went back to Second Life after trying out Entropia Universe. I thought EU might be the pick for me since it combined a game with a virtual world, but from all the research I've done, the costs to get into EU is too much up front. I think it is a tad arrogant of Mind Ark to give nothing to the new user, not even one freebie area, and expect them to pay for every thing up front.

    So I said to myself let me take a look at Second Life again. As soon as I got into the world, I saw one of my old friends online. She told me she had become a DJ and was spinning a live set. I went to the club, started listening to the music again and all the memories I had from my first experience with SL came flooding back. I realized then that this is the virtual world for me.

    So here's hoping this time around I take my time and appreciate the virtual world around me as opposed to wanting to "conquer rome in one day." I think I've finally got it out of my system that need to experience Gygaxian/MUDD games that now dominate the MMO industry. Rather than sit around all day killing fake crap, I can use Second Life and refocus on my own creative passions and interests....something I had ran away from quite recently but maybe now SL will help bring it back into my life.

    Anyway, I babble. Good post.

  • Posted: 4/15/08 9:31 PM
    Second Life
• • Marriage in mmos.

  • Why is this creepy? If you put human beings together, they will interact with each other. Why should that interaction not include marriage and love and all that other crap! Let it be. This is th 21st century. This is the intarwebs. Let people fornicate as best they know how be in in real life or virtual.

    I, myself, have been using online sources since the early 90s with BBSes to meet those of the opposite sex. Yeah, I'm very shy in real life. Not one to go to bars or clubs and "hook up" - but online environments provide me with the perfect medium to meet and talk to the opposite sex. I have met women from BBSes, Myspace, WoW, Second Life, Yahoo Instant Messenger. I have met most of them and carried on relationships with them in real life as well.

    It's all good. These kinds of activities make an MMO game more healthy and brings more variety of people into the game. Come on, we don't want our MMOs full of guys who just want to uber up 24/7. Companies that provide more social aspects to their games are the ones who get the female players. The more female players, the better chance I have at finding myself a lifelong MMO/gamer addicted female life partner!!! :)

  • Posted: 4/15/08 5:02 PM
    General Discussion