I played guid wars for a few weeks, leveled up to 20, got bored, stopped. What stage of the game are you on?
I played guid wars for a few weeks, leveled up to 20, got bored, stopped. What stage of the game are you on?
Just because you lack the ability to control yourself when playing a video game, everyone should abandon it? You're one of those people that wants McDonald's to only sell salads because you can't stop eating burgers aren't you?
I'm semi addicted to Rose right now (beta? who knows). I play maybe 3-4 hours a day, but I don't let it take over my life...
Well...Originally posted by: 900mhz
I played a MUD for a while, Circle or Diku, I forget. What client did you use? I was big into triggers and PVP, its amazing how real the text ones can be. I gave up because I leveled up a character to 65, remorted and went to 65 again 4 times (thus becoming all classes)
Then I wrote a bot which let me level up again with another character the same way, in a lot less time
Back in the day, we used Telemate to dialup local BBSes with our modems to play. Then BBSes died, and everything went to telnet. We used Telix for Windows for a long time.
And then came the specialized terminal programs. Programs that would play the game for you.
Before the advent of these, we had to write our own scripts to play for us. Depending on the specific server, scripting was either allowed or not allowed.
I was into "Internet MUDs" for a while. The one I played most was called Dark and Shatterd Lands(DSL for short - much before DSL the internet service... lol). They're quite a bit different than MajorMUD.
It's a long term game.
:Q
This is just my latest character, I've had many on many different BBSes(servers)...
Maybe if I was back in high school or middle school I'd contemplate playing these games, as I had nothing but free time. But for anyone older, who the hell has so much time as to play these games for 3+ hours/day?
I can manage, if I'm lucky, a game of Madden a day, which is like 40 minutes.
Anyone out of high school who plays these games >20 hours/week is a certifiable loser.
What's more, if you find yourself not being able to stop playing, you aren't just a loser, you're pretty pathetic.
I can manage, if I'm lucky, a game of Madden a day, which is like 40 minutes.
Anyone out of high school who plays these games >20 hours/week is a certifiable loser.
What's more, if you find yourself not being able to stop playing, you aren't just a loser, you're pretty pathetic.
I make plenty of money, i work 3rd shift, i bang bitches on weekends when i have time off
During the week all i do is work, come home, play for 6-7 hours, go to bed, wake up, repeat. No ones awake when i am.
Job? Having a minimum wage job paying 5.15/hr you would have made over $50,000 with all of that time.
Edit: Read your above post.. get a gf?
neutralizer
Lifer
- Oct 4, 2001
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Originally posted by: Eli
Well...Originally posted by: 900mhz
I played a MUD for a while, Circle or Diku, I forget. What client did you use? I was big into triggers and PVP, its amazing how real the text ones can be
Then I wrote a bot which let me level up again with another character the same way, in a lot less time
Back in the day, we used Telemate to dialup local BBSes with our modems to play. Then BBSes died, and everything went to telnet. We used Telix for Windows for a long time.
And then came the specialized terminal programs. Programs that would play the game for you.
Before the advent of these, we had to write our own scripts to play for us. Depending on the specific server, scripting was either allowed or not allowed.
I was into "Internet MUDs" for a while. The one I played most was called Dark and Shatterd Lands(DSL for short - much before DSL the internet service... lol). They're quite a bit different than MajorMUD.
It's a long term game.
:Q
Is that 'life' actual playtime? :Q
This is just my latest character, I've had many on many different BBSes(servers)...
Yes, that is actual in-game time.
Keep in mind that our terminal program can gain experience for us. We only have to interact to kill bosses, do quests, level up, etc.
I've had this char since about the middle of 2001.
kami
Lifer
- Oct 9, 1999
- 17,627
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You never saw the cool stuff in WoW if you only gave it 10 hours.
I've been playing WoW since the beginning of the year and have logged about 1000 hours, but over the last month or so my playtime has decreased quite a bit. My character is pretty uber and now I just log in to play for fun, not the neverending quest of improving your character(s). Now I play anywhere from 5-10 hours a week which isn't a whole lot. I'm glad I could scale it down and not just have to quit cold turkey, cause it is fun and I have good friends in there (use teamspeak as well). I mostly just PvP now, and do the odd Molten Core run in hopes of another epic item.
I was a guild leader once too but I gave it up. There was about 140 people in my guild and it was too much work....trying to keep everyone happy, organize things, being online a lot, etc.
The key to MMORPG's is MODERATION. If you can play them in moderation, no other type of game can give the same satisfaction (at least to me). IMO when you approach the 30-40 hours/week mark you should recognize you have a problem.
I've been playing WoW since the beginning of the year and have logged about 1000 hours, but over the last month or so my playtime has decreased quite a bit. My character is pretty uber and now I just log in to play for fun, not the neverending quest of improving your character(s). Now I play anywhere from 5-10 hours a week which isn't a whole lot. I'm glad I could scale it down and not just have to quit cold turkey, cause it is fun and I have good friends in there (use teamspeak as well). I mostly just PvP now, and do the odd Molten Core run in hopes of another epic item.
I was a guild leader once too but I gave it up. There was about 140 people in my guild and it was too much work....trying to keep everyone happy, organize things, being online a lot, etc.
The key to MMORPG's is MODERATION. If you can play them in moderation, no other type of game can give the same satisfaction (at least to me). IMO when you approach the 30-40 hours/week mark you should recognize you have a problem.
I played City of Heroes fairly intensivly back when it was new, now I'm about to drop my account. It's not that difficult, I may pick up a couple of Wow accounts so that me and my girlfriend can team up but only once I'm done with the Pirates of the Sword Coast NWN update. I watched a documentary about that kid that killed himself on Everquest and I can see how it can happen but I just know it's not something that'll happen to me, I just don't care that much about it.
Oh and I used to play Legends of Terris aswell, it was pretty crappy though. i tried to get into RetroMud but it's mechanics just didn't appeal to me.
Originally posted by: gigapet
Originally posted by: 900mhz
I played a MUD for a while, Circle or Diku, I forget. What client did you use? I was big into triggers and PVP, its amazing how real the text ones can be
Then I wrote a bot which let me level up again with another character the same way, in a lot less time
wow. how long have you been lurking and waiting to jump in and talk about MUD and diku
considering he just joined the forums today.....not very long you moron.
Originally posted by: remagavon
Job? Having a minimum wage job paying 5.15/hr you would have made over $50,000 with all of that time.
Edit: Read your above post.. get a gf?
Got one, we spend tons of time together on weekends, she works 1st shift, so we dont see each other during the week other than hi/bye.
you said it RIGHT there. i have been playing wow since release. I do disagree with the characters not being custumizable, but thats a different issue. until wow allows communication between factions and allows alliance to kill fellow alliance members, the pvp will never get up there with SB. I quit SB when it was still buggy as hell, i couldnt take the constant sb.exe errors. It also sucks that there is no penalty in wow for dying in pvp, lik in SB where you could loot stuff off the corpse of the noob you just owned in the face.
Sorry, I played all the MMOs. I started out playing Ultima Online, then I also played Everquest (levelquest, or foreverquest), Asheron's Call, Anarchy Online, WWII Online, Shadowbane, WoW, Horizons and a bunch more. The only game that is WORTHY of being noted a PvP game is Ultima Online. The graphics SUCKED A$$, but the gameplay was so engaging. Shadowbane has PvP, but it's more like XXX character > YYY Character thus XXX character wins. In UO, any fighter could beat anybody else based upon how good he was at playing his particular character. Shadowbane is more team based, UO is more individual based and personally, I find the gloating to be more fun when you *individually* kick people's asses. Unfortunately, Ultima got all the PvP pretty much patched out of it, and they made way for the game to be more like Foreverquest, where you kill monsters, get money, rinse and repeat.
I'm just going to start playing UO again on a free server with some friends -- just to kill some time. I'm waiting for DarkFallOnline to come out (look it up, darkfallonline.com), as it's the only game being designed so that you *individually* can be good at PvP... it's made by players who played UO hardcore, as well as Shadowbane so they are taking elements from here and there and making what looks to be a very kickass game
By the way... I quit UO 4 times, and came back to it 3 times. The last time I left is because they patched the fun out of the game -- I had no more motivation to play. I played on a free server after that which went bust, and now I'm going to be playing on another free server. Hopefully it will be fun, at least until some GOOD games come out.
I'm just going to start playing UO again on a free server with some friends -- just to kill some time. I'm waiting for DarkFallOnline to come out (look it up, darkfallonline.com), as it's the only game being designed so that you *individually* can be good at PvP... it's made by players who played UO hardcore, as well as Shadowbane so they are taking elements from here and there and making what looks to be a very kickass game
By the way... I quit UO 4 times, and came back to it 3 times. The last time I left is because they patched the fun out of the game -- I had no more motivation to play. I played on a free server after that which went bust, and now I'm going to be playing on another free server. Hopefully it will be fun, at least until some GOOD games come out.
Originally posted by: Acanthus
Originally posted by: remagavon
Job? Having a minimum wage job paying 5.15/hr you would have made over $50,000 with all of that time.
Edit: Read your above post.. get a gf?
Got one, we spend tons of time together on weekends, she works 1st shift, so we dont see each other during the week other than hi/bye.
Ah, thats crappy.
If you find something productive to fill all of that time and it isn't too difficult post.. a lot of us could use something to do i never understood why people get so hooked to these MMORPG's. i used to play diablo 2 online a long time ago, but that got so boring after a week. i dunno, i have the attention span of a goldfish i guess.
Diablo II was like.........................the most addicting game of all time...
At least in my experience... and when I started Guild Wars I gave up after 20 hours. It was dog sh!t compared to D2.
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