If you’re into MMORPGS and find yourself wondering why your game of choice sucks, here is some insight. This was originally posted on the VNBoards located at vnboards.ign.com.
Edit: April 15th, 2004: There has been some confusion over the authorship of this piece. I am *NOT* the original author of this article. It was originally posted on the Vault Network boards located at http://vnboards.ign.com. I’m sorry for not making this clear in my original post, but it has come to my attention that people are erroneously crediting me as the author. I am not. I am searching VN for the author’s name and will post his contact info as soon as he permits me.
Why MMORPGs Suck
You want to know why MMORPGs all suck so much? I’ll tell you why: in a word, players. The fucking players are single-handedly responsible for fucking up every MMOG since Everquest. Until they are silenced or eliminated, MMOGs will continue to be the bastion of mediocrity they have always been.
The evil is borne unto the message boards of any given product. These may be the company-run boards, or they may be third-party boards run by a stupid news site with its lips too firmly planted on the developers’ asses to say anything interesting or meaningful. On these message boards, you’ll find every kind of no-life retard you could possibly imagine, as well as a few even Tim Burton couldn’t imagine. You’ll find twelve-year-olds, twelve-year-olds claiming to be thirty, thirty-year-olds who have the functional intellect of a twelve-year-old and live in their parents’ basement, men claiming to be women, women claiming to make sense, and everyone claiming to have ideas that are actually worth a damn, if only someone would just listen to their unique, innovative, and exceptionally important idea that is, in reality, none of those things.
In short, on the message boards you will find degenerate wastes of oxygen that a more civilized society would have euthanized years ago.
These fucktards’ implement of destruction is constant, unrelenting, obsessive whining. There is no issue about which you will not find thousands of people whining on all sides.
Imagine for a moment that you are a developer.
Now, consider graphics. If you do not improve graphics with your new product, you’ll find thousands of fuckheads whining that it looks like crap on their brand new KForce 99000 Ultra Platinum Gold Silver MCMXVIII video card, on which they just spent their entire life savings: $75.
On the other hand, if you do improve graphics, you’ll find thousands of different fuckheads (and, bizarrely, some of the same ones) whining that they can no longer play your game on their overclocked Atari 2600. Those whose systems can run the game will complain about the poor performance of your bleeding-edge graphics engine with all the settings turned up. Or, they’ll complain that the new graphics are ugly. Or that they’re too different from [other games / the last game]. Or that they’re too similar to [other games / the last game].
Planning to have sound in your game? You poor bastard. Half of the budding Beethovens on the boards will weigh in with their “extensive musical knowledge” (read: they bought a CD once) and complain that you don’t have enough music. Or “good” music (read: Marilyn Manson). Or that the music is not sufficiently “dynamic”. The rest will bitch about the music being “intrusive” or “disruptive”, but will refuse to exercise the option to turn it off. They will repeatedly demand you put an MP3 player in the game.
Gameplay. Woe is the MMORPG developer who dares touch gameplay in any way whatsoever. Make combat slower (or, heaven help you, turn based) and tens of thousands will whine that the game is boring. Make gameplay faster, on the other hand, and some Vietnam veteran with no arms who plays by hitting keys with a stick he holds between his teeth will complain that he can no longer keep up. (You heartless son of a bitch, you.)
Don’t even suggest anything that could be considered “twitch” gameplay, lest you summon the very demons of hell to set the message boards light. “Twitch” is a word used by shithea^H^H^H^H players that, when applied to gameplay, means “having to press a key or look at the screen during combat.” In fact, you’ll find a remarkable amount of outrage if you even suggest that players be at their keyboards while “playing”.
The bottom-feeders inhabiting the message boards form quite a few different cliques. The most obnoxious, vocal, and smallest of these are the self-appointed “roleplayers”. These are people who claim to have cut their teeth on pen-and-paper RPGs though almost to a person, have never actually played one and who are appalled, absolutely appalled, at the concept that people might “disrupt” their roleplaying by committing such atrocities as discussing real life, not saying “thee” and “thou” frequently enough, and naming their characters “Hitomi” when they must know that there were no Japanese people in medieval England!
Another pile of human excrement you’ll encounter is the “purists”. They will insist regularly and loudly that your game is not a “real” RPG. They are entirely incapable of defining a “real” RPG when pressed to do so, but will point out that, like pornography (a subject on which they’re well-versed), they’ll “know it when they see it.” These people will “invent” witty new acronyms for your game like “MMOSUCS” and use them over and over, oblivious to the fact that nobody else cares. Do not mistake these people for the roleplayers; these people were weaned on Final Fantasy 7 and consider roleplaying “ghey”.
The “programmers” are a truly pathetic bunch of imbeciles. All of them claim to be seasoned coder veterans. Meanwhile, back in reality, it turns out that the extent of their programming experience consists of glancing through “Teach Yourself to be Bjarne Stroustrup in 30 Seconds Flat” at the bookstore. They’ve never written a line of code in their lives, and if they claim to have worked on games, what they mean is that they managed to compile some source code for an asteroids knock-off that they found on the internet.
The programmers get into long, heated, stupid technical arguments over subjects about which they know absolutely nothing, and which are not even relevant to the game. Often, they’ll be arguing about different programming languages without even realizing it. (Visual Basic “users” are notorious for this.) Programmers also incorrectly diagnose every technical problem they perceive, real or imagined, using vague, generic terms that demonstrate their utter ignorance of not only the game’s code, but fundamental concepts of programming.
Their analyses are usually about as reliable as reading tea leaves. If you’re foolish enough to publicly speculate about the cause of a problem, you can be sure that every one of the programmers’ diagnoses will present a different mutually exclusive and utterly impossible conclusion, centered on your hypothesis.
There are the realism and anti-realism camps to contend with. The realism retards argue for permanent death, unrestricted PvP (which occasionally makes them allies with the PK camp see below), requisite eating and drinking, “realistic” loot drops from monsters, and absolutely no rapid means of transportation. The anti-realism crusaders (who will call themselves “advocates of gameplay”) support light death penalties (and would support removing death altogether if they thought there was a chance in hell they could get away with it), no PVP, no eating or drinking, plate armor dropping from rabbits, and no travel whatsoever. These groups clash frequently and violently, and never accomplish anything but to prove that yes, they really can be that stupid.
As if it weren’t bad enough that literally thousands of people will whine every time something deviates from Everq^H^H^H^H^H the norm, there is a group of meta-whiners to contend with: the anti-whining whiners. These people, very last one possessing no more than the intellect of the average eight-year-old, will shriek and gesticulate wildly any time someone dares to question any aspect of the game, whether or not the complaint is legitimate. These people are almost palpably desperate to prove how “mature” and “wise” they are, so they often quote bogus credentials, misquote famous people, and say things like “It is a B-E-T-A”, “If you don’t like it, then leave! Less lag for me!” and, ironically, “Stop whining.”
This “whining squared” group, as I like to call them, would be the first fucking dumbasses to read this essay and make a “joke” by saying “but you’re just whining about people whining about whining!” It’s a miracle that these people can find their way out of the child pornography sites long enough to reach the message boards, let alone figure out how to operate them properly. On second thought, it’s less of a miracle and more of a sign of the apocalypse. The real miracle is that they’re even able to operate a computer without opposable thumbs.
Changing class dynamics really causes the vermin to come out of the woodwork. The whining is based on the same psychological principle as being stuck in traffic: you think all the other lanes are moving faster than you. Any decrease in the perceived “power” of a class results in no small amount of bitching and moaning from that class. Increase the power of that same class, however, and the roar of jealousy from every other class is deafening. There is no way at all to avoid this situation when making changes to the game, so expect to see it regularly.
The Playerkiller/Non-Playerkiller crowd create an interesting dynamic. The NPK group is generally comfortable with PKs, as long as they’re on their own server. The PKs, however, are infuriated at the prospects that (a) not everyone enjoys PvP combat, and (b) they will not have the opportunity to make these people “enjoy” PvP combat. This leads them to insist upon unrestricted PvP on all servers, at which time the overwhelming NPK majority proceeds to tear them new assholes. Any rational person knows that few developers would willingly bring upon themselves the fury of the “carebear brigade”, so the argument is pointless, having already been decided a year ago by the developers. The PKs never learn their lesson, and move from game to game, demanding “hard core” PvP, not getting it, and leaving frustrated and screaming, “see you in Shadowbane, n00bs!”
There is a special breed of imbecile that only lurks message boards, rarely posting anything at all. How do they cause trouble, you ask? These people are “professional ranters”. Confident in the knowledge that being a writer for a website gives them a “unique perspective” and makes them right about everything, they do not hesitate to spit out the most inane, mind-numbing tripe you’ll ever have the misfortune to read.
Some ranters were genuinely insightful and funny, but all of them have retired. The only function now served by the ranters of old is for people to falsely claim some sort of connection to them as a “guest writer” or, heaven help us, an “avid reader” in a desperate attempt to gain even the tiniest scrap of legitimacy for their site and/or message board posts. Naturally, these claims
are, in a word, bullshit, and the Great Ranter of yore wouldn’t be caught dead associating with these inbred degenerates.
The final, most contemptible group is also not to be found on the public message boards. This group is the “cynical veterans”. These people can only be found posting their pseudo-intellectual crap on the tiny, hovel-like forums of their rant site of choice. They turn up their noses at the “great unwashed masses” on the mainstream boards, yet somehow manage to actually be more ignorant, cliquish, and childlike than any of them.
The cynical veterans’ claim to fame is that they have played every MMOG since UO and probably read “The Rantings of Lum the Mad” regularly. Typically, these people submitted dozens of articles to Lum, none of which were even remotely coherent enough to be published. After the departure of Lum, they scurried off to various wannabe sites authored by their fellow rejects. Having failed to achieve fame on the front page, they take to the message boards, where they write rambling, disorganized posts with many long sentences and big words that they had to look up in an online thesaurus. You will often see them parroting “I disagree with what you said,” in reference to a very old post made on the LtM boards by someone with an actual job. It was a tired insult almost immediately, but lacking a triple-digit IQ to call their own, the cynical veterans still consider it riotously funny and clever.
Every last one of the cynical veterans professes to be tired of the “xp treadmill” and repeatedly threatens to leave the genre entirely. As a rule, however, they are emotionally incapable of actually doing so, and will continue to purchase every new MMOG released without fail. It is, in fact, the only thing in their lives at which they have not failed.
On the bright side, fully 3/4ths of the posts and sites will be almost entirely unintelligible, thanks to the rampant ignorance of their authors. You will be treated to a mauling of the English language on a level that, before the internet, could only be achieved by throwing a book into a wood chipper.
There are a few people (four, to be exact) who can legitimately use the defense that English is not their native language. The rest, however, can only blame themselves, having read nothing for the last ten years besides Harry Potter books and “you hit the oozing bandersnatch for 50 points of slashing damage!” What is genuinely terrifying is that many of these people really did graduate high school that stupid. Do you really think it’s a good idea to allow people this inept to pump gas?
Over time, you’ll begin to realize that every dickhead on the boards believes that he (and make no mistake, it’s always a “he”) is the only person alive who knows how to make your game “right”. But the real problem is not that they all think they know the solution; the problem is that they’re all alive.
“Fine,” you are thinking to yourself. “You’ve accurately and fully addressed the cause in all its sundry forms, but what are the effects?” That’s an easier question to answer. The effects are twofold:
First, the publishers read all this crap. Now let’s be honest, the publishers aren’t any smarter than the fuckwits writing this drivel, or they wouldn’t be working in publishing. So they see this overwhelming pressure from the screaming retar^H^H^H^H^H players to maintain the status quo, and it slowly dawns on them that every time something deviates from Everq^H^H^H^H^H the norm, the players squeal like pigs being slaughtered. So what do they conclude? “For God’s sake, don’t touch anything!” The result of this is out-and-out refusal to fund or even entertain any proposal whose title is not an anagram for “Everquest”, and nothing changes.
The second effect plants the genre suicide where it will work the most harm in the very offices of the developers themselves. They are the real victims here. Left to their own devices, they are more than smart enough to create a good game. But in addition to caving to pressure from the publishers, the developers commit the cardinal sin: they listen to the players. They see literally thousands of people whining about everything and suddenly, their faith in themselves is shaken. They don’t feel qualified to make rational decisions on their own. How could they possibly be smart enough to even consider, much less understand, all the effects of any one change? They can’t fathom making any sort of change without getting the permission of the players first. They’re terrified of the consequences of any attempt to do so. “What if they don’t like it?” they think. “We’ll have spent all this time and money for nothing!” So they do the only thing that seems safe: exactly what they did last time.
What are we left with? A bunch of sameish-looking, sameish-playing, sameish-sounding games that haven’t put forth an original fundamental design concept ever. Bullshit level schemes laying down artificial, ridiculously steep barriers to progress because after all, “what will we ever do if they’re able to see right away that we have no content?” Players who get pissed off when things don’t change, and even more pissed off when they do. Developers pulled in all directions, moving in none. And publishers insisting that the chicks’ breasts be made bigger. How fucking great for us.
If you read this far, you’re probably nodding to yourself in awe of the clarity I’ve bestowed upon this subject. Maybe you even laughed about “those stupid players” I described.
Well, news flash, jackass: I was talking about you. That’s right, you are the problem. So are all your pathetic “friends” online. And so are all the shitsticks in your “guild”. And all those dickheads on the message boards you troll every day of your miserable, worthless life. You are all responsible for making the MMOG genre suck. Do you want it to not suck any more? Here’s how you can help:
SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Keep all your “bright ideas”, all your “concerns”, and all your “thoughts” to yourself, dumbass, and for the good of humanity, cancel your internet service or just go kill yourself. Your parents would like their basement back.
November 26th, 2003 at 11:35 am
Well mr.christopher has alot to bitch about today. Do you make money or do you just pay your mum to suck you off?
love John the incidiously cool
November 30th, 2003 at 12:42 pm
WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! i r n0t a d1khed!
Just kidding.
Interesting article, I laughed, and you’re right.
December 22nd, 2003 at 9:33 pm
You claim that people who play MMOGs have no life, I say people who have time to write all that have no life.
December 23rd, 2003 at 2:53 pm
What the fuck is ur problem?
Why don’t you keep this stuff to your self dumbass.
Just go fuck ur mama alright?
Some people like MMORPG’s and some people don’t so fuck off.
January 4th, 2004 at 3:49 pm
Wow. It looks like Chris nailed No One dead on. Look at the blind anger that says “OMG HE KNOWS ME BETTER THAN I KNOW MYSELF! WHAT DO I DO!!!”
Anyways. I agree with most of it, but he left one group of people out. Those who actually do have an IQ over 6, and can make a legible and intelligent post.
January 7th, 2004 at 6:41 am
wow thanks for showing us that there are actualy people that stupid.but on a second note what kills a mmorpg umm lets see 1. macros 2. lame people like you 3.shitty markets 4. bugs 5. the ever so famous monthly patch that is quickly followed by 2 more patches to fix the last one 5. people that boo hoo about not being able to play long so they bash the people that do then they want to be uber to. this breings me to a point i would like to adress for christ sakes im so tired of hearing people complain that waa it takes forever to level up an boo hoo i play this game to relax not to live a second life bull shit this is a freakin rpg thats what you do you roleplay .you play a rpg to live a fantasy life to raise a toon plz dont play rpg’s if you dont have time if you wanna relax play splinter cell or need for speed underground jus dont come to a rpg. because its work (end transmision)
February 18th, 2004 at 12:14 am
An RPG is work?? You were making sense up until the point you wrote that. Now I’m afraid I’ll have to lump you in with the other fellaz in Chris’ masterful post.
February 18th, 2004 at 10:01 pm
Wow… Chris is my hero. Great stuff, and it seems the responses just go to prove it. XD
February 18th, 2004 at 11:52 pm
Yeah, I agree with Sword here. Just reading the posts about a post ranting about posts shows that most of what he said is true.
This guy is right, and most of the responses show that. Posts like these responses are the main reason I no longer play MMORPGs. There are just TOO many annoying 6th graders out there playing them.
February 19th, 2004 at 12:22 pm
Good god look at this. All of you except a select few, who I will name so you others don’t think I ment you are acting all irate and not relizeing that every one of your angry comments proves Chris true. The select few are: Sword, SwordofKrynn, Sock, and lastly boo hoo. The rest of you will no doubt get pissed at me and proceed to bitch about and flame me. To you I say shut the hell up and for one moment in your worthless lives study yourselves and perhaps then you’ll see what Chris is talking about.
Oh, I just wanted to mention in closeing that the people who make MMOGs get paid to make these games for you. DO YOU THINK WRITING A MMOG IS EASY!? The programers who make MMOGs have to THINK which by reading the posts here is more then I can say about this crowd, except for maybe the select few I mentioned earlier.
February 20th, 2004 at 8:48 am
Nice one.. Really laughed a couple of times there.. Almost fell of my chair. Anyway.. ::knows WoW will be sucky, but will play it anyway::
February 21st, 2004 at 4:57 am
Oh the irony that anybody posted any kind of reply.
March 1st, 2004 at 9:26 pm
Interesting perspective. I just tolerate all the stupid people. You should play with the Japanese players, they’re usually very nice. Anyway, my problem is the time involved. I’ve played FFXI for what… 20 days!? That’s 10 times longer than any normal RPG I’ve ever played. And I’m only halfway to the max level, and it only gets harder and harder to level. Why does the game have to be so huge? And why is it so addicting? I’m getting ready to give up on MMORPGs, but not because of the people, because of how pointless and endless the game itself is. Have any of you played Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles? Now that’s a game that should be online. Short, sweet and tons of fun. None of this tedious waiting for special monsters to spawn or spending days and days earning money just to buy one spell. Who is the evil sadistic bastard who came up with MMORPGs anyway?
March 12th, 2004 at 12:43 pm
I love it, every single line.
March 13th, 2004 at 5:33 am
Great, the truth hurts!
March 18th, 2004 at 10:51 am
Nicely put!
March 23rd, 2004 at 1:31 am
Amen
March 23rd, 2004 at 1:31 am
Amen
March 28th, 2004 at 2:16 pm
MMO’s are gay, you all are gay, do us a favor and stfu or die HAR HAR!
March 28th, 2004 at 9:53 pm
Good news, and bad news.
the theory about players ruining games is probably true.
the theory that everyone reads such a post is one of them is most improbable… not just because such a person you described would have lasted until the end, but more because of the untold variety of people intrigued by something or the other you wrote on that post; and i must say, offending anyone reading on the subject of the MMORPG development is neither worthy nor funny.
keep your assumptions and unfounded accusations to yourself when it concerns readers, as distinct from players.
April 8th, 2004 at 11:15 pm
Well it seems you are all of those whiny fuksticks rolled into one you’ve managed to cover every base in one message got anything better to do? you must be one of em cause you’ve seemed to have read many of their complaints. Your ate up with the dumbass.
April 12th, 2004 at 1:26 am
funny, but not true. very ironic however, as since you failed to list another group of which are the gamers that you would belong to. therefor you just called yourself one of the people of which you have insulted. that makes you a hypocrite or a loser. i think the only person that needs to shut up is you. if you disagree, say so but is there really a need to insult all but yourself and the developers. the very fact that you would post this crap shows that you have a greater need to relay your anger upon those that would have little to nill importance in your life unless you take games to seriously. much like those you have insulted. if mmorpg’s cause this much anger, perhaps you should stop, as i’m guessing they won’t change that much. so sit back, take a breather and relax. it’s not as if the gamers will ever be perfect. welcome to life with the human race. if you can’t deal with that then take your own advice and shut up or disconect you internet and all contact with life forms larger than a newt as thats the iq you feel most people have anyway.
April 12th, 2004 at 3:50 am
HEHE, i like this guy. i think i have been apart of every group he has stated in that article. have recently started becoming the retired ranter. for ranting about a game is just plain stupid. it has taken me a great while to figure that out. also the more time you spend ranting and raving. the less time you get to play the game that your paying for on a monthly basis. of course me coming from the profession of ranting. ranting became apart of my life. without it i wasn’t whole, just as chis stated. and although he doesn’t know me more then i know myself.
and well i would also have to say this has been the ultimate test for me. as i would have ranted every single line he wrote if i was still in the career of ranting. people who have seen me rant in the past. would know that for a fact. as i used to post so that i could have the posts deleted (in shadow bane). and would rant in game, just to have an ark to come answer a petition (in AO).
shavale; he would actually be in the “whining squared” group as he can indeed, be considered whining about whining ranters. if i understand this “article” correctly. (and no that wasn’t a rant, or flame, it was merely a statement that he did indeed cover everyone out there, including himself). therefore good article on the psychology of flaming ranters. which is indeed a rant as it did not make it exactly clear why MMO’s suck, but that forum’s in general to suck.
again *THIS IS NOT A RANT!*
April 12th, 2004 at 4:01 am
Just as a joke for old time sake to show how i33t my rant’s were.
this is what we call a double post, often made by ranters so it would make the topic appear to be more important. this often used to have things such as a summery of the rant that was just made for the people who didnt want to read threw the whole rant.
othertime it would be used just to show how chieldish ranters can be at time’s. to make 2 posts in a row that states abosultly nothing that couldnt have been added to the first post.
unfortunitly he didnt have a group for people who commit the “fatal double post error”
again this is just a joke, i do not rant any longer. as it is stupid, but this just had to be done as i didn’t see it done above.
April 15th, 2004 at 3:57 pm
Amusing read.
The original poster might have a point assuming he isn’t himself part of the problem he is complaining about.
If his post count totals 1 he has a point.
Otherwise he’s just another part of the problem whining pointlessly.
April 27th, 2004 at 4:59 pm
Beautiful. Brilliant. I agree 100%. And I just love all the responses. Almost all the fuckwits are represented so far. Hopefully the rest will stop by and add their idiotic comments, to further illustrate your point.
You did forget one group though. The thin-skinned bitches who take offense at everything. WAAAAHHHH!
April 28th, 2004 at 1:31 pm
Suck my dick bitch…CHRIS YOu’re just like the rest of em BIATCH ^H^H^H^H^HHHHHHHHH
HAHAHAH WHEW!!!!!!
April 28th, 2004 at 3:09 pm
He didn’t write the article…sigh…read the thing you idiots.
It was sometimes funny, but it didn’t ring entirely true. MMOGs do have a lack of innovation, but it’s mainly because of the money involved. When you can create a mediocre game and people are still so addicted that they’ll play it, what incentive do developers have to try harder? The publisher is getting a wad of dough either way.
So in short, if you truly don’t like the game, don’t complain vociferously about it, just put a few short, to the point rants on a message board to make yourself feel better, cancel your account, and never look back. Declining profits will send a message to developers that months of board rants never will.
April 29th, 2004 at 9:37 am
Great article although missing one point:
Carebears do bitch and moan about the PK crowd. They don’t like seeing valuable dev time wasted on pkers on their server or on pvp only servers. It takes away valuable pvp content apparently.
This was expecially apparent when reading all the whining in response to the future AC expansion containing some form of land control.
April 29th, 2004 at 12:41 pm
hahaha great
May 2nd, 2004 at 9:39 am
(Music) mmorpgs rock and so do i
and im down on my knees again
you think you know it all
but you do not
and im down on my knees again (End Music)
May 9th, 2004 at 7:49 pm
Im a monkey
May 10th, 2004 at 2:08 am
Dead fucking on.
May 13th, 2004 at 1:36 am
Awsome read !
Thank You .
May 22nd, 2004 at 5:21 pm
RETARDED AHA!
May 26th, 2004 at 12:49 pm
He left out only one group … the one that cusses at least once per paragraph because their mastery over the english language is about that of my 5 year old nephew. Okay, maybe he’s a bit more masterful (my nephew).
June 1st, 2004 at 2:10 pm
All of you guys have no life, everyone that plays a MMORPG is a fat fuck or lil loser that cant get a girl or is too fat to stand up and do something useful, or has no fucking confidence to talk to somebody afraid to be dissed, and has never talked to a woman before. This guy is right and i understand the stuff he writes. All of you guys that play MMORPGs, like ever-q, take a look in the mirror and say i am no loser without knowing you are lying. There are some people that are cool or just normal playing a MMOG but those are rare, you are all a bunch of wankers afraid of life. Because you have no future…actually nothing at all you just try to be something in a MMORPG, you are all like that Star Wars Kid….fuck you all.
June 8th, 2004 at 8:20 pm
LOL, alright, i am a game dev for blizzard entertainment. and well, we make these game for you people, u buy them u play them, sure alot of people will always bitch about problems, but does that mean we help them??? i say let the kiddies bitch about there computer, doesn’t mean the company will do anything. i player wwiionline.com which is a MMOG, i only play to kill other players and to take out my anger on people i know will bitch about being killed by me, Someone who creates games, this world is great.
June 15th, 2004 at 7:37 pm
Why MMORPGS suck
Eigentlich wollte ich es nur linkdumpen, aber lurid.org: Why MMORPGS suck hat sich einen Platz im Weblog verdient. Absolut hinreiender Rant ber MMORPG, vor allem ber die shithea^H^H^H^H players selbiger ;)…
June 20th, 2004 at 1:27 pm
Wow, this definitely needs to be spread around more…
July 3rd, 2004 at 11:15 pm
Hi
July 4th, 2004 at 1:18 am
Feeling like a dead dog.
August 11th, 2004 at 11:47 am
HI
November 15th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
FUCK YOU GAY
November 28th, 2005 at 1:19 am
Well, at least I’m happy.
December 11th, 2005 at 1:21 pm
yo knwo you suk rilly you donno enything ebout reel mmorgp ! ! !! your mothafukla! I love WOW and i’m darkelf with uber skillz i got the one thet kills all the area with ehnancht 56 lolo omg pwnet
December 19th, 2005 at 5:10 am
the guy is 100% right
January 17th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
And then there is people like you… Self apponted experts. The biggest irritant in the world. I hope you fucking die. Video Games suck period, as does your whore-assed slut of a mother.
March 14th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Hi guys!
I didn’t read this article in its full length. It’s interesting but in one way total crap. It is OK to say your opinion, but it is not OK to indirectly insult people, and this guy does it. He should’ve think about, that some people are feeling insulted by some unneeded comments to some sort of people who are playing MMORPG’s.
Greetings from Germany
MadScamp
March 28th, 2006 at 12:37 am
I read every single line of what this guy is talking about.
His was is absolutely the same as trying to nail superman’s head with a toothbrush. But he does it, and it hurts.
I have understand that in the last 2 years playing Lineage 2, WoW, Guild Wars, Knight Online, Counter Strike, RYL, Defa’s mom, you name it i have played so many online games…
I have only did that first to have fun, then to be recognised by other people online, recognised that i am good at it and then fed off them by being elite.
I dunno about you, my family raised me to become something good at my life, make some money, learn things, experience love and ditching from girls, make a family, make the ones that brought me in life proud about their kid, that sacrificed so many things to raise.
Im logging off guys and girls, peace.
March 28th, 2006 at 4:51 am
Think this can be applied to all games out there. :p Then again perhpas not, this guy could just be wrong. Who knows, who cares? One just has to do what he/she think is fun, wheter its playing hockey, composing music, reading books, or playing computer games. Whatever makes you happy, DO IT! Fuck what everyone else thinks.
April 1st, 2006 at 7:57 pm
..well, it’s an interesting article. I am not the type that is often posting on official or other fanboy-sites, neither the server is down :>
The real answer on the question “Why MMORPGs Suck”, is that they make most people so addicted and crunch their brains until they forget that there is a reallife they could enjoy …
August 18th, 2006 at 11:36 am
Finaly someone who isn’t just some drone that’s incapable of rational thought. This guy really knows what he’s talking about. However, I have one primary problem with mmo’s with this guys stuff aside. THE FIGHTING! It’s so pathetic and repetative! (1)Click on badguy (2)do nothing (3)click on spell (4)do nothing (5)repeat. THAT’S IT! Every single battle is the same! Now I’ll admit I have only played two mmo’s before: Giuld Wars, and WOW. and the only difference between them is character appearance… THEY ARE THE SAME GAME!
My brother and I have began to brainstorm new ideas for the mmo style of game and for command and conquer style of games. In the relatively near future we will show our grand plan and all will bow before us! Our ideas have already developed a great deal and we are very excited about them. I assure you all, it will be a true revolution!
August 18th, 2006 at 11:47 am
and by the way, me and my bro are not just some random guys with a cool idea. We have been dreaming of bringing our idea’s and deep stories to life since we were kids. We have thought and talked to each other for hours and hours into the night and we have alos been searching for othere like us with a true inner mind. Two people can’t start a company all on their own. Well at least not easily. So dude that made the rant… any thoughts?
November 13th, 2006 at 11:46 am
truth
–noun, plural truths
1. the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth.
2. conformity with fact or reality; verity: the truth of a statement.
3. a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like: mathematical truths.
4. the state or character of being true.
5. actuality or actual existence.
6. an obvious or accepted fact; truism; platitude.
7. honesty; integrity; truthfulness.
8. (often initial capital letter) ideal or fundamental reality apart from and transcending perceived experience: the basic truths of life.
9. agreement with a standard or original.
10. accuracy, as of position or adjustment.
11. (Archaic) fidelity or constancy.
12. in truth, in reality; in fact; actually: In truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire.
March 14th, 2007 at 10:23 am
ur all efin nerds get the ef out of ur moms basement and get a girlfriend get a life cuz the second u started playing those damn games u lost ur life and ur balls
October 26th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Wow, this cheered me up!
November 2nd, 2007 at 5:09 am
WoW is the best game evar. And this post sums up why the community sucks.
March 29th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Man, you’re absolutely right. And it doesn’t matter how much people say that you aren’t right, you’re right! And you’ve gotta believe that yourself.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:32 am
The guy in the primary post is absolutly correct. The #1 cause of nearly every irritating thing that’s happened in WoW from the beginning is players.
Blizzard has made some mistakes here and there, that’s totally accurate; but anytime they do people flip right the fuck out, and then to appease these rejects they just compound the mistake.
All people even do in the game anymore is complain about the game- this is huge fun- not.
I still do my thing in WoW without letting it get to me though- here’s to a futue thinner community and a more experimental game.