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Daedalus Project MMO Survey Updated
Nick Yee writes "The Daedalus Project, an ongoing online survey study of MMORPG players that started 4 years ago and has surveyed over 30,000 players, has published presentations of new findings, including whether players get more frustrated in MMOs or everyday life, quotes from players discussing why they play online games, and a statistical ranking of the motivations for MMORPG players. There's also a new multiple-choice survey MMO gamers can fill out."
You know, this is a very frequent MMO complaint, and let me break the bad news: This is what players ask for, this is what players get.
It's like any genre. There's still innovation in minor areas, but the basic themes are all the same. I don't know why this should upset you so.
There are lots of different Genres of games. MMO Creators aren't trying to hide old systems behind new graphics, they're trying to make those systems playable in ways you haven't seen before. I mean, look, when you read a Murder Mystery novel, you know a few things coming in: There's a murder, and someone's trying to solve it. You don't accuse the author of trying to hide a murder mystery behind a new plot of descriptive phrase. You don't think, "Oh, damn that clever author! He made the murder really tricky this time! But the hero STILL figured it out! I wanted something new!"
You play MMO because you want to buy into the current MMO system: Lots of people level their character for mindless reasons and make friends doing it.