Let me just deposit my two cents, here, and make sure that I'm understanding what people here are bitching about. *Clears throat and gets onto soap box*
YOU ARE PLAYING A FUCKING HERO. What the hell else do you expect to be doing as a HERO? Should yahtzee be involved? How about tea with grandma? NO! You're a fucking hero. The only things heroes ever do is beat some ass, retrieve stolen/rare items/hostages or otherwise armageddon-inducing weaponry, and occasionally cry at night with or without your hot significant other who occasionally gets kidnapped. THAT'S IT. Oh, sorry, forgot one. A Hero will also (depending on the circumstances) delve into discovering their mysterious past, known to practically everyone but them.
If you're looking for something bigger, I mean, maybe you should shift into some other kind of genre. Because when you break it down, that's what you're doing in every mmo. Kill, collect, grind, customize. That's the formula for every MMO; its success is just in the way of how the developers vary the formula. Sure, you can say story has something to do with it. But I know plenty of people who are in ridiculously lore-heavy games, and they click through virtually every ounce of story because your objective will show up in the log. I'm not saying that's what the majority do, but all one has to do is compare the numbers of an rpg server to a pvp server(s). Just saying. *Hops off soap box*
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Let me just deposit my two cents, here, and make sure that I'm understanding what people here are bitching about. *Clears throat and gets onto soap box*
YOU ARE PLAYING A FUCKING HERO. What the hell else do you expect to be doing as a HERO? Should yahtzee be involved? How about tea with grandma? NO! You're a fucking hero. The only things heroes ever do is beat some ass, retrieve stolen/rare items/hostages or otherwise armageddon-inducing weaponry, and occasionally cry at night with or without your hot significant other who occasionally gets kidnapped. THAT'S IT. Oh, sorry, forgot one. A Hero will also (depending on the circumstances) delve into discovering their mysterious past, known to practically everyone but them.
If you're looking for something bigger, I mean, maybe you should shift into some other kind of genre. Because when you break it down, that's what you're doing in every mmo. Kill, collect, grind, customize. That's the formula for every MMO; its success is just in the way of how the developers vary the formula. Sure, you can say story has something to do with it. But I know plenty of people who are in ridiculously lore-heavy games, and they click through virtually every ounce of story because your objective will show up in the log. I'm not saying that's what the majority do, but all one has to do is compare the numbers of an rpg server to a pvp server(s). Just saying. *Hops off soap box*