games coming out nowadays, aka MMORPGs are just money hogs, companies not satisfied with charging you 40 bucks for an expansion, but they also got to get 10 to 15 bucks a month for so called server maintenance and online support (which decays proportionately with the time the game is live). Then the game developer makes the content long and drawn out so that the people playing need to play for a year or 2 just to get somewhat colser to the end of the game. Then when people get somewhat closer to the end, they release another expansion. and to make things worse, you can't just hop on and accomplish anything, you have to play for multiple hours because changiung zones, collecting components, killing a boss mob, traversing a dungeon, etc are multiple hour events.
and then game markets wonder why the stereotype is only geeks playing games. Because people that don't have anything better to do than to just sit down in front of a computer for multiple hours to play a game that has no end and making friends that you might or might not see in real life are the ones they (game developers) can get away with tapping lives for absurd amounts of time and money. Now who wants to join up? I say make the content shorter, to the point with an end in site, and less money. Comparing games to say a movie, the movie is so much cheaper, takes 2 to 3 hours to finish, and you get a good feeling about it. and then even better yet, you can watch multiple different genres of movies, but games you stuck in the same rut.
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oh and one more thing, you can watch a movie with your family or friends (if you have one or any) for the same low price.
games coming out nowadays, aka MMORPGs are just money hogs, companies not satisfied with charging you 40 bucks for an expansion, but they also got to get 10 to 15 bucks a month for so called server maintenance and online support (which decays proportionately with the time the game is live). Then the game developer makes the content long and drawn out so that the people playing need to play for a year or 2 just to get somewhat colser to the end of the game. Then when people get somewhat closer to the end, they release another expansion. and to make things worse, you can't just hop on and accomplish anything, you have to play for multiple hours because changiung zones, collecting components, killing a boss mob, traversing a dungeon, etc are multiple hour events. and then game markets wonder why the stereotype is only geeks playing games. Because people that don't have anything better to do than to just sit down in front of a computer for multiple hours to play a game that has no end and making friends that you might or might not see in real life are the ones they (game developers) can get away with tapping lives for absurd amounts of time and money. Now who wants to join up? I say make the content shorter, to the point with an end in site, and less money. Comparing games to say a movie, the movie is so much cheaper, takes 2 to 3 hours to finish, and you get a good feeling about it. and then even better yet, you can watch multiple different genres of movies, but games you stuck in the same rut.