I still played WoW a little bit while back, and during the patch i'd usually be at school, so it wasnt a big deal for me. If i was at home i'd just play Guild Wars haha. I actually heard that the Guild Wars population would rise by like 25% when WoW was down, mainly because WoW players were just bored and needed some more MMORPG action.
Personally, I dont think crying over a video game is as silly as it may sound. If you do start to cry over a video game, people would usually say chill man, its just a game. But, when you play a video game, youre in a totally diffrent world. One of relaxation and soothness. Havent you ever noticed when you play video games your usually totally oblivious to everything else going on? Stress seems to go away in general.
If this world was, "interupted", the effects could be more drastic than usual. If you poured so much concentration into one thing and kept failing at it, it would make you unhappy.
Take for example you were playing Starfox, and you have been playing for hours and you have wasted so much time and effort trying to beat this game and you just kept failing, wouldnt that make you feel bad? I know from experiences ive had as a child that i would be upset if i couldnt beat Galaxia, and sometimes i would actually cry. Its not just the video game, this probably would happen if the situation was diffrent, say, trying to build something such as a window. If you kept failing, and put so much effort in it, it would make you unhappy, and the more you tried the worse your attitude would become.
That's a bummer. I've seen my share of computer controlled players and farmers, but none of them seem to even get the proper consequences.
There is a program well known now called WoW-Glider, which in a case you set rally points throughout the world ng and your character goes to those points and kills anything in its path. This is a way for farming, power leveling, or in some cases i have heard taking the kills of the other faction. WoW-Glider is not free although, it costs 200 dollars from what i have heard, and seems to be one of the most used programs.
I think Blizzard in general does not buckle down on this kind of use of thier games, or any MMORPG for that matter. It doesnt matter that they banned accounts, or disabled other players auto-farming, these kind of programs are constantly growing, and becoming more popular. You cant really just keep banning players and accounts, you need to buckle down on the problem itself, which in this case is these auto-playing programs.
Another thing that i dont understand is how it can be illegal to trade in game cash for real cash. MMO's cost almost 15 dollars a month in most cases, those companies dont have anything to complain about. World Of Warcraft brings in almost 90 million dollars a month for Blizzard. How can Mogs or IGN.com stay alive? Isnt the way they make money through selling in-game cash for real cash? Why would it be illegal to buy from a friend, but not from IGN.com? Its your life, and a MMO is just a game, you should be able to go about how you wish.
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I still played WoW a little bit while back, and during the patch i'd usually be at school, so it wasnt a big deal for me. If i was at home i'd just play Guild Wars haha. I actually heard that the Guild Wars population would rise by like 25% when WoW was down, mainly because WoW players were just bored and needed some more MMORPG action.
Personally, I dont think crying over a video game is as silly as it may sound. If you do start to cry over a video game, people would usually say chill man, its just a game. But, when you play a video game, youre in a totally diffrent world. One of relaxation and soothness. Havent you ever noticed when you play video games your usually totally oblivious to everything else going on? Stress seems to go away in general.
If this world was, "interupted", the effects could be more drastic than usual. If you poured so much concentration into one thing and kept failing at it, it would make you unhappy.
Take for example you were playing Starfox, and you have been playing for hours and you have wasted so much time and effort trying to beat this game and you just kept failing, wouldnt that make you feel bad? I know from experiences ive had as a child that i would be upset if i couldnt beat Galaxia, and sometimes i would actually cry. Its not just the video game, this probably would happen if the situation was diffrent, say, trying to build something such as a window. If you kept failing, and put so much effort in it, it would make you unhappy, and the more you tried the worse your attitude would become.
That's a bummer. I've seen my share of computer controlled players and farmers, but none of them seem to even get the proper consequences.
There is a program well known now called WoW-Glider, which in a case you set rally points throughout the world ng and your character goes to those points and kills anything in its path. This is a way for farming, power leveling, or in some cases i have heard taking the kills of the other faction. WoW-Glider is not free although, it costs 200 dollars from what i have heard, and seems to be one of the most used programs.
I think Blizzard in general does not buckle down on this kind of use of thier games, or any MMORPG for that matter. It doesnt matter that they banned accounts, or disabled other players auto-farming, these kind of programs are constantly growing, and becoming more popular. You cant really just keep banning players and accounts, you need to buckle down on the problem itself, which in this case is these auto-playing programs.
Another thing that i dont understand is how it can be illegal to trade in game cash for real cash. MMO's cost almost 15 dollars a month in most cases, those companies dont have anything to complain about. World Of Warcraft brings in almost 90 million dollars a month for Blizzard. How can Mogs or IGN.com stay alive? Isnt the way they make money through selling in-game cash for real cash? Why would it be illegal to buy from a friend, but not from IGN.com? Its your life, and a MMO is just a game, you should be able to go about how you wish.