You go ahead and sit around waiting for "great", I will continue playing a bunch of games that are "just good" but fun and occasionally are "Great". Fun is the only yardstick that should be applied to games imo.
This is a very valid point.
Replied before I saw this, I feel exactly the same way.
I don't understand how you don't understand that not every gaming experience needs to be the second-coming of MMO Jesus to be worth playing. Do you follow that logic in everything you do? Like, do you refuse to go to a good restaurant because it isn't cuisine greatness? Do you refuse to watch fun movies that will never win an oscar? Or is your failure to comprehend that not everything needs to be great limited entirely to the video game industry?
Also true. While it would be great to have a game where there is a enough content to keep you buys for years on end never having to stop, I won't hold my breathe. In the last decade or so I treat MMOs like every other game. Play hard at the start, then taper off. Log in on occasions to do things but rotate through a library of games, unless one has a expansion, dlc or content patch then play it a lot until its back to the "maintenance mode"(ie log in randomly to have fun before logging out).
For the time commitment I would like to make to a MMO, yes, it needs to be at least on par or better than WoW, EQ, and UO.
I wasn't making an analogy. Someone asked if I treated other things like I treat MMOs.
It's a video game. A source of entertainment. It isn't something that you need to set a time commitment for; It's something that you should be able to enjoy in your free time. The only deciding factor on whether or not it was 'worth it' should be whether or not you could have found something else to do in your free time for a reduced cost. You seem to be operating under the assumption that game studios owe it to the consumer to provide thousands of hours of entertainment and that everyone who plays a game for six weeks is causing the MMO industry to settle for mediocrity. This is blatantly fucking stupid.
Who's "we"? Sure as shit isn't me. Maybe you mean the tards who only sit in pantheon/eqnext threads who can't seem to move on 1999 at all.
Sounds like the problem is you. I don't think I have a single mmo that has lasted under 6 weeks, that I played at launch. Reason being I can almost always test them before launch and if I like it, I easily get beyond 6 weeks out of them. And I can only think of one mmo that I tried that I didn't like and never played, and that was the original launch of FFXIV. If a MMO doesn't attract me enough to even test before buying/playing, I wont bother at all.
I'm honestly impressed that you played Wildstar for 6 months. If you haven't already, you should sign up with 23andme. Better yet, I would see if the military has a similar program. I'm sure they could benefit from figuring out why your pain tolerance is so high.
Why do you have to go calling me out like that, I was making a point god dammit!C'mon vold, you quit WS in like 3 months tops