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Online Gaming Radio » Blog Archive » Town Crier 1.12.10 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:46:13 +0000

[...] talks about having too many choices in MMOs and the importance of making a game your [...]

By: Gothun

Gothun — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:42:00 +0000

I usually get like this if I have a lot of choices in games to play as well. Steam had some amazing holiday deals up until January 3rd, so I was buying games left and right. I got around 40 games for $120 and get all antsy just thinking about them. It gets pretty crazy because I can’t really get into any of them since I have so many to play. I normally play one for maybe an hour then get this weird urge to switch and play something else. But MMO wise, I’ve experienced enough to know what I like to do and when and with who and stuff like that. Most of the time I do like what was mentioned above and just log in and talk to people because sometimes interactions with other people is enough from a game to satisfy me for a while.

By: Daria

Daria — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:18:38 +0000

This is why I usually don’t have any or many alts. I like sticking to one character and one game plan so I don’t feel I’m all over the place. I’ve only recently started to play alts in WoW, since I have a max level healer that I can only progress so far with each day. I log in to do my heroic daily and then I switch to my alt. And even then I have to focus on one alt at a time. As far as playing more than one game at a time, I simply can’t do it. I admire all you people who can though.

By: tuvogg

tuvogg — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:10:29 +0000

I logged in to EQ2 last night with great hopes of getting loads done and ended up using the game as MSN for nearly 4 hours when an old friend who i havent seen for months logged in.

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:23:55 +0000

I think there’s 2 types of choices – what games/servers/characters you want to play and then what choices you can make with your character. I think the latter should be as varied and flexbile as possible although nothing can really help the former

By: Kasul

Kasul — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:27:58 +0000

It’s funny how when you’re logged in time passes without really getting anything accomplished. I don’t usually feel like that’s time wasted, as I play most games windowed and if nothing is going on I’m checking mail or reading news.

Choice isn’t a bad thing, but I think there will always be a game or two you fall back on when you tire of all others. That’s the way I am anyway.

By: Calthine

Calthine — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:43:55 +0000

My original glimmer was that you play so many MMOs it must be hard to choose sometimes. But I totally agree with this blog, I do the same thing, and it’s why I burn through a lot of casual games

By: mythokia

mythokia — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:59:38 +0000

Ahh… the paradox of choice.

Now, if there were one huge monopoly of an MMO, we would all be happy!

By: More Choices in our MMOs?

More Choices in our MMOs? — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:19:46 +0000

[...] posted a topic today that I found pretty interesting. It’s short, but gets right to the point that sometimes [...]

By: Wiqd

Wiqd — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:37:08 +0000

This is one of the reasons I think there should be MORE choices in a MMO. No one has really made a living, breathing world yet and I wish someone would. In fact, a comment about this would be WAY too long, so I’m going to write a post about it