How I feel about MMOs!

I am so tired today... Hmm..

I want to make an MMORPG! I really do! Some of the ideas I have for MMO's I think would be fun. I have played MMO's since Final Fantasy XI came out on the PC in America. I also played World of Warcraft since December 17, 2004. I also tried some other MMO's free ones and ones I've payed for. For free I've played Knight Online (horrible), Silk Road (Not bad for a free game. Only downside is it's a GRINDFEST.), Maplestory (for 5 minutes), and sadly Runescape. Runescape was the only free MMO I actually played for more then a week. I only got to level 42, but I was addicted to leveling mining and smithing. Something about that that I enjoyed... Okay, those where all the free MMO's I've played here are the ones I've payed for: Final Fantasy XI (still play on and off have a few jobs at 75 my favorite to play is WHM.), World of Warcraft (have 5 level 80's and a 72 shammy and 71 warrior), Guild Wars (got to 20 and didn't want to play anymore), Age of Conan (just got out of the starting area and was bored), Warhammer (I really did try to like this, but I got 2 characters to 25 and found it WAY too repetitive), and Aion (currently playing it have a 15 Sorceress. I hope they add more quests). Hopefully once I get into the abyss I'll like Aion, but as of now it's not looking too bright. So the only two MMOs I've played and actually stuck with to the end is FFXI and WoW. Also, yes I do plan on playing FFXIV. But, frankly I'm tired of WoW and I'm just not that into FFXI anymore, so I'm not currently playing any MMO's. Aion I do play with my friend sometimes, but neither I or her really care for it that much. My friend is still majorly into WoW, but I just don't find it fulfilling anymore. Raiding is too repetitive and I feel they ruined PvP a long, long time ago. I raided in WoTLK with a Death Knight from November until April. I stopped a bit after Ulduar came out mainly because my guild was bad and I started to lose my patience. After I quit raiding I leveled a hunter that I've had forever, but just never wanted to get it to 80. By the time I got it to 80 (which was pretty slow because I was leveling with my friend and she couldn't be on all the time.) the new instances where out (ToC). I was going to try to get back into raiding with my hunter so I geared it by doing heroics and pugging raids. After gearing my character for 4 days my hunter was in all ilvl 213+ gear. I was astounded at how easy they made gearing characters! After seeing how easy they made everything it just made me not want to raid. I tried raiding the other night and I left after one boss I was so bored! The group wasn't bad or anything it's just that the game has lost its I guess sparkle I should say. Now don't get me wrong I really would like to see Icecrown in patch 3.3, but I think I'm going to do that on my Shaman.

So now here I am playing Diablo 2 and thinking about how I can make a really cool MMORPG. It seems there's so many cool ideas out there that developers could intertwine with their games, but they just don't do it. It seems all the new MMO's coming out today are just repackaged World of Warcraft with lamer quests. The graphics might be fancier, but that doesn't make a good game! I really think that developers are just getting lazy, I mean look at Warhammer that game has about 10 people playing it now because their team couldn't balance their way out of a paper bag! I know that's a terrible way to put it, but it's true. Aion I believe has potential, but that games has a lot of problems with gold sellers botting and spamming. Also, one of the games biggest faults is it is too grindy for mainstream America. Maybe mainstream Korea and China likes the grind, but Americans don't! I don't have a problem with it being challenging to get to the level cap, but make it fun! Not go kill x mob y times over and over again. It gets old... Supposedly the NCsoft is in the middle of working on a patch that will make quests give more exp, but I think they're missing the problem with the patch. The quests just need to be less grindy overall and less traveling involved. Adding more quest exp isn't a bad idea, but the quests need to be more engaging. AND SOMEONE BETTER COME OUT WITH A DAMNED GOOD MMOFPS! That's all I got to say about that...

So as you know if you've read my previous blog I've been MFing a lot lately in D2. I have been scoring a lot of nice items yesterday and today! I've found a wizzyspike, 2 keysets, demon's arch, Que-hegan's, harlequin's crest, and some other nice things all in the last day! I feel I've been pretty lucky! Well I'm done talkin now. BYE