2009-06-06, 01:32 PM
MysticHLE Wrote:Yet I know people who still play FFVII, FFVIII, FFX, Zelda OoT, Chrono Trigger, Super Smash Brothers 64, Super Smash Brothers Melee, Halo, etc. even after they "beat" the game repeatedly since its release.
Why can't MMO designers make something that stands up to the likes of the above as well? If it's because MMOs are still new and designers don't know what works best, then us players are the ones who need to voice what we want and like.
Those aren't online games. Online games require a lot more time and commitment, because you're actually joining a social environment and interacting with other people. Often it is impossible to get things done or slower to do things on your own. To get very far in the game requires constant presence, and many hours a week. People have real lives to attend to.
Console games you can put them down and pick them up whenever. No one notices if you put down FFVII for a long time and start playing it again. You can fit that into your schedule whenever you feel like it and when you do decide to play you know it'll be fun. When there's no ceiling to what you can do in an MMO there's often a sense of needing to play to achieve something, even if it doesn't feel fun.