Blizzard is working on a new unannounced MMO

[dib8rman]

I actually like mmorpgs though.

I will admitt eventually it does turn into a leveling grind, some times I wonder how people play legit.

I'd say though I enjoy them the price tag is way too high and the value is over shot by way too much.

Blizzard argues that their Q&A is top notch and it's what your paying for, I see that as BS, with the ammount of paid subscribers blizzard could afford to have 20 CS guys there making their 40k a year while charging players $3 a month, server maintainance and operation covered also They are charging 5 times that which is amazing but that's the value the users seem to be happy with.

From a gamers perspective would be the easiest way to figure out why they would play that. I could just say they're stupid but that wouldn't be wholely true...

I loved playing mmorpgs, I've played so many in my time as I'm sure many others have.. I'd scrounge around the internet looking for them and I'd go from each one in a matter of days or weeks. At least a hundered maybe two hundred mmorpgs later I see one thing holds true, they are all grind fests. The most successful ones look pretty give you somewhere to go and give you something to grind while your there.

I've always gone it alone in mmorpgs - after I hit cap level with all my gear I'd just lounge around in town and get familiar with the locals, most of the time they probably saw me before in some dungeon but we never spoke. Eventually I'd try to perfect my gear and get bored then make a new class or character, and then the downward spiral begins.

I'm very sleepy so forgive me for structure: Now I will take apart the phases of a mmo.

1. Exploration - This is more than just looking at the scenery this is learning even the GUI the physics and just core game play, this all happens while your leveling up very quickly and picking up on the game quite fast.

2. Goal - At this point you've set up your goal based on personality and experiences before and during "Exploration" the goal is varied.
There is a DnD method used to this day, Chaotic, Neutral and Order with that I'll split this up into Grinder, Enthusiast and Role Player. The traits just like in the DnD case can be a mixture of any two outside of Chatoic-Order. To keep the pronouns clear Enthusiast represents a person who levels with teams and so on, they join guild early on and they generally progress through the games grind features but are very social.

3. Summit - This is what mmorgs have, which for a video game is a very bad thing, some would think that with the social aspects of a mmorpg one would have yet another Summit after this Summit but that isn't the case, for Grinders and Grinder-Enthusiasts and some Enthusiasts. These people bought the game to play a game and though a mmorpg may not have a static ending a player can simply stop playing he game.

I don't believe the reason why these groups stop playing these mmorpgs is disinterest, most return to the game then leave again, when you look at outside the box, video games are on physical medium usually and an offline game can be replayed after being beaten many times because of this. It's not that simple though, their is the chat room complex to mmorpgs also which draws the user to stay longer than the duration of the gaming experience, which leaves a unstatisfied notion floating around.

Steppe - After the summit there is a Steppe this has levels of all the other experiences of the game and this is where the Grinder will find themself next they work their way down the mountain not realizing it and all the while looking for another Summit.

I'm sure there is more but that's just my break down from my own experiences.

So back on target forcing people to pay a monthly fee to play a game is telling people that they have to play the game or lose the value of their dollar. In a sense every second they don't play could be a second that they give free money to blizzard. Also the arguement of not paying for the month doesn't stand because you want to be able to play when you want to play, but not just waste 15 dollars on a month when you only wanted to play for that on day in the month.