Roleplaying games

I often wondered that myself. Are MMORPG really fun? or is just a way for the big companies to try to suck more money possible from a single person?

For normal singleplayer CRPG, you just buy the game once and stop, no more fees. With MMORPG, even the new “fake free games” trend, they have just one purpose: get more money possible from YOU. Either with a monthly fee, or with more or less ridiculous add-ons, etc.

I enjoyed playing lot of MMORPG, like Everquest I and II, Dark Age of Camelot, Anarchy Online, EVE, and recently Vanguard. They all were fun of course, but enough to keep me interested in playing it for long time? except EQ 1-2, surely not.

They use the method: you need to kill tougher and tougher mobs to get better stuff, then you level and the stuff you have sucks, so you need to go out and kill even more tougher mobs to get even better stuff, until you level again. There is also the motivation of discovering new spells or new skills/abilities. Or to get a new class or a variant of the base class. Or to have enough gold to buy mounts or weird stuff that will reflect your higher social status.

But in the end, all that stuff… is fun??

My answer is yes, but just in the initial period. After a while it gets repetitive and boring. Expecially once you reach a level so high that you are forced to group or, even worse, to do raids! but I’ll talk about this in the next post…