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10-05-2009, 10:44 PM
I was going to cancel today.
Not because I don't like the title, I do, I just found myself...not really interested in playing it.
Given my own development pursuits I don't get a ton of time to apply to outside games so as the new has waned off I just sort of get bored running around MC doing missions or PvPing cause its all sort of a blur I'm not really enjoying, I'm more just going through the motions to climb the ladder, hamster in a hamster wheel style and I don't really feel any accomplishment or personal pleasure from it.
Largely I think CO is a good game, in the standards of the genre its presenting it does very well, but on the other side of the coin, nothing about CO really feels epic.
Now thats not to say some other game does, WoW and **** and CoX and all the other games I've played over the years fail to really challenge or satisfy me either so this isn't entirely the fault of CO, in its limited release content its just a definitive understanding of what I'm really looking for in a game and its a goal that no company has really reached as of this time.
I've got friends frothing at the mouth to get into the SWTOR beta and other friends calling Jumpgate Evolution the death of EvE and wallpapering their apartments in Jumpgate wallpapers and what not....
And I just find myself...not there, I'm not there, I'm not here.
The industry keeps churning out titles and they keep failing to break new ground or open the market up to variant genres that not many companies have the personal cojones to break into....and I guess til someone does I'm stuck doing it myself.
Theres a large market of adult gamers out here and the shallow immersion of stats and levels and quests is really, rather getting old for us.
Again, not taking anything away from CO, its good, good enough to make me hesitate and not cancel, regardless of not playing it much at all for a few weeks, on the off chance that it will eventually become pretty outstanding and I'd like to support that effort.
But I have to be frank and honest, I personally, myself, have more fun in my off time, playing and replaying Fallout 3 with mod content, that I've personally enjoyed of any MMO release for quite some time.
If someone was to create FOO, or a FO3 Online mod (much like the Oblivion Online mod), I'd probably never be seen again in the MMO market.
And that, to me, should be a bit of an alarm bell for the MMO market....but its not, and it won't be, cause I'm just one person, independent developer or not. Theres still thousands that think CO is great and I won't argue with them at all.
Just to me, its just another hamster wheel, as all RPGs really are, and theres no real freedom, immersion is more or less the responsibility of the player and all the content is linear and gets a little predictable after awhile.
So yes, I nearly cancelled today, but I figured...what the hell, its just 15 bucks, and 60 days from now it could be really fun...who knows.
But right now, for me I'd have to chime in with many others and simply say...CO's fun is limited. But thats okay cause **** is horrible too and its not like anything else out there is doing much good for this tiny slice of the gaming market known as "jaded with high expectations".
Anyways, subscription saved. But I don't know that I'll be playing, I just don't really see any reason to. I feel like I make more personal impact as a character in Fallout 3, than I do in most MMO's these days.
Not because I don't like the title, I do, I just found myself...not really interested in playing it.
Given my own development pursuits I don't get a ton of time to apply to outside games so as the new has waned off I just sort of get bored running around MC doing missions or PvPing cause its all sort of a blur I'm not really enjoying, I'm more just going through the motions to climb the ladder, hamster in a hamster wheel style and I don't really feel any accomplishment or personal pleasure from it.
Largely I think CO is a good game, in the standards of the genre its presenting it does very well, but on the other side of the coin, nothing about CO really feels epic.
Now thats not to say some other game does, WoW and **** and CoX and all the other games I've played over the years fail to really challenge or satisfy me either so this isn't entirely the fault of CO, in its limited release content its just a definitive understanding of what I'm really looking for in a game and its a goal that no company has really reached as of this time.
I've got friends frothing at the mouth to get into the SWTOR beta and other friends calling Jumpgate Evolution the death of EvE and wallpapering their apartments in Jumpgate wallpapers and what not....
And I just find myself...not there, I'm not there, I'm not here.
The industry keeps churning out titles and they keep failing to break new ground or open the market up to variant genres that not many companies have the personal cojones to break into....and I guess til someone does I'm stuck doing it myself.
Theres a large market of adult gamers out here and the shallow immersion of stats and levels and quests is really, rather getting old for us.
Again, not taking anything away from CO, its good, good enough to make me hesitate and not cancel, regardless of not playing it much at all for a few weeks, on the off chance that it will eventually become pretty outstanding and I'd like to support that effort.
But I have to be frank and honest, I personally, myself, have more fun in my off time, playing and replaying Fallout 3 with mod content, that I've personally enjoyed of any MMO release for quite some time.
If someone was to create FOO, or a FO3 Online mod (much like the Oblivion Online mod), I'd probably never be seen again in the MMO market.
And that, to me, should be a bit of an alarm bell for the MMO market....but its not, and it won't be, cause I'm just one person, independent developer or not. Theres still thousands that think CO is great and I won't argue with them at all.
Just to me, its just another hamster wheel, as all RPGs really are, and theres no real freedom, immersion is more or less the responsibility of the player and all the content is linear and gets a little predictable after awhile.
So yes, I nearly cancelled today, but I figured...what the hell, its just 15 bucks, and 60 days from now it could be really fun...who knows.
But right now, for me I'd have to chime in with many others and simply say...CO's fun is limited. But thats okay cause **** is horrible too and its not like anything else out there is doing much good for this tiny slice of the gaming market known as "jaded with high expectations".
Anyways, subscription saved. But I don't know that I'll be playing, I just don't really see any reason to. I feel like I make more personal impact as a character in Fallout 3, than I do in most MMO's these days.