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Thread: Dorelli's guide to MMORPG's

Dorelli
Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:33 pm
#1

Congratulations on the purchase of your beautiful new peice of software! Well done! Now you'll be wanting to install that baby so put it in your drive!


What? It wants a CREDIT CARD number? What does it want THAT for? It says you have a 30 day FREE trial! Oh well ok ... stick in credit card and here goes. You don't like the look of the thing? Take it back to the store !!! Oh ... sorry you cannot do that b/c it's an MMORPG - you can't return on-line games b/c you don't really pay for the install software do you - you're paying for the subscription. But it said 30-day FREE trial - sorry buster - that just means that you can get convieniance of disks to insall from before you start your first 2 hour download and you get to pay twice as much for the first month in case you don't like it and cancel it, then we can subsidize the cost of the fancy disks and the box it came in.


Now you are ready to play. Inside that game are hundreds of new people waiting to meet you and be friends with you. Here is one now! He is offering to buy your BARC speeder for 200,000 credits so you don't get ripped off by other people ... how nice of him! Now you are 200,000 credits richer and you can pay for your training. Whaddaya mean other players could have trained me for free! huh? Oh well, guess I'll just mosey over to the bazaar and pick up another BARC to replace the one I sold ....


I will go to the cantina. I am so glad I made this character female. I mean I'm really female in RL and I don't like walking around as some Action Man person. What's that? Someone in the cantina is offering to marry me? Huh? Now he is asking me all kinds of questions that I really don't feel comfortable with .... why does he want to know if I'm really 'hot' ? Should I tell him I've got a fuzzy jumper on in RL, b/c the house is so darn cold?


Dum de dum .... oh here is someone else. They look really nice and they don't WANT anything from me. They just want to help me and they aren't pushy. I'm a bit scared now but I will go along with them b/c if i don't like them I can go away ....


3 weeks pass .... (hey that friendI made introduced me to HIS friends and they are FUNNY) ....


3 months pass ... awwww ... my friend - my first friend - says he is leaving the game .... he is bored ... /sob ... never mind... oh. He wants to give me all his stuff .... sigh.


6 months pass ... this is SUCH a cool and unique profession I have learned. I've never imagined anything like it. I get to pretend I am some kind of invincible action hero and go out and sneak around and sample critters for DNA and make new animals out of that DNA. This is such FUN!


6 months plus one week. I logged in today and none of my recipes work. This is weird. How am I supposed to make pets if they keep changing what I am doing?


9 months ..... THEY HAVE CANCELLED MY PROFESSION !!!!! OMG. I don't want to do anything else in the game! This is so STUPID.


12 months. OK... now i am a combattty person and I'll go mainstream. I'm glad I decided to stay b/c all my friends who were combatty anyway are staying and we get to play all the new content ourselves. It's not as fun as the old thing but ya gotta do what you gotta do ...


12 months and one week ... finished the new content ... waiting for some more.... gonna go do some of it again ....


14 months .... looks like there isn't any new content yet .... I'll just go back to my other game while I'm waiting ..... man these built-in PC games are challenging .....


16 months ..... OMG! They have cancelled the game altogether !!!!!! Never mind ... i have the mail addresses of all my friends and we can regroup. Now we just need to find another game that is as GOOD as our last one.


Rinse and repeat for new game ....


Enjoy SWG... Dor




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lammergeier
Tue Nov 08, 2005 11:00 pm
#2

trust me, dor... if I knew of an MMORPG that didn't suck, you'd know about it, too.



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Roscannon
Tue Nov 08, 2005 11:06 pm
#3






lammergeier wrote:
trust me, dor... if I knew of an MMORPG that didn't suck, you'd know about it, too.





QFE.


BTW, Mythic has shelved Imperator for the time being so they can concentrate more on supporting and expanding DAoC as well as work on the upcoming /drool Warhammer MMORPG. So I guess in the meantime it's gonna be a pirate's life for me 'til DDO launches.





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hamhamthe3rd
Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:02 am
#4

well none of that describes my experience when i was a newb. when i started playing this game it was great and i thought the ppl that played it was hella nice, i wouldnt have kept playing if not for the ppl.


to me, the good always outweigh the bad. i dont have the emails of the bad ppl ive run across, of course,i dont even remember their in-games names but i do have the names of the good. ive played several other mmo games and the ppl of this one has been the best. in the end i think the ppl make the game great or not.


Dorelli
Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:17 am
#5



Hamham - that's because you're so sweet No that wasn't my experience either ... it was just meant to be a humorous essay on how we end up loving the game we play despite the things that happen to us there are always the friends we meet and ultimately it is the game itself that betrays us, not the the people.


In ACTUAL fact - I arrived in SWG with my RL husband and a RL friend. He wasn't a RL friend before we met him in-game but I think it is fairly safe to say that he is a RL friend now as evidenced by the fact that he has slept over at our house and despite the joking about being an axe murderer, nobody has died yet. When I say 'in-game' I actually mean we met him in the LAST game we played. As soon as we arrived, we got together with the ones who had arrived before us (2 of them) and rallied the troops. At one point I think there were about 13 of us from the 'old game' before the ones that decided that SWG was not for them quickly went on to something else (about half of them tbh).


The people make the game. The game is the vehicle to meet the people. There are people for everyone and it takes all the people in it to make the world go around. That, and a decent graphics card


Dor


PS. Should I be 'Elderham' ???


Message Edited by Dorelli on 11-09-2005 03:18 AM

Message Edited by Dorelli on 11-09-2005 03:21 AM



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RIP BioEngineering 15-11-2005 : RIP CH 15-11-2005

peckolai
Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:20 am
#6

You may as well get mIRC. It's cheaper
Kivrin
Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:22 am
#7

:/



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