MMO Apathy
It happened last week. WAR had just been sitting there on my desktop, all the RvR packs installed but seldom used, still sending Mythic my 15 bucks a month. I logged in to find T3 mostly dead on Badlands and that my few friends left playing hadn’t logged in for a few weeks either. So I did it. I canceled my WAR account yet again. And with that, I am officially MMOless.
ap·a·thy
–noun, plural -thies.
1.
absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement.
2.
lack of interest in or concern for things that others find moving or exciting.
It’s been a very long time since I’ve been able to say I am not subscribed to a single MMO. Aion can suck it. That game only brings feelings of deep seated loathing to me. Champions Online holds no appeal. If it wasn’t for NC Soft freezing my master account secondary to my stupid Aion account getting hacked, I’d be more tempted to tool around in City of Heroes than CO. Not only am I not opening up my wallet for any of the pay to play MMOs, I also am not playing any of the various free to play options available out there right now. Sure, I’ve tried them. EQ2 was just meh to me. LotRO that I really loved once upon a time just can’t entice me to play anymore. Allods was fun for about 10 levels. I’m still not sold on the cash shops even though I know they are the trend for the future.
After reading all the excited Tweets about Cataclysm, I even broke down and bought it in a moment of weakness. I played about 4 hours in the new Worgen zone and was done with it also. Ha! What a waste of money that was. The zone was done well enough. But in the end, it just felt like the same old thing with a new wolf skin. I realized that I’m just done with WoW. When I renewed my account, I looked back at how long I have played WoW. I really played more than I thought those first couple of years. I played pretty steady, dying off for about 6 months before Burning Crusade and then back for about 6 months when it released. Then another stint for about 6 months in 2009 after my love affair with WAR went sour. WoW just holds no appeal for me anymore. Perhaps if they had added a new class to try out. After all this time, I’ve literally tried every class, more than once in many cases. So basically, I paid about $55 to be a tourist to see the changes to the old world. Hmmmm. Someone said I could have seen all of that on You Tube for free.
I’m not sure what happened with WAR. I was having fun with it. I was out of town and didn’t play for about 2 weeks. When I returned, I just couldn’t muster the enthusiasm to play. My main Desto characters on Badlands were stuck in T3. While I had hoped that T3 would be alive and well again with the changes to open RvR and the RvR packs, it really didn’t happen. T4 was hopping. I guess everyone who had become bored and was leveling alts went back to experience the fun of T4 and work on getting the renown ranks up to the new cap. Truly, if I include the year I was in beta, I have played WAR continuously more than any other MMO. It’s really a fun game and the PvP nature makes it a bit less redundant than PvE games. But you have to have people to fight. And that’s been my problem more often than not in WAR.
What I’m finding is that all these games just feel the same for the most part. And of course in the end, they really are. I suppose my true MMO apathy right now lies more in the fact that all my friends/guildies are spread far and thin in different games. Even the ones playing WoW right now are hanging out on different servers and different factions. When I think about the most fun I’ve had in MMOs, it usually also revolves around the fact that I was in active guilds with friends with whom I was comfortable. Perhaps I’m getting old, but I hate joining new guilds now. I like Circle of Trust/Multiplaying/whatever we call ourselves next. They are like that old pair of jeans that you panic if you think you’ve lost because they are just so damn comfortable and just fit so good.
So I suppose I’ll just wait for the next big MMO that sucks enough of the guild in to get us all gaming together again. Maybe Rift. Maybe we’ll wait til SWToR. Absence does make the heart grow fonder, right? Now, what to do with all of this free time I have….
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new vegas? mass effect 2? complete DA:O before DA2 comes out? Plenty of single player games if you’re sick of MMOs.
I’ve played ME2 through 3 times, DA:O twice. =P Not sure about Fallout. I’ve never played any of that series. I’m not a huge fan of the post-apocalyptic genre. I’ve been almost exclusively an MMO player and play pretty much only PC games. My steam account is full of games I don’t really want to play. Except for Peggle and PvZ!
If your WoW account is still active, I humbly suggest you roll a goblin and play through the beginning zones if you haven’t already done so. I found it to be far more fun than the Worgen zone. If you like silly things it may be worth a look.
I think I do have a few more days left on it. I should sneak a peek at that.
[...] my travels around the Interwebz I came across an article from Maeve of Multiplaying about the apathy she feels about MMOs after being unsubbed from, well, everything for the first time in a little while. She’s even feeling a little down [...]
Maeve,
I have been in the same boat for about a year except that im lazy and not a good writer so you put it to words for me
I never thought i would like it but you should try a console. The games are fast, you can chat with friends but there is no long term time investments. I have been doing that and cheating on my wife with hotties in Dragon Age Origins 
MMO apathy has hit me pretty hard too. I haven’t bought WoW Cataclysm and my WAR and Aion subs both expired last year even as I sit here with unused game time cards for both games sitting in my wallet. The only MMO I am getting for sure when it comes out is Guild Wars 2, Star Wars is like a 50/50 chance for me and Rift is a no-go.
Sometimes you just need to mix it up a little – all of the gaming I have done in the last month is board games, Android smartphone games, and PS3 – I’ve caught the LittleBigPlanet bug pretty hard and will be getting the sequel on release day later this month.
I was playing WAR almost everyday for a month and a half. And I was having fun, but for some reason have not touched it in the last 2 weeks. Maybe it is just the holidays. I do need to cancel my sub before I get the charged again. I am just hoping that I will get back into it.
Yeah, MMO burnout hits everyone at times. I was playing FFXIV for a while, but it’s gotten to be more work than play., so I’m off that rock too. I picked up quite a few games from the steam sale so I’ll be on those for a while.
Nothing wrong with a little gaming apathy, either generalized or MMO-specific. I go through the same thing on a fairly regular cycle myself. My advice: enjoy all the subscription money you’re saving yourself and don’t worry about it, it’ll pass eventually and then you’ll be back to Warhammer or WoW or somthing else.
I have similar feelings. I’ve been avoiding my PC for about 2 months now and playing my PS3 and 360 almost exclusively (except for my casual time in WoW). It really is hard to muster the enthusiasm for any MMO’s after you’ve played them all to death. And yeah, it is REALLY difficult to find an adopted “new” guild…
Even though I’m not a big Star Wars fan (Multiplaying sacrilege, I know) I will absolutely pick it up for a chance to finally MMO it up with everyone!
I’m with ya. I’ll play DCUO for a month or two to see the batman storyline, then I’m out. Been playing DAoC on a freeshard, but not very hard core, just with family. I find the gameplay in newer mmos to be not my style (to automated, too generic, too dumbed down or too everything but the kitchen sink complicated just for the sake of it). When I have some more mmo urge, I’ll likely give a hardcore pvp game a shot again. I enjoyed Darkfall. Perpetuum or EVE might be a go. Something that breaks the mold.
On the other hand, when the STO user content comes out, I’ll try it. I’m very curious about how that pans out.
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new vegas? mass effect 2? complete DA:O before DA2 comes out? Plenty of single player games if you’re sick of MMOs.
I’ve played ME2 through 3 times, DA:O twice. =P Not sure about Fallout. I’ve never played any of that series. I’m not a huge fan of the post-apocalyptic genre. I’ve been almost exclusively an MMO player and play pretty much only PC games. My steam account is full of games I don’t really want to play. Except for Peggle and PvZ!
If your WoW account is still active, I humbly suggest you roll a goblin and play through the beginning zones if you haven’t already done so. I found it to be far more fun than the Worgen zone. If you like silly things it may be worth a look.
I think I do have a few more days left on it. I should sneak a peek at that.
[...] my travels around the Interwebz I came across an article from Maeve of Multiplaying about the apathy she feels about MMOs after being unsubbed from, well, everything for the first time in a little while. She’s even feeling a little down [...]
Maeve,
I have been in the same boat for about a year except that im lazy and not a good writer so you put it to words for me
I never thought i would like it but you should try a console. The games are fast, you can chat with friends but there is no long term time investments. I have been doing that and cheating on my wife with hotties in Dragon Age Origins 
MMO apathy has hit me pretty hard too. I haven’t bought WoW Cataclysm and my WAR and Aion subs both expired last year even as I sit here with unused game time cards for both games sitting in my wallet. The only MMO I am getting for sure when it comes out is Guild Wars 2, Star Wars is like a 50/50 chance for me and Rift is a no-go.
Sometimes you just need to mix it up a little – all of the gaming I have done in the last month is board games, Android smartphone games, and PS3 – I’ve caught the LittleBigPlanet bug pretty hard and will be getting the sequel on release day later this month.
I was playing WAR almost everyday for a month and a half. And I was having fun, but for some reason have not touched it in the last 2 weeks. Maybe it is just the holidays. I do need to cancel my sub before I get the charged again. I am just hoping that I will get back into it.
Yeah, MMO burnout hits everyone at times. I was playing FFXIV for a while, but it’s gotten to be more work than play., so I’m off that rock too. I picked up quite a few games from the steam sale so I’ll be on those for a while.
Nothing wrong with a little gaming apathy, either generalized or MMO-specific. I go through the same thing on a fairly regular cycle myself. My advice: enjoy all the subscription money you’re saving yourself and don’t worry about it, it’ll pass eventually and then you’ll be back to Warhammer or WoW or somthing else.
I have similar feelings. I’ve been avoiding my PC for about 2 months now and playing my PS3 and 360 almost exclusively (except for my casual time in WoW). It really is hard to muster the enthusiasm for any MMO’s after you’ve played them all to death. And yeah, it is REALLY difficult to find an adopted “new” guild…
Even though I’m not a big Star Wars fan (Multiplaying sacrilege, I know) I will absolutely pick it up for a chance to finally MMO it up with everyone!
I’m with ya. I’ll play DCUO for a month or two to see the batman storyline, then I’m out. Been playing DAoC on a freeshard, but not very hard core, just with family. I find the gameplay in newer mmos to be not my style (to automated, too generic, too dumbed down or too everything but the kitchen sink complicated just for the sake of it). When I have some more mmo urge, I’ll likely give a hardcore pvp game a shot again. I enjoyed Darkfall. Perpetuum or EVE might be a go. Something that breaks the mold.
On the other hand, when the STO user content comes out, I’ll try it. I’m very curious about how that pans out.
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