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    Default The lack of innovation in MMO's!

    Now im not sure for you guys but i think that most of us have noticed that the last 3-5 years have been a pretty bad time for MMO's specifically for F2P MMO's. Even for P2P games very little advancement has been made in the genere. How many times is it that we have seen the same old yellow beam of light descending on the player as an animation for healing?How many games have had the same generic races and classes? Human,Elf,Orc,Half Elf etc. and always with the same typical classes Knight, Archer, Mage(Wizard) , Assasain (Rouge), the list goes on. In every single MMO it's basically the same situation with varying levels or grind or end game content. For example grind to level 30 on terrible repetitive grind quests then you can PK! Then if you want to compete in the endgame content like PvP or raids you'll just have to spend another 50-70 levels grinding through it. Then once you get there and start doing the town battles,the territorial wars,W/E you realize that these fights have no real effect on the game world.

    I guess what im getting at is why we don't see more varying aspects in these games. Really why can't we see dwarfs as a playable character more often i think that would be cool. Why not have an MMO centered around vikings or at least having vikings in it. Why aren't there more greek/roman based games or why are there no mythological based ones?Why can't a game just have very little grinding or only a little equipment grinding then let you and your guild participate in events that actually affect the game world!?

    Either way ill be sticking it out for games like Darkfall,Mortal Online,Fallen Earth,Earthfall, and The Crossing which promise gameplay like this if they ever do come about.

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    You've got a point in there; every online game seems to have almost the same.
    Saddly enough, we can't really do much about it
    About Darkfall... that game seems too good to be possible (And if it does get out, it'll probally be very laggy )

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    yeh i agree strongly. We keep being fed this grindy generic korean crap, and we hype it up, and then it dies. It just repeats over and over. I think we either stop hyping up games before release or just stop playing mmo's till the developers and publishers give us what we want.

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    Yes, yes and yes. Frankly I am just EXHAUSTED. I've given up mmos for the time being and am now playing Golden Sun series for the gba. Nuts to it all!

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    I made a topic like that not a long time ago. And I agree.

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    XD meh i feel like ive been going through a new MMO once every week, nothing is making me stick to it, and its not like im just bored of everything, there have been a few games ive just loved for hundreds of hours, **** ive even thought of just going back to a few

    XP heres to hoping something can hold our attention soon, eh?

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    That's so true. All the f2p games released nowadays are the same generic korean grinder crap and that's how it's been for the past few years. I quess they sell well in Asia. Well there hasn't been much innovations in p2p games either.

    Still I'm keeping my hopes up for WAR. Atleast the PvP in the game will have some kind of impact on the game world. Things will go very bad for order if destruction forces takes their main city etc. I'm looking forward to that. Maybe it will inspire other developer companies to make new innovations (even though the city capturing might not be a new thing). Developers concentrate too much on the graphics nowadays

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    Tell us something we don't know yet next time you post.

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    Final Fantasy XI and RYL (1 and 2) are probably the most unique mmorpgs I've played.
    And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear.

    You shout and no one seems to hear.

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    Anyways the way that i see it within 5 years the MMO genre will recuperate and will go back to what it was a few years ago and build on that and get better and better and developers will actually compete to make better more unique games instead of seeing who can make their grind fest look the best.

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    I Agree, all F2P games are just so stupid....even tho i play them since i cant pay for P2P games....but oh well. WoW is just gay when WAR and Darkfall releases and i hope they release a very goodish P2Pish game thats F2P. I mean, doesnt these Companies know how bored we are with mmorpgs? I cant even get to the top level without quiting because they are so boring...Jeeze.

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    Well i agree with the first post but there is one game that is unique that is better than all f2p nowdays Atlantica Online great game reminds me of FFXI

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    Quote Originally Posted by Godyofwar View Post
    I Agree, all F2P games are just so stupid....even tho i play them since i cant pay for P2P games....but oh well. WoW is just gay when WAR and Darkfall releases and i hope they release a very goodish P2Pish game thats F2P. I mean, doesnt these Companies know how bored we are with mmorpgs? I cant even get to the top level without quiting because they are so boring...Jeeze.
    Lol.

    And mhm, I agree. Most, if not all MMO's out there right now are worse than bat-poo bowls.
    Only a few MMO's are actually nice-price.

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    Gave up here too,been playing FPS and RPG and FPSRPG

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    MMO's are getting stale over done and boring. This goes for both P2P and F2P. I've played FFXI it was fun but I could never find a party so I quit. WOW got dull during the 14 day trial I had. As of F2P most companies are buying Korean grinders all of which are the same worthless shit. There are only a very small handful of F2P games that are any good. Most of which are not Korean.

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