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It's not you, it's me: Gaming addition

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A thread for discussing the things that you encounter that end your relationship with a game... a clan... a server...

Maybe it's more about you than the game, maybe it's something you learned about yourself that you didn't know before.

If you have any stories about why you left a game or group or community, etc. other than "I finished it" that you find funny or interesting, post them here.
 
jmotivator said:
A thread for discussing the things that you encounter that end your relationship with a game... a clan... a server...

Maybe it's more about you than the game, maybe it's something you learned about yourself that you didn't know before.

If you have any stories about why you left a game or group or community, etc. other than "I finished it" that you find funny or interesting, post them here.
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I played Counterstrike for YEARS. One of my buddies back in the day knew a dev and we did some alpha play on it, Colts had scopes sort of early build. Had a group I played with, it was fun. Overwatch came out, thought "What a joke". Ignored it. About Season 4 of Overwatch my son got it from a friend for PS4. I played it a bit, decided to give it a whirl on PC.

I haven't played CS since. I even stream my Overwatch playing. All my old CS buddies are like "COME ON PLAY CS WITH US" And it's like "Nope... I'm a junkrat main now, go away"
 
jmotivator said:
A thread for discussing the things that you encounter that end your relationship with a game... a clan... a server...

Maybe it's more about you than the game, maybe it's something you learned about yourself that you didn't know before.

If you have any stories about why you left a game or group or community, etc. other than "I finished it" that you find funny or interesting, post them here.
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Drama in the community, mainly...and egos on the part of the leadership. These two things are community killers for sure. I helped build a community from around 30 people to over 1000, had a great staff, had top 10 placement on all the clan lists, everything ran well for a while. But, ego and drama killed it, and in less time than it took to build it, the whole thing crumbled.

I'm trying to build an Ark community now (PS4, if anyone is interested PM me, we got a great server cluster...*shameless plug*) and I'm trying to make sure it builds slowly, and keep the admin team humble. I think it will go well, but we'll see.

First rule: No politics!! haha :)
 
Full disclosure, I started this thread mostly because I wanted to read the responses. But here are a few games/genres that I have either quit, or that are starting to weigh on me...

* I'm as surprised as anyone, but Loot Based ARPGs... we need some time apart.

* I have LOVED playing It Lurks Below but I have hit a wall were nothing conceivably can happen to improve my character without hours of grind... and I just don't want to anymore.

* Likewise, Inquisitor: Martyr introduced a very grindy path to character improvement and I put about 2 hours into that with zero pay off and I set the game aside...

* Diablo 3 hit the hopeless grind years ago. I even tried leveling all classes to 70 in a desperate attempt to rekindle the flame... but no, we're donesville...

* Torchlight might have aged the worst for me as I really don't know the purpose in the late game... you grind money because the real grind is just spending cash to upgrade gear. Nothing really changed in Torchlight II... but don;t take it too bad, I have some friends I can hook you up with that are into you.

* WOW, stop calling me. Sure, chatting online was fun as I traveled to far off lands ... but when I decided to get serious, and got on voice chat... you were a bunch of kids.

* Other MMORPGs... just because I broke up with WOW doesn't mean I want to hang with you. I need my space.
 
OlNate said:
Drama in the community, mainly...and egos on the part of the leadership. These two things are community killers for sure. I helped build a community from around 30 people to over 1000, had a great staff, had top 10 placement on all the clan lists, everything ran well for a while. But, ego and drama killed it, and in less time than it took to build it, the whole thing crumbled.

I'm trying to build an Ark community now (PS4, if anyone is interested PM me, we got a great server cluster...*shameless plug*) and I'm trying to make sure it builds slowly, and keep the admin team humble. I think it will go well, but we'll see.

First rule: No politics!! haha :)
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Yeah, The biggest hurdle between me and full-in on WOW was stupid drama and grinding. I got into a pretty good guild when I decided that was my goal in WOW, and suddenly I'm getting email invites to team meetings, and getting assigned farming jobs to do while not raiding and I'm like screw this noise, might as well just work more hours in my real job and get paid.

People take gaming way too seriously, and so I'me mostly a solo gamer now.
 
jmotivator said:
Full disclosure, I started this thread mostly because I wanted to read the responses. But here are a few games/genres that I have either quit, or that are starting to weigh on me...

* I'm as surprised as anyone, but Loot Based ARPGs... we need some time apart.

* I have LOVED playing It Lurks Below but I have hit a wall were nothing conceivably can happen to improve my character without hours of grind... and I just don't want to anymore.

* Likewise, Inquisitor: Martyr introduced a very grindy path to character improvement and I put about 2 hours into that with zero pay off and I set the game aside...

* Diablo 3 hit the hopeless grind years ago. I even tried leveling all classes to 70 in a desperate attempt to rekindle the flame... but no, we're donesville...

* Torchlight might have aged the worst for me as I really don't know the purpose in the late game... you grind money because the real grind is just spending cash to upgrade gear. Nothing really changed in Torchlight II... but don;t take it too bad, I have some friends I can hook you up with that are into you.

* WOW, stop calling me. Sure, chatting online was fun as I traveled to far off lands ... but when I decided to get serious, and got on voice chat... you were a bunch of kids.

* Other MMORPGs... just because I broke up with WOW doesn't mean I want to hang with you. I need my space.
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I burnt on WoW with Cata and haven't been back, the wifey still plays though.
 
Renae said:
I played Counterstrike for YEARS. One of my buddies back in the day knew a dev and we did some alpha play on it, Colts had scopes sort of early build. Had a group I played with, it was fun. Overwatch came out, thought "What a joke". Ignored it. About Season 4 of Overwatch my son got it from a friend for PS4. I played it a bit, decided to give it a whirl on PC.

I haven't played CS since. I even stream my Overwatch playing. All my old CS buddies are like "COME ON PLAY CS WITH US" And it's like "Nope... I'm a junkrat main now, go away"
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I spent a lot of time playing CS. I remember colts with scopes, it was the half scope like the sig. I sepnt a bunch of time playing competitively and even made it to the CPL in 2004
 
Renae said:
I burnt on WoW with Cata and haven't been back, the wifey still plays though.
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I played until WOLTK it became way to easy there was no point in playing anymore. Bilzzard announced they are going to make a vanilla server though so ill probably start up again once they do that
 
jmotivator said:
* WOW, stop calling me. Sure, chatting online was fun as I traveled to far off lands ... but when I decided to get serious, and got on voice chat... you were a bunch of kids.
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I never got into gaming but I made the same discovery about a huge segment of DP members.
Apparently 65% of the membership are teens with no social life.

Not my fault, not my problem...they need to find a job and get a girlfriend and stop taking their impotent rage out on society.
It's hard for me to take someone's argument seriously when their avatar looks like an overly "flamboyant" guy wearing a large hoopskirt and thigh high boots and brandishing a sword, just as one example.

Not that there's anything wrong with that but I see that and I'm expecting you to BE FLAMBOYANT, not stingy, sullen, bitter and ready to blame "libtards" for all your problems. You haven't even LIVED out in the real world yet! Go do some living fer chrissakes!
 
jmotivator said:
Full disclosure, I started this thread mostly because I wanted to read the responses. But here are a few games/genres that I have either quit, or that are starting to weigh on me...

* I'm as surprised as anyone, but Loot Based ARPGs... we need some time apart.

* I have LOVED playing It Lurks Below but I have hit a wall were nothing conceivably can happen to improve my character without hours of grind... and I just don't want to anymore.

* Likewise, Inquisitor: Martyr introduced a very grindy path to character improvement and I put about 2 hours into that with zero pay off and I set the game aside...

* Diablo 3 hit the hopeless grind years ago. I even tried leveling all classes to 70 in a desperate attempt to rekindle the flame... but no, we're donesville...

* Torchlight might have aged the worst for me as I really don't know the purpose in the late game... you grind money because the real grind is just spending cash to upgrade gear. Nothing really changed in Torchlight II... but don;t take it too bad, I have some friends I can hook you up with that are into you.

* WOW, stop calling me. Sure, chatting online was fun as I traveled to far off lands ... but when I decided to get serious, and got on voice chat... you were a bunch of kids.

* Other MMORPGs... just because I broke up with WOW doesn't mean I want to hang with you. I need my space.
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Diablo 3 is still going pretty good its a big change with the seasons and such. I wasnt into D3 much when it started but I play it now every once in a while. Its great because its one of those games where you dont have to play a ton of hours every day to stay relevant
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
I never got into gaming but I made the same discovery about a huge segment of DP members.
Apparently 65% of the membership are teens with no social life.

Not my fault, not my problem...they need to find a job and get a girlfriend and stop taking their impotent rage out on society.
It's hard for me to take someone's argument seriously when their avatar looks like an overly "flamboyant" guy wearing a large hoopskirt and thigh high boots and brandishing a sword, just as one example.

Not that there's anything wrong with that but I see that and I'm expecting you to BE FLAMBOYANT, not stingy, sullen, bitter and ready to blame "libtards" for all your problems. You haven't even LIVED out in the real world yet! Go do some living fer chrissakes!
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seinfeld___good_luck_with_all_that.jpg

:lamo
 
Crovax said:
I played until WOLTK it became way to easy there was no point in playing anymore. Bilzzard announced they are going to make a vanilla server though so ill probably start up again once they do that
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I have way too much fun doing stuff like this:
Casra is my in game name.
 
Ark: Survival Evolved -

Great game. Lots of fun to play. The problem is that all the servers are locked down by various tribes so unless you join a tribe you really can't play. Solo play is possible but only to a limited extent. You can't even hop on a server and start a tribe with friends because all the ground is already staked out by existing tribes.
 
Crovax said:
Ive never tried overwatch, I take it that its worth playing?
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I'm on it most every night after 7pm CST. twitch.tv/casra76 Watch and decide yourself.
 
Theme park feel.
Cut scenes.
Excessive cut scenes.
Inability to customize the mouse buttons (left vs right).
Linear game play.
The realization while playing UO, the first real MMO, that this was "too consuming of a game style"
perma death in games that are tedious
 
Crovax said:
Ive never tried overwatch, I take it that its worth playing?
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Seriously, I have been playing nightly for months now. Winning is SO satisfying, and while there are just a set number of maps, and enemies, every fight feels new and fresh. When you wipe out 5 of the 6 opposing members of a team and win the match... no MMO can match that high. You can tank, heal, Deeps... I love junkrat, he's my boy, but I can heal, tank and play other heroes as needed. I love it.
 
jmotivator said:
A thread for discussing the things that you encounter that end your relationship with a game... a clan... a server...

Maybe it's more about you than the game, maybe it's something you learned about yourself that you didn't know before.

If you have any stories about why you left a game or group or community, etc. other than "I finished it" that you find funny or interesting, post them here.
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I'm assuming you are talking about MMO-type games, since you mention clan, server, group or community.

I've been playing MMORPG's for around 10 years now. I started with Archlord and have played almost all the big titles. But now, I mainly dip into the "FTP" games. The problem for me is that I get bored with them.

The ones I've stayed with the longest: Archlord, Warhammer Online, Aion, Rift.

The first two were my favorites because they had robust guild activity and robust open/semi-open PVP. They both required a certain amount of grinding...WO less than AL...and both required constant vigilance. But after multiple years in each game...boredom set in because I was doing the same old thing over and over.

The second two, while PVP was minimal, were fun because of unique game mechanics. Aion had flying. Rift had...well, the rifts. But again...I got bored.

In the last year or so, I've been playing an Android game on my Win10 PC...Battle Bay. You build ships, fight 5v5 battles. It has guilds, guild activity, etc. It's fun.
 
jmotivator said:
Yeah, The biggest hurdle between me and full-in on WOW was stupid drama and grinding. I got into a pretty good guild when I decided that was my goal in WOW, and suddenly I'm getting email invites to team meetings, and getting assigned farming jobs to do while not raiding and I'm like screw this noise, might as well just work more hours in my real job and get paid.

People take gaming way too seriously, and so I'me mostly a solo gamer now.
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Well, if you ever wanna take Ark for a spin on a PS4, you'd like where I'm at...it's basically the opposite of what you're described. Plus I could hook you up...hehe... Nice thing about Ark is that you can edit the server settings to whatever boosts you want, and they have supply drops that you can edit as well. This lets you focus on the parts of the game you like, without grinding for hours and hours...though in Ark, the grind is actually a big part of the fun, sometimes I miss doing it. Our server is set up for massive building, so you spend very little time mining, for example, because every resource you collect is 40x what you would normally get. It's a bit cheater-y, but it lets you get up and running quickly, and get into the fun community stuff more often.
 
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Lutherf said:
Ark: Survival Evolved -

Great game. Lots of fun to play. The problem is that all the servers are locked down by various tribes so unless you join a tribe you really can't play. Solo play is possible but only to a limited extent. You can't even hop on a server and start a tribe with friends because all the ground is already staked out by existing tribes.
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What platform do you play on? We just started up a server cluster for PS4, and we're going with a "kingdoms" setup - essentially dividing Rag into five "kingdoms", and where you are loosely affiliated with the other tribes in that region - it's actually beneficial to build close to tribes near you. We also have The Center clustered, and will be adding as we grow. We're just starting out, so there's tons of real estate, and it's pretty boosted, so you can get up and running quickly. General vibe is chill, trying to build an actual community, so fly by night raiding lunatics usually get chased off. The owner doesn't like to ban, he just puts bounties out on troublemakers and we all go chasing them down and bringing them back in handcuffs...lol... Building a jail in the community base is something on my to do list. Also we have offline raid protection on during the week.

There are servers like that out there, you just have hunt them down. If you search RPG or Role Play in the search bar, you'll find them there.
 
OlNate said:
What platform do you play on? We just started up a server cluster for PS4, and we're going with a "kingdoms" setup - essentially dividing Rag into five "kingdoms", and where you are loosely affiliated with the other tribes in that region - it's actually beneficial to build close to tribes near you. We also have The Center clustered, and will be adding as we grow. We're just starting out, so there's tons of real estate, and it's pretty boosted, so you can get up and running quickly. General vibe is chill, trying to build an actual community, so fly by night raiding lunatics usually get chased off. The owner doesn't like to ban, he just puts bounties out on troublemakers and we all go chasing them down and bringing them back in handcuffs...lol... Building a jail in the community base is something on my to do list. Also we have offline raid protection on during the week.

There are servers like that out there, you just have hunt them down. If you search RPG or Role Play in the search bar, you'll find them there.
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I'm on PC and, frankly, I don't have the time to play either.
 
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