Interview Feargus opens mouth, rant against MMORPGs spills out

[OccupatedVoid]

Oblivion is a MESOLARPS.

Massively Empty Offline LARPing Simulator

 

[Jasede]

Re: hmmm

IMO, one advantage of SPs over MMOs is that you can actually finish the game. And the story actually comes to a conclusion. MMOs can never really tell a good story (or those that I have played at least, don't). It's always get to level uber quickly by killing X monster by X level by Y attack and follow this Z build. In SPs you actually feel that the world will crumble without you, that nothing will be accomplished if you don't act. In MMOs, even if you've built yourself up as the most powerful PvP/PvM character ever in your server, you're as essential to the development of the story as that lvl1 newbie that's killing furry rabbits on the tutorial map. Leave the game for a week and everybody's tons levels higher than you and you have to catch up to be able to party with them. And you never feel any sort of wanting to explore any new location in MMOs, you know they'll be filled by some sort of monster geared for this level and a boss that takes this amount of time to spawn with players camping them.

I really don't get what the fuss about WoW is all about. I played it for a month and multiple times after (my friends were telling me to keep playing) and never really got that hooked to it. I guess WoW is the same as cigarette to me, I've also tried that multiple times and I never really got addicted.

Again, the problem is not with MMORPGs but with you getting onto the wrong ones. Sure, there ARE servers where you have to grind and where nore one can type. Sure, there are faggy Free-RP server where everyone has a gruesome past and was the kid of a child or demon.

But what you seem to want, and what does exist is this: A server that's much like playing Pen and Paper online, with many capable Dungeon Masters and a playerbase that doesn't confuse IC with OOC. Sure, a lot of you might call this "LARP"-ing but it isn't. It's more like playing Fallout online, since your role in the servers I have in mind -shapes- the server with your actions and choices, and everything you do has consequences.

What's not to like if you enjoy this sort of thing? And builds aren't all that important, DMs just want you to play your stats, that's all. You'll be so busy following dozens of player and DM-spun plots that you won't have time to "go kill monsters"!