It has come to my attention today that i’ve been babied far to long in the mmorpg genre. Playing World of Warcraft where I have addons such as Quest Helper and easy to navigate maps and quests that tell me EXACTLY where to go for the last two years has cursed me. I decided today to download the 14-day free trial of Final Fantasy XI. Yes I know its an extremely old game, but with Final Fantasy 14 coming out in 2010 I decided I should at least play 11 for 2 weeks to get myself use to a Square-Enix MMO. I was in for a headache. It took me forever to figure things out. I used my PS2 controller adapter to use for the game since the only way i figured out how to move was the mouse (didn’t know about the setting in config since I couldn’t even find the menu). I had to ask for help from these two people and they was kind enough to tell me about everything and about the fact I was fighting without a sword equipped. I didn’t even know I had a sword in my bag until they told me. WoW has made things to simple in some ways because I actually felt accomplishment when I completed my first mission inside some mine, but when it came to turning the quest in I spent 30 minutes running aruond trying to find the president’s office. Thats all the quest said. I couldn’t use Alt+Tab as teh game wouldn’t let me I had to log all the way out and look it up on google then log all teh way back in when I knew where to go then. Funny thing was I was standing withing a few yards of it by the time I decided to look it up. I just thought i’d rant a little about my small adventure I had within other mmorpg space today.
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Paul Clark
Is that necessarily a bad thing though? Whilst yes, at times you may feel like you’re being babied, but the game houses within it some extremely challenging content that takes immense practice and skill. Is accessibility a fault?
November 19th, 2009 at 5:48 am
Daniel Growns
I think it is important to get people in the door, possibly the worst thing in an MMO is the grind (personally). All the help that you can get for doing quests is fine by me, get me towards the end game content where the challenge really shines through.
It is also a sad fact that many people do not think like you Jimmy, if you cut off all the help, some people will just stop playing right there.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:35 am
Chase C
Oh Paul, you devil advocate you.
November 19th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
tbobaggins
I think it depends on what side of the MMORPG spectrum you play on. I do remember starting new MMO’s and it being a completely new, unique experience that required time to solve quests which made you feel like you actually accomplished something once finished. You can treat WoW this way if you really wanted to, but then there is the other side of things– the raiding. I don’t to burn through the majority of my time just trying to make gold to get myself geared..I’d rather get there as fast as possible and then spend my time learning and enjoying the complex fights that the end game content has to offer..This is partially because I enjoy WoW mainly because it allows me to interact with others and do things as a team.
November 20th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Jimmy Lofton
Yea I understand where your coming from tbobaggins. I won’t join a group thats just farming the raid or instance. Takes all the fun out of it having to rush everywhere.
November 22nd, 2009 at 5:08 pm
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