Playing to socialize?

[hal]

I play mmorpg's For those moments that we as a group did more than any one of us could have accomplished. Its the group thing and i often find myself playing the cleric or its equivalent. Not the chanter as that a bit too twitch for me. ( Ya, EQ 1 Roles but you know it when you see it). This is as a foil of the PVP threads and I appreciate PVP as the most challenging opponents I'll ever get.  But I don't appreciate and wont tolerate a game that get me ganked ( owned with no hope).

[Strazos]

Yeah, good group activities are fun;

Me and a bunch of buddies in GW beta - I was a cleric, running around in circles drive-by rezzing people, fighting off a Korean team in our spawn. 10 minutes later, we fought them off and won. Also, the F13 group got very close to winning a long chain of battles. We would have won, had our name broadcast etc...but the NPC we had to guard got bugged and stuck below the map.

Me and NiX pwned a bunch of people back in the day in WoW.

So, good group play is fun...but with more asshats coming into the genre, such play is becoming scarce. I use to randomly group all the time back in my neophyte EQ days. This would be unthinkable nowadays.

[hal]

I appreciate your comments straaz, It was the salad days at neesher ( EVE) (And I don't play the hours that most F13'ers play). But your right . Its the WOW syndrome (asshats are everywhere) and co-op play is getting more scarce.

[stray]

Simple group play/co-op barely registers as "playing to socialize" imho.

I have a friend with a 12 year old daughter, who's been playing up to 6 to 8 hours of WoW a day. This has been going on for a couple of months apparantly, but......

She's only level 11.

She literally plays to socialize. She'd probably have fun in a game like Second Life if there weren't so many perverts in it.

[Surlyboi]

The only thing that kept me in EQ for so long was the company I kept. I ran with a really good crew for a really long time. I miss that and I miss them. I liked running with BC in EQ2 as well, but the thrill was sort of gone I think for everyone because we've all sort of been there and done that at this point.

Those days may never come again, but they're still sort of fun to think about. Even the time I fell asleep on a City of Mist raid and when I woke up, the raid had wiped and I and the chanter I was autofollowing were the only ones that survived.

Good times, good times.

[tazelbain]

I am a bad typist, so I can't really socialize.  But even playing in guilds with VC, I usually don't.  I just have nothing to say to the random people on internet.

[CassandraR]

I am about the opposite myself. I feel much better when I accomplish a difficult task by myself with no assistence from anyone. I always get bored or frustrated in groups because its either too easy or people screw up and cause me to waste time.

[Righ]

I just have nothing to say to the random people on internet.

There's 1160 posts here that say you're lying.

[edlavallee]

Shh Righ, he's saying we aren't random.

Hey Hal, I agree with you. When I can beat someone in PVP on level ground, I feel accomplishment, but these days the earth is tilted in favor of those who can grind more time to get the best equipment. At that point it is less about player skill and more about database entries giving you an accumulated better %age to win.

I can remember the days when DAoC first brought out the lower level battle grounds. Sure everyone waited until they were 19 to go and then only in the best crafted and spellcrafted gear, but it was relatively cheap to obtain and didnt require months and months to get the levels to go. At that point it was more about player skill and better tactics than gear. Those were some of the best and most memorable fights.

[tazelbain]

It's alright.  I like snarky one-liners.

[Surlyboi]

Shh Righ, he's saying we aren't random.

Speak for yourself, I'm random as hell.

Hey Hal, I agree with you. When I can beat someone in PVP on level ground, I feel accomplishment, but these days the earth is tilted in favor of those who can grind more time to get the best equipment. At that point it is less about player skill and more about database entries giving you an accumulated better %age to win.

I can remember the days when DAoC first brought out the lower level battle grounds. Sure everyone waited until they were 19 to go and then only in the best crafted and spellcrafted gear, but it was relatively cheap to obtain and didnt require months and months to get the levels to go. At that point it was more about player skill and better tactics than gear. Those were some of the best and most memorable fights.

Good times, good times...

[Soln]

Shh Righ, he's saying we aren't random.

Speak for yourself, I'm random as hell.

Hey Hal, I agree with you. When I can beat someone in PVP on level ground, I feel accomplishment, but these days the earth is tilted in favor of those who can grind more time to get the best equipment. At that point it is less about player skill and more about database entries giving you an accumulated better %age to win.

I can remember the days when DAoC first brought out the lower level battle grounds. Sure everyone waited until they were 19 to go and then only in the best crafted and spellcrafted gear, but it was relatively cheap to obtain and didnt require months and months to get the levels to go. At that point it was more about player skill and better tactics than gear. Those were some of the best and most memorable fights.

Good times, good times...

derail official.  Those BG's were some of the most fun I've ever had in BG's, exactly because you didn't need to be in an uberguild, there was plenty of peeps, it was fast, you could twink yourself with easy drops from higher mains.  I think the drudgery of DAoC plus the Hibbie turrets were what drove finally me away.