Taking 2 days off. Will be back Thursday Night/Friday AM.

[schild]

Between Metal Gear Solid 4 and wanting to try other games on this new PC, I'm taking a self-imposed break. Also, I'm hoping they fix gemcutting by Friday.

Note: I am not in the least - even the tiniest bit - done with my time in Hyboria. I've simply logged 200 hours, still am not burned out, and don't want to get burned out.

Anyway, if you need something, post here so that Rattran or DannyB can see it.

[Brogarn]

Enjoy your break! 

[Signe]

Wait!  Don't Go!!!      Come Back!

Is he gone?

[Kirth]

A week off did wonders for my bitterness about the game. (not to say your bitter, I was however)

[Samwise]

A week off did wonders for my bitterness about the game.

I've never heard that statement uttered about a game that was worth playing.

 

[Brogarn]

I've uttered those words about games I've loved. Sometimes you either play too much or let too much get to you and forget why you liked the game in the first place. I don't think it means anything more than that.

[Engels]

A week off did wonders for my bitterness about the game.

I've never heard that statement uttered about a game that was worth playing.

 

When you were a kid you never played a game you loved to the point you were nigh sick of it? Not Monopoly, or Uno, or some other game?

[Tarami]

I've at one point or several hated the shit out of every single game I've really liked. I hate because I love.

[Samwise]

Nope.  Not once.  MMOGs are completely unique in their ability to keep me playing long after it should be obvious that they're no longer fun.  With any other game I'll put it down long before the "bitter" stage, and without being told to.  On the other hand, I played SWG for about six months longer than I should have.  I'm VERY careful about picking new MMOGs up now.

Statements like "you need to take a week off for it to be fun" are indicators that the game is sticky but not actually fun, or that it has severe flaws that you need to work at overlooking in order to find the fun, or that the person making the statement is a battered spouse who runs away from home just long enough to let the bruises heal and then goes crawling back for more.  Or possibly all of the above.

[schild]

Samwise, I don't have a job. I have /played 200 hours in less than a month.

Metal Gear Solid 4 is coming out and I had to force myself away.

You're assuming some things that aren't there.

[Rasix]

Statements like "you need to take a week off for it to be fun"

That's really not what he said,  but the second of your observations there is close to the truth of it. AoC is fun, but the upper levels and end game are riddled with bugs and unfinished/unimplemented systems.  That will grate on anyone.  I imagine some will get fed up and quit in a huff, while others may need a break or find a way to avoid the glaring inadequacies for a while. 

When all I have left in front of me is something that doesn't work or just frustrates me, I walk away.  Until then, my approach to this game (alts, alts, alts) has kept me happy.

[cevik]

Nope.  Not once.  MMOGs are completely unique in their ability to keep me playing long after it should be obvious that they're no longer fun.  With any other game I'll put it down long before the "bitter" stage, and without being told to.  On the other hand, I played SWG for about six months longer than I should have.  I'm VERY careful about picking new MMOGs up now.

Statements like "you need to take a week off for it to be fun" are indicators that the game is sticky but not actually fun, or that it has severe flaws that you need to work at overlooking in order to find the fun, or that the person making the statement is a battered spouse who runs away from home just long enough to let the bruises heal and then goes crawling back for more.  Or possibly all of the above.

Out of boredom I was looking through the AoC forums and read a thread in which the poster made up a buff to casting classes and then complained about how his newly imagined buff, when it is implemented, will be a nerf to his class.

That thread made more sense than your strawman here.

[Samwise]

Samwise, I don't have a job. I have /played 200 hours in less than a month.

Metal Gear Solid 4 is coming out and I had to force myself away.

You're assuming some things that aren't there.

I'm extrapolating from the "take a week off" statement, not from your absence.  As far as I can tell you're still having fun.  I just find it interesting that I have seen THAT EXACT SENTENCE several times before in regards to other games (always directed at someone who just made a dramatic farewell post), and it's usually been about a game that I was about to quit playing because I was fed up with it.  Seeing it in regards to this game isn't necessarily an indicator that the game sucks, but the connotations (for me, at least, based on every single previous time I've ever heard someone speak this sentence) are ominous.

I still plan to pick up Conan if/when the bugs are patched out and if people are still playing it at that point.  Don't fret.

[tazelbain]

Nope.  Not once.  MMOGs are completely unique in their ability to keep me playing long after it should be obvious that they're no longer fun.  With any other game I'll put it down long before the "bitter" stage, and without being told to.  On the other hand, I played SWG for about six months longer than I should have.  I'm VERY careful about picking new MMOGs up now.

I am exactly like this.  DAoC and EQ eventually created so much frustration that became very angry.  I have since learned how to quit before it becomes a problem.

[schild]

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=13457.msg462019;boardseen#new

What I did during my breather.