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The Problem with MMOs
11 years ago
I thought I'd update the front page a bit with a small deluge of my thoughts on a matter, that matter is an issue I have with most MMOs.
Let's use the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) technique to nail this one down.
The situation is that you've taken a break from an MMO for quite awhile, let's say a couple of months or longer, you return to said MMO and your task is to get back into the swing of things and it ends there, there is no real action just a result, confusion.
When you come back to an MMO after awhile there's no transition period back into it, you end up completely forgetting what your abilities do, your equipment, your quests, the zones, what the hell you were doing last. This issue makes MMOs hard to break from, you're afraid that you won't be able to pick it back up again because you don't know what you're doing and just waste sub time figuring stuff out again especially if there's been major patch cycles.
I'm not sure if this is the same with all MMOs but I know quite a few I play have this mentality of just dumping you back where you are and you have no clue, a sort of reintroduction to say what you've missed, what you last did, heck even a reintroduction tutorial would alleviate this problem.
So please, share your thoughts on this matter in the comments or don't, I dunno.
Let's use the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) technique to nail this one down.
The situation is that you've taken a break from an MMO for quite awhile, let's say a couple of months or longer, you return to said MMO and your task is to get back into the swing of things and it ends there, there is no real action just a result, confusion.
When you come back to an MMO after awhile there's no transition period back into it, you end up completely forgetting what your abilities do, your equipment, your quests, the zones, what the hell you were doing last. This issue makes MMOs hard to break from, you're afraid that you won't be able to pick it back up again because you don't know what you're doing and just waste sub time figuring stuff out again especially if there's been major patch cycles.
I'm not sure if this is the same with all MMOs but I know quite a few I play have this mentality of just dumping you back where you are and you have no clue, a sort of reintroduction to say what you've missed, what you last did, heck even a reintroduction tutorial would alleviate this problem.
So please, share your thoughts on this matter in the comments or don't, I dunno.
That's just my take on MMO's, since most of them these days can usually be called "WoW clones," anyways for obvious reasons.