Comments on: [Question of the Day] How do new single player games affect your MMO playing?

By: Sente

Sente — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:15:56 +0000

I don’t really play much single player games, neither on console nor on PC. I have The Longest Journey and Mass Effect (yes, the first one) that are ongoing, but time for those are just scattered around a bit, with long breaks between sessions. If there is single player game time, that is more typically shorter sessions on the phone.

PC gaming is almost exclusively MMO-type games and has been for a very long time – never have been much of a gamer on the PC anyway.

Console gaming tends to mostly be games where there are a few of us that can play together in some way.

By: Telwyn

Telwyn — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:34:48 +0000

I’ve mostly given up on console / pc gaming in favour of MMOs, though I generally have at least two on the go at once. My main game I’ll guild up and do group content, my backup game I play mostly solo. Regardless of the amount I group, single player RPGs seem lifeless to me, there’s no chance of random RP encounters in them.

By: Maldwiz

Maldwiz — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:05:53 +0000

I’m withBhagpuss on this. Since I started playing MMOs, I have stopped playing single-player games. I might be interested in some heavily story-driven games or certain – very specific – IPs, but I don’t see either on the horizon any time soon, so I’ll just stick with SW:TOR for now.

By: Simon Jones who is blogless

Simon Jones who is blogless — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:01:01 +0000

Yes.

If I’m not playing a game that I want to play because of some MMO committment, than that MMO has stopped being a game and started being a job. And this is terrible.

By: Syl

Syl — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:38:45 +0000

All depends on whether I’m currently also invested in an MMO or not. =) I completely abandoned my console gaming passion during WoW. only when it stopped being much fun and I gradually played less and then stopped, I found back to single-player games on Xbox and PC. Right now, I will pick one up every other month maybe, I’ve generally gotten pickier.

I wonder though, would the same happen again if a new, smashing MMORPG came along? I don’t know, somehow I think WoW was unique that way – maybe it’s simply because I am older now. we’ll see what happens after GW2 launched, hehe.

By: bhagpuss

bhagpuss — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:29:57 +0000

I don’t really play any other video games than MMOs. The last one I bought was Dragon Age, which I got half-way through and abandoned. I bought KotOR years ago but it sits on a shelf still in its unbroken wrapper. Before that I don’t think I had bought one since NeverWinter Nights 1 and I never played the offline part of that at all, just made scenarios and played on a quasi-MMO world server for a few months.

I did re-buy Broken Sword for my ipod touch about eighteen months ago and i think I may be about 20% through it!

Since I first played Everquest I really haven’t been able to see the point of playing anything that doesn’t happen in a shared environment with at least a few hundred other people. I’m aware that nothing I’m doing matters in either case, but offline it seems to not matter to the point of not being worth bothering with at all.

And having said all that, I still keep getting the urge to try both Skyrim and Kingdoms of Amalur, even though I am 99% certain that I would play either for no more than a few days and end up regretting the money I’d spent.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:09:50 +0000

I play a lot of games in a very scattered pattern. I’m in the middle of… let’s see… 5 MMOs, 1 DS RPG and 4 other console RPGs. That’s not even counting other games I pick up and tinker with, never quite finishing but hoping to someday play more. There’s probably two dozen of those at any given time. I just don’t play *any* game monogamously. That’s part of why the subscription model is such an atrocious fit for my schedule, and why I’m very happy with MMOs like STO, Puzzle Pirates and Wizard 101 where I can just jump in and play when I feel like it without a cover charge.

By: Goodmongo

Goodmongo — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:20:09 +0000

If you only play for 20-30 hours in a game like ME3 then don’t even bother buying it at launch. These games are built for much longer than that. And while I never got that much into COD/BF/Halo the MP of ME is actually fun and since it ties into the single player game it offers a unique extra thing to do.

In the past when I played MMO’s not only I but many in the guilds I belonged to would be missing for about a month or so. It was so predictable that raids and progression was modified to fit people playing the new game. A rush before release then maybe one night a week for the next month.

By: spinks

spinks — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:19:47 +0000

I imagine Bioware are planning to have a content update for SWTOR that should offer something for people to come back to after they’re done with ME3. (At least, that’s what I would do if I was them.)

By: Kelindia

Kelindia — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:09:14 +0000

When I was still raiding I found that new releases dramatically cut in on all the extra things I would do while playing WoW. It would stop me from maximizing my frost badges/valor points a week, from doing Wintergrasp or Tol Barad and largely from PvP in general. If I had raiding though I would still make it for those.

For MMO’s that I am not raiding in it really becomes hit and miss. I stopped playing Rift when Skyrim came out. Coupled that with Swtor release and I haven’t really played Rift in 3 months even though I have an active subcription. Though at the same time I was playing Swtor and Skyrim I continued to play World of Tanks.

I expect when I pick up ME3 I will continue with both League of Legends and WoT. The other game I keep coming back to even though it isn’t an MMO is the Sims 3. I don’t know why but I keep wanting to play out new stories or play around with the create a sim.