(09-11-2013, 08:46 PM)Kylin Wrote: Speaking for myself? If I see you have played a ton of MMOs or have a HUUUGE listing in your games list, I'm going to purposely limit my interactions with you to casual conversations only. No storylines at all. I know that sounds terrible, but you have to try to put yourselves in the shoes of the opposite party and understand how the hopping directly and negatively impacts us.
Anyone notice how the 'big name' RPers in the community have largely vanished from the RPC recently? I have. Wanna know a big reason why? Because the flood of new people makes it impossible to discern who's in it for the long haul. Thus, it's difficult for these people to invest too much in the current threads because to them, it may just be a waste of energy. The people who showed up on these forums only within the last couple months are most prone to poofing from the game in the next couple months, and the 'big name' people know this. If that's not a clear sign of how serious people take the MMO hopping issue, I don't know what is. Obviously, nobody can stop hopping. But just be aware that people are starting to look at it very differently than they used to when it comes to RP investment.
Well, this was a load of disturbing to read and not least because of the sweeping judgments and the fact that you never actually describe what you consider "a lot" of MMOs to be. That level of looking down on new players is something I didn't think I'd see.
You have no idea what a person's situation is surrounding what games they play and when. I played WoW without pause for over 4 years, but during that time, I also played other MMOs (without, I will be clear, ever stopping my participation in WoW - I ran a rather hardcore raiding guild right up until the point I quit the game from severe burn-out late last year). Some were not very lengthy stints simply because the game was horrible (Aion), and some are just something I play only casually (Rift). Still others I've poked at out of sheer curiosity (GW2, LotRO, the WildStar beta). Then there was TERA, which actually pulled me away from WoW completely, and I fully intended to remain there for the foreseeable future... but then it went F2P, the community went belly-up, and I just could not stand to deal with BHS and EME anymore. And I wouldn't label those who left 1.0 as MMO hoppers. 1.0 was legitimately horrible, and those who left had every reason to do so. The same can be said for other games.
Basically, shit happens and people have idle curiosities and are generally human, so making assumptions just... seems rather asshole-ish. Especially when you take those assumptions and draw a line against ever having meaningful interactions with a person's character. All without even defining your expectations clearly.
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