Play MMORPG's? Got a second?

cause you did'nt know everybody in your guld maybe. Or maybe weren't they telling you how was there lives. But even if they don't directly lead to epic fail in your life, MMORPG's can maintain well a lambda dude without self confidence to stay at home and waste time instead of trying to open him to other ppl and go out.
It's no epic drama but for sure it's not benefic either. And there are the true hardcore that waste their lifes with that, but this a few part of course.

 

I'm sure more people forgo their responsabilities because of TV than MMOs.

 

Maybe in USA. there are some TV addicted in Europe but I believe far less around here.
Anyway, my friends play MMO and have a "normal" life with a work, but I don't see anymore some of them in RL, just talking on VENT/TS and that's a bit sad but oh well ...

 

I do think, if it exists as a problem, there needs to be a bunch of new terms to describe the shit the 'self help book' generation come up with......

It's kind of insulting to Crack babies to be equated with this imo.. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif

 

Interestingly enough, I've seen research that shows that for the average MMO player, the amount of time they spend playing an MMO per week is equal to the amount of time less than average that they spend watching TV per week. It's not like most people are taking a whole bunch of otherwise useful time and dumping it into an MMO, it's just a choice of one fairly meaningless form of entertainment over another form of meaningless entertainment. I wish I could quote the article, but I saw it in a print magazine about a year ago, probably couldn't find it now.

And to the guy complaining to Llanfair about real-life success... you seem to miss that the whole of point of a game is to provide a way to learn in a consequence-free environment. If you can keep large groups of people organized in an MMO, that skill will definitely transfer to a job. And unlike trying to initially learn that from a job, you're not potentially risking your income if it turns out that you aren't good at it, or you don't enjoy it. This stuff really does work both ways.

 

A few of my mates play Maple Story but it's not like they have to go on it all day, everyday. It's related to the person and not the game... if you got no life and love MMOG's, why not play them all day?

 

I completely agree. It's like sports. If a kid goes and plays sports all day, becomes good at them, he's like this hero "Omg he can throw a football to someone, and that person can run to a big rectangle". But if someone is good at a video game they "are a loser", "have no friends", "no life", etc. If a person becomes a professional basketball player people respect them. If someone becomes a professional video gamer, most people will say "what a loser" or some insult. It makes little sense to me.

When I played soul calibur 2, I played as Talim. After I mastered her, I moved onto Ivy, Cassandra, and Taki. I learned each of those chars in 2 hours, and mastered them in 2-3 days each. It all depends on how good of a gamer you are. I know people who can pick up any fighting game they haven't played before, and master any character in 2 days. It's all about your process, time commitment in those days, and your past experience with that genre (all fighting games have running attacks, side steps, low and high attacks; in the same way mmorpgs have slowing attacks, stunning attacks, healing spells, etc.).