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Reiryc -> RE: Online Gaming Madness (3/16/2004 7:46:27 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Hertston
I can understand how people can get really obsessed with those games, but what puzzles me is why they would want to play (and buy) other people's characters.
It's not the money... there must be plenty of EQ players to whom two grand is small change (it sold hundreds of thousands). And considering the time it takes to get a character to that sort of level in any MMRPG (how many hours does it take you to earn $2k in your day-job ?) that sort of money doesn't surprise me. But surely the whole point is building up your character, and the satisfaction of seeing him/her/it improve over time ?
Just playing a character somebody else created seems pointless to me... the money just makes it more so. [&:]
Generally, not really.
The fun isn't necessarily buidling up your character. That's what most people would gripe about, the time it takes to build up. What's fun is going on 'raids' and hoping that a particular unique/powerful item 'drops' that would make your character, stronger/better looking/more unique than others who play the same type.
Additionally, in other games where RvR (realm vs realm) or PvP (player vs player) combat occurs, then being at a maximum level already saves you the time of having to level that character up to get to the really fun part, which is fighting against other people.
I personally would never pay for a character, because it seems, well assinie to me to spend money on something like that. But for someone that wants to do the 'end game' type raids/pvp fights, it saves them the time they may not want to invest trying to get them ready to be able to participate either effectively or in some cases at all.
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