Pocky Central

Okay. Two in a row because I completely forgot to post yesterday. This is backdated, as usual.

I have been playing World of Warcraft since the second closed beta. I’ve always like online multiplayer games, but WoW really has been a lot of fun for me. However, I’m not going to talk about WoW specifically today.

I’m going to talk about MMOs in general, the ones I’v played, and why I like them so much.

I started playing online games in college. My friend, L, told me about MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons), and a week later, I was hooked. I played them in all of my spare time, and sometimes in my not-so-spare time. There was something about knowing that the other characters were being controlled by other people. (I’d already messed around with IRC, so the idea that there were people online to talk to wasn’t knew, but actually playing a game with them was)

After half a year or so, I forced myself to stop so I could concentrate on studying and my job. But every once in a while, I would think, “Man, I miss playing on (name of a MUD that I don’t remember anymore).”

A couple of years after I started college, Everquest came out. Needless to say, I bought it, installed it, and played it for a while.

Since then, I’ve played Asheron’s Call, Dark Age of Camelot, World of Warcraft, and a slew of others. I’m currently in a couple of beta tests, too. Why?

One reason is that I love to play new games. I like trying out new systems, seeing how companies do with variations on the same theme (thus all the MMOs), and seeing how far graphics are being pushed. I like participating with a group of like minded people (the beta testers I’ve met are, in general, fairly cool people), chatting with them, and finding out how to best play the class that I’ve chosen.

I like the idea that I can roll along by myself, soloing my way through a slew of quests, but that I can also group up with a bunch of other players and work with them to achieve a goal. And I like being able to ‘dress up’ my avatar in neat armor and clothes that I earn through quests and by defeating enemies.

Those are the reasons I can currently think of as to why I like MMOs. There are a lot of things I think need to be changed/fixed, but that’ll wait for another time.

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