MMORPG

[andrewducker]

What I frequently wished was that there were MMORPGs that were only active a few hours a day/week.  So if I wanted to play with the same people all the time, I could join the 8-10pm server.  That way I'd log on at the same tim each day, see pretty much the same people and not have to worry about what went on when i wasn't about.  At 10pm the gameworld would freeze and the 10pm-12pm server would take over, and those people would get to enter _their_ gameworld.

That way I'd have a world populated by recognisable players, not just those people who happened to log in at the same time as me, I wouldn't have to worry about being left horribly behind by 'grinders' and it'd feel a lot more like when I get together with my friends on a
Wednesday evening for table-top gaming.

Comments

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

MMORPG??

Like Morf?

[andrewducker]

Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game.

Like Everquest - hundreds of thousands of players in a persistent online world.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose you could just have an agreement with everyone who's playing that game that they only play at certain hours/days each week.

[andrewducker]

Or you could design the game in that way in the first place.

Wouldn't eb a massive change in design for most MMORPGs.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

But being social and cooperative would be a massive change for most RPF? Well, you know your own community best...

[diffrentcolours]

I'm not sure about "only". My Neocron clan tend to play every Monday evening, but we're all often on at various other times as well.

[odheirre.livejournal.com]

So agree. I feel left behind when I did the MMORPGs, just because I couldn't spend all my waking time on it.

Given the nature of MMORPGs, I think that even if the time limit was volunary, there'd be those who broke the rules. I agree that it would need to be enforced by the server.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

When I used to play a couple of MUDs/MUSHes, it was very strange when I logged on at a different time til my usual 11pm til dawn slot.

There were a whole host of people who I never saw, since they were on in what was asleep-dead-to-the-world time.. and when I did occasionally log on during the day, they hadn't a clue who I was, though I'd been playing for a good long while...

Oh, those were the days. Telnet, how I love you..

[spaj.livejournal.com]

Wednesday Evenings... noted. See you there.

Adam