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Along with the growing pains I talked about yesterday, I'm experiencing something that goes along with it. Over the past few years, I've considered myself an MMOer pretty much exclusively. Sure, I'd dip my toes into single-player games from time to time, but never for too long and almost never to completion.
It's not that I don't like the games, but I've craved more and more social interaction over single-player exclusiveness. The problem that I'm running into now though is that the time required to group in an MMO is just not part of my game play plans. Years ago, I would plan for 20 minutes of group gathering and then 1-4 hours of raiding/dungeon grinding, then another 1 or so "cool down" of crafting and Auction House management. Today though, that just seems impossible to plan for.
There are days where I literally get 30 minutes of game time and all I have available in my quest log is group quests. While I could probably get a group quest completed in 30 minutes time, it sometimes takes much longer than that just to get a group started. So I don't log in to my chosen MMO. But I still want to play a game. I crave those fleeting moments of escapism, but my favorite genre isn't able to give them to me.
Which brings me back to single-player titles. In games like Fable 2, Rock Band, Torchlight or Super Mario Galaxy, I can pop in for 20 minutes, get stuff done and not feel the least bit guilty about not sticking around for much longer. I can accomplish a goal every time I turn those games on, which is not something I can say for MMOs.
So it is that I've found myself returning to a boat load of single-player titles lately that I've left neglected for quite some time. I still have Mario Galaxy to finish, as well as the others games I mentioned above, and a few more floating around the house I haven't even touched yet. I'm still clocking in for my MMO time, but it's becoming more like part of the rotation rather than the default genre I go to.
Again, I fear this is a sign that I am, in fact, getting older.
1 comments:
Well I'm 37, and sure I don't pull the 8 hour sessions I use to, or stay up until 4am playing as much either.
I still get enough time in to be a "Core Raider" in WoW, and in WARHAMMER I was there to build a guild up, and be one of the main go to tanks. I don't think it's about amount of time, but how you use your time effectively in MMO.
Sometimes I go through periods of MMO burn out, then I find something I love about them again.
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