Role playing ?

[Cryonic]

Since wow is the only MMO I have ever gotten into Its the only one I can speak for. Its not set up well for RP imo. Because areas/zones are level appropriate.

You have hours and hours of game play out there. If you don't level and sit around in major cities RP'n you are stuck in those areas. Venturing in any direction means having to fight something. Skipping zones means having to fight stuff much higher level than you. Paying 15$ a month to be level 5 and never leaving just the major cities never sounded fun to me.

Its just how the game is made. Every thing in the game is made to convince you that your current gear is crap. You need to venture out, Kill stuff. To get more gear that in a few levels will also be crap. Rinse and repeater for 80 levels.

Once you max cap regular instances just will not do. Now you need heroic dungeons. Because heroic dungeons gear make your gear look like crap. And you need even better crap from raids. So you need heroic crap to get into raids.

Next thing you know you are raiding 3 days a week (at least lol) working your ass off to stay useful and equally geared or you will get dropped from your raid guild.

About the time you are there, Finally you have best of the best. Blizzard puts out a new expansion, Making all your epic worse than quest items in the new expansion (more true with BC than wrath).

So in retrospect I don't think my 15$ a month got me much more really. Since either way I finally had to walk away from it any way lol

Blizz knows their target audience. They didn't make the game to be cool, but to make money. You have to keep people playing (which means paying) to make money. Gear creep is just one of those ways. Once you've level capped the character what is there to do... Well, I could get a group together and run this instance or that instance to replace a piece or two of my gear. Well, now that I've done that, maybe I should go do these other instances over here... etc...
Level based games really aren't ever geared well for RPing.

[~HANZO~]

Blizz knows their target audience. They didn't make the game to be cool, but to make money. You have to keep people playing (which means paying) to make money. Gear creep is just one of those ways. Once you've level capped the character what is there to do... Well, I could get a group together and run this instance or that instance to replace a piece or two of my gear. Well, now that I've done that, maybe I should go do these other instances over here... etc...
Level based games really aren't ever geared well for RPing.

Thats exactly what I said
But of course I cant talk for other MMOs, WOW and Dofus are the only two I have played. And Dofus was on a French server. Not knowing French hindered and interaction let alone RP.

[Magman]

One of the reasons I brought this subject up because I was looking for an mmo to pass the time away, but wanted a RP one. I have played numerous ones, but everybody didn't care about role playing. They only wanted to level level level

[Rerun941]

From what I've heard, Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) is very good if you're really into the lore. I can't speak as to the level grind, but if you're a real Lord of the Rings fanboy, I hear it's fun.

[cheshire]

One of the reasons I brought this subject up because I was looking for an mmo to pass the time away, but wanted a RP one. I have played numerous ones, but everybody didn't care about role playing. They only wanted to level level level

Darn. I was hoping it was market research for a Septimus MMO.

[Magman]

I am pretty good at programming, but not that good. I wish.

[arcgaden]

@Magman:

I bet Star Wars: the Old Republic will be better geared towards story-like elements than any other MMO we've seen before, given Bioware's reputation and previous Video RPG's they've released. Its the first time I'm considering paying for an MMO in a long long time.

- J. Elliot

[Stormchild]

For an MMO you don't need to be good at programming but at modelling. And you need lots of time. Look at 3D Game Studio, the Blender Game Engine and Multiverse.com to see what I mean.