MMO Mid-Game Experience
This week I have been listening to a discussion about MMO mid-game experience on Shut Up We're Talking, a great podcast covering mmo news from the blogosphere. In episode 17, Darren asked that panel about whether MMO starting experiences are important.
The answer to that is absolutely. But more important than the starter area is the MMO mid-game experience. Let's face it, we all fly through the starter area. For us experienced mmo players, we know what to do and we do it quickly. But too often developers forget to put the fun into the mmo mid-game experience.
Once you leave the starter area, the grind begins. You have to grind your way through tons of quests and mobs until you can finally play in the cool end game events. Stop this! There needs to be something to really look forward to every five levels. I don't mean a new ability. I mean something really really important to the MMO story. There needs to be something that is going to change your character. Something that is going to change the way you play the game.
We play these games to be heroes, not to kill rats over and over. Please let us be heroes.
2 Responses to “MMO Mid-Game Experience”
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Juegos Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 8:25 pmI have been playing WoW for more than a year and I can tell you that the quests are okay but it gets a little boring when you have to grind mobs.
When you are 70 (max. level) is where you can find more to do, but at the end it gets a good guild to really enjoy the entire game.
February 10th, 2008 at 9:02 am
The mid-level grind of WoW on my hunter has been tough – it took quite a while to get from 45 to 60 despite the recent patch that reduced the needed xp.
I’m just hoping that 60-70 isn’t as much of a slog as the previous 15 levels were!