Dersen Lowery
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Posted - 2013.10.18 20:18:00 -
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EVE is also my first, and still by far my favorite, MMO.
One thing which is important to keep in mind is that it's less sensible to talk about the intelligence of the players of any particular game, and more sensible to talk about the intelligence the game demands from them. I know some extremely intelligent and driven people who play World of Warcraft precisely because it's an excuse to steer a brightly colored cartoon around after a long day of being intelligent and driven, while mowing down legions of brightly colored monsters. The whole point is that they don't have to think much; if they did, they wouldn't play. Some of them would make terrifying EVE players if they set their minds to the task, but for their own reasons that's not appealing to them. (I've asked.)
When one of them invited me to join WoW, I did due diligence on the web, and immediately decided that power-leveling held no interest at all. So when I have logged on, which I haven't in months, I mostly just tool around, looking at the landscape, exploring, going into regions that are the next level up from me to see how long I can get away with it, and if maybe I can snag a well-earned kill or some sweet resources. As a result, my character's level is pitifully low for the time I've been playing her, and her equipment is crap (nearly all of it is looted), and she doesn't have a lot of money, but I don't care. The main things WoW offers me over EVE are, the ability to relax, and the ability to "slowboat" around, off the roads, to find a nice vista or enjoy a ride on a flying mount that I haven't seen before, maybe follow a quest chain for a little while here or there.
If I want activity and challenge, I log in to EVE.
However, one of the main reasons for my different experiences of the game has little to do with the game itself and more to do with the fact that I fell in with a small group of good people with a backbone of veteran players in EVE, and I'm mostly either wandering around alone, or just blowing things up with much-higher-level casuals in WoW. I'm sure that WoW can be a social game--in fact, that's pretty much the endgame of any MMO, as I understand it--that's just not how it's worked out for me so far. And I'm fine with that. In fact, I've heard that Blizzard is trying to tailor the game more toward wanderers and less toward people following an unbroken quest chain, and that just might get me to log in again.
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