Every MMO wants everyone to keep playing as long as possible, on some level. The developers want you to keep paying money and playing the game for heightened player counts if nothing else, after all. But every so often it becomes clear that the developers of the game don’t want your particular preferences in the game. The content you like doesn’t get updated, the content you never intend to do gets all of the developer attention, and increasingly you get the sense that while the developers want your money they don’t want to actually build the game for you.
Whether or not the game is supposed to be built for you is irrelevant in this context; the question is whether or not you stick around anyway. Sometimes you keep playing a game because while it doesn’t reward your preferred playstyle, it comes closer than anything else. Sometimes you have so many friends there or so much cost invested that you keep going. Heck, sometimes you consider it a protest vote to keep playing the game even while disliking its direction. Have you ever kept playing an MMO that didn’t want you around?
Every morning, the Massively Overpowered writers team up with mascot Mo to ask MMORPG players pointed questions about the massively multiplayer online roleplaying genre. Grab a mug of your preferred beverage and take a stab at answering the question posed in today’s Daily Grind!
