For all that people talk about leaving MMOs because the designers made some terrible choice or another, I find it doesn’t happen a lot. Oh, sure, it does happen. Maybe your chosen character just doesn’t work any more or isn’t fun to play, or maybe you ran out of content you found fun and moved on. But I also find a lot of people who have left MMOs not because the game itself has changed, but because their friends just… lost interest and moved on.
The old expression goes that you should never fall in love with a bar, but we all do fall in love with a bar from time to time. Sometimes the thing that keeps you logging in to a game is the people you know, and sometimes the people you know drift away one by one until you’re all out of reasons to stick around. So what’s an MMO you left because of people, not the game? And yes, that includes if the reason is less “my friends all left” and more “there are toxic people I can’t stand to be around now.”
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!
