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And since a couple of years, MMORPGs occupy a large portion of my playing time. So they will occupy a large portion of my blogs as well. I write a lot on the forum of whatever game I'm currently playing, but forums are not a good place to keep your thoughts and find them back later. So I thought I'd store my thoughts on different games here, and if somebody passes by and is interested, he is welcome to read my opinions on different games. At the time I am writing this, I'm about to quit A Tale in the Desert. Not that ATITD is a bad game. But I played it for two months now, had a lot of fun, but am now growing bored of it. That happened to me a LOT. I played a great many MMORPGs for different amounts of time between one month and two years, then got bored, and switched to the next game. Next game I will start (and then stop in a couple of months) will be Star Wars Galaxies ( SWG ).

Now as I said, one goal is to "level up", to improve your stats and skills. Getting better equipment and virtual money is usually also a goal. So to make that idea more attractive to you, you usually start out with rather bad skills and equipment. Sometimes there are even online marriages. Some games allow combat between players, where battles and wars break out. So a good part of the game in a MMORPG is driven by players. Making it a lot more unpredictable and interesting than an offline game with a fixed story line. Both his cooperation with the players and the speed of implementation is something you won't see in bigger games like Everquest. Still, I'm cancelling my account next weekend. End of the month I'll be on holiday for three weeks, with no computer access. And then I want to start SWG. And as I said, after a couple of months I've run out of things to do in ATITD. But I will remember it fondly and recommend it.

Do massive multiplayer online role playing games ( MMORPG ) interest you? If not, you're at the wrong place. :) There are science fiction MMORPG where you have other career choices, like interplanetary merchant, bounty hunter, or star fighter pilot, and other race choices depending on the sci-fi world. You can play a Wookie in Star Wars Galaxies if you want. Then there are historical games and real world simulations, where you are limited to more conservative choices, e.g. you are usually limited to playing humans. At the start of the game you get a set of starting stats and skills (depending on your character choices), and sometimes some starting equipment. So while frankly the RP part of a MMORPG is usually worse than an offline computer RPG (due to the lack of a story line), the combination between game and social interaction with other players is pulling in so many people.

You start out weak. Then you kill something small, like a rat, with your rusty dagger. For the kill you get a few experience points, and some items like a rat hide which you can sell for a small amount of money. You repeat that until you have gained enough xp to gain a level, and enough money to buy better equipment. Then you go out again, and kill something slightly bigger, gaining more xp and more items. Until you gain another level and even better equipment. And so on, and so on, ad infinitum. There is a brilliant parody of this called Progressquest. This "level treadmill" is a source of frequent complaints from players. But actually it's a trap that the players dug themselves. The real interest of MMORPGs is not this pseudo-RP part, where you level up a character. The interest is the massive multiplayer part, where you are on a world with hundreds or thousands of other players at the same time. So one big thing to do is chatting.

To advance, you usually have the choice between different activities. In most games, combat is one of the main activities. Then there are often some sort of missions or quests, usually either involving combat, or bring something from A to B. Then there are "trade skills", where you transform raw materials into equipment which is usable by players. So in computer game terms, a role-playing game now means a game where you are represented in the game by a computer character (sometimes called avatar). And this character has a set of statistics, how strong he is, how intelligent he is, what skills, and what experience he has. And one of the goals of the game is to increase these statistics. This is often achieved with the help of experience points (xp) and levels. You do something, you gain experience points for that, and when you have enough of those xp, you gain a level. At the start of a MMORPG you usually create such a character.

The truth is that if you approach WAR with a closed mind and keep to yourself, you *can* play WAR for quite a long time exactly like you would solo WoW: You grab some quests, kill ten foozles, get a reward, level up, advance to the next quest hub, lather, rinse, repeat. But just like David Beckham in our little story, the surprise will pop up as soon as the other players enter the field. World of Warcraft in its current form is a massively single-player online game. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is a massively multi-player online game. The average player in WAR will have far, far more interaction with the other players than somebody creating a new character in WoW nowadays. And in spite all the superficial similarities, the interaction with other players will make WAR play very differently than WoW.

David Beckham, famous UK "football" (soccer) player, by some terrible mistake gets hired by a American football team. Trainer tells him to have a look around on the field. David goes there thinking that US football must be the same as UK football, and alone on the field he finds nothing to contradict that notion: The ball and goal have a different shape, but it is obviously a game with two teams trying to get the ball through the goal on the other side. He kicks the ball around for some time and feels totally comfortable. Then he goes back out, gives a press conference and says: "I played American football, it was called soccer". Sounds crazy? Well, several otherwise intelligent MMO players just fell into the same trap when comparing Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning with World of Warcraft.

Now I hear that the Football Manager games of Sports Interactive have a highly dedicated fan base, especially in the UK. But I wouldn't be surprised if not all that many of these fans were willing to pay between $11.33 and $14.27 per month to play the online version of their favorite game. And people who never played the single-player game are even less likely to join FML. So for the benefit of the game I can only hope that SEGA reconsiders and makes this pre-order offer available to anyone, not just mailing a code to beta testers. Overpricing a game which is niche to start with is probably not a good strategy.

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