I guess at the core I don't see anything wrong with them, but I just don't think I could ever grind. Oh sure I played Final Fantasy VII for somewhere around 120 hours when I was young, and a lot of that was spent wandering around level building. But it never really felt like "grinding"; that wasn't even a term that was used at that point.
And I think it's a little sad that people are willing to spend so much time to accomplish so little. I enjoyed all those hours playing FF because I was always doing something. Training my chocobo, exploring side quests, and really if we're honest the game itself could take you 80 or 90 hours to complete on your first play through anyway. That means you are always advancing the story.
So it wasn't unreasonable to ask a gamer to spend so much time, there was a story, there was a purpose. Oh and I didn't have to pay an additional cost every month just to keep playing.
I can't schedule my life around video games either. I can't plan on having a raid on a certain day of the week, or tell my wife I can't go out for dinner because my clan is counting on me. That sort of thinking just doesn't fly in the real world. Oh there are exceptions, but exceptions do not make up the millions of WoW players worldwide. I've met a lot of women in my life, there aren't enough understanding wives out there to account for it.
Which means the players are single, for the most part, and probably pretty much what you picture them to be. This is a separate post, but that bothers me since it makes it harder for working professional like me to mention gaming as one of my main hobbies.
Anyway so that's how I spent my summer, and why that summer did not include any MMO's. Though I am holding out for the new Star Trek.
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