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Originally Posted by Fog  Just take away the carrot... |
I would say your argument is severely flawed, but I am not even sure I know what you are trying to say. It's like this... I do not need to share a world with mouth breathing retards to experience quests and lore. I can pick up a book, I can play 100's of different console games, or do what ever the fuck gives me "OMG, I'm in another world jollies".
So ya, remove the carrot from your MMO... that’s a great idea... what exactly are you trying to design a game for? Plants? Animals? How many of dandelions or dogs do you know that will put up $15 a month to play your game? Being a person... I have feelings such as pride, ambition, and greed. Sure there are other reasons to play mmo's, but 10 years of experience tells me these are what keeps people logging in more than any other reason.
Oh you might be sitting there thinking how WRONG I am... You're thinking, "I am not a greedy person... I just like to have FUN!" How fun is it to run Naxx for the 30th time, when you got all the gear you could possibly want on the 10th run... but you do it. You do it because even when the game fails you in providing that next carrot, we create our own in the form of DKP, or being the top of your class in the guild leaders mind.
I need to back peddle just a bit... There is a miniscule subset of people out there that the current crop MMO's does fail. These are the people you describe. They don't need carrots. They don't give a damn about getting the next level. They are like Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction... He believes he is enlightened, he is above it all, and he is going to remove himself from the rat-race and live a life of wandering. But thankfully we have John Travolta there to cock slap him back to reality. That reality is that he wants to be a bum.
So as you see, people that read quest text, clearly are bums.
