To answer Ahkwell:
- How long did you sit in lower guk at level 50 killing frenzys? magi? lords? How's that different from a few hours here or there in Azshera/Tyr's hand/silithus?
- Not long at all because I started in Kunark. I spent easily several hundreds of hours camping things like Raster, Kwinn The Outlander, Burynai Burrowers, etc. I did that because I had goals (completing quests) that I feel were accomplishements. Farming gold in WoW is not a goal I set to myself, it's a chore set upon me by the devs in the name of sinking money I don't have.
- Oh, right, you don't want to spend 50-60 hours a week in a game any more. You've grown up and have other responsibilities. Right. Welcome to casual-land.
- When I played WoW I had the same quantity of time to spend than when I played EQ. I still have a lot of free time today, but no longer during the US prime time and that's why I stoped playing.
- You never needed money in EQ, because you were constantly farming it whether you realized it or not.
- I always have been stupidly poor in EQ because I played a monk and never cared to try and become rich as it felt completely pointless to me.
- Plus, obviously, the setbacks were experience, not gold. Same thing really, the setback = time.
- Experience loss was a non-issue in EQ since late Kunark, unless you were a sociopath.
- If raiding is all you want to do, WHY is that all you want to do? It can't really be the challenge any more (other than new content). You've got everything on farm status.
- First we raid for the thrill of discovering, figuring out and beating encounters as a team. Then we raid to be well prepared for the next batch of raid content. It's not fun and we sometime even put it on hold if we decide the benefit/boredom ratio is too low.
- You buy gold to raid to improve your character via purple gear (for you or guildies), why not just buy characters with purples once you've experienced all the different fights? Because it's not YOUR character? Neither's the gold you're spending. *shrug*.
- I understand why you would think that since you did not see the difference between the tedium of camping rare drops and the one of farming money. I would not buy a character with better gear than mine to progress (assuming such a character existed and was for sale
) because the pleasure of MMORPG comes for me through progression and achievements, materialized in my character. On the other hand a ill-designed money sink is neighter progression nor achievement.