The End
Figured I’ll make a little post. Sort of a conclusion. I’m terrible at staying on topic or any kind of consistency so just bare with me.
I have indeed quit playing Age of Conan completely. Haven’t logged in for weeks and my account should expire in a couple of days. I have noticed that most of the other AoC blogs I used to read have stopped blogging also. That is probably because there aint really that much to blog about once you reach the max level.
So why did I quit? My reasons are a bit unclear for myself also. I guess I can say I just didn’t feel like playing anymore. After hitting level 80 there were 3 things to do. Farm resources for the clan (which is incredibly tedious btw), PvP with no consequence or gain, the 24 man raids and did I mention farming resources for the clan yet? This is all fun for a week or so. The 24 man raids take some organizing which means scheduling and scheduling everything in my life around an event in a game? That is not something I want to do anymore. I’ve recently realized I have wasted massive amounts of time on mmorpg’s and gained nothing but “friendships” which can be broke down to getting a msn convo once a week that goes pretty much like this: “Hi. How are you doing? Can I have your account?”. There are ofcourse exceptions, quite a few of them too, but the amount of people who want nothing more from me anymore than my account saddens me since some of these people are people who I used to call friends. Naive, I know, it is the internet afterall. But I personally take my internets very seriously.
About AoC community and gaming communities in general. I don’t feel the mature rating the game received had any affect on the maturity of the community. Actually the AoC community is no better than the free l2 servers’ communities which are full of immature morons who have long ago forgotten that games are meant to be fun and not just about “pwning”. For these people it is impossible to even consider the fact that someone is better at the game than them. If they die they feel so humiliated they must try to verbally insult the person who killed them fair and square. What happened to sportsmanship gamers used to have? A little bit of competitive nature is okay, but it has gone over the top.
A sad example of this is the playerbase of the 2d shooter game called Soldat. I’ve played it for years every once in a while and got some mad skills at it too. It’s a lightweight game which you can just start up and be kicking some ass in a matter of seconds by joining a public server. But I shit you not when I say I can’t play it anymore due to being too goddamn good at it. I simply get vote kicked from servers after a while the most common reasons being “noob” and “hax”. The people just can’t comprehend the fact that someone else might be better at the game than them. Another interesting thing I have noticed is that the vote kick is usually initiated by the person who was on the top of the server before I joined.
Sorry for getting carried away, but this is a thing I feel passionately about. Gamers need to remember the fun and bring back the sportsmanship to games. This kind of bad behaviour started out as a joke by purepwnage, the angry german kid and multiple other sources, but if this keeps up a funny joke will become a grim reality.
“By competing we understand that our goal of competitive sports is to interact amongst each other without the sole intent of winning.”
Don’t forget to Have fun.
- Odefi
