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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5384190" data-attributes="member: 22779">The main reason I don't like MMO's is they are so bloody slow.  It takes so long to gain any degree of freedom that I just can't be bothered.  Granted, my two experiences into MMO's were Ultima Online and Everquest circa 2000-2001.  I spent hours just getting a few levels so I could wander around and look at stuff.I mean, they had these (for the time) gorgeously rendered worlds with all sorts of stuff to see.  I wanted to just wander around, look at stuff and talk to the NPC's.  But, every time I went into a more dangerous part of the world, I got killed by stuff that was virtually impossible to run away from.  That and the day/night cycle in Everquest was just so limiting - I spent so much time wandering around in the dark.  Oooh fun.  Not.So, I wind up spending hours and hours doing crap I don't want to do - grinding levels - just to get to the barely competent level of where I can finally do what I want to do - engage the world, spend a very short time wandering around the parts of the world that I can finally safely see, then I have to do it all over again.No thanks.  Not for me.  I don't play games to do stuff I don't want to do.  I don't do it in RPG's, and I'm certainly not going to do it in a video game. Life is too short to play games you don't like.</blockquote>