Comments and reviews on article "MMORPG's a chore?"

Users comments and reviews on article MMORPG's a chore? by JohnFog

I dont think its a chore but it can be time consuming.

I mainly play WoW right now. Tried Tabula Rasa. Will try Age of Conan. And yeah, I can see it being a chore more times than not. I mean look at how the game (granted its one game) is structured right now:

You want the uber PvP gear, you gotta grind/farm honor or arena points.
You want the uber PvE gear, you gotta grind/farm instances.
You want the the semi-uber crafted gear, you gotta grind/farm the mats.

None of that is new, WoW's been that since day one mostly. But what is new is:

You wanna get gold, you gotta grind/farm the quests.

Blizzard managed to turn questing into nothing more than a grind and farm session. Repeating daily quests. Yes. My dream come true. Lets do the same quests day after day and get the exact same reward every single day. Woot.

Not saying its all a chore, or pointless. I still play. But it seems like imagination is a rapidly diminishing commodity with MMO devs.

Once your lvl 70 and have t5/t6 pve gear.. it sure feels like a chore to just maintain the characters. Pve is so expensive and you constantsly have to farm for gold and mats for enchants and gems, etc. But, all at the same time like the article says, That time when you do 25 man raids and you down a new boss, all that good stuff. thats what u play for.

It does feel like a job alot of the times, and you are forced to play because you always want your gear to stay the best.