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gentle but hurtful truth reminder to newbie and vets

pekkauwerpekkauwer Posts: 187Member Beginner
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this is MMORPG which stands Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games not
MSPORPG which stands Massive Single Player Online Role Playing Game


THawk420

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  • lefox271lefox271 Posts: 495Member Intermediate
    Is their a prize for guessing what you are talking about?
    mcdevildawgKainDeKuri
  • LerxstLerxst Posts: 111Member Trainee
    I may or may not be going off in a wrong direction, but....




    If you're referring to the lack of interaction and overall communication between players huddled in large masses, standing side-by-side with eachother...this is something I've seen a lot of lately in MMOs. "Grindy" games especially seem to be plagued by this as of late.

    I've pinned part of it down to one word: Discord. It's not really that they're playing single player, it's more like they're playing a LAN party remotely, with other people in the background.

    I know from experience, that small groups of players chat via 3rd party programs, ignoring any in-game option; which makes the world appear populated, but dead at the same time. In UWO, there's another factor though - alts. If every 3 people on a screen are played by 1 person, that means that potentially only a third of the people you see are actually interacting and then if you take the Discord factor into consideration.... you see what I'm getting at?
    pikangiexibwiz
  • KainDeKuriKainDeKuri Posts: 0Member Beginner
    Even back in the days that people weren't using alts, I'd found this game is pretty antisocial compared to other games. Somehow, the need of making alts might come from that.
  • ninetysixfifteenninetysixfifteen Posts: 3Member Beginner
    There's also the fact that the game doesn't particularly reward fleeting. Or at least, only certain aspects do (mostly the maritime side). So people might be chatting with their company mates, or on discord, sharing tips, arranging quick trades, all the while playing solo.

    Also, if you are trying to strike a conversation near the school instructors or the mediators, forget it: your dialog will be lost in the flood of quest text :/
  • sagenemosagenemo Posts: 4Member Beginner
    I don't see what you're getting at. Are you talking about the program discord that allows you to speak over the microphone to other people over the internet?

    Or are you talking about the dictionary definition of discord?

    dis·cord
    ˈdiskôrd/
    noun
    1. 1.
      disagreement between people.
      "a prosperous family who showed no signs of discord"
      synonyms:strife, conflict, friction, hostility, antagonism, antipathy, enmity, bad feeling, ill feeling, bad blood, argument, quarreling, squabbling, bickering, wrangling, feuding, contention, disagreement, dissension, dispute, difference of opinion, disunity, division, opposition;
      infighting
      "stress resulting from family discord"
    2.
    MUSIC
    lack of harmony between notes sounding together.
    "the music faded in discord"
    synonyms:dissonance, discordance, disharmony, cacophony
    "the music faded in discord"





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