No matter if it’s cheap excuses during wipes or skipping quest texts, there are things we have all done in MMORPGs. Here are 10 of them.
Just like in real life, there are a number of things we’ve all done in MMORPGs. Based on personal experience, we’ve compiled 10 of them for you. How many apply to you? Just 1 or 2 or all 10? Find out.
Hoarding
Let’s be honest: whoever hasn’t hoarded in an MMORPG hasn’t lived. How can you throw away that one enchanted brick with two useless sockets? What if I need it someday?
And then I’m sitting there without the brick and have to waste my time farming for it. Do you have any idea how low the drop rate is for that? I took a whole 20 minutes to get that one. No, I’m not doing that to myself again.
Even though the hoarded items waste space in the inventory 99% of the time, it still feels triumphant when you don’t have to farm materials for some obscure craft because they’ve been lying around collecting dust for years. Great feeling.
Prioritizing appearance over stats
Do you remember the times before transmogs and glamour were invented? When many characters looked like the players had created their outfits after a shopping trip through Victoria’s Secret, Ikea, and their favorite BDSM shop?
Those who favored good looks had a hard time back then. Often, armor with good stats looked really ugly, or super stylish outfits were penalized with bad stats. So sometimes we lied: “This dungeon isn’t that hard… I can wear the prettier top!”
But in our time, where the transmog option is almost a must-have, anyone can dress their character in the bikini of their choice. Long live progress!
Spamming emotes in the city
Who wants to spend their time doing raids, crafting, or farming something to advance their character in the game, when you can just stand around aimlessly in an MMORPG?
It’s best to do this in one of the largest and busiest cities on the server, the main gathering point for all stand-around players and emote spammers. Even if no one from your friend list is online to chat with, you can still use the public chat and chat endlessly with others.
And at the end of the day, you log out with the words: “There’s really nothing to do in this stupid game.”
Spending too much time in the character creator
The classic, about which countless jokes have been made and memes created. How many hours of life have the character creators in MMORPGs consumed? How many of us sat at the PC into the wee hours of the night to get every last detail of our character just right?
And yet we do it again and again. Whether it’s a blonde and blue-eyed elf princess, the darkest dark knight, or nightmares materialized, like those you can create in Black Desert Online, we keep adjusting the sliders and settings until it’s just right.
And if you end up disliking the appearance someday, there’s always the usually paid option to change it.
Showing off the newest toy
Have you seen my new ultra-rare 0.1% drop chance mount yet? No? Don’t worry, we’ll change that right now. What have you been farming that stupid thing for weeks for if not to show it off to everyone at the first opportunity?
For this, you happily stand in the most active hub of the MMORPG, posing extensively for all who happen to be there at the same time. And do this until they turn green with envy.
Evil tongues will say that the show-offs do this to feel better than others. But let’s be honest, who hasn’t run directly to the guild meeting point to show off their latest outfit, mount, or minion? Exactly. Shared joy, and so on.
Never using expensive potions and food
It’s a contagious disease that has sneaked into MMORPGs from single-player RPGs. Imagine: You farm for hours to gather crafting materials so you can make really strong potions or food. The stuff costs an arm and a leg, it’s the best of the best currently available in the game.
And then you go into the raid… and don’t use it. Not yet. It’s not the right time yet. There are still too many wipes due to silly mistakes, so it’s not worth it to use the strong pots. It’s better to wait until the group reaches enrage. But not just once, but several times, so there is stable progress and people feel confident in the fight.
And then suddenly, the raid is completed during an unexpectedly good attempt… Who needs potions anyway?
Spending money on cosmetic items
If there is something MMORPG developers make a killing on, it’s cosmetic items. The cash shops are overflowing with outfits, mounts, and other cool stuff that can only be bought there. They lure us in with their beautiful, exclusive looks, their coolness, and their uniqueness, like sirens on the open sea with their sweet song.
And before you know it, your account is lighter by a few euros, and your character in-game is wearing the latest outfit or riding the newest mount available in the shop. Which provide you with no advantages in the game.
And what’s the harm? If you’ve already invested several hundred hours into a free-to-play MMORPG, you might as well treat yourself to an outfit for 20€, right? … Or not?
Dying from fall damage
One of the biggest enemies of players in MMORPGs is not the raid bosses, and it’s not the RNG. In both real life and the game, it’s the insidious and sneaky force of gravity. Countless players have fallen victim to it, even though we haven’t really done anything to it.
It was the scientist in us, our inner Isaac Newton, wanting to check how bad fall damage is in the MMORPG. We need to know how far we can fall and still survive with 4 HP.
Or it was the insatiable curiosity wanting to see what’s down at the bottom of the abyss. Theoretically, one could take the safe route. Along the edge of the abyss, around the castle ruins, over the bridge to the narrow path that finally leads down. Or one could just jump and see if they survive. What could go wrong?
Making up cheap excuses for wipes
“Dumb lag! Sorry, my internet connection is really bad today!” This excuse is as old as the world, but who hasn’t used it? Sometimes the self-inflicted raid wipes are just so embarrassing that you’d rather sink into the ground. I know this from experience.
But how can you explain to the raid lead that you were looking at funny animal pictures on the second screen? It’s better to quickly come up with an excuse or find a scapegoat: “It’s always this stupid technology!” or “Sorry, the cat knocked over my water!”
It’s not the proper English way, but whoever has never caused a raid wipe in an MMORPG can throw the first stone.
Skipping quest texts and getting annoyed
Who has the time to read the text for some random fetch quest? Most MMORPG players certainly don’t. That’s why we often skip the long and sad story of the poor grandmother who needs 20 lion hearts for some reason to get through the day.
Unfortunately, this quest text precisely explains that the grandmother doesn’t need just any lions roaming around outside her door. But special rare lions with black manes that can only be found in an area usually referred to as the “arse of the world”.
But who has time for these little details? Better to farm the normal lions first and be annoyed that the stupid buggy quest shows no progress!
Can you think of any more things that every MMORPG player has surely done? Tell us what you’ve done in-game in the comments!
