Biggest Dislikes in MMO Games

That one too. In a lot of MMORPGs the bosses are just normal mobs with tons of Hit Points and incredible resist to both physical and magical attacks. There is nothing more to it other than the bosses also drop better loot.

I remember watching that MMORPG based anime called .Hack Sign. (It's actually games from PS2 if I am not mistaken. Then made into anime series). One of the most famous players on the server became famous after he and his buddy defeated a super boss which nobody had defeated before. The only way to defeat the boss is to find its weakness and exploit it. No brutal force or zergs can beat it with just sheer force and number.

Wish real world MMORPGs are like that. Where we have to discover the NPC's weakness in order to defeat it.

 

That's why I like raids where there's a lot of objectives going on during a boss battle. I mean sure it gets boring once you get the strategy down but overall they try to make it entertaining. I think that entering the raid instance should have a little more fun than just 'Oh hey, here's a portal into the heart of it.' I mean ICC kind of had that we're entering feel to it. But it would be nice to do puzzles to unlock doors, passageways, ect. It'd give raiding a whole new level of awesome versus just porting in and killing trash then the bosses.

 

I don't like in MMOs that the servers are full or too many people are playing. And I'm experiencing lagging in the server.

 

I don´t like the predictable and incremental nature of endgame. Everything is so regulated and you can map out the next 3 months before you even play the game.

 

Boring quests and unstable servers. I hate when I have to kill 10 of this, then gather 15 of this plant. I know it's hard to come up with quests but then make quest chains. Give the quests some meaning, gather 15 of this poisonous plant so you can later sneak it into our enemy leader's dinner, then thank to the power vacuum we can occupy their castle, or something like that.

 

I definitely agree that grinding in MMOs can be tedious and a huge hassle for players. I think that MMOs should have more interactive, team based gameplay instead of just killing an x amount of monsters and getting an x amount of xp to level up to buy x item.

 

The exaggerated grinding. I often find myself quitting an otherwise good MMO just because I'm forced to kill a certain number of weak mobs because there's nothing else to do so I could level. There should be plenty of quests to help players grow, not punish them with grinding.

 

I guess my biggest pet peeve is when you are playing a game that has shared rewards (such as if 2 players kill a creature they both get experience) and as a healing class you are going around trying to just ping a creature to get some credit and people all complain about kill stealing. Its not that prevalent in p2p games but in f2p games where people are unfamiliar with the game mechanics it gets old really fast.

 

In first place, I highly dislike MMOS with bad graphics, that's one of the most important things for me. I don't like repetitive quests, and games which are entirely focus on player versus player, because I enjoy a gameplay with a lot of pve.

 

I will also have to chime in and agree with escort quests, so annoying. Also, I really hate when a game is lacking in character movement. For example, some free games will have outstanding graphics, but thats all it has, is graphics. The movement of characters is extremely important to me, as I love PvP the most. Some free games would probably be much more popular if the motion/character movement was more fluid.

 

There's nothing wrong with people getting excited about upcoming games and there's no reason why a game being really buggy would be acceptable, specially if you have to pay to play. My pet peeve is people having usernames not fitting the universe they are playing. Signing up as RobotMan in WoW is just plain weird.

 

I don't like games that are pay to win. I think item shops are just a greedy concept to take advantage of addicted kids with their mom's credit cards.

 

I don't mind if the game requires a lot of grinding. As long as I find it interesting, even the graphics won't matter much either but what I do hate is when the cash shop is exploited or provides a severe handicap from those that wish to spend that much. A lot of very good games have been ruined in this manner so it's pretty sad.