High expectations, am I wrong?

The problem with expectation is that it cannot be tuned down, even though you're asking if you should. An analogy is if you're a frequent mountain climber/hiker (gamer), you frequent mountains such as K2, Kilimanjaro, Everest and other similar ones (games you've played that have built the foundations of your expectations). Then a friend tells you that there is an amazing hike with lots of technical routes and an amazing view (a game you've heard of), you take up the challenge and find out that it's just a regular hike with a nice view.

Normally, it would be awesome, if it was your first time hiking it or if you are a casual hiker, but you're not. You've been to the peak of K2 (killed Arthas on 25 Hardmode), you've been to the top of Everest twice (was at the opening of Temple of Ahn'Qiraj and destroyed the 40 person raid after weeks), and you've camped on Kilimanjaro many times (took down the end bosses in Star Wars Old Republic and became a Sith Lord). Not only that, but you've also witnessed the evolution of your experiences as a mountain climber. You've seen the sun set and sun rise from atop of Mount Fuji, you've seen the amazing views from a plane's window in your travels across the world, you've interacted with lots of different cultures, languages and people...

In other words, even if I personally would love to feel the "first time" again, it's not going to happen, no matter how unique an MMO game has gotten. My wife and I installed ArcheAge after I found out about it some time ago, eager to get into it and start a new 'life' playing such a beautiful game, but after about 7 hours, the game grew dull. In the back of my mind, I knew the game has potential. It can be great, but I'm just not impressed. I'm just not having fun.

I've done it all already in some form or another. The game has a different skin, it has different music, it even has a different set of mechanics, but it's still a game I've played already.

The problem with "hype" is that it will never be justified, if you're an experienced gamer who explored almost every aspect of game worlds, from raids, to PvP battlegrounds to arena, to farming, to leveling, to crafting and exploring. Hype is an illusion of grandeur. Hype only exist as a measurement of how an individual is excited about something that hasn't happened yet. Hype has nothing to do with the game. It has to do with you, as in people who are following the game's development.

I was excited to play it, to find out that my excitement was bluntly dismembered upon playing it.

 

Don't worry about your expectations and the hype. It's a solid game that you should just go into ready to feel immersed. I don't think you'll be disappointed, but you should stop trying to disappoint yourself before you even start playing.

 

I find it hard to get too excited about new MMO's nowadays, they are just all a bit too similar, even though they have their differences.
We're going to pick a class, kill monsters, level up, raid a bit, do some crafting, and then get bored and leave to try a different game....

 

I too had really high expectations for this game. I have been playing it for a while and find that its gets really repetitive. I do enjoy MMO's and this is no exception, it's just that this game needs so much time investment to progress. Yes, the graphics are amazing and the actual game play is good. But, I am a MOBA player with fast paced action and this game is a bit to slow for me.

 

Yes, I was waiting for ArcheAge since early this year when it was about to go in Alpha. There's too many botters/hackers in high level zones that it gets unenjoyable quite fast. It's also generic combat/questing.

 

I had high expectations as well but through playing the Alpha I got familiar with the game and it's not as good as it seems, there are many flaws in the community (botting/hacking) and the company taking care of the game has this Pay 2 Win mindset for some reason, quite irritating, although it doesn't take away from the fact that the concept for the game is amazing and the game is still fun.

 

I think that if you have high expectations about any game, the game will let you down, simple as that. Some people think that the games will be as good as the games that can't be developed right now or that this will be the best game of all times. Usually the games don't live up to the expectations, but if you don't have the expectation bar too high you don't have to be affraid, the game is great and I don't think that it has let a lot of people down.

 

I had high expectations as well personally, and the game didn't let me down. I had my rage moments at launch, but then again who wouldn't be with all the issues we had to build with.

Once these were fixed, it was just jumping from one great experience to another.

What could let some new players down though is the lack of land, but that should be fixed with Auroria coming up.

 

I had high expectations when I received the Beta invite a while back. I was thrilled to have received it and I was extremely excited to get started. I think that this was my downfall, however, because a lot of features in the game (in my opinion) did not live up to the hype that was projected. Also, I think what ruined it for me was that I had been playing TERA extensively beforehand and I couldn't make the transition from live combat to tab targetting again.

It's a beautiful world, though, and the character creation is absolutely wonderful. I think the class-combining thing is also really nice. I think that as long as you go into the game thinking to yourself that it has the potential to be great but it's guaranteed to be, it will grow on you.

 

You should tone down the expectations a bit. Hell, I find it hard to get excited for a MMORPG anymore. World of Warcraft has absolutely destroyed this aspect for me. Each new MMO I try I find that I am comparing it with WoW against my will.

 

I started MMOs a few years ago with a pretty outdated one called Pandora Saga, so everything I have played since has been an improvement I also never played WoW, so I can't relate to the comparison issue, but I really think ArcheAge is a MMO that stands out from the lot.

 

I mean, it's a fairly new MMO compared to the large games such as World of Warcraft. I think that it'll grow better over time, especially with the features it has to offer. There's still a lot of weird bugs (from my experience a few weeks ago) but you shouldn't be having high expectations for an early game like this.

 

It's better to set low expectations, only this way you cannot get disillusioned. It's better to have low expectations and be surprised by something than have high expectations and end up crying or feeling bad. Nowadays most MMO's look a bit too similar, I don't know why but these are the facts, we're going to pick a class, level up, kill monsters and after a time spent doing all these we get bored.
I'm trying to remember where all these things started.

 

The only way to find out is to download and play it! I mean it's free to play after all So just get it and play it for an hour or two, if you see that time is going by super fast then guess what? You got a winner! My personal opinion is that it's awesome!

 

I too feel that we should not have high expectations. Only then we will be satisfied