What Motivation Keeps You Coming Back to a Game?

If it's fun to play with friends I don't mind getting in the game with them. So it's not really about being "extensively encouraged" to play, rather about the quality of the game itself.

 

Usually it's the friends I made when playing. Also, if the game is fun I don't usually need motivation, I mean I wouldn't even play it if I had to tell myself something in order to get myself to play it

 

The motivation is the Guild/group of people that are there. If the community is a good one and you enojy with them, the game could also be not the best you've tryed but you would enjoy nevertheless.

 

If I genuinely enjoy the game I'm playing, there's no reason for me to stop. Recently it's been difficult finding a game that completely catches my interest. Playing with friends makes the experience 100 times more fun. Even if you don't have anyone that plays that current game with you, you can always make new ones. There are a lot of great communities.

 

What motivates me primarily is getting a higher rank day by day. Ranked games are really competitive and you want to be on top. Also, I play a lot with friends so I enjoy the game even more with them. Finding out new champions on LoL is also a great game changer.

 

Usually the thing that keeps me coming back to MMOs and other complex games is the social community. It's also part of the reason that certain games turn me off so much. The communities around some FPS games and some MOBAs that have really violent, sexist, and offensive communities that rears it's ugly head when I decide to play. It's a bit annoying to me when the game itself has really interesting mechanics and is ruined by a toxic community.

 

I really want to see how the game turns out overall, but I play RPG's more than MMORPG's. I really want to live through the characters and see their world unfold before my eyes. For me, it's all about the adventure and once I start the adventure, I really want to finish it and see how their lives turn out. In regular MMO's, I really have to be addicted to the game to really keep coming back. Something about it really catches my eye or just in general it entices me through great gameplay.

 

I mostly play MMORPG`s for their story. I know it`s kind of dumb, because they are made to played for the multi-player factor, rather then for the general story, but there are a lot of MMOs out there with a cool story to tell, and even if I get tired of playing them, I`m still curious about the conclusion or the new stuff that most devs add to their games on a regular basis.

 

If I saw someone plays it or the game got updated and all. I will play it again with my friends and have fun with it again.

 

It's a myriad of reasons, but since my WoW guild has become inactive over the last ten years, the main reasons for me now has to do with 1) possibilities and 2) achievements. A game that offers a lot of different play styles, all interwoven together will make me go back to it, but only if it contains an epic world. The majority of other MMO games don't give me that feeling of epicness and possibilities.

It's the same with single player games like Fallout 3 and Skyrim. They both contain what WoW contains: epicness and possibilities.

 

There is this thing about not falling behind, like I need to keep my character leveled to the cap.. but that is all. And basically now that urge is gone. When the next expansion comes, I will happily keep my character at lvl 100. I have none of my alts past 92, and usually they are all maxed by the end of an expansion. Something about WoD just bores me

 

Actually with GW2 it was like this even for me. It has a really interesting story to follow and I enjoyed it watching all the cinematics.

 

Most games have a really good overall story that gets told while you level up. The problem is that players can complete content faster than the devs can create it, which means without exception, at endgame you need to repeat a lot of content many times ( run the same dungeons every day etc). This is where the story breaks down. When WOW redid their questing zones in Catacysm, each zone had a really interesting story that last the entire zone. But the patches and new content do not come fast enough for that story to apply at endgame.

 

Nowadays I only play MMORPGs with my friends so I don't really want to quit unless they want to as well, I don't want to leave them down!

 

Yes, I know what you mean. End-Game content can be really tedious at times, and the fact that you really need a dedicated raiding guild to experience the full content of an MMO is also very annoying, and not because you need a dedicated raiding guild, but because they are few and far between.

 

Progression and the competition inherent in it. I always want to try to be better than those around me, so, any game that allows me to continually progress and improve is appealing.

 

Teamplay, apart from the jokes, is a really strong part of an MMORPG in my opinion since it binds the relationships into the characters' actions.

 

Back when I was a hardcore WoW player, I kept coming back because I had a lot of friends and time spent that I didn't want to lose. One time I realized that I wasn't having fun playing and that it was time to let it go. Nowadays I only play games that are fun.

 

Just fun, having fun with my girlfriend.