In 1993 while playing Aber Bud using my Procomm Plus DOS program which connects me to a Unix Internet Server which also connects to this beautiful MUD game, I had a big dream. But, being in that world of text and nothing but text. Looking at the black screen reading the white text of Aber MUD world. I was thinking how great it would be if this was turned into something graphical. Five years later and my dream came true. EverQuest while based on Diku MUD was still what I was asking for.

Why do recent MMORPGs, which are based on a much bigger budget than older MMORPGs, end up with less content? If you have played EverQuest, WoW then Aion/Rift you can create a pattern here. MMORPGs tend to offer less content than the previous one which offered less content than the one before. Let me make a comparison between EverQuest when it first started (no expansions) and Aion or even Rift.

If you enjoy grinding in an MMORPG for hours a day, 7 days a week. Then you should realize that what you’re doing is considered Prison Labour in some countries. Apparently China used prisoners in lucrative internet gaming work (a.k.a Gold Farming). Just makes you wonder what kind of game you’re playing huh?

I’ve noticed a lot of bloggers and forum threads were talking about Quests last week for some reason. Most of these authors were complaining about how this trend is getting repeated too many times and that we need a change to the system while a few think it’s dandy.

I’m going to share one of each opposite opinion and going to throw my comments on this issue. If you read my blog you know exactly what my opinion is regarding this Quest Driven crap. I don’t even try to be political about it because I believe it is the #1 malfunction of all games and needs to be fixed.

I simply cannot do the solo-quest grind in any game anymore. I’m burned out completely, I want to reach the end game I really want to but the solo-grind is blocking the way. Take Aion for instance I REALLY want to try the new dungeons that starts at level 50 but I have 3 characters stuck at level 40-48 and I can’t stand the solo-grind effort required to reach level 50. I have no problems hitting level 50 if I was given enough group-oriented content but what we have at level 40-47 is SR only! I’ve done SR too many times my eyes start bleeding if I see it again.