MMO nomadism
February 11, 2008
In my post on altoholism I already alluded to the fact that these days, I rarely play a game for more than a month at a time. I usually hop from one to another when I feel a certain staleness is starting to set in. I never keep two concurrent subscriptions active, not for any real cost related considerations but simply because I like to fully invest myself in whatever MMO I am playing at the moment, even if it’s just for a short while. Which I guess is why I get bored rather quickly.
I often read or hear on pod-casts that some people will keep 3 or 4 subs going at any given time, which to me is rather strange. But then again, I can see how it can have it’s advantages, allowing them to keep a certain link with their guilds and characters and stay in the mix of things so to speak. By doing this they avoid experiencing the abrupt cutoff that someone like me goes through when adopting a “rotating sub” scheme and can keep a steady pace of advancement going for their their various characters.
I have to say that my method of doing things has isolated me somewhat from my fellow gamers, making it hard for me to commit to a guild. I usually don’t even bother joining one since I know I will be disappearing for an extended period of time a few weeks after coming aboard.
As time passes though, I am inclining more and more towards the multi-sub or multi-alt model of MMO gaming, simply because my MMO jumping ways are making me quite lonely ! Who knows, one day I just may become an MMO social butterfly, flitting from one game to another in order to maintain my extensive in-game social network!
We shall see…
