DuoMaxwellxx wrote:
except NOTHING like that exists it ANY mmo after 20+ times.... name one thing in FFXI youe done 20+ times that still as fun as the first time you did it instead of it just being a grind you have to endure to get whatever it is youre after?
It's all perspective man. Name anything you have done 20+ times that was as fun, scary, exciting, unknown, etc,etc. Learn to ride a bicycle, some grow out of it and want a car, and some love riding bicycles forever. When you first meet your perfect woman, in the beginning every moment is precious for some then if dulls, and for some the freshness never dies. It works in the same way for video games.
Nothing in this world will ever bring you satisfaction once reduced to a means to an end. DuoMaxwellxx wrote:
the exact same reason why I go to work... I dont enjoy what I do but I enjoy the paycheck I get from doing it which allows me to do things i DO enjoy doing...... I dont enjoy running brayfllox HM 30 times a day (literally) but I do enjoy/want that super shiny weapons... so I deal with it..
Work doesn't have to be something you don't enjoy. Let's say you love writing music more than anything else you do. But you work corporate wall street because it pays more. What is going to allow you spend time doing what you love most? Money can't buy you time.
DuoMaxwellxx wrote:
now if only someone can make a game where grinding/doing the same thing 500+ times is consistently fun instead of feeling like a chore..
As for dynamis, nyzul isle, etc etc yeah I did those a million times and never got bored.. difference is you could only enter dynamis twice a week... so I wasnt doing it frequently enough to be bored.. now if i was doin it 10 times back to back in the same day EVERY day Id wanna shoot myself.. same with nyzul isle.. sure you can do that multiple times back to back BUT.. you had to run out of tags... after which you HAD to find something ELSE to do until you got more.... getting mythology tomes in brayflox doesnt have that restriction.. and without such restrictions m gonna try to get stuff done the fastest way possible even if its painfully torturous.
another example would be getting alexandrite and soldiery cap.. I dont farm 800 myth a day to get an alexandrite since now I have another options (1 expert roulette a day) and now Im not doing brayflox back to back 15 times in one day every week to cap soldiery ASAP because I HAVE to do one expert roulette a day now to get alxandrite and doing so would also give me 450 soldiery by the weeks end so spamming brayflox to cap soldiery is not unnecessary... thus its awhole lot less boring since Im not doing it back to make anymore....
unless of course I decide I wanna start farming myth to get alexandrite even faster... but first im waiting to se how the myth adjustments tuin out to be and how good hunting is before i decide is spamming myth all day for alexamdrite is the way to go.
You do FFXI things a million times, you do ARR things a million times. But you prefer one over the other because it restricts you from doing it over and over? Sounds like a drug to me. What gets someone over an addiction? Restrictions imposed upon you or finding the will to control yourself? I think we see how that goes with people in and out of rehabs.
I see you complaining against the very thing you like doing.
You like grinding. And there is nothing wrong with that. If ARR bent over and gave you the reward too easy. You would spit in it's face and say it's too casual. If you would fully accept that and relish in it. This game would be more fun from your perspective.
It's not the shiny you love, it's the process or you would be gone from ARR already. The shiny is just the virtual/material thing that punctuates what you accomplished. Some people might look down on virtual accomplishments being real. But a virtual accomplishment can be just as real as any real world thing. And that is precious.