I had my time of taking online gaming too seriously. 8 years at Sojourn MUD was like an act of masochism - for almost all of the players, not just me. We all took it way too seriously. And then EverQuest. It also got pretty heavy there. Something about such games takes over and becomes your life; until you need to escape from your fantasy life back into your real one, and that is bad.
Luckily i no longer get addicted by such games. I play WoW and CoH casually. I am in a guild in WoW, but i find i can't get into it all on that level anymore. Which is a good thing. In a sick way, it is the drama that holds you. The interaction with others that binds you. You hate it but you cannot break away. But i have often said something similar to your remarks: "This game would be great if it wasn't for the players".
Anyway i don't know if the concept appeals to you, but City of Heroes has pretty minimal social interaction. Even when you group you rarely do much in the way of talking. WoW isn't too bad either. I play a female character and every time i go into a major city i get some immature jerk acting all sexist, but that aside, i haven't noticed much in the way of elitism or prickdom there. Honestly though, if you are free of mmo's, getting back into them is a bad idea. Better to just leave them behind.
Lastly, everyone needs their angle to feel superior. Some do it in games, others with musical snobbery, some with knowledge, and yet others feel superior by saying they do not act superior. Ii am certainly guilty of feeling superior through knowledge, but only in so much that i find i have little tolerance for someone's opinion when it operates on an obsolete level of knowledge. my logic is, how can they have a valid opinion if they aren't fully educated on a topic?. Of course there are exeptions for certain areas where life experience trumps book knowledge. At any rate, this can all be summed up with the tried and true motto of 'people suck'.
Luckily i no longer get addicted by such games. I play WoW and CoH casually. I am in a guild in WoW, but i find i can't get into it all on that level anymore. Which is a good thing. In a sick way, it is the drama that holds you. The interaction with others that binds you. You hate it but you cannot break away. But i have often said something similar to your remarks: "This game would be great if it wasn't for the players".
Anyway i don't know if the concept appeals to you, but City of Heroes has pretty minimal social interaction. Even when you group you rarely do much in the way of talking. WoW isn't too bad either. I play a female character and every time i go into a major city i get some immature jerk acting all sexist, but that aside, i haven't noticed much in the way of elitism or prickdom there. Honestly though, if you are free of mmo's, getting back into them is a bad idea. Better to just leave them behind.
Lastly, everyone needs their angle to feel superior. Some do it in games, others with musical snobbery, some with knowledge, and yet others feel superior by saying they do not act superior. Ii am certainly guilty of feeling superior through knowledge, but only in so much that i find i have little tolerance for someone's opinion when it operates on an obsolete level of knowledge. my logic is, how can they have a valid opinion if they aren't fully educated on a topic?. Of course there are exeptions for certain areas where life experience trumps book knowledge. At any rate, this can all be summed up with the tried and true motto of 'people suck'.
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