Ok I know the book is about burnout in organizations, but I like the colorful look of the cover and thought it would spice up my blog:P Although for those of you who are experiencing burnout at work, or for employers who suspect their employees are experiencing burnout it looks to be a good and helpful read. You can find The Truth About Burnout at amazon.com.
While I haven’t experienced work burnout since I work from home, I have been experiencing mmo burnout. My most beloved game EQ2 I haven’t even felt like logging into. It seriously almost brings a tear to my eye. Could I be finished? After all the time we have spent together? Could this be the end of the road? It is time to call it quits? Is love just not enough anymore?
Being in complete denial that I may be done with the game I have taken a break the last couple of weeks. I can’t believe how much I have gotten done! The house is spotless! It was clean before, but now I is spotless! I always said people with super clean homes just have nothing better to do! I am getting a ton of writing done for the magazine. I am still playing an mmo of course I am currently reviewing a game for mmorpg.com. You will see that review soon! Although I must say playing a game as a reviewer is completely different than just playing as a player. It is like I have a whole new set of eyes. I look at the game differently. I look for aspects in the game that I haven’t looked for before. I quite like it. It is a whole new side of gaming.
Has this break broken my EQ2 Blues? What happened to WoW? Well no, I still do not feel like logging into EQ2. Maybe once I get this last piece for the magazine done and finish with this game I am reviewing. As far as WoW is concerned I knew it wouldn’t last. I have tried to play it in the past. The game just isn’t my cup of tea. It isn’t a great enough game for me to have to put up with the community in it! Plus it is almost too easy and simple and so I get bored and sometimes even fall asleep while playing. So right now I am not playing any mmorpg’s except the one that I am reviewing.
I know deep down it must be that it is time for me to part ways with Norrath, and the upcoming surge of new mmo’s this summer will probably help me while I am on the rebound, but will I really let go? Only time will tell. Maybe EQ2 and I just need some counseling! I mean it would be silly to just drop a relationship after investing so much time without trying to find a way for it to work out! /sigh
Conjuring Candles 
Before I started MMO Evolution, I burned out and stopped playing for a few months. It was good because I was real obsessed before. I ordered things in my life, and now when I play, I’m not so addicted. I enjoy the games as much as before, but I think I burned out because I was playing TOO much. I love being able to enjoy for a bit, but have other things in my life.
i think the problem of mmo burnout is that most mmo’s today are too alike, they are mostly the same and with same questing systems.
We have had groundbreaking mmo’s, but i dont think we have yet had the mmo’s who is groundbreaking enough.
SWG was and is still the best mmo for me ( before sony started to ruin it) the skill system and pvp and all was awsome, the onyl thing who sucked was the quests, all quests were kill x amount of x animal.
But the rest kibndof made up for that, the RP posebillities was great, my and my friends didnt even think of Roleplauing in games at that time ( didnt get to know RP inside games until wow) But we were into character nontheless, we were our chatacters and had parties, hunts and all that.
Fun, whats been a lot focus is “work work” as peons and get something with amazing abillities but looks like it was drawn by a monkey on acid ( referring to endgame wow)
SWG had a lot of great qualities, and if someone combined a great questing system ( like the one WAR has promised us) then it could ( and probably would) be the best mmo for a long time.
MMO’s are the big genre at the moment, but by time i think such genres as RTSS ( real time strategy shooter) and new genres will come, and then after some time the different online genres such as todays MMO’s and RTSS will learn from eacother and improve eacother.
Savage and Savage 2 are the first RTSS games out there, they created the RTSS genre ( Personally i love savage for its cool combat system, all ranged attack is done in 1st person so ye can do ti with precision, and all melee is 3rd person )
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Yeah I think that is some of the problem. All the games out are so much alike that picking up a new one doesn’t always equal new fun.
There are some truly unique ones on the horizon though.
Tabula Rasa, Spellborn, Conan, PotBS, and Aion, just to name a few. What remains to be seen, is whether they’re any good.
I’ve played a couple of the above mentioned (shh, can’t tell you which), and I’m not impressed entirely yet, but they are unique. And that quality alone could lead to success later this year, when all other games are looking the same old, same old. Even my beloved LotRO.
Yeah I just got my LOTRO open beta cd from PC Gamer. So installed that gonna give it another try.
JW I hear you as well….I’m yet another female gamer who is burned out of EQ2 mostly because of the community in the game…the people and the attitudes in the game are getting to me in ways I never thought possible. Although I’m still playing and addicted I don’t play as much or often as I used to…and the comment on the spotless house really hit home…in my free time I’ve been cleaning but since I have young children I will never have a spotless house..wonder if I can even remember the times when I used to have a spotless house. I’m awaiting your write up of the game you are currently reviewing to see if there is anything better out there as I’m getting more and more fed up with EQ2 by the day….
I have young children at home too, and so by spotless… well you know what I mean! LOL Probably not most people’s spotless!The other game I am reviewing… don’t hold your breath:( Can’t say much more than that on it atm.
I think you’ll probably like LotRO. It’s familiar and different at the same time. The way I’ve been describing it is: “not reinventing the wheel, just giving it white-walls.”
It’s very much borrowing from EQ2, DAoC, AC1 and 2, WoW, and all other traditional MMORPGs. But there are shining examples of things in LotRO that breed community like no other game.
The music system being one of the chief examples, and the truly story-driven main quest line that follows you from level 1-50.
It’s not altogether new… but I’ll be damned if it isn’t more fun in an MMO than I’ve had in a good long while.
Hmm.. I played it for about a week when my hubby was in the beta. I wasn’t too impressed at that time, but it was pretty new. I did get an open beta CD with my pc gamer, so I installed that and once it starts I will give it another go:)
It reminds me A LOT of EQ2 and DAoC, and the 800lb Gorilla too, of course. It’s a very good game, made all the better if you like Tolkein. <--- Hobbit Lover. :) Let me know how you like it. I’m on Silverlode as Begud.