from hardcore casual:

Tourist jokes aside (not that the tourist problem is a joke, mind you), I’ve come to this brilliant conclusion: MMOs are just not that fun for most people.

I know, shocking.

With all the time we spend going back and forth on how X game is awesome and your MMO sucks, or how game Y would be so much better with feature Z, the majority of gamers are telling of us ALL our games suck. The whole genre, garbage. And in a way they are right. Why in gods name would I pay $15 a month to complete 100 kill x mob quests when I could do far more interesting tasks in a single player RPG? Why would I grind up an imbalanced character so I can PvP ‘sometimes’ when I can just get a FPS for cheap and have all-access to PvP of all flavors?

PDF copy of blog post here in case of link rot

Is it the “pay to play” aspect, or the quality of the game itself? My guess is that it is the former. No one wants to have to pay to play. Get paid, maybe… but pay… no way. Slumped economy is probably amplifying this at least as much as the exorbitant profit margin these companies make. I remember as many as 5+ consecutive down days during some very buggy system updates on this one game I used to play… and several months seemed like they had more downtime than uptime… funny thing is - I don’t remember ever getting any kind of account credit for those days I’d paid for but wasn’t permitted to play.