I love MMOs. Back in a day I was in every beta test and while paying sub and sometimes even buying the game was quite often out of my capabilities I still played a lot of MMOs. One of the main issues was the time consumption, which lead to me skipping a few years in single player games history and partially made me stop with MMOs. I just wanted to catch up with some other games and preferred to not lose touch with single player games and tried to touch grass some more, getting my life in the right place. Sometimes I could return to some of the MMOs of my past to scratch the itch for a bit, but I never felt like genre should be changed in any way to accommodate people like me with limited time. That feeling of going full degenerate mode grinding some levels or farming some resources, especially when done together with some friends is great. Being able to skip a few days of grinding, because you are busy, but then to go crazy during the weekend, grabbing some snacks and just diving in for a massive session, because you have time now. Flexing some rare item or mount that everyone knows is rare, getting ahead of competition with the power of grind and by getting lucky, getting the build going and optimizing your farm.
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