For the last 2 years I’ve been asking myself this question. While I hang on to the threads that are vaporware, watching videos of Star Wars: TOR and various other mmos that seemingly will never be released. I wonder if maybe I’ve gotten too old for this gaming genre, too busy, as I listen to a 12 year old curse at me while calling for a medic and running in the other direction. One thing is for sure though, I miss my mmorpgs, I miss the guilds, the late night raids, the friendships, the camaraderie , the excitement, and even the boringness of them at times.
I was a late comer to the genre of mmorpgs, and couldn’t have started off with a worse game. It was college, and a friend in the computer lab 1 day told me I had to download this game when I got back to my apartment, Kal Online. I had never played a mmorpg before and was a little skeptic, but figured I’d give it a try. I was drawn into the depth of the world (and this game had no depth). I remember spending about 4 hours at level 10 getting lost in noob-ville. I found my way behind a mountain, and managed to get into a place where I suppose the developers didn’t want me and weren’t done with yet. The purple un-textured buildings gave it away (that’s just the kind of crappiness I would learn to expect from KalOnline).
(Screen shots such as these were not uncommon in kal)
For the next year at college my main game was Kal Online. It became my first real game addiction (actually ffvii was probably my first, but who's counting). Through Kal Online I met some great people, some of which I still talk to today through IM. We built a guild, an alliance, stormed the castle, mindless killing with .0000000001% drop rates (literally), pretty much experiencing everything this game had to offer (the good and the bad). Slowly the game changed, over run with hackers, card frauders and just general douche baggery. Leveling became monotonous. As the rich got richer by cheating, we got poorer for playing the game the way it was made. I found myself logging in just to chat with people and keep my guild going. While my character sat there one day, fishing, I had enough. I maxed out at lvl 57, and still every once in awhile re-download Kal Online and see it slowly dying. Even though I hated the crap out of kal online, it was like my first love, I’ll never forget it. Kal Online was my succubus.
After that I took a downward spiral into free Korean mmorpg hell. I was doing the ol’ “Wow, this game looks sweet.” Spending the next 2 days downloading, installing, updating, re-downloading a different client. Finally, getting to the play the game, I realize it’s more terrible than ripping hairs off my anus and immediately uninstalled it. If you named any free Korean mmorpg I probably tried it (and it probably sucks).
One drunken night, I found myself talking to an old guild-mate who invested into a new mmorpg. So, following their lead, I decided to suck on the teet that is World of Warcraft.
To be continued in: Where’s my new mmorpg: The teet of WoW.
Although, same as gauzzastrip, I got to know some really nice ppl, it was a relief to quit this damn free but addictive mmorpg. It was my first real mmorpg game i ever played but also the last one. It made me think of this genre as merely time consuming without a reward at the end. I've sworn to never give Ka (or any other mmorpg)l anymore of my nowadays prescious free-after-work-or-in-the-weekend-time :).
To anybody that countered my stating with 'But I like to chat to ppl on Kal' I've replied that i can chat to those very same ppl through IM.
These are just my two cents. :)
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