what makes an MMO fell dead

[Shinkuno]

For me, its a few things but mostly when the world itself feels dead in the open. Meaning you constantly see no reason for anyone to be there at all, or most things have no purpose to do. Another thing that makes games feel dead to me is the combat, or dungeons get to repeative, for example if your move set is always three to four buttons and the fighting requires no thought process, other than dodge a rock or dont stand in fire. Feels lazy, and takes out the excitement for me when I play a game. I'm not saying a fight has to be hard in a mmo to not be dead,but it should require you to think with some complexity same with a character or job or even class. Complexity helps a player feel engaged in a fight, and a character/class. If you remove that, we might as well be mindless zombies you know.

Maybe its just me because I am a mental ill girl/stupid but.. thats how I feel about the subject

Dont put yourself down like that, this is a completly normal opinion to have, and why most MMORPG players are not playing FF14. Ive noticed when people praise this game, often they have something like "i like the game because it doesnt feel like a mmorpg" and thats just sad. The playerbase nowadays is mostly non-mmorpg players looking for a visual chatbox they can feed their ego off when people compliment their basic glamours

[Chloe_Saunders]

Dont put yourself down like that, this is a completly normal opinion to have, and why most MMORPG players are not playing FF14. Ive noticed when people praise this game, often they have something like "i like the game because it doesnt feel like a mmorpg" and thats just sad. The playerbase nowadays is mostly non-mmorpg players looking for a visual chatbox they can feed their ego off when people compliment their basic glamours

ya I try not to but at the same time I understand not everyone wants to think when playing a game, for me the thinking (or over thinking) on the game keeps my mind destricted from my internal proplems if that makes any sense at all. in short i use a game to think alot so my mind gets to distracted from my things... in real life/past things. I use to love warcraft 3 and age of empires for this very reason. Spyro the dragon is kind of a basic level example of what i mean by complexity but doesnt have to be hard just enough to make a person think on their feet sort of thing.

[Shinkuno]

ya I try not to but at the same time I understand not everyone wants to think when playing a game, for me the thinking (or over thinking) on the game keeps my mind destricted from my internal proplems if that makes any sense at all. in short i use a game to think alot so my mind gets to distracted from my things... in real life/past things. I use to love warcraft 3 and age of empires for this very reason. Spyro the dragon is kind of a basic level example of what i mean by complexity but doesnt have to be hard just enough to make a person think on their feet sort of thing.

I totally get you, and its the reason i cant play the game at later times of the day. Its the only game that ive noticed myself almost falling asleep cause most of the content requires no thought and is mostly a "press 1-2-3" or "walk and talk"