The Divorce of MMO and RPG
Verfasst: 23. Jul 2005, 19:09
Sehr interessanter Artikel, imho.by Jeff on 07/22/2005
The divorce of MMO and RPG has been a very public and extremely messy one, unfortunately. The sordid details can be found in any trashy, gossip message board across the internet, but the real question is why they ever got married in the first place, and what happened after.
It is hard to nail down a precise date of when MMO and RPG met. Some say they started dating back during the MUD days; others contend it was slightly after. The relationship certainly bloomed during Meridian 59, and we all know the marriage was consummated with Ultima Online. Not long after Ultima Online launched however, problems began to crop up. Some claim they could not agree on how to raise the children. Others declare that they never had anything in common in the first place. Whichever it was, the marriage was officially on the rocks by the time of EverQuest. Now that the marriage is over, GamerGod will take a look at what was.
At close inspection, their marriage reveals what is sadly becoming the new American love tragedy. Two people with little in common, more in lust than anything resembling love, decide to tie the knot. The rest is a classic example of what happens when two people leave the idea stage of marriage and enter the reality of marriage, and find out they don't like, let alone love, each other.
RPG was often in her own world, a writer by profession living in a land of old dialects and wonderful stories. She found MMO to be awfully crude, intolerant of her stories and her world, continuously interrupted by his sports scores and a "me first" material acquisition agenda. MMO saw what he once thought of as cute become annoying, and her insistence that he not disrupt her stories was more than a little incommodious. RPG tried to save the marriage by spending more her time in her own room, the RP server she called it, but MMO too often followed her there anyway with blatant disregard for her rules. As if all of that was not bad enough, MMO started speaking a whole different language that RPG could barely understand. She started calling him a l33t speaker; he retorted that she was a Nazi. Clearly the acrimony was rising.
The relationship never truly recovered, since there was nothing to recover. They had little in common in the first place, so there was little in their relationship to renew except for the idea togetherness. The idealism of their marriage was fun; the reality was a living hell for both sides.
The end result is the aforementioned messy and public divorce. RPG has a lot of fun on her own again, hanging out with groups of friends, leaving MMO far behind. MMO lives his selfish and unimaginative lifestyle, as he had all along. Some claim the two will eventually get together again under the right circumstances, but I highly doubt it. It seems that they are a lot happier apart than they ever were together, thus the chance of the two reuniting is slim. Besides, last we heard, MMO was getting pretty hot and heavy with FPS: more news on that later.
Ich stimme darin zu dass die neuen "MMORPGS" eigentlich eher "MMOFPS" genannt werden sollten, denn zwischen 1337 speak und dem hirnlosen motschen von Monstern um noch nen Level aufzusteigen hat das mit RPGs nich mehr wirklich viel zu tun.
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