Yesterday night, I was in a dinner with some friends in secondary school. One of my friend, a girl, said, "Well, if Ragnarok Online is not for killing, I would continue to play". Is online game a male-only stuff?
As you may know, I'm a Ragnarok Online (RO) fans. I agree that RO major focus is on battling, i.e. monster-killing, player-vs-player and guild-vs-guild. However, I would also tell you that RO also provide non-battling environment to provide a alternative environment for players' communication. In fact, cute graphics design in RO already shown the development team want to also target female players. Other then killing monsters, players can acting as a merchant to do trading, targeting to be a billionaire. In conclusion, online games nowadays are much more than monster-killing and item-picking.
Actually, online games nowadays are not only a game, but also a virtual society. You can meet friends and chat. Your friend list will grow as you team up with new faces, or trading things. To think out of the box, you can exchange IM or email contact, and then you are really making some closer friends. To share my experience, I mainly sit on the floor and chat with friends when I'm in RO, recently. Monster-killing is getting less important, while the community in RO is more valuable to me. I have ever acting as a merchant and doing very frequent trading every day. I also have the time that I kill lots of monsters for one level up. And now, I'm in the phrase to sit and chat.
Unfortunately, RO, just like some other online games, has been abused by bots, hacked client programs and system bugs. RO is getting less enjoyable now. Nevertheless, I'm still in RO, since I can still get happiness in it.
2 comments:
Somehow my subscription is expired.
Although I have bought GF card, I will get into RO unless I find anything that can push me.
Interaction interface of RO is quite good (Cutie graphics), but it's still not enough for an MMOG.
For Killing/Battle, I prefer FPS or RTS.
Some MMOG have introduced internal BOT-like features. With these, At least I don't need to click forever (like Jin Yong Online....I'm bored by its input interface)
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