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Geek Culture / Really antisocial... or something... people in MMORPGs...

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Lonnehart
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2010 02:45
I play EVE Online currently, and one night in chat I asked about the most number of accounts known to be maintained by a single EVE player. And I also added some comments about how if a person has enough accounts to form a corporation and if they were all active at the same time that there's a problem.

I wish I had copied that link or I'd post it here, but someone posted a website about one EVE player with 6 monitors on his desk, four EVE games going on in the two center monitors, and the four outer monitors with 6 EVE windows in each!

This guy must be really rich, or he's got one heck of a powerful computer to run them all. I don't know how anyone can play that many instances of EVE at the same time without burning out! I mean... how can you fight a fleet battle like that?!?

I guess some people must really hate socializing so much they'd open and play that many accounts BY THEMSELVES! What are your thoughts on this? Just curious...

lazerus
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2010 02:56
You fail to comprehend how sad that person must be to OWN several paid accounts of that game...

He has no life, most likly no love. His highlights must be finding a tooth in his microwave meals.

Hay hay i can be harsh! Hes spending wait a sec, here we go,

1-month-plan - € 14.95 - € 14.95
3-month-plan - € 12.95 - € 38.85
6-month-plan - € 11.95 - € 71.70
12-month-plan - € 10.95 - € 131.40

on a game X6 lol
that deserves a beating

Benjamin
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2010 03:02
I don't see what being antisocial has to do with this, you must mean asocial.

But yeah... that's bizarre, unless he's doing some kind of gold farming or whatever.
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2010 06:51
@ben, as you appear to be on a crusade to teach us the correct term, i'd thought i'd share the link which may actually pertain, if you give it a chance

@topic, i had 4 SWG accounts back in the day. there it was mostly about the increased storage capacity, building lots, and having a solid array of master craftsmen at work for the guild. some of us would run medic bots but never more than 2 accounts at a time. that was enough to manage. i dunno about EVE and if botting is prevelant but i suppose it might be part of the scenario mentioned?

meanwhile...

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Lonnehart
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2010 07:44 Edited at: 3rd Aug 2010 07:44
I wasn't sure of the correct term so I used the "or something" in the title. It was the only word I could think of to describe someone who goes out of their way to keep from interacting with people in a game, espcially in MMORPGs where you interact with lots of players.

I can understand if players have 2 or even 5 accounts in a single game. Virtual Nomad does have a point. Back in the day I had two SWG accounts myself. But how about 10+? I can't think of any other reason why you'd want that many accounts unless you want to do guild/corporation related stuff and don't want to invite anyone else to help out... And I doubt an ISK farmer would show off his computer rig and post it on a website...

As for "botting" it's a bannable offense, but I'm sure there are still people doing it. They're probably just using very compicated macros or something so they don't seem like they're macroing their way through the game (I'm sure this is how ISK sellers get their money). It's pretty hard to find macroers sometimes... one of the sure ways in EVE is to destroy the ship and observe if the pod keeps returning to the same spot even after the ship is gone...

Herakles
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2010 08:13 Edited at: 3rd Aug 2010 08:14
I don't play EVE (or any other MMORPG for that matter), because I don't like the monthly subscription thing. To me,the idea of paying for just one subscription is dumb, so the idea of paying for more than one is simply ludicrous.

@Virtual Nomad

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Benjamin
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2010 12:45 Edited at: 3rd Aug 2010 12:52
Quote: "I wasn't sure of the correct term so I used the "or something" in the title. It was the only word I could think of to describe someone who goes out of their way to keep from interacting with people in a game, espcially in MMORPGs where you interact with lots of players."


It's nothing personal, it's more aimed at people that generally get the term wrong (which seems to be many unfortunately). I wouldn't mind but there's such a huge difference in the actual meaning that calling someone antisocial isn't very nice. Anyway, think nothing of it... just thought I'd inform people.

Quote: "as you appear to be on a crusade to teach us the correct term, i'd thought i'd share the link which may actually pertain, if you give it a chance"


You're linking me to the same thing I already linked?

Back on topic... maybe he's South Korean.
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2010 12:59
So uhhh...you just realised that people who spend inane amounts of time on Guild Wars/WoW/etc are poor at interacting with other people?

Have you not seen Make Love not Warcraft?

Libervurto
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2010 23:27
I don't understand this type of behaviour. It is cheating, why cheat at a game you play for fun and especially one you pay a subscription to play?
I have been quite addicted to FIFA 10 but I'm tired of it because of people who use bugs to win games instead of playing the game properly. It's a really badly made game tbh, so many bugs.

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Posted: 3rd Aug 2010 23:43
The people who run the game probably love it when people do this. They might actually benefits for people who have more than one account (like easy gold harvesting or whatever) so they make more money. They even have things where you pay real money for some useless items and coins. I'd rather have money. It's a good idea, it's a shame that people are obsessed enough to do it.

I've never liked MMORPGs.
1. They make people asocial or antisocial or whatever.
2. They always have some bull expansion packs instead of just giving you the whole game when you buy it.
3. They're expensive. Paying for online play is ludicrous, especially for a game without a single player mode so you don't even have the option. Paying thirteen (or something like that) dollars a month for a game adds up. And it makes me wonder why they can't just give you the game and expansion packs for free when you have to pay all these subscription fees.
4. Since there are so many people playing the game all day every day, you can never get any good, even if you wanted to.

The only thing I like about MMORPGs is that when I hear people talking about how much they play it and stuff, it makes me feel a little better about my nerdiness

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Posted: 4th Aug 2010 00:12
Quote: "It's a really badly made game tbh, so many bugs."


That's cos EA crank one out every year, and pay more attention to the players included are in the right teams than the game actually functioning...

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Posted: 4th Aug 2010 01:27
There are some weird people around, simple fact of life and some people are just bizarre and it's something we have to live with, at least for now, because when I rule the world I will get rid of everybody I dislike and it'll be a much better place.

I see these stories and shake my head, like the guy who married his video game character and all of the people who escape reality to live it in a video game, now I understand escapism (we all have it), but there's a difference between that and refusing to accept reality. It is quite saddening in some cases, in others, it's ridiculous because they're just 12 year-old kids acting childish online to then throw a hissy fit when their account is banned. That I find funny because it's karma.

When I was at school, I saw them all in the computer lab playing Runescape and they were the hissy-fit type in person and when I used to play Runescape myself, I encountered them online.

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Posted: 4th Aug 2010 01:30 Edited at: 4th Aug 2010 01:34
Quote: "That's cos EA crank one out every year, and pay more attention to the players included are in the right teams than the game actually functioning...
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They can't even get a table to sort by column properly. Even I could do that!

One thing strange about EA I noticed (well for FIFA I don't know if this is true across the board) is that they don't show the credits anywhere in the game or in the manual. I like to look at who made my game and see if there are any familiar names in there. Game designers should have the same acknowledgement as film makers.

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Posted: 5th Aug 2010 13:43
CG, i just saw that South Park episode last night

I only play 1 MMORPG, and thats once every few days or so, simply because it is totally free, and very fun at the same time.

Shaun Of The Dead
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Posted: 5th Aug 2010 13:47
That does sound very un-social. There are wierd people and there are normal people, most of us are inbetween this..... ;D

Theres alot of wierd things do because of video games, I recommend we just dont comment and let them get on with whatever they are doing with their life

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Posted: 5th Aug 2010 14:18
Quote: "There are wierd people and there are normal people"

Incorrect. There is no normal people. There is no normal.


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lazerus
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Posted: 5th Aug 2010 14:24
Well the definition of the 'norm' was fired upon by a person incarcirated in a mental helth insitute. The funny thing is, he won and his logic had next to no pitfalls. He simply argued that a mass of peoples perceptive to the norm to the mass of people in the insitute norm was extremly different. So normal is perceptive and that just might be normal for him.

What im getting at, is hes happy lol. He could be just thinking that were throwing away our lives in a similar mannor. Ughh why do i always analyse stuff. Too early. need food.

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Posted: 5th Aug 2010 14:25
What defines normal? A large collective of people sharing the same ideas? Normal being the largest group, damnit i cant remember the rest of the quote.

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Posted: 5th Aug 2010 14:49
I define myself as normal, I'm definitely weird, however I define the world by these statements:

There's the good kind of weird and the bad kind of weird, and I like to think of myself as the good kind of weird, normality is an illusion made by those in denial about who they are. We're all freaks and I love it! [insert manic laughter]

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Posted: 5th Aug 2010 15:00
I would like to say, that only normal is the "personal normal". What people think is in normal in tehir personal perpective, but other than that, there is no normal. I think I am normal, but others think I am not normal, becouse for them, normal is something else. You get what I am talking about now? About personal normal? Yeah, sounds stupid to me too, but just... try to bare with it....


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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 5th Aug 2010 17:58
I prefer my answer, it makes us all look like freaks and I prefer to keep it that way, you freak you.

Hobgoblin Lord
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Posted: 5th Aug 2010 21:18
I had 2 wow accounts to get the xp bonus for awhile, Helped me get toons from 1-60 within about 14 hours. Once I filled my main account up I killed of the other account

Play Sim Games- still in development

Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 5th Aug 2010 23:08
I prefer most people to think of themselves as "normal" so that I'm the only weirdo in the room. Really I consider "normal" to be a bad thing that should be shunned.

That guy with the multiple Eve accounts has to be an ISK farmer.

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Posted: 8th Aug 2010 01:02
Quote: "One thing strange about EA I noticed (well for FIFA I don't know if this is true across the board) is that they don't show the credits anywhere in the game or in the manual."


Are you sure about that? All the EA Sports games I own have Credits buries somewhere in there... sometimes under EA Extras or something like that.


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Posted: 8th Aug 2010 18:17
Quote: "CG, i just saw that South Park episode last night"


My favourite - apart from the one with Bono in it, I dunno if it's against the AUP to mention the plot or what, so I'll leave you to find it out...

And I'd like to think of myself as not normal. Normal are the people who conform to the point where they're indistinguishable from the wallpaper...

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Posted: 8th Aug 2010 18:32
Sorry for the pun, but I thought the one with Bono in it was a bit crap, but then the only thing I dislike about South Park is when it resorts to toilet humour, everything else I find to be really funny. I've watched every single episode and the movie more than once, so I must love it.

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Posted: 8th Aug 2010 21:25
Yeh, tbh I guess I have to agree...

Smug Alert's pretty good. And that one about St Peter being a rabbit...

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Posted: 9th Aug 2010 01:29
200 and 201 were ones I liked, namely because they were perfectly timed for a project of mine. I thought it was clever in what it did. But it suffers from the same problem many South Park episodes suffer and that's discussion of the content is not advisable on a forum like this one.

I think at times there are some pretty genius episodes, but I don't think I could ever pick any favourites, because a great number of them are good for a reason.

However, it's interesting to see how some of the celebrities are portrayed, with Michael Jackson and Britney Spears, they didn't really mock them, but rather represented their human sides and mocked everybody around them. Michael Jackson wasn't a child-abuser as much humour against Michael Jackson depicts, but rather a child inside, as psychiatrists had described him and touched on something I don't think was always considered with all of the media attention to the accusations against him and that was, he's looking after kids and he should be a responsible adult. With dead celebrities, they took that child in Michael quite a bit further.

Whilst I don't know whether the accusations were true, it certainly beats humour about Michael Jackson doing disgusting things to kids.

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Posted: 9th Aug 2010 23:53
normal = majority = sane
1 man who believes in fairies is insane.
1 million men who believe in fairies is a religion.

I'm not making this religious, religion is just a good example.
If the majority of people formally greeted each other by shutting their eyes, patting their heads and shouting "ninininini!" that would be considered normal. Now how do we get people to do that? Start a religion?

@Jeku
You could be right, I'll have a look. They are especially good at hiding things on FIFA

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