Yeah Lord of the Rings the complete book is awesome, and you can read in it for years :D.

I read it twice during my army time when I had 11 hour train rides from and back forth to my home city and barracks.

Kossak said:

Nooo, you play WoW? :) I have never played it but i guess THE time is slowly coming. But somehow i don't feel ok with paying monthly fee for playing.

Paying monthly isn't that bad. For me it's actually cheaper to play Age of Conan than buying games.

I pay at average around 10€ each month, but when I buy a newly released retail game at a UK shop I pay around 25-30€. Since I usually play a MMO for a couple of months, I end up saving money. I will not buy my next game before fall I guess.

I only played Age of Conan and Ultima Online yet, but both are very like a "single-player" RPG. You follow a story, do quest, level up and collect items. Like in Dragon Age, but instead of your party members being NPC's they are real people. Which is a lot of fun if you are social person.

Also MMORPG's are huge. It took me 80 hours to finish Dragon Age. It will take me maybe 200 hours to see 3/4 of the world. But you should only play MMO's if you are a more consistent player. If you like to play a game from the beginning to the end. Because you have lliterally to conquer the world and you can't do this in a day. :)

If you get rather quickly bored with games avoid MMO's at all costs. I have friends that have more 100 games in Steam but only played each for not more than 6-12 hours before quitting.

So if you get quickly bored and need a new game you should instead consider a http://www.metaboli.co.uk/ subscription. You pay a monthly fee like in a MMO, but you can play every game they offer unlimited. If you play a game on average only for 10-15 hours, this service may cheaper than buying games. Even compared to the weekend deals offers.

Slava said:

To pay for playing online is a bad habit!   It's a clear message to greedy game developers that gamers are ready to pay. I paid for the game. That's enough. I should not pay for anything else!

 

I am afraid very soon we will pay for playing online fps games, like console boys do

You can't compare MMO's to normal games. Because MMOs are huge.
Normal games don't have the same amount of content like MMOs have. Beside the development of a MMO never stops. The game keeps growing and become bigger each month. Dragon Age is good exsample because the combat system
it very MMO like, but the content of the game is maybe less than 10% of Age
of Conan and less than 2-3% of WoW.

Also don't forget you don't play a MMO alone on your computer at home with yourself but with thousands in cases like WoW with million of people. This requires a huge amount of hardware for the servers, the bandwidth which cost a lot alone. Know what the trickiest part about maintaining a MMO is? The database. You have to keep track of every character, every item and when, where and why he acquired it. All data must be processed by the server to avoid manipulation.

It's literllay terrabites of data that need to be process and protected form loss in real time to avoid corruption.

Maybe there is clarification need what a MMO acutally is.
I recommend to you the Wikipedia entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M…..nline_game

stranded said:

Fuck yea, now I'm buying virtual money for WOW. xD

Lol, we lost you.