Attendance.

Well, been a while now since my last post on Rohan, to be honest, I've been getting less and less motivated to play that game. It was fun during the first 2 weeks, but it's starting to show its true colors...

Pretty much started after the item mall was introduced, I didn't mind since it's a F2P game, they need it, then seeing the prices on some items just almost made me fall off my chair. I personally didn't buy anything yet, nothing really interests me other than the new pets, an non-critical mount, some scrolls. I wanted to buy them, being an impulse buyer, but I have to stop myself and think, is this all worth my time? Now I start to understand why the lowered exp gains and long grind parties, they want you to purchase those exp and mob-kill scrolls, I mean it's still an option, but for some it's mandatory in order to save time, now it's just who gets higher level, it's not even fun no more.

I originally thought that playing the game was for the community and friends, which is true in some ways, but later on I felt that my online friends are merely there, to...waste time before finding something else better to do, I feel the same way, only thing that really pushes me away is the long grind. A great part of the community pretty much went poof with the recent uproar on the mall and some changes in game which there was no patch notes for some damn reason. Only people left are fans, diehards and a few latching on with hopes of seeing the game getting fixed. The rush was over and the hype left many disappointed in another potential but failed game. I still play the game, but only a few hours every other day rather than clocking in 10-15 per day.

Of course every game has to have a staple of bots and RMT sites, oh you can turn off the channels, but they're still there spamming all day, all night. Really annoying to log on and first thing to see on chat is RMT sites spamming every 5 seconds.

I feel like playing most of the MMOs are like work, rather than being fun. Oh sure, there's new things to do, can explore, enjoy the eye-candy, play with friends, but in the end, its starting to feel like you have to work for the game now, I don't need another "job" in-game.

Another thing I really don't understand why the need for long grinds for anything in order to get the better part of the game, Don't mind the game to last long, make my money worth paying for, but I really don't need to be a semi-robot doing the same things over and over again, I can only tolerate grinds if its worth it or mean something. I really hope they put back the meaning of "fun" instead of "work" in games someday.