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Originally Posted by keg in kc
I've been playing MMOs solo for 15 years. You don't have to do any of the raiding or PvP if you don't want to. There's always plenty to do without it, and the gameworlds are immense and always growing. Which is why, like Pants, the Bethesda games never seem to engage me all that much. It's like having the grind part of an MMO without anything else.
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I definitely understand that viewpoint, but when I played MMOs (WoW mostly, with some TOR thrown in near the end), it got to the point that I didn't enjoy playing casually and being surrounded by people with better gear, higher PvP ranks, etc. I didn't enjoy myself unless I was better than almost everyone else, but the process of doing so took too much time and was endlessly stressful due to the ever-improving competition.
Now that I literally can't regularly devote parts of my day to raiding or organized PvP, the single-player RPGs like Skyrim allow me to get that sense of progression and fun without having to worry about falling behind because I have to work late or go would prefer to go on a date.
To each their own, though; if your social group supports it and your work is flexible, I think that MMOs can probably be reasonably integrated into a normal person's life.