Since my last post on EdgeWorld, I have met a whole new set of people, made a lot of new friends and chat a lot more than I play. Started playing on a new sector called Aquila. The chat reminds me of my days with CS and AOE2.
I always used to chat a lot! I mean I would chat while I am not dead on a Counter Strike 5v5 match (some screws missing up there. I know right!) And in AOE, my allies would know everything I did, I mean everything (Now you know why I beat you in 1v1 and still was only 15xx :P) My seniors and friends would make fun of me and ask me to use gtalk or the new-at-that-time, Omegle.
Perhaps I am the average gamer of a very different type of a game. MMO! Chat is the heart of these games perhaps. I would have quit EdgeWorld in like 2 days if it weren’t for the chat. (It still sucks with the censoring and all but thats content for another post perhaps) Its not the gameplay or anything essentially that makes this game different from mafia wars (I am not sure if they added it now, they hadnt when I quit playing it) Its the chat! The people to be more specific.
I see this strange move in liking from the fast paced games to the slower ones which usually stretch long enough in time to let you play with work and other things and can be played all day long too if you want to. Your progress in the game hardly gets affected by these factors. Why is it engaging then? The answer is in the weirdos and people with same feathers you meet in the game! I have made a very long term relation with most of my alliance members and some global peeps too. Its really strange because we do not know each other outside of the game and yet feel so connected and tuned at a certain level… We cant see each other or even know if the other person is real, yet we can get so attached. Which brings me to 2 lessons of my life…
- I was made to play MMOs only. The chat and slow paced games are a bliss for me
- Its never the graphics or tech or gameplay in any game, its the people!