tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468445391676431218.post4365083374645204500..comments2020-03-26T02:54:58.391-07:00Comments on The Pensive Harpy: [Why I'm Not Talking About What I'm Playing]Paihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108169893140762249noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468445391676431218.post-8868279032030549992014-07-30T20:54:25.872-07:002014-07-30T20:54:25.872-07:00I can't play a MMO where I'm not attached ...I can't play a MMO where I'm not attached to my characters. Above any other aspect, Character creation and class options have to work for me first for me to even try a game. I generally spend an inordinate amount of time in character creation...<br /><br />I've had this blog a long time; maybe I've just moved past wanting to write about games as much as I want to play them. It seems every period of inactivity with my blog is longer and longer.Paihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14108169893140762249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5468445391676431218.post-63839658765954245492014-07-30T15:16:16.088-07:002014-07-30T15:16:16.088-07:00That's an interesting way of looking at it. Pr...That's an interesting way of looking at it. Pretty much the reverse of mine, though.<br /><br />I was a writer long before I ever played a video game. Before there were video games, in fact. I always wanted to write about the things I enjoyed at least as much as I wanted to enjoy the things themselves. I wrote about music, comics, books, movies and now it's games. I can easily imagine not gaming any more but not writing? That's never going to happen.<br /><br />I would also have to contend quite vigorously with the contention that any MMO vet would tell you that maintaining "a core community of folks that I enjoy playing and talking with...is the backbone of having roots in any game long term". I'm an MMO vet and that has literally nothing whatsoever to do with why I've played certain MMOs for years at a time.<br /><br />I play MMOs to spend time with my characters not with other players. My characters are real to me in a way few other players ever have been. So long as I have even one character in a given MMO that I feel a bond with, my roots in that MMO are ineradicable. Characters are permanent. Characters are real. Other players are ships in the night. <br /><br />As for whether people would be interested in reading your thoughts on FFXIV - of course they would. I read blogs about plenty of MMOs I don't play and probably will never play. In some ways that's actually more interesting than reading about ones I know well. Of course, if you don't enjoy writing about the games your playing that's another matter entirely but don't for a moment stop because you don't think there's an audience. Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.com