View From the Bottom #9

In the ninth “View From the Bottom” feature on RPG Vault, Spiderweb Software’s Jeff Vogel tells us why the endgame content in MMORPGs is pointless and “stupid.”

Meanwhile, you’ve spent two months slowly starving in your basement, trapped under the Alienware rig that fell on you, sustained only by the vermin you were able to lure into your mouth using your tongue as bait.

Thanks a lot, role-playing game.

You might continue to play out of an obsessive-compulsive desire to be the best, to beat everything, to WIN. This will never work. They own the treadmill. They can always make it longer. Remember EverQuest? It came out in 1999? Soon, it will have its FOURTEENTH expansion. The most recent one is so hard that, months after its release, only a teeny tiny portion of the surprisingly large number of people who still play that game have seen the end of it.