Hey everyone, I intended to make this thread yesterday but I couldnt get on the site.
The title basically says it all. The point of this thread isnt to give me the old generic response, "yeah I play Runescape but I am the pussy destroyer", not only do I or mostly anybody else give one - this is not the thread for it.
I mean, I'm not addicted personally like I need to skip school to play or I ditch going out with people to play but lets dumb down the word's meaning for a sec and give it a more mild connotation.
How long have you guys been on the snowballing effect with Runescape? You do one nice thing, you reach one nice goal and you want more? After getting 99 fletching you get 99 cooking to trim your "bland" green cape that you HAD to have, after 99 cooking you get 99 combat's and decide you need higher prayer so you buy gold because who the hell would waste their time collecting gold and wow does that open up a lot of things. A year goes by and you are botting a java-based game 6 hours a day and are spending a hundred dollars just to get a "99" next to the crafting icon.
The sad truth is that most of us seem to forget the purpose of the game and that is to have fun. Immediately after I reach a goal I usually feel accomplished for 2 hours but then get used to it and strive on for a new goal. This goes for 99's as well. It seems with Runescape that there will never be enough sometimes for some people and sometimes that person ends up with a max cape.
What do you guys think? Sometimes do you feel as though your intrinsic motivation is just a motivation based off of feeling "good" and having good "numbers"? As your game time is devoted to training and feeling the need/urge to rather than to have fun?
Edit: On a second note, I remember when 99's felt like you actually earned something like 5-7 years ago and deserved a cape because of your hard work - now many 99's are standards. "You cant boss here if you dont have ovl's, turm, yak and a chaotic". Think how much time goes into 96 herblore, 95 prayer, 96 summoning and 80 DG alone - nevermind anything else. Psychologically, that is grind central, there is a slim chance that majority of people think training all of that and preparing all of that money for those skills is a fun thing to do.
The title basically says it all. The point of this thread isnt to give me the old generic response, "yeah I play Runescape but I am the pussy destroyer", not only do I or mostly anybody else give one - this is not the thread for it.
I mean, I'm not addicted personally like I need to skip school to play or I ditch going out with people to play but lets dumb down the word's meaning for a sec and give it a more mild connotation.
How long have you guys been on the snowballing effect with Runescape? You do one nice thing, you reach one nice goal and you want more? After getting 99 fletching you get 99 cooking to trim your "bland" green cape that you HAD to have, after 99 cooking you get 99 combat's and decide you need higher prayer so you buy gold because who the hell would waste their time collecting gold and wow does that open up a lot of things. A year goes by and you are botting a java-based game 6 hours a day and are spending a hundred dollars just to get a "99" next to the crafting icon.
The sad truth is that most of us seem to forget the purpose of the game and that is to have fun. Immediately after I reach a goal I usually feel accomplished for 2 hours but then get used to it and strive on for a new goal. This goes for 99's as well. It seems with Runescape that there will never be enough sometimes for some people and sometimes that person ends up with a max cape.
What do you guys think? Sometimes do you feel as though your intrinsic motivation is just a motivation based off of feeling "good" and having good "numbers"? As your game time is devoted to training and feeling the need/urge to rather than to have fun?
Edit: On a second note, I remember when 99's felt like you actually earned something like 5-7 years ago and deserved a cape because of your hard work - now many 99's are standards. "You cant boss here if you dont have ovl's, turm, yak and a chaotic". Think how much time goes into 96 herblore, 95 prayer, 96 summoning and 80 DG alone - nevermind anything else. Psychologically, that is grind central, there is a slim chance that majority of people think training all of that and preparing all of that money for those skills is a fun thing to do.
