Yes, I'm one of those folks in the beta of Google's overlayed-reality game Ingress (http://ingress.com). And here's my impression after a month-and-change of playing.
(Much of the article is directed to other Ingress players, so some of the terminology may be obscure. Apologies for that.)
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Ingress – Play thoughts after a month
“In the heart. In the head. I won’t stay dead. Next time I’ll do the same to you. I’ll kill you. And it goes on, the good old game of war, pawn against pawn! Stopping the ba…
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Do you have any invites?
No, sorry, I do not.
Its okay
+Dave Hill So I give you the difference between Ingress and WOW, I still think they all have the same issue as the online game I'm playing. There is not defined end and no way to lose. I admit here I haven't played Ingress so only speculating.
But the online games I play get boring. There is no engaging new mission or larger strategy to tackle. Or maybe as I age I become more of an asshole critic.
And maybe that's in part where I'm coming from, an MMO world where there are expectations of an end-game, of being able to re-explore the world with another newly-rolled character, etc. Sure, there are plenty of games that when you are through, you are through. Or that are essentially the same game, going on forever, which leads to burn-out and quitting. The problem I see is that Ingress is one of these last, and that's not a model that's going to get Google the data I think it wants out of ths.
I agree. But maybe they are calculating this like a 411 type thing. They are only looking for a defined period of data. But that would seem odd as the potential for this is pretty huge.
My point above I guess is, are there any online games out there that dont get old after 3-6 months? So far I haven't found one. The strategy/board games I'm getting into seem to hold their value a bit more for me.
Most good MMOs and MMO players I know of expect more than 3-6 months of fun from something, and the upgrade cycles seem designed around that. In a week or so we would be hitting my 8th (9th?) anniversary with City of Heroes, had it not been canceled by NCSoft late last year.
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