How long do you usually play a MMORPG before quitting?

I don't have an average amount of time. I play until it stops being interesting or until it's changed into something I don't like.

Oh, and you didn't have an addiction. Please don't abuse that word. Addiction is a serious disease with a clinical definition and clear parameters. Something you spend a lot of time on or a habit isn't necessarily an addiction. Addictions don't wear off. They are a serious lifelong chronic condition.

 

It depends. If the game is really that interesting and constantly evolving I will stick with it for very long but I try to manage my obsession. It helps that I mostly just watch streams and tournaments for the most part so I'm not really spending too much time playing so I don't tire that easily.

 

Addictions do not wear off. Addiction is a life long chronic condition. You are using an inaccurate colloquial definition of the word. You were not addicted.

 

I've been playing FF14 for about two years now pretty consistently, taking a few smallish breaks during the first few months. For the past year and a half now, I've been subbed the entire time. Unlike a lot of MMO's, Square Enix is super good with consistent, quality content updates so I've never really felt like I've wanted to quit.

 

I played UO for about 4-5 years, then quit because of a bad expansion. Then I went to Earth and Beyond, but about 6 months into it, they announced it was closing down. I then started WOW a few months after it launched and have played it up until last year. At the same time I played WOW, I also played a lot of DDO when WOW was in content droughts. I never grind gear.. basically once I beat the raid, that is it for me for that content patch. Get all my alts to level cap, and see the content once on my main, and then play DDO.

I quit WOW last year and haven´t played many MMORPGs until last week trying UO again.

 

I've been wanting to try this game out since forever. Now that I have a bit more time I'm thinking of picking it up. I'm sure I'll get hooked on it too. If it's really that good I'll probably play it for years since I do tend to go that far with games I grow to love.

 

It depends on how many of my friends play. I honestly would not still be playing the MMO I main, if my best friend didn't play it also. She's literally one of the only reasons I both to log on anymore, since it's one of the ways we hang out with each other. I used to play Gaia Online's zOMG! (Shut up I know, I was like 13.) but since almost none of the my friends played it, I stopped after several months. Come August I'll have been playing my main (Vindictus) a year. A lot of people say the game is dying out, but I don't really think so. We just got a new director, who has promised to stop making new characters (We have 9 playable characters already, enough!) and instead is planning on new content, like raids and new battle areas. Which should breathe some life back into the game.

 

It took me 8 years to get off Ragnarok completely and I didn't have a choice already back then because I was away from my personal computer a lot, I graduated college and I suppose I just grew out of it. But if I installed Ragnarok now, gaming in a private server probably then I might still be addicted again.

 

It depends on the game. For example, I played Dragon Nest for a week before I gave up on it, simply because it was a boring game that took a lot of grinding to get through.On the other hand I've been playing League of Legends for 6 years.

 

Dragon Nest was interesting and the characters were cool, but not a lot of people played it at the time and you had to do a lot of grinding to even get proper starter items. Not a game I'm willing to invest my time in.

 

Well as long as I am enjoying the whole experience and the community, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna stay as long as the game exists. But if ever I get some problems like I'm grinding too hard and I can't feel the excitement anymore I would definitely quit playing. Like now, I am playing League but since it isn't as fun as before, I'm starting to just troll whenever I play. I mean the community isn't that good in the server I'm playing in. Once one of my team mates started trash talking, it would be feeding time and helping the enemy team locate the jungler.

 

I never set a time when I'm playing MMORPG (that would make me totally out of focus ), so... I keep playing until the moment that I think the game is interesting.

Giving up has never - and it never will - be a part of my vocabulary.

 

For me it really depends on the game itself and the story. I can usually play an MMORPG for a while, up to a couple months before getting a bit bored with it and moving on to the next game. Then I might go back to play it.

 

For me, it's a pretty basic concept: if the story or the execution of the game doesn't catch my attention = game over.

 

It is more of the gameplay itself as well as the controls and graphics. But those other elements do come into play.

 

Yeah, I kinda agree with you. Everything ends up being part of the same package, haha! So, it's fine by me.