General discussion about motivation for you very high level people

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telove2

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So once you've reached 65, got many hundreds of AA's, some tomes, and a full set of fantastic raid gear, what keeps you motivated at that point to keep playing?

For me a large part of my motivation is to see all the zones and to build up my character to be strong enough that I can solo all over the place. So that'll keep me busy for a year or two... But I wonder where you would find the motivation after you've done all that and more. I'm sure some people just quit, but I've seen lots of people who seem to have everything, and yet still play every day. What motivates those people? Do they even have any goals left?

I know the very expensive charms could act as a goal. But if you have a full set of raid gear and lots of AA's, is one of those expensive charms really going to make that much difference to you?

In live this was helped by the new expansions coming out all the time. If you wanted to keep continuing to see new stuff, you had to continue to build up your character constantly. I guess with the devs working on an expansion for SoD, that will work here to hopefully. Although a de-motivator for me in Live, was that once I had full raid gear, all the normal loot and zones became very tame in comparison, and unless you wanted the loot purely to sell or give to your alts, it wasn't much use.
 
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Charms make a huge difference, but they are also mostly for completeness sake.

The two things that keep me going are my friends who I play with, and the waiting around for Ikisith. Raiding Sanctum can sometimes be fun too.

Most people make alts. Lots and lots of alts.
 
My motivation comes in ups and downs. Mainly because my playtime is quite variable. I have been on this server now since april 2005, i have been level 65 since a few months after that (slow start, didnt know any1 yet). Shortly after having joined Exodus in october '07 i reached max aa's (546) and currently i am exactly halfway with tomes.

All in all i can say i dont xp that hardcore, but then again... there have been periods where i DID. There have been times that i thought to myself... why am i still doing this? (as do my guildies :p they keep thinking wtf is beit still doing here :p but they wont get me down :p)

But in the end, i always keep comming back to this game. Altough lately (past year or so) i have been able to find a better balance between gaming and real life, unlike in the past!

But when speaking of motivation to keep playing. I play because i love this game as i always have. Here and back on Live (when it was still good). I play because i think this game is fun (at least, with Niko on /ignore during raids it is fun ;)). I play because i want to keep developing my char (I am a real freak for stats and the better they get the happier i am). I play because of cool quests (Most recently the Sihala augment, cool quest. To bad i raced trough it so fast tho). I play because of cool content (cant wait to see Ikisith).

Sure I would love to upgrade plat related stuff like my charm, but for that i simply do not have the time. A proper 40+hr job really undermines ones ability to grind 10-20k a day out of those silly trees :(. So i guess i am not really playing because i 'MUST' upgrade my charm. But more because of the game itself, the people i play with (despite all of them being dramaqueens :p) and generally because its just the most awesome mmorg ever :)
 
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