The Daily Grind: When do you stop paying attention to parts of the game?

I believe most people don't read quest text due to most games just TELL you where to go and what to do.

Whatever happened to games that give you a quest and you have to READ it and decide where to go next.

Exploration in games has been diminished.

Sad.

Generally once I start feeling that apathetic about playing, I stop playing for a while and go check out another game. The only time I really won't stop to read quest text is when its getting late and I don't have that much time left to game, or its a daily quest that I don't need to read for the 100th time...

Yeah, quest text is obsolete since games started highlighting where you needed to go on your map. Though if I ever read it, I usually get all the quests from a hub and then read the journal entry for the quest I'm about to do.

Don't worry Massively, your butterflies aren't ignored by all.

I stopped playing WoW when I started to nod off during raids. Sure my white damage during boss battles was actually quite good, but that was a clear indicator that I wasn't having any fun.

i dont usually read quests/CS unless its important lore wise
like quest related to lichking in wow , or mission CS in ffxi

The website code wouldn't let me put less than or greater than, so here is the full quest text.

Gormungan the Giant says - "Hallo again, soft little friend. What's that you have there?"

Character - Here, eat this! It's a special chocolate rock.

-Gormungan eyes the laxative with suspicion, then sniffs it. With visible irritation, he begins smooshing and molding the laxative into the shape of a goblin.-

Gormungan the Giant says - "I suspect your little green friends are putting you up to no good. Please explain to them that we giants are not to be toyed with."

-To demonstrate his point, Gormungan twists the head off of his chocolaty goblin statue before handing it back to you.)-

PvE content in WAR. The devs ignore it and so do the players...generally.

I tried to read the quests in the beta of Rift (to find mistakes to report and to get a bit of the lore down....worked as I hate Guardians now). Might try and read them a bit more in other games too.

The funny thing with players is, they will skip everything they can, find the quickest way to level (even if it involves sitting in one place killing the same creature over and over), buy gold to get the best gear faster/easier, get friends to power-level them up to high level, etc etc.

And then after they bypass the game in everyway possible like mentioned above, they will say how they are bored and there is nothing to do.

Players ruin games for themselves by letting their desire for the instant win override the fun of exploring and discovering in the game. How many people (if you are in the rare situation where an MMO doesn't give you an arrow, highlight and area of the map, and highlight which mob to kill) that can't instantly figure out what to do on a quest go on to a wiki site to get the walkthrough on it?

MMO gamers turned into a feverish group trying to get their next ding fix. They started needing to level as fast as possible, get the best gear as fast as possible, and get the rarest items in the game, all so that they could then stand in a capital city with nothing to do but show how cool their rare mount and gear looks.

MMOs just fed the players what they wanted. When players wanted to level faster, they upped the xp (How many modern MMOs take over 1-2 weeks to get to max level?). When players went to wiki sites to get a walkthrough for every quest, the MMOs started giving them an in game walk through with highlights and arrows. When players wanted to keep buying virtual items with real life money, MMOs started sticking in stores with special items for real world money.

Players caused the crap fest the MMO world is now by their greed. It is amazing how few MMO players actually want a world to explore, discover, and just plain have fun in at a casual pace anymore.