Why Do MMORPG Players get bored with their chosen game?

 Ever wondered why you can't seem to find a game and stick to it? Or Maybe you just get tired of playing a game super quickly (relatively). Let's take a look at some possible cause and solutions to your gaming woes.

 After playing games for many years, MMORPGs in particular, I have noticed some odd behavior, from myself as well as some of my close colleagues. We binge play... That's right...binge. I am going to use Steam as an example here, and not the steam that's caused by boiling water. Anyhow, I was looking through the player reviews on Steam the other day for an MMO that isn't even quite a month and a half old yet. I seen multiple posts stating the game was horrible and very few were positive. I then took a closer look at the played time of these bad reviews vs. the play times of the good reviews.

 I was astounded, some of these folks had already sunk well over 300 hours into this game! I thought to myself,  "No wonder these folks think it sucks, they are burned out!" You simply can't do anything for 300 hours in a month and still enjoy it, well, maybe some people can. Let's break this down, 300 hours is over 12 days! Almost half of the month you spent, grinding away at this one poor game! Drop the keyboard, citizen. Now, step away from the keyboard, slowly, hands where I can see them!! I mean come on, snap into reality, anything will not be fun if done that much.

 So, after realizing that the bad reviews were simply due to tedium and not any fault of the actual game, I decided to download it, and I can safely say... The game ain't that bad. Now, I'm not here to tell anyone how much to game or how to game, I'm just pointing out the facts. But now that we have explored that one problem, what can we do to fix it and enjoy games again?

 I would like to use food consumption as an analogy here, mostly because I am hungry as I write this. Let's say I love... I don't know, spaghetti. If I took one month and ate spaghetti for every meal, I bet by the end of that month, spaghetti would be my least favorite food, so instead of gorging on something I love every day, all day, I mix up my food and eat different things. Gaming should probably be the same way, maybe pick two or three MMOs and even single player games that you enjoy. Mix and match them, maybe play this game for an hour, gain a level, then play another game, or alternate games on days. I used to do that with WoW and FFXI and still do it to this day with the games I play. It works wonders, and you are actually excited to play games. No games really suck if played in this way... Okay, that may be a stretch, some games do just suck...

 At any rate, hope you all are having a great 2016 so far. We've got a lot of great titles coming this year, and I can't wait to try them all. Peace out, and remember, game on like you're not already 5 mins late!