Alright... this turned out to be a longer post than what I thought it would be but here goes:
FF was my first game to seriously spend a lot of time in an MMO world, get to know every single detail about it. I watched youtube videos and dev talks, and got more and more curious about the beta. So I signed up.
I spent a lot of time exploring areas, using different weapons etc. but after time the game got way too complex to keep up. There was a million different crafting items to make special guns, etc. and I just gave up after a while. It didn't help that they made item destruction a thing so I vowed to forever be a stock-only player and refuse to craft items if they were just gonna disappear.
I had planned on getting more involved socially with groups in the game too, so I did. I belonged to a few great armies and groups but overall I say I am a solo player (just like Kirito in Sword Art Online).
It wasn't too long that I discovered that there was this new open world boss called Baneclaw, and not many people could kill it.
I had some brilliant ideas in my head to zerg rush the creature with as many people as I could get from zone (people said it was crazy to even attempt), and it proved to work! Although the servers started to die with that many people in the game in one area. I kept at this plan of zerging everything in the game and getting to know many other players this way. If there was a huge event, I wanted to be a part of it. I soon hit limits with the friend lists, with over 1000+ players.
With the zerging came a lot of territorial beef. Another user was quite jealous and angry that we had stolen the spotlight from him regarding Baneclaw raids, after I proved that it was so easy with many people attacking at once. He was an elitist prick, a guy that thought only his group could kill the boss. He was not inclusive of other players, something I absolutely had to stand against. I think all players should get a chance. He made it his goal to attack us whenever possible and went as far as to DDOS many of us who had joined his teamspeak server at one point. It's okay though because I destroyed him.
I kept at this zerg plan for many of the other events in the game. We had key missions which I zerged and held events for. They were fun but frustrating at times because of the RNG drops. This is how I spent my time in firefall, just doing events for people and having fun.
Invasions were a thing and I had addons and invite helpers set up to mass-zerg rush any possible server. People would join, get the loot and the rewards, and then we would quickly shard-hop into another zone and get the rewards there, and keep going. Later on these were also removed from game.
Soon after, the events in FireFall just disappeared. It was no longer possible to group up for anything. I think it was after this time I just got more and more frustrated with the community because all they would do is whine and complain in the forums. I made fun of them because it's so easy, and this created a lot of enemies for myself. I don't really mind though.
I am back to being a solo player.
I dislike multiplayer games even more and more lately...
I think it's because I am a coop player, I don't PVP, I am not competitive at all.
Give me a good storyline and I will be content to just make my own fun.
That's me in a nutshell. Just waiting to see if Ember will be developed. If not, plenty of other games to still work on.
I have a Steam backlog and also a huge collection of PS3/PS4 games which I am working on.
