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Have you ever played any MMORPG with stories? You know, story background on what is your character’s purpose inside the game or what is the story behind your hometown etc.?? No?? You don’t even know what I’m talking about?? Then maybe you’re one of the players who only kill monsters and don’t bother to read anything on your screen. Let me tell you about stories. Either background, story of your character, story of your quest and so on are all important. Why? Because without it there is “no life” on the game itself. Before choosing a game what are the factors you first consider? And please don’t include the PC specs, graphics etc because we already know those are important depending on your taste. What I mean is what type of game are you looking? Racing? Shooting? Pvp? Horror type?? After choosing a type of game what’s next?? After you gathered your list of games what’s next?? Here is the list of why story matters in any games (online, offline, etc) 1. Without story there is no context - Why would you do a quest in a first place then? If a NPC told you to go beat this monster you’ll just go there without knowing who, how and WHY?? It’s like you’re playing like a robot following instructions of anyone. Even if you don’t follow what they say what will you do then? Kill randomly whoever at your sight because you were given a weapon? Ok.. I can see the ending already. Massacre.. 2. Without story there is only pure grind - Before MMOs became popular, games are like brickgame, pacman etc. which have a common grinding. It just goes faster and faster but the stages are the same. When leveling up a character was invented, a total grindfest was establish and did you enjoy it? Just leveling up your character to the max without knowing why would you even bother to do that? Pure grinding is one of the most hated methods when playing a game. It’s like you’re repeating the same process over and over again. Now if you add a story to pure grinding it’s like a bit of light was given to your dark world. Now you will know the purpose why you need to grind. This little light can make the game a bit entertaining don’t you think? 3. Without story, RPG won’t exist - That’s why it's called RPG. Role Playing Game. A game where your character has a role like an artist or an adventurer. Just because it’s just a game it doesn’t mean we can’t add a bit twist to it right? Popular games now such as Aion, maple story, wow, etc. can never be invented. That’s why it became popular, because of the story lines, backgrounds, character info’s and other stuff that made most players wonder or excited to play it. Even if just a game, just once you can be someone which is impossible in reality. You can be in a different world which doesn’t exist in real life. We can play a different character that we love.