Why do you play OGame?

This time without posts like in the last thread and only serious answers

its a free game and i dont have any money right now to play my other games or to buy new ones i should leave to get to studying but meh plus my aim is to be number 1 in fleet im at 60 right now

Started playing OGame as a kid around 10-ish years ago. I couldn't really afford anything else than browser games. I've been playing since that with bigger&smaller breaks.


Today as an adult I have a gaming PC that runs pretty much any game on the market but I still find OGame one of the most compedetive games of all times. Too bad it costs around 80€ every month to remain on the top of the ladder but hey, every game costs money and the GF employees got kids to feeds me bills to pay like every other human being.
Waste my money here or on my Steam account, does it even matter?


Also, I find it perfect that I can bring OGame with me in my phone at all times. I can check on the badass fleeters while working or waiting outside the dentist office. If we would still live in the '00 PC only era I'd have probably quited by now

Started with coworkers showing me the game and then I got a few friends from outside that job that thought Ogame looked cool enough to try.. even tho all the coworkers all had a few months head start I was the only one of the group to take it to an extreme by playing at home and not just work, memorized all the inactives that was around me back in the old Uni 25 days and surpassed everyone I knew in real life playing .. but then 1 year later from then I was the only one I knew still playing..luckily I made friends from all over the world that helped me stay connected to Ogame so that'd I wouldn't be going at it alone.

Now I have a drive to be Rank 1 in researches in my 1x speed uni, so until the day i have my 13th planet and other high level techs i just can't bring my self to stop playing even after the 8-10 years it's been..

also i don't built defence any more but at one point my goal was for someone to probe me and take the time to message me saying "never mind" but I've been slacking.. so that won't happen lol

also funny cause Ogame's the only reason I have data on my phone, was the reason I got a very old laptop while working at a pawn shop which the store passed on due to specs although buddy just wanted enough money for a pack of smoke so since i'd rather use a mouse and keyboard over a phone was a good $10 investment

I was in a boardgaming group and all were playing OGame so I decided to join along with some friends outside that group. We waged wars against each other and it was pretty much fun for a while. Eventually everybody got bored and left the game or was banned.

I am the only one of the people who I knew in the flesh who kept on playing.

OGame for me now is a distraction when my brain gets stuck. Kind of a virtual zen garden.

I started OGame back in high school because 2 of my brothers played it. They said that the game was "impossible" to play because higher ranked players kept crashing them, and after arguing with one of them that the game wasn't impossible, he challenged me by saying that I wouldn't be able to survive in it any better than they did. Naturally, I decided to prove them wrong. Nearly 10 years later, I'm still playing and thriving while my brothers have quit within months of their starts. They never realized about the strategy of fleet-saving or attacking for profit, and were too thickheaded to try to learn how the game should actually be played -.-. Although my brothers always liked to to talk the big talk, none of them really had the drive to be competitive like I do...

I continue to play OGame because I'm not someone that likes giving up, which quitting the game is to me. I also enjoy meeting and talking with people all around the world from different wakes of life, and my alliance fits that criteria with players from the USA, Europe, Middle-east, Asia, etc. Also, I continue to play OGame because for all the problems the game has, the game really isn't THAT broken as long as players follow the rules and respect one another. Also, unlike most other browser games, OGame isn't such a huge money sinkhole when compared to Evony for example. I believe I spend ~$100 a year on OGame, which is honestly not that bad when you compare it to an Xbox game which costs $60 without any DLC's. If I want, I can spend as much as a couple of hours a day raiding, or as little as 5 minutes a day fleet-saving, while still making regular progress in the game.

Overall OGame is not perfect, but it's a solid browser game and I see myself playing it for years to come .

I started to play ogame about 14 years ago in portuguese uni 19 .
I'm still arround , but not as active as i used to be
Everyone i knew that played ogame when i started don't play anymore .
I play for fun , but I really love to see those big wallets getting passed by me while i spent 0€ , that's my main motivation

This is a good question that I have asked myself and have no real answer. I used to play due to real life friends playing but they all quit years ago. Ive quit and come back 2 or 3 times and I think there is some empty void in my life I use ogame to fill, I find myself having a constant internal battle over whether to quit or play even harder. I find ogame is like reaching for the stars no matter how hard you try or how much time and effort (sometimes money) you put into it one can never "win".

eh maybe I just have an addictive personality and that keeps me going haha

I very much enjoy playing OGame due to the competitive nature and there is quite a lot of skill involved for such a simple game. It's a great game to play with friends, forming an alliance, arranging attacks, working with each other in order to take out other players.

i don't have an answer either. i've been planning to retire for about 5 years now and i'm still here.

At this point I really don't know why I keep playing lol I started this 12 years ago cuz I wanted to play with family and friends as we did in uní 1 but after the years I really don't know why I'm still here jajaja maybe one day I will stop playing but until then I will keep doing what I have done in all these years jajaj

Honestly, I have no idea. I think it's due to the friends i've met ingame. That and it gives me something to do whilst at work

My answer is much the same as most of you guys.

I started playing ogame 10 years ago now. It's hard to believe it's been that long. A friend of mine in school showed me the game and I was instantly addicted haha. I've had friends join over the years but they have all long since quit the game.

My first few years I didn't make too much progress and I also didn't spend a cent on this game. Now I spend about €150 per year which is really not much considering the fun I have. I've built many accounts but my Wasat account is my pride account and finally reached rank 1 for research and rank 4 overall.

Why I play is simple. It's because of the people I have met over the years. I still talk to those I first met through this game back in school. I'm now moved out, finished college and have a nice high paying job lol. Yet they have been with me along the way and personally I think that's pretty cool.

Erebos

Edit: I haven't spent a cent on this game in over 6 months and after the deletion of the old threads I never will again. I don't need to either.

Like others here, I started playing about 10 years ago, late 2006. A wee confused newbie, I was completely seduced by the apparent harshness of the game. The fact that someone could lose years' work with one careless decision was the primary attraction for me, not a negative as it is treated today. After 5k points there was no such thing as newbie protection, and I liked it that way. You got thrown in with the sharks and had to learn how to swim, quickly.

My very first serious alliance required me to do a succesful blind lanx set up by them, before I could join. I actually practised my game skills back then, sat up with friends all night watching debris fields, had numerous spreadsheets open to keep track of target movement and activity. There was no such thing as 'auto escape', 'colony fleetsave' (mid-game pre-MD) or 'wreck fields' to keep you safe from the big bad OWorld, and I firmly believe that is why it was so succesful back then: people played precisely because it was difficult.

Today, I hunt 'sunshine moments' in the game: brief moments of thrill where glimmers of the excitement of yesteryear shows its face again. Most of the time, it is a fata morgana. Yet I still chase it, stubborn as I am in my ONaivité.

I currently play for the human interaction, I love talking to and meeting people from all over the world.
There are so many different kinds of people playing this game. It used to be about finding the next big hit but as I get older I'm alot more chilled and do more mining than anything else.
I love building accounts up from scratch. It is very satisfying