... I couldn't stand more than 15 minutes in WAR before I had to find a bucket. Biggest failure since viking raider-king Olaf the Red ordered 20,000 helmets with the horns on the inside. I'm glad I never got around to pay for this.
So playing a game for 15 minutes and personally not liking it = "biggest failure".
That's rational.
"If you just step away for a sec you will clearly see all the pot holes in the road, and the cash shop selling asphalt..." - Mimzel on F2P/Cash Shops
Trust me, I really really wanted to give WAR a chance.. I've been into warhammer since 1996 and GW games since around 1992 and I'm a big fan.. but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I knew before I logged in that it was a WoW clone (and I hate WoW), but since it's warhammer... you know.. I had to try it.
You went into the game with your mind already made up that it was a WoW clone, a game that you hate.
So, you'd already come to your conclusion about the game, went in expecting to not like it and were simply looking for things to support that conclusion.
Yes, I'd say that is rather closed-minded.
If you'd gone in with an open mind, you'd have left any thoughts of "WoW" at the door, played the game, checked out its features, gameplay, overall "feel", etc... as the game Mythic designed it to be, not the game you assumed it to be... that would be open-minded.
Just like LoTRO, once you get past the superficial elements of WAR that are common to most MMOs (because there are elements that are simply a staple of MMOs, just as there are for any given genre) I find it's actually very different than WoW. I say this having played WoW (and I can't stand it either).
Personally, I think some people are way too hung-up on the whole "Is it a clone?" or "is it revolutionary?" thing, that they make it impossible for themselves to enjoy anything... because nothing is going to be that unique or that revolutionary. The key, it seems to me, is to find something you can enjoy for what it is... Not obsess over for what it isn't.
"If you just step away for a sec you will clearly see all the pot holes in the road, and the cash shop selling asphalt..." - Mimzel on F2P/Cash Shops
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So playing a game for 15 minutes and personally not liking it = "biggest failure".
That's rational.
and the cash shop selling asphalt..." - Mimzel on F2P/Cash Shops
You went into the game with your mind already made up that it was a WoW clone, a game that you hate.
So, you'd already come to your conclusion about the game, went in expecting to not like it and were simply looking for things to support that conclusion.
Yes, I'd say that is rather closed-minded.
If you'd gone in with an open mind, you'd have left any thoughts of "WoW" at the door, played the game, checked out its features, gameplay, overall "feel", etc... as the game Mythic designed it to be, not the game you assumed it to be... that would be open-minded.
Just like LoTRO, once you get past the superficial elements of WAR that are common to most MMOs (because there are elements that are simply a staple of MMOs, just as there are for any given genre) I find it's actually very different than WoW. I say this having played WoW (and I can't stand it either).
Personally, I think some people are way too hung-up on the whole "Is it a clone?" or "is it revolutionary?" thing, that they make it impossible for themselves to enjoy anything... because nothing is going to be that unique or that revolutionary. The key, it seems to me, is to find something you can enjoy for what it is... Not obsess over for what it isn't.
and the cash shop selling asphalt..." - Mimzel on F2P/Cash Shops