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Let's slay the "hype monster" once and for all
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The Hype Monster can not be killed and has a very short respawn timer.
"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever." - Noam Chomsky
We are 8 pages into a definition of hype thread, and people want a discussion of substance?
LOL
pseudo-intellectual, Awesome! So, you're saying I'm getting there, right? In another post you call me "Mr. Verbose", after having quoted my entire post. Nice form.
Can we please go back to the discussion about the cash shop and how I'm going to use it to purchase a whole bunch of unfair advantages and P2W the whole game a day or two after launch?
I think the hype many refer to as possibly problematic would be the hype generated by a belief in the exaggeration that marketing creates, which it is their job to create this. It's one thing to see things of substance and get hyped about it. It's another to take every word spoken as an undeniable gospel.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
hence why no one could make a legit claim I am hyping this game. Because I wont even bother to watch any advertisments of a game, and my initial exposure to the game was actual gameplay footage. At this point, all Anet has done was put their product out on display, the level of excitment among those who liked what they saw, is what others are reacting to. Then they get all angry when nothing they say will dent that excitement. It's an old case of, are you going to believe me(the naysayer) or your lying eyes.
I see the game's flaws, but I am still seeing the complaining for what it really is, contempt prior to investigation.
I know what you mean, that was basically my experience with TOR and many others, once I got into CB I knew the deal, I couldn't talk about it; at least I knew where the game was both good and bad. That's what it takes for me to get hyped {or the opposite} about something. I usually ignore most of the hype generators until that point.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Heartless, please tell me you're gonna play in wvw, cause I'm really looking forward to killing you! ha!
Hype = Fan unlreastic expectations (even with proof), CGI trailers, Dev teams promising things (not showing), Trailers and all those "hyped" up weekly video/diaries MMOs seem to do.
What I've personally seen with Guild Wars 2 is a lot of footage with high praise and critisicm/worries at the same time. I've said before though that though the negatives coming toward Guild Wars 2 though are things that can likely be tweaked easier than say if the game was linear or if the game was just boring.
I've heard the game still needs some good optimization, dynamic questing can be tweaked a little, some animations. Of course the cash shop, but most know it's not a big deal.
I was excited about TOR, but once I heard it was so linear, world felt empty/static, PvP was dogshit. I lost interest quickly. Even started to lose my interest in TSW lately with some of the PvP changed they made and lack of info/footage to be honest. I mean real info and some actual PvP footage for a change....
After I buy all of the p2w unfair advantages from the cash shop, I'm going to solo WvW.
I'll do whatever it takes to beat you! If I have to sleep with the devs I'll do it! haha (I'd rather not).
It appeared he was just using the CS ideal as an example of another issue which, in discussion causes a "fan" to loose control and react in a negative manner. Case in point.
This does directly reach into the "hype" discussion as it is this "hype" or excitement (if you will) that causes said "fans" to react so negatively. Thank you yet again for proving my point.
This is not, nor can it be so. You will marvel at my Ringmasters Top Hat of Whoop-ass (that I aquire from the p2w, er, I mean CS) You will tremble in fear, then bow down to it's mighty, Ringmasteryness. Then, your ass will be utterly whooped. You will limp away, rubbing said ass as you go, wondering, why did I ever buy a game, where you could spend real money on a Ringmasters Top Hat of Whoop-Ass.
Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until my thread is dead.
Oh yea?! Well, I'm going to buy 2 Ringmasters Top Hats! How you like them apples?
It won't work. I will buy the devs through the cash shop.
Mine whoop-ass, yours don't! neener neener
Two hats are always better than one. Haven't you learned anything from Team Fortress 2?
TLDR
What a self indulgent post. Learn to get to the point.
Not if one hat (mine) whoops ass, and the other 2(yours) are girlie men hats
The point? My god man, there is no point. The point was killed by the Cash Shop Terminator pages ago.
Let us all say, AMEN!
Of course not. Face it, CS is the feature that has more potential to break GW2 than any concept/design/development mistake ANet could possibly make. And the fact that we have virtually no information about CS (except some cryptic and fairly contradictory statements) only adds to uncertainty and frustration.
And that's where both topics (CS and hype) get tightly intertwined. You can't hype GW2 w/o believing that the CS will be reasonable and everything you can buy there will be purely cosmetic/optional. As much as I'd like to believe this, I can't forget that all financial decisions will be made by NCSoft and that corporations can never be trusted. And ANet's refusal to discuss the CS openly only fuels my doubts.
MMORPG genre is dead. Long live MMOCS (Massively Multiplayer Online Cash Shop).
As much as I want to play GW2, this is a valid point. No matter what all the videos and beta tests come up with and all the analysis and all the reviews and all the polish this game has, This ONE thing can shatter it all in a heartbeat.
Rememebr Allods? All through Beta, it was going to revolutionize F2P. Then the Final CS reveal.
Yeeeaap.
BOYCOTTING EA / ORIGIN going forward.