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Your a noob for playing *Insert MMORPG name here*!!
Wildman2121
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Ever sense Ive started playing MMORPGs about a year back, theirs been a lot of name calling and hating for what MMO you play. Some people say to those who play World of Warcraft, that their noobs because their wasting money and they will have no life. Other popular MMOs such as RuneScape and MapleStory (MapleStory is what I play) players get called noobs because people say "Just get WoW, stop playing those cheap games with horrible graphics and get a game thats actually good!" Or, in other cases "Stop playing those cheap Asian MMOs and just get WoW!" Now, im just using these games as an example. It happens with others too. Fankly, I dont get this war between MMO players about what game you should play. Ive always thought, as long as your having fun, who cares what game you play? In my case, I play MapleStory even though its a Asian MMO because personnaly, I like the style of game. Grindy is actually how I prefer it (Dont ask me why, because I dont know myself.) Other people play WoW, because its one hell of a game. People using the excuse "youll have no life" is just a typical sterotype among MMO players. So why do we slam each other for the game we play? Any opinions?
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It's more along the lines of "carebears" or something like that...mainly started by the "PVPers" back awhile ago.
But you are correct, name calling has been happening a lot more these days. People should just playy the game they like and let others play the game others like.
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I really don't get the WoW hate myself. I love WoW. WoW has made it possible for other, smaller MMO to survive. Every time a huge MMO has a succes it drives the MMO industry.
If you like the game or not doens't really matter. WoW made MMO mainstream, that means your game has a bigger chance of surviving and getting funds.
It doesnt really matter though does it. People have always attacked each other over anything and everything. Why do you think nearly every game is based on warfare and killing things? Its because we enjoy attacking each other. Human beings like to feel attached to things so they can feel comfortable. Its like that in real life and it no different on the internet either. In the online gaming community people have a tendency to flock together under the banner of their favourite game.....a bit like a virtual tribe I suppose.
Your only gonna risk being a target of an insult if you post your views on an online forum such as this one. If you do that then you're fair game as everyone is totally free to say whatever they like. No real damage is done so what does it matter? Its just a harmless way for lots of angry people to vent their frustrations on others. I certainly dont think its anything to worry about.
Let the warfare continue!
you're a noob for playing *world of warcraft*
Oh how I love what happens to industries when they go "mainstream". Oh wait I don't love it...
Quality goes down so pockets can get fatter!
Oh how I love what happens to industries when they go "mainstream". Oh wait I don't love it...
Quality goes down so pockets can get fatter!
Yeah....cause SoE doesn't want your money....
WoW is just a game, if you wanna hate something, go hate on what's happening in Iraq or go hate on Oil companies.
Some guys act like Blizzard stole their lunch money or something. Jeesh.
Video games are a personal preference and playing a certain game does not make you better or worse than other people. Do you hate people who like pizza instead of chinese food? Or people who liked "The Godfather" over "Goodfellas"? Unless you're completely dillusional, you probably don't. Hating people who enjoy a particular video game is the same situation.
With that being said, a lot of people seem to hate really popular things. When a band is underground, they are cool but if the same band makes it and goes mainstream, they are automatically sell outs and their music sucks. To that I have to say the following: STFU and let people enjoy whatever they like.
Oh how I love what happens to industries when they go "mainstream". Oh wait I don't love it...
Quality goes down so pockets can get fatter!
Yeah....cause SoE doesn't want your money....
WoW is just a game, if you wanna hate something, go hate on what's happening in Iraq or go hate on Oil companies.
Some guys act like Blizzard stole their lunch money or something. Jeesh.
but but...it was my lunch money first
MMO wish list:
-Changeable worlds
-Solid non level based game
-Sharks with lasers attached to their heads
It's childish..and there's a realy good reason for it.
8-12 years ago there were only a very few mmorpg's in exestance .And most people that played them were,for lack of a better term,somewhat mature.The games tended to be more in-depth and had a rather harsh learning curve.that tended to keep the younger and more inmature people out of them.there were exception,but not many.
"there weren't really that many computers around back then.they cost a LOT.Now most everyone has at least one computer in their home and the average house probably has multible computers.
I would venture to say the average age of computer users in the home has been cut by about at least 1/3.
And kids do what kids do.And even younger people who have grown up in the on-line world where they are behind a computer screen instead of face to face have lost respect for people that they can't even see or much less have to worry about causing them harm..
That's not the whole reason ,but imo it's sure a part of it
It's not only the age factor, it's the society factor -- hang out with bad people, you will turn bad (and with grouping/guilding so much more important in gaming now, those Crips and Blood gangs offline are now online, complete with sociopathic behavior that is "acceptable", e.g., "I pimped my rig! I'm l33t!").
See enough 39 year-olds acting like 15 year-olds (probably really 15, but wanted to appear older). The anonymity of the internet can make folks think they can act like jerks and get away with it, too. In the RPG world, it can even be a personae (which they forget to turn off out of the game).
It also wasn't all peaches and cream even back in the BBS and GeNIE days. The old usenet archives can attest to the immaturity even then, with folks proud to list their work addresses and other personal info along with their snarks and trolling (as bosses then didn't care what you said online -- folks weren't wired to the internet to chit chat on the clock).
What matters is finding folks to link up with who share your own values, and hoping (and it's hope) to avoid the common internet trash -- "My MMO is better than your MMO...<stick tongue out>".
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No. it means your game has a bigger chance of being reduced to mindless trash, to fit in to the WoW ideal.
And the correct answer is: You are a noob for playing WoW.
No. it means your game has a bigger chance of being reduced to mindless trash, to fit in to the WoW ideal.
And the correct answer is: You are a noob for playing WoW.
No, it means other companies fail where Blizzard doesn't.
And I guess there's 10 million noobs then who are having fun and don't care.
And 1000 WoW haters who need to move on.
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In memory of Laura "Taera" Genender. Passed away on August 13, 2008.
You're not allowed to have fun because Blizzard created an MMO?
MMO seems to make adults into 2 year old kids for some reason, my little nephew is less drama than you are.
Seriously, get over yourself or go play chess.
People (and that will be millions too) want something ELSE than WoW.
I wouldn't play WoW if it was the last MMO in the world. Cutsey graphics and even uglier armor is a major turn off for me (let alone it's UI). Never was an XBoxer (never will be), so that type of cute game and it's idea of gaming (grouping/raiding for wimpy gained "l00tz") will never be on my play list (or shelf).
Chess is at least more challenging -- it requires using a brain to play, and high skills to win.
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People (and that will be millions too) want something ELSE than WoW.
No reason to bitch at Blizzard for is it. They create what they want.
If you want a certain MMO noone makes, go create your own.
I'm sure those "millions" will help you out.
Yawn, the WoW hating is getting lame sorry.
Oh how I love what happens to industries when they go "mainstream". Oh wait I don't love it...
Quality goes down so pockets can get fatter!
Hate the companies that have no vision and are followers, not Blizzard. Blizzard just did what they thought would be a good game. The obviously made a success out of it. If the other compaies are so short sighted that they can't come up with their own "WoW" then why should blizzard get attacked for the other company's incompetence? Face it, all the WoW hate here is just pure jealousy.
I know many of you hate to admit it, but be honest, if all the other games had come out anywhere close as polished and working as WoW is, none of you would be here whining. The fact is, many of the WoW haters here are upset because their own *insert game here* didn't come up nearly as polished or fixed as WoW is, and rather than lash out at the real "criminal" I.E. the company that made their own game (SOE, I'm looking at you) you'd rather point the finger and blame someone else. That's just a cheap shot and it's incredibly uncalled for.
You want change? you want something new? innovative? then stop blaming Blizzard for doing what THEY are good at, and start demanding that your OTHER companies start getting off their collective a$$es and start improving their products, and if they don't, then walk away. Put your money where your mouth is. As long as all of you WoW haters keep putting in money to companies that can only do a sub-par job on their games, they will continue producing only sub-par games. Start asking these companies to produce what THEY are known to be good at! and to start also improving on their bug-fixing while they're at it as well.
Chess is at least more challenging -- it requires using a brain to play, and high skills to win.
Go play it then and leave us alone.
And the correct answer is: You are a noob for playing WoW.
No, it means other companies fail where Blizzard doesn't.
And I guess there's 10 million noobs then who are having fun and don't care.
And 1000 WoW haters who need to move on.
The WoW effect: only those ten million people are allowed to have fun in MMORPGs as long as games keep trying to imitate WoW because of its gigantic success. Fortunately this effect is fading. With several sandbox games in development and the likely return of Ryzom, the dark ages (for people who don't like WoW's archetype) may soon be past.
That's not reason to hate Blizzard or WoW. If anything, your hate should be pointed towards the companies who are trying to imitate WoW.
Besides that, there is no point in hating players who enjoy WoW.
No. it means your game has a bigger chance of being reduced to mindless trash, to fit in to the WoW ideal.
And the correct answer is: You are a noob for playing WoW.
No, it means other companies fail where Blizzard doesn't.
And I guess there's 10 million noobs then who are having fun and don't care.
And 1000 WoW haters who need to move on.
Yes you are a sheep. Congratulations. I find it highly amusing when someone highlights popularity as some vindication of quality. Blizzard make lowest common denominator games for the easily pleased masses. The fact that you think that this makes more high brow companies fail, goes a great way to proving my point. thank you.
Yes you are a sheep. Congratulations. I find it highly amusing when someone highlights popularity as some vindication of quality.
Blizzard can make whatever they want and people can play whatever they want.
Go play Darkfall or something, I heard it's getting realesed real soon.
And the correct answer is: You are a noob for playing WoW.
No, it means other companies fail where Blizzard doesn't.
And I guess there's 10 million noobs then who are having fun and don't care.
And 1000 WoW haters who need to move on.
Yes you are a sheep. Congratulations. I find it highly amusing when someone highlights popularity as some vindication of quality. Blizzard make lowest common denominator games for the easily pleased masses. The fact that you think that this makes more high brow companies fail, goes a great way to proving my point. thank you.
Funny you mention that, considering that, one point that has always been agreed upon about WoW, is that they grabbed a lot of pointers/aspects of other MMO's (mail system, PvP zones, instance dungeons etc. etc.) and polished it up and made them run more fluently than the previous games and added their own WoW themes to it. Yet, I don't see any of the hate for the other games that had these aspects in a worse condition, save for SOE. So again, when are you people going to stop hating WoW, and hating on the incompetent companies that obviously don't seem capable of perfecting or polishing up their own damn games? Put the blame where the blame really lies, not at another company that has NOTHING at all to do with YOUR preffered game/genre. Take a look at SWG, granted, while it has been argued that SOE tried to do a crappy clone of WoW, they don't blame blizzard, they blame SOE for SOE's shortsightedness and incompetence, not Blizzard.
Yes you are a sheep. Congratulations. I find it highly amusing when someone highlights popularity as some vindication of quality.
Blizzard can make whatever they want and people can play whatever they want.
Go play Darkfall or something, I heard it's getting realesed real soon.
Everything you post on validates the fact that you can't think for yourself. The real point being that you proved my argument correct and made yourself look idiotic.
Everything you post on validates the fact that you can't think for yourself.
Not really, I played EQ for 3 years. I have played Guild Wars for 2 and L2 for 1.
And I enjoy WoW now since it's a bit less time consuming and it's fun. Is that so hard to understand?
It says you're 18 years old. You were 8 when EQ went live, what makes you think you are an authority on MMO?