To the OP it also helps if you use other sites and read their reviews as well to get an overall sense of a game's strengths and weaknesses. Never rely on just one website for all of your data is a good rule of thumb. Hope it helps ya OP
You talk the talk like it's so easy. Well it is easy when you're looking from the outside in and shaking your head in disbelief but as soon as you engage yourself actively it's a whole diferent picture and lines start to blur real fast. If you don't play wow, wowtard is just a childish and immature dig to you, not even worthy of a reply, but when you see it constantly day after after day and you feel it's directed at you just because you enjoy something other people don't, eventualy you start fighting back. It's the same for every game. So screw you hippie!
But it is targeted at you, we all had a meeting, it was the concensus.
You fall in the same mistake when you say bashing wow clones is fine because they are poorly made.
And sorry but EVE is boring. It's a fact. Some people might like it, ok, but even the fans say it's like watching grass grow or paint dry. It can be a zen experience anyway.
I've noticed a very common trend with many (note, not ALL) forum members. They tend to believe because they don't like a game or it's not the way they want it that it's a terrible game and no one should play it. Now, I admit, I've done this in the past myself and still catch myself doing it occasionally, but we need to take a step back and realize people are very different. Each person will have a different opinion and will like different things. Let's take the elephant in the room, WoW. So many people bash the game on this forum. Yet, it is a great game. Polished, full of content, accessible but hardcore, good pvp, etc. Yet I don't like it. I do however admit it's a good game, it's just NOT FOR ME. We need to look past our likes and dislikes and instead recognize great games for what they are not our own personal opinion. This is the same reason I don't trust game reviews much. However, I do still read them and see why the reviewer liked or didn't like the game. Sometimes a reviewer will bash a game that I enjoy immensely. So let's stop thinking that our own opinion is "fact" and the way things should be and recognize that there are some great games out. Now, bashing the WoW clones is fine in my eyes because many of them clone WoW very poorly. If someone was to take a different IP and have the same level of polish and accessibility as WoW, then I think that game would be a huge success but most of its clones fail to do this. Another big example is EVE. A lot of people think that game is boring. Sure, for some people it is. Ok, it's not for you, that's fine. But it is a GREAT game for you. I personally love it (took me several trial accounts over the past two years until I "got" the game) but I know many who don't. That's fine, but don't attack the game and say it's terrible when it's not. It's just not for YOU. You, an individual who is very complex and has many different likes and dislikes. It's when people start thinking their tastes are fact and that other games suck just because they don't like it that there is a problem. Note that this goes both ways (and a huge issue I have with the EVE community) when EVE players bash other games and call people stupid because they don't like EVE. I'm sure there are some very intelligent people that play WoW (although it does seem to have more kiddies, probably because of accessibility).
I agree with what you said, except that by a slip of pen, you seems to fall prey to the very attitude you are criticising.
In the end, all readers have to take these posts with a grain of salt and rely on their own experience
Hear hear! All the opinions and reviews aside, in the end only your own opinion matters. If i am interested in a game i try it out myself and make up my own mind.
Currently playing browser games. Waiting for Albion Online, Citadel of Sorcery and Camelot Unchained. Played: almost all MMO pre 2007
The problem is that many (not ALL) are kids here, with no real understanding of anything, so you will try to have a valid discussion, but it will be broken down, like every other open discussion on the net, mostly by the immature. Actions have little consequence, and that sometimes brings out the worst in people.
Its like having a debate or great discussion at uni or at your workplace, and having these 12-14 year old kids join in. It will rarely result in anything intelligable.
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To the OP it also helps if you use other sites and read their reviews as well to get an overall sense of a game's strengths and weaknesses. Never rely on just one website for all of your data is a good rule of thumb. Hope it helps ya OP
But it is targeted at you, we all had a meeting, it was the concensus.
I KNEW IT!!
You fall in the same mistake when you say bashing wow clones is fine because they are poorly made.
And sorry but EVE is boring. It's a fact. Some people might like it, ok, but even the fans say it's like watching grass grow or paint dry. It can be a zen experience anyway.
I agree with what you said, except that by a slip of pen, you seems to fall prey to the very attitude you are criticising.
So I amended your text for you.
Good discussion.
Hear hear! All the opinions and reviews aside, in the end only your own opinion matters. If i am interested in a game i try it out myself and make up my own mind.
Currently playing browser games. Waiting for Albion Online, Citadel of Sorcery and Camelot Unchained.
Played: almost all MMO pre 2007
The problem is that many (not ALL) are kids here, with no real understanding of anything, so you will try to have a valid discussion, but it will be broken down, like every other open discussion on the net, mostly by the immature. Actions have little consequence, and that sometimes brings out the worst in people.
Its like having a debate or great discussion at uni or at your workplace, and having these 12-14 year old kids join in. It will rarely result in anything intelligable.
Good Luck.