You can get a GBA, Portable DVD Player, Cell Phone, and an iPod Shuffle for less than a PSP + memory stick. It will play music better and longer. Play your entire home DVD collection at a lower price per movie for a longer period of time without having to rebuy titles. You can browse the web just as well and also make phone calls. You have access to a huge homebrew community if you want to get a flash cart. You can play 3 generations of portable games each priced lower than a PSP game.
The only thing that could put the PSP above a combination of better, cheaper sole-purpose devices would be exclusive games. And they aren't here yet and don't really look like they're coming.
Comparing what's coming out to what used to. I've been a PC gamer since you could be a PC gamer. That's a long time. Genres I loved have risen and died. I've gotten sick of FPSes. I've rekindled an appreciation of them. I've gotten sick of them again.
Even over the last few years I've seen the decline worsen. Gaming shops that might have a PC section, if you're lucky, which might be almost as big as the gamecube section, if you're lucky, and might stock new/rarer things, if you're lucky.
And a lot of this I pin on MS because MS has a lot of pull due to DirectX and owning the ONLY real PC gaming platform outright. They didn't start it, but I definately noticed a hit in PC land when they launched their console. And I noticed where the priorities for Deus Ex: IW were.
World of Warcraft has caused most of my other gaming stuff to gather much dust(even AFTER hitting lvl 60). BF2, no real interest. Shrug, I'm sick of that entire genre. All 3 of the games your playing were the type I was thinking when I said "except certain genres."
declining rapidly, outside of certain genres, since the XBox came out. MS cannibalized a large portion of PC developer resources to bolster their library on the console. Ruining a large number of games in the process(like Deus Ex: Invisible War).
The number of games I wanted on the PC used to be on about equal footing to the number of games I wanted on consoles. Not so any longer.
My old MUD(which I don't run anymore) has recently gone through a resurgance of popularity. Average online players is back up to over 100, with peaks in the 150s and lows in the 40s.
Like most MUDs it's been in one state of development or another for over a decade. It's code pedigree traces back even further to the early days of DIKU and MajorMUD. It's seen staff come and go, changed servers, lowered the GPAS of several groups of college students, and still it endures.
Honestly, I still prefer MUDs to MMOs. They are far more polished, the systems are better, the admin staff is better, the communities are far more tight knit, and well... everything is better except the UI and eye candy.
I use XFire, which does mostly the same thing. A little bit tougher to add people to the friends list, but other than that, it's pretty much identical.
Nahhh. You do the same thing with guilds and various services and programs. The difference is, those of us in PC land don't have to pay for it.
You play with your friends. You use things like XFire to keep in contact with your friends. You join guilds/clans and play guild/clan matches where cheating/griefing will get you banned.
Drop out of losing matches frequently? Banned from that server. Cheat? Punkbuster will ban you from numerous servers.
Within a few days of playing a new game you have your lists of servers you like, and probably quite a few new friends. Plus all the friends you've been gaming with for years if they picked up the game.
It's pretty much the only system that works because it's not really a system. Play with those you know or take the risk that stranger jim is an asshole. As long as the players have control of the servers, it works.
Congratulations. You made an argument. The other guy didn't. Quite frankly, I'm sick of all the fucking bullshit in the gaming press. Call me jaded, I've been exposed to it for well over 2 decades, and he didn't post one piece of non-bullshit.
Making an unbacked up assertion is NOT an argument, it's a bullshit assertion, and when you defend it)this is where the argument part comes in) by resorting to ad hominems, it just further PROVES you're bullshitting.
I knew he was full of shit, so I approached him as such. Facts, figures, a market study, anything that would help prove his original assertion? Nothing. Nothing at all, because such things DO NOT EXIST.
There is a VERY vocal minority of gamers that NEED online play in their console games. You find a lot of them in the gaming press, hence they have influence. But in no way do they personally make up even a weak majority of sales.
And it can not be a strawman if the thing you are attacking "10% of gamers making up the majority of sales" was ACTUALLY SAID by the person you are replying to. A strawman requires you to construct such things yourself.
Oh, and everybody knows is a logical fallacy btw. Just an FYI. It's in the same class as "strawman." That truism isn't near as true as you seem to think it is either.
Now, would you care to try to make a reasoned post about that original point? Because I'd love to discuss with someone who will actually make an argument.
There was an argument? You made one!? I'm looking for it, I see no argument. I see an assertion and I see nothing to back up that assertion, but I certainly don't see a coherant argument or even the foundation of an incoherant one.
An argument would've required you to refute anything I had posted. Something, anything! Then we have an argument! But, you can't do that, so you resort to flaming... hmmm...
Did you somehow skip years of english or something and just pick up "straw-man" as a logical fallacy in the internet context?
WOW. How the hell do you expect ANYONE to take you seriously if you don't even know what an argument is?
Oooh the pain! I have been "burned." Oh snap! It was the Pokemon reference wasn't it(even though it's true, the original Pokemon, as sad as this is, sold nearly 80 million copies between all three versions worldwide)? That's how you saw through my ruse of having an older account, 30 times the fans, perpetually excellent karma, and being fairly well known in the journal and oldschool communities of the dot...
DAMN! I WAS DOING SO WELL!
Oh wait, I see now, you are a complete and total bullshitting karma whore.
Can't back up what you say with facts or links so your resort to attacking the messenger. Wonder why...
Maybe because you're full of shit? Yup. Full of shit.
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Really? Prove it. Put up or shut up, because I've never seen one lick of market research that asserts any given thing. If anything it says the opposite.
Halo 2 didn't sell all too many more units than it's predecessor, despite having online play the original lacked. And the big daddy of software sales, the original pokemon, has yet to be rivaled. There is at least one copy out there of the game(of one of the original 3 versions or another) for every GBA in existance. It makes every online game ever to come out look pathetic from a sales standpoint. Even the big daddy of MMOs WoW.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Online play is important to a subset of the community, but it's not a system seller or that big of a game seller. People would've still bought Halo 2 in close to the same numbers if it had only LAN play.
Nintendo, for all that they've done to not embrace online play, is the perpetual #2 publisher! Right behind EA(even *BEATING* them sometimes), and they only sell on their own systems, none of which go online atm.
So no, that 10% does not buy more games than the other 90%.
What you're thinking of is possible, the DS will network boot code over a wireless connection(this is one of the ways to boot into DS mode from a GBA flash cart, called the WiFiME exploit). It is an 802.11 device(I can see it's traffic with kismet and pull data out via ethereal). The local wireless LAN play is 802.11, just w/o an IP stack(basically).
So yea, you could, in theory single cart play Metroid Prime Hunters with 3 people located anywhere who don't have the game, just a DS. Just got to route those packets.
Most of the offenses of EA that we care about are to their employees.
Market manipulation? Nothing new. Nintendo did it. Microsoft does it. Sony does it. Hell, they all do it.
Buyouts. Nintendo/MS are probably being the most "friendly" in how they do it(leaving the studios intact, game dev wise. Outside that context, remove MS), but they still do it. Everyone does.
I can't speak for Sony, but I know Microsoft and Nintendo are great places to work, and I've never heard any complaints out of any of the other big dev studios(Infogrames excepted but that was due to layoffs)/publishers. This isn't the case at EA.
I see what you're saying, but you've got a very weak argument. You say PocketNES works great, but can I fit 900 games on the EZCart? Is there a GBA SNES emulator? If so, how do I use the X and Y buttons? Is there a mame emulator for the GBA/DS?
Yes. NES games are relatively small and flash carts can go quite large(enough to store most of the NES's library and still come out < a PSP + equive size memory stick, with enough left over to either go cheapskate and get a GBA or get a DS). I fit pretty much every NES game(about 75 or so) I'd like to play on my 256Mb cart and still have room for 2-3 GBA games. There IS an SNES emulator for the GBA(no sound, limited game support) and one with sound and better game support for the DS. The GBA had an enormously active homebrew community(this is ultimately WHY I bought a DS, that[+ the touch screen] and a few games in the pipe) thanks to flash carts, so there are ports of many arcade games, things like nethack, homebrewed games, movie players, music players, ebook readers, picture viewers, personal assistants, etc. etc. The DS has yet(as far as I know of atm) gotten it's own flash cart, but there are several hacks (WiFiMe, Passthrough, etc.) that let you boot into DS mode from a GBA cart. Work is progressing on lots of cool things with this(the better SNES emulator for one). And the DS is no slouch processor wise either(ARM9 and an ARM7, both of which are well documented and well understood). The touch screen also opens up levels of non-peripheral based input that are simply not possible on the PSP. From a developer perspective I am far more interested in what I can do with that touchscreen than what I can do with the added horsepower and screen resolution. Input is just so much better for so many things when you can do it palm style. Nintendo was also pretty hands-off in their approach to homebrewing, so I have far more trust in them than Sony(who has gone out of their way to break it).
The GBA also has the perfect button layout for NES games, with the DS having the perfect button layout for SNES games. It's like playing them native only on the go. Plus there's a strong possibility you'll be able to download and play legitimate NES/SNES games from Nintendo via the revolution on the DS.
Add to that, that if you want to use your PSP to play PSP games you're stuck in eternal catchup mode with the firmware. Not so with the GBA and not so with the DS(it would've been found already, I'm sure).
Also, I can't say I've ever seen any lumines clones. Maybe you're one of those people that sees a game that involves blocks and thinks every one is tetris. Lumines, to me, seems pretty unique. Between the visuals and the sounds and the pacing of the game, I've never played any block game, or any game at all, for that matter, that I would call out of work to play.
Tetris was like that. I actually know people that had marriage problems because of that game. Clones always lack that certain something the originals possess, but can be quite good in and of themselves. Honestly though, I see no reason to fork over the kind of money required to play a game there is no technical reason I couldn't play on my cellphone or on a GBA. That's ultimately why lumines isn't the 2nd coming of tetris. It may be great, but it doesn't need much of the PSPs power/featureset to get it's gameplay in. Tetris DID need the original Gameboy(and came with it to boot). Meteos is by the same people btw, with the touch screen twist.
I guess you're forgetting that nintendo is re-releasing all of their old games in the NES classics series and that Final Fantasy 1&2 thingie.
Not all of them, just some flagships. And that's very old hat. Most of those re-releases are, btw, amongst the best games of all time(otherwise, why would you bother hacking your firmware and giving up the ability to play future PSP games to play them!?). The original legend of zelda is better than anything out on the PSP right now. And those flat-out
If you want to be a thief, you can get a freakin' DS(or a GBA) and a large capacity flash cart for far less. PocketNES works great. There are plenty of Lumines clones, for free, and you get the whole GBA library, working native.
Now, what's the reason for anyone to buy a PSP again?
Right... you want to waste cash rebuying movies and games.
Katamari Damacy was NAMCO, a *gasp* THIRD PARTY DEV, and it's basically Pacman with a twist and a cool soundtrack. Simple and addictive. You know Namco... Pacman, Soul Calibur, Tekken, the Tales series, Ace Combat, etc. etc.
The question yous gots to ask yourself about the PS3 is: Would I buy a Vaio if it cost as much as an equivalently loaded powerbook or thinkpad?
If the answer is no, look thee elsewhere and give one of the TWO companies that makes far better hardware the marketshare.
Only if you're alliance, or horde on the ONE server where Horde outnumbers alliance.
Reroll horde. I've NEVER waited longer than 30 minutes to get into a BG, and the wait is generally 1-3 minutes. This is Stormreaver BTW, not a low pop server by any stretch. Warsong Gulch is generally a shorter wait than Alterac as well(because you don't need 30+ people to queue up into first available to spawn a new one).
Cry more. Seriously. OH NO! THINGS HAVE TO BE BALANCED! I NO LONGER GET TO PLAY ON EASY MODE! EVERYONE PICKED MY SIDE SO I HAVE TO WAIT! CRY CRY CRY!
You picked the level/PvE easy-mode side Galstaff, Warrior of Light. You outnumber us, so you HAVE to wait. Or we can have blizzard nerf you into oblivion so we can actually fight you guys with the horrible imbalance. Which would YOU prefer?
Oh and give cleanse to priests. It's fuckin' lame that the best all-around support class is Alliance only.
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Here's a funny thing, I'd bet euros to pesos that if it had been a Nintendo game, it wouldn't be nearly as adored. :-P
Here's the problem with the PSP in a nutshell:
Price and features.
You can get a GBA, Portable DVD Player, Cell Phone, and an iPod Shuffle for less than a PSP + memory stick. It will play music better and longer. Play your entire home DVD collection at a lower price per movie for a longer period of time without having to rebuy titles. You can browse the web just as well and also make phone calls. You have access to a huge homebrew community if you want to get a flash cart. You can play 3 generations of portable games each priced lower than a PSP game.
The only thing that could put the PSP above a combination of better, cheaper sole-purpose devices would be exclusive games. And they aren't here yet and don't really look like they're coming.
Katamari Damacy == Pac-Man with a twist and a decent soundtrack. When you boil it down anyway.
Funny that, seeing as how it's Namco, who put out Pac-Man. And Pac-Pix, which is definately an innovative tech-demo.
Comparing what's coming out to what used to. I've been a PC gamer since you could be a PC gamer. That's a long time. Genres I loved have risen and died. I've gotten sick of FPSes. I've rekindled an appreciation of them. I've gotten sick of them again.
Even over the last few years I've seen the decline worsen. Gaming shops that might have a PC section, if you're lucky, which might be almost as big as the gamecube section, if you're lucky, and might stock new/rarer things, if you're lucky.
And a lot of this I pin on MS because MS has a lot of pull due to DirectX and owning the ONLY real PC gaming platform outright. They didn't start it, but I definately noticed a hit in PC land when they launched their console. And I noticed where the priorities for Deus Ex: IW were.
World of Warcraft has caused most of my other gaming stuff to gather much dust(even AFTER hitting lvl 60). BF2, no real interest. Shrug, I'm sick of that entire genre. All 3 of the games your playing were the type I was thinking when I said "except certain genres."
declining rapidly, outside of certain genres, since the XBox came out. MS cannibalized a large portion of PC developer resources to bolster their library on the console. Ruining a large number of games in the process(like Deus Ex: Invisible War).
The number of games I wanted on the PC used to be on about equal footing to the number of games I wanted on consoles. Not so any longer.
My old MUD(which I don't run anymore) has recently gone through a resurgance of popularity. Average online players is back up to over 100, with peaks in the 150s and lows in the 40s.
Like most MUDs it's been in one state of development or another for over a decade. It's code pedigree traces back even further to the early days of DIKU and MajorMUD. It's seen staff come and go, changed servers, lowered the GPAS of several groups of college students, and still it endures.
Honestly, I still prefer MUDs to MMOs. They are far more polished, the systems are better, the admin staff is better, the communities are far more tight knit, and well... everything is better except the UI and eye candy.
I wasn't talking about BZFlag just the difference between Live and our nice little patchwork of PC programs.
I use XFire, which does mostly the same thing. A little bit tougher to add people to the friends list, but other than that, it's pretty much identical.
Nahhh. You do the same thing with guilds and various services and programs. The difference is, those of us in PC land don't have to pay for it.
You play with your friends. You use things like XFire to keep in contact with your friends. You join guilds/clans and play guild/clan matches where cheating/griefing will get you banned.
Drop out of losing matches frequently? Banned from that server. Cheat? Punkbuster will ban you from numerous servers.
Within a few days of playing a new game you have your lists of servers you like, and probably quite a few new friends. Plus all the friends you've been gaming with for years if they picked up the game.
It's pretty much the only system that works because it's not really a system. Play with those you know or take the risk that stranger jim is an asshole. As long as the players have control of the servers, it works.
That's precisely how you play any online game. I thought live was supposed to be a service that let you not have to do that, but I guess it isn't.
Congratulations. You made an argument. The other guy didn't. Quite frankly, I'm sick of all the fucking bullshit in the gaming press. Call me jaded, I've been exposed to it for well over 2 decades, and he didn't post one piece of non-bullshit.
Making an unbacked up assertion is NOT an argument, it's a bullshit assertion, and when you defend it)this is where the argument part comes in) by resorting to ad hominems, it just further PROVES you're bullshitting.
I knew he was full of shit, so I approached him as such. Facts, figures, a market study, anything that would help prove his original assertion? Nothing. Nothing at all, because such things DO NOT EXIST.
There is a VERY vocal minority of gamers that NEED online play in their console games. You find a lot of them in the gaming press, hence they have influence. But in no way do they personally make up even a weak majority of sales.
And it can not be a strawman if the thing you are attacking "10% of gamers making up the majority of sales" was ACTUALLY SAID by the person you are replying to. A strawman requires you to construct such things yourself.
Oh, and everybody knows is a logical fallacy btw. Just an FYI. It's in the same class as "strawman." That truism isn't near as true as you seem to think it is either.
Now, would you care to try to make a reasoned post about that original point? Because I'd love to discuss with someone who will actually make an argument.
There was an argument? You made one!? I'm looking for it, I see no argument. I see an assertion and I see nothing to back up that assertion, but I certainly don't see a coherant argument or even the foundation of an incoherant one.
An argument would've required you to refute anything I had posted. Something, anything! Then we have an argument! But, you can't do that, so you resort to flaming... hmmm...
Did you somehow skip years of english or something and just pick up "straw-man" as a logical fallacy in the internet context?
WOW. How the hell do you expect ANYONE to take you seriously if you don't even know what an argument is?
Oooh the pain! I have been "burned." Oh snap! It was the Pokemon reference wasn't it(even though it's true, the original Pokemon, as sad as this is, sold nearly 80 million copies between all three versions worldwide)? That's how you saw through my ruse of having an older account, 30 times the fans, perpetually excellent karma, and being fairly well known in the journal and oldschool communities of the dot...
DAMN! I WAS DOING SO WELL!
Oh wait, I see now, you are a complete and total bullshitting karma whore.
Can't back up what you say with facts or links so your resort to attacking the messenger. Wonder why...
Maybe because you're full of shit? Yup. Full of shit.
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Really? Prove it. Put up or shut up, because I've never seen one lick of market research that asserts any given thing. If anything it says the opposite.
Halo 2 didn't sell all too many more units than it's predecessor, despite having online play the original lacked. And the big daddy of software sales, the original pokemon, has yet to be rivaled. There is at least one copy out there of the game(of one of the original 3 versions or another) for every GBA in existance. It makes every online game ever to come out look pathetic from a sales standpoint. Even the big daddy of MMOs WoW.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Online play is important to a subset of the community, but it's not a system seller or that big of a game seller. People would've still bought Halo 2 in close to the same numbers if it had only LAN play.
Nintendo, for all that they've done to not embrace online play, is the perpetual #2 publisher! Right behind EA(even *BEATING* them sometimes), and they only sell on their own systems, none of which go online atm.
So no, that 10% does not buy more games than the other 90%.
Blue's News is an old Quake news site that's hung around and generalized itself.
Most people who were big into Quake know about it.
What you're thinking of is possible, the DS will network boot code over a wireless connection(this is one of the ways to boot into DS mode from a GBA flash cart, called the WiFiME exploit). It is an 802.11 device(I can see it's traffic with kismet and pull data out via ethereal). The local wireless LAN play is 802.11, just w/o an IP stack(basically).
So yea, you could, in theory single cart play Metroid Prime Hunters with 3 people located anywhere who don't have the game, just a DS. Just got to route those packets.
Most of the offenses of EA that we care about are to their employees.
Market manipulation? Nothing new. Nintendo did it. Microsoft does it. Sony does it. Hell, they all do it.
Buyouts. Nintendo/MS are probably being the most "friendly" in how they do it(leaving the studios intact, game dev wise. Outside that context, remove MS), but they still do it. Everyone does.
I can't speak for Sony, but I know Microsoft and Nintendo are great places to work, and I've never heard any complaints out of any of the other big dev studios(Infogrames excepted but that was due to layoffs)/publishers. This isn't the case at EA.
I see what you're saying, but you've got a very weak argument. You say PocketNES works great, but can I fit 900 games on the EZCart? Is there a GBA SNES emulator? If so, how do I use the X and Y buttons? Is there a mame emulator for the GBA/DS?
Yes. NES games are relatively small and flash carts can go quite large(enough to store most of the NES's library and still come out < a PSP + equive size memory stick, with enough left over to either go cheapskate and get a GBA or get a DS). I fit pretty much every NES game(about 75 or so) I'd like to play on my 256Mb cart and still have room for 2-3 GBA games. There IS an SNES emulator for the GBA(no sound, limited game support) and one with sound and better game support for the DS. The GBA had an enormously active homebrew community(this is ultimately WHY I bought a DS, that[+ the touch screen] and a few games in the pipe) thanks to flash carts, so there are ports of many arcade games, things like nethack, homebrewed games, movie players, music players, ebook readers, picture viewers, personal assistants, etc. etc. The DS has yet(as far as I know of atm) gotten it's own flash cart, but there are several hacks (WiFiMe, Passthrough, etc.) that let you boot into DS mode from a GBA cart. Work is progressing on lots of cool things with this(the better SNES emulator for one). And the DS is no slouch processor wise either(ARM9 and an ARM7, both of which are well documented and well understood). The touch screen also opens up levels of non-peripheral based input that are simply not possible on the PSP. From a developer perspective I am far more interested in what I can do with that touchscreen than what I can do with the added horsepower and screen resolution. Input is just so much better for so many things when you can do it palm style. Nintendo was also pretty hands-off in their approach to homebrewing, so I have far more trust in them than Sony(who has gone out of their way to break it).
The GBA also has the perfect button layout for NES games, with the DS having the perfect button layout for SNES games. It's like playing them native only on the go. Plus there's a strong possibility you'll be able to download and play legitimate NES/SNES games from Nintendo via the revolution on the DS.
Add to that, that if you want to use your PSP to play PSP games you're stuck in eternal catchup mode with the firmware. Not so with the GBA and not so with the DS(it would've been found already, I'm sure).
Also, I can't say I've ever seen any lumines clones. Maybe you're one of those people that sees a game that involves blocks and thinks every one is tetris. Lumines, to me, seems pretty unique. Between the visuals and the sounds and the pacing of the game, I've never played any block game, or any game at all, for that matter, that I would call out of work to play.
Tetris was like that. I actually know people that had marriage problems because of that game. Clones always lack that certain something the originals possess, but can be quite good in and of themselves. Honestly though, I see no reason to fork over the kind of money required to play a game there is no technical reason I couldn't play on my cellphone or on a GBA. That's ultimately why lumines isn't the 2nd coming of tetris. It may be great, but it doesn't need much of the PSPs power/featureset to get it's gameplay in. Tetris DID need the original Gameboy(and came with it to boot). Meteos is by the same people btw, with the touch screen twist.
I guess you're forgetting that nintendo is re-releasing all of their old games in the NES classics series and that Final Fantasy 1&2 thingie.
Not all of them, just some flagships. And that's very old hat. Most of those re-releases are, btw, amongst the best games of all time(otherwise, why would you bother hacking your firmware and giving up the ability to play future PSP games to play them!?). The original legend of zelda is better than anything out on the PSP right now. And those flat-out
I give it a month if not less before someone tunnels it(as they did for Halo, Mario Kart, and other "lan" play enabled games).
PSP for NES emulation... That's pretty damn dumb.
If you want to be a thief, you can get a freakin' DS(or a GBA) and a large capacity flash cart for far less. PocketNES works great. There are plenty of Lumines clones, for free, and you get the whole GBA library, working native.
Now, what's the reason for anyone to buy a PSP again?
Right... you want to waste cash rebuying movies and games.
Well, if stores won't.. why would parents?
And what precisely do you think the biggest demographic for handhelds is?
Katamari Damacy was NAMCO, a *gasp* THIRD PARTY DEV, and it's basically Pacman with a twist and a cool soundtrack. Simple and addictive. You know Namco... Pacman, Soul Calibur, Tekken, the Tales series, Ace Combat, etc. etc.
The question yous gots to ask yourself about the PS3 is: Would I buy a Vaio if it cost as much as an equivalently loaded powerbook or thinkpad?
If the answer is no, look thee elsewhere and give one of the TWO companies that makes far better hardware the marketshare.
Only if you're alliance, or horde on the ONE server where Horde outnumbers alliance.
Reroll horde. I've NEVER waited longer than 30 minutes to get into a BG, and the wait is generally 1-3 minutes. This is Stormreaver BTW, not a low pop server by any stretch. Warsong Gulch is generally a shorter wait than Alterac as well(because you don't need 30+ people to queue up into first available to spawn a new one).
Cry more. Seriously. OH NO! THINGS HAVE TO BE BALANCED! I NO LONGER GET TO PLAY ON EASY MODE! EVERYONE PICKED MY SIDE SO I HAVE TO WAIT! CRY CRY CRY!
You picked the level/PvE easy-mode side Galstaff, Warrior of Light. You outnumber us, so you HAVE to wait. Or we can have blizzard nerf you into oblivion so we can actually fight you guys with the horrible imbalance. Which would YOU prefer?
Oh and give cleanse to priests. It's fuckin' lame that the best all-around support class is Alliance only.
Yea, but it's somehow less... I dunno... wrong.