Of course if a burglar breaks in my apartment thank to a defect of my lock and steal my fornitures I blame the burglar for the theft. But I change my lock afterward.
TFA talks about "6 million years". I don't think that any population on Earth suffered from physical isolation from others populations for such long time.
It seems to me that the presumed Homo Sapiens evolution plateau isn't actually reached yet, but we're still evolving.
Companies must tell you if a food they sell contains grapes, raisins or hemlock, but if a food contains corn, they're not forced to tell you if it's "natural" or GM. So, unless you're an ancient greek philosopher, you can choose to not introduce hemlock in your body but you haven't the choice to not introduce a possibly harmful GM substance but only the "natural" one.
If you're a football star, chances are you're one of the dozen guys. If you're a known WoW player, I don't think that particular girl paid you a visit into your mom basement.
Are you sure that aren't you the vocal minority crowd that believes that raids should be for few elected players? You probably was one of the few players wearing epics in vanilla, but if you fail in real life I don't see why the false sense of importance you get from raiding must remove the fun millions of people have playing the game for what it is, a game.
Honestly I think you give other MMORPGs too much credit with saying that they have interesting/useful buffs, debuffs, defensive powers or crowd control. In the end, in any MMORPG, you have: - single target attacks - AoE attacks - movement - defense - CC - buffs to players abilities - debuffs to enemies abilities
Take WoW for example. Are the various Lightning Bolt, Fireball, Shadow Bolt, Wrath... *really* different? Or Rain of Fire, Blizzard, Hurricane? Is Hex so much different from Sheep? Corruption from Shadow Word: Pain? Divine Spirit from Arcane Intelligence?
Taking another game as example, in EQ2 I played a necromancer and all I did was spamming 3 or 4 attacks that was practically the same while my pet (3 types total: 1 tank, 1 melee dps, 1 ranged dps) attacked the mob.
It's a reasoning similar too "My class has a 5 spells rotation so is *much* harder to play than yours that have only 3!". Neither of them are actually difficult to play, but people like to think that what they're playing is different or hard or interesting to give themselves a motivation for going on playing.
"When I get to the end of a game it's usually depressing" "It's very rare that I play a game all the way through and don't feel like I've wasted my time." "gaming can make someone depressed because it's a depressing hobby"
So you consciously have a depressing hobby that you feel you're wasting your time with? Does the study say anything about masochism among gamers?
Did you ever think that if WoW has so many players AND it allows solo levelling, solo levelling is something a lot of people want? You've the mentality of the producers of all the failed MMORPGs: don't look at what many players want, but produce something *you* like and expect others to adapt to it. In the end, ideas you believed to be genial will simply be shunned by the majority of population.
"Oh, and one thing Aion has far above and beyond WoW: it forces you to meet people within 15 hours of starting"
Forces you? Who want to play a game that forces you to do something if you don't want to do it?
If a MMORPG can't be soloed it will fail. A percentage of people like to quest alone and maybe instance in groups, so Aion would piss them off. But, more importantly, after some months a new player will find hard to be accepted in groups by more experienced players ("Hey, you're such a noob").
The reason for WoW success is that it allows a large number of play styles (questing, raiding, pvp...) Games not so balanced will only satisfy a niche of population, so maybe people will start to play, see they don't really enjoy the game and leave. When many players leave, others will follow as the servers will start to look empty. Empty servers must be merged. Server merges helps the playing population to continue to enjoy the game but from outside it's seen as "ok, another failed MMORPG, I won't even try it"
And I'm being optimistic, regarding Aion, as in all my reasonings above I assumed it won't be bug filled or with huge imbalances...
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"And they never get sick. They have some of the best healths on the planet."
Citation needed.
Of course if a burglar breaks in my apartment thank to a defect of my lock and steal my fornitures I blame the burglar for the theft.
But I change my lock afterward.
TFA talks about "6 million years". I don't think that any population on Earth suffered from physical isolation from others populations for such long time.
It seems to me that the presumed Homo Sapiens evolution plateau isn't actually reached yet, but we're still evolving.
Companies must tell you if a food they sell contains grapes, raisins or hemlock, but if a food contains corn, they're not forced to tell you if it's "natural" or GM.
So, unless you're an ancient greek philosopher, you can choose to not introduce hemlock in your body but you haven't the choice to not introduce a possibly harmful GM substance but only the "natural" one.
Compared to "socially accepted" time wasters other people do, like watching TV?
If you're a football star, chances are you're one of the dozen guys.
If you're a known WoW player, I don't think that particular girl paid you a visit into your mom basement.
that MS cannot find bugs in their products if they spend all the time looking for vulnerabilities in competitors products.
Are you sure that aren't you the vocal minority crowd that believes that raids should be for few elected players?
You probably was one of the few players wearing epics in vanilla, but if you fail in real life I don't see why the false sense of importance you get from raiding must remove the fun millions of people have playing the game for what it is, a game.
Honestly I think you give other MMORPGs too much credit with saying that they have interesting/useful buffs, debuffs, defensive powers or crowd control.
In the end, in any MMORPG, you have:
- single target attacks
- AoE attacks
- movement
- defense
- CC
- buffs to players abilities
- debuffs to enemies abilities
Take WoW for example.
Are the various Lightning Bolt, Fireball, Shadow Bolt, Wrath... *really* different? Or Rain of Fire, Blizzard, Hurricane? Is Hex so much different from Sheep? Corruption from Shadow Word: Pain? Divine Spirit from Arcane Intelligence?
Taking another game as example, in EQ2 I played a necromancer and all I did was spamming 3 or 4 attacks that was practically the same while my pet (3 types total: 1 tank, 1 melee dps, 1 ranged dps) attacked the mob.
It's a reasoning similar too "My class has a 5 spells rotation so is *much* harder to play than yours that have only 3!".
Neither of them are actually difficult to play, but people like to think that what they're playing is different or hard or interesting to give themselves a motivation for going on playing.
"When I get to the end of a game it's usually depressing"
"It's very rare that I play a game all the way through and don't feel like I've wasted my time."
"gaming can make someone depressed because it's a depressing hobby"
So you consciously have a depressing hobby that you feel you're wasting your time with?
Does the study say anything about masochism among gamers?
One. Don't you know that Bob quitted last week?
Did you ever think that if WoW has so many players AND it allows solo levelling, solo levelling is something a lot of people want?
You've the mentality of the producers of all the failed MMORPGs: don't look at what many players want, but produce something *you* like and expect others to adapt to it.
In the end, ideas you believed to be genial will simply be shunned by the majority of population.
"Oh, and one thing Aion has far above and beyond WoW: it forces you to meet people within 15 hours of starting"
Forces you? Who want to play a game that forces you to do something if you don't want to do it?
If a MMORPG can't be soloed it will fail.
A percentage of people like to quest alone and maybe instance in groups, so Aion would piss them off.
But, more importantly, after some months a new player will find hard to be accepted in groups by more experienced players ("Hey, you're such a noob").
The reason for WoW success is that it allows a large number of play styles (questing, raiding, pvp...)
Games not so balanced will only satisfy a niche of population, so maybe people will start to play, see they don't really enjoy the game and leave.
When many players leave, others will follow as the servers will start to look empty. Empty servers must be merged.
Server merges helps the playing population to continue to enjoy the game but from outside it's seen as "ok, another failed MMORPG, I won't even try it"
And I'm being optimistic, regarding Aion, as in all my reasonings above I assumed it won't be bug filled or with huge imbalances...
Now I can download their system with bittorrent and become billionaire in seconds!
What's the difference?
all the companies that put "Beta" after the name of their services to look as cool as Google will remove it?
They probably have another paper ready "Detecting RSTEG use through resent packets frequency statistical analysis"...
"Woffa".
Except that gamers are usually more interested in *playing* games that in writing and/or porting them.
It doesn't seem a lot to me...
Italy?
Oh well, then probably at some formal meeting Berlusconi told the system password to a random spy between a coarse jokes and the next one...
We all know that the Evil North Korean Communists are against freedom of speech!
What? South Korea? Oh, never mind...
In a study I just made up, 67% of people who steal music are more relaxed, swear less and use less caps when posting on forums.
counterespionage information became public domain and discussed on /.?
a new law that will, when the current crisis will end, contribute to create the next crisis?