Quote (Eep @ Dec 12 2010 03:57am)
Huh?
World of Warcraft was actually a great game when it was first released
You could chat cross faction (albeit you had to speak l33t), there were many good strats and very very minor mechanical quirks you could use to your advantage, etcetc
It was great, then a friend of a friend got a hold of it, and that friend informed his other friends (who up to that point had played custom maps on sc or neopets) about it and they came. Then they complained that this guy was able to switch his equipment and skills fast with clever use of macros to dominate his fuckin' back pedaling mouse clicking self, and shit got nerfed, and here we are today.
And now, since casuals are the ones who are the most whiney, most annoying and (sadly) make up the majority of players....games everywhere are catering to them.
Thus you have ever mmo released post EQ2 sans a very select few.
The 'west' still has the majority of real gamers, but we are far out shadowed by the casuals these days. And if you are trying to turn a profit, who are you going to cater to?
lol@bold.
i understand WHY they're catering to casuals, but jesus fuck, I wish the production team would just fucking stand by their game for once and tell those niggerfaggots to go fuck themselves, if their free time is so precious.
it might have been a great game, but there's no arguing against the fact that it widely brought "normal" people into mmos, vs gamers who actually played games for the fun or challenge, instead of whining on forums for 9001 hours or spending days writing stupid fucking petitions because they don't want to play the game they signed up to play.
the perfect solution to all this casualfag bullshit is just to give it to them. enable 100% drop, 5x xp, whatever the fuck, but give them -100% pvp defense and a giant unremoveable tag over their heads that says "I am a gigantic faggot", or "I have a wife, 3 kids, 2 cars and a dog, so i expect everything handed to me ingame for minimal effort".