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Will Rickards
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That the mom plays is very surprising.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
I can't understand why anyone plays WoW.
Everyone looks the same. That's just so... blah.
Everyone looks the same. That's just so... blah.
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Faydra said:
Horrifying punishment indeed. Way to go, mom.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Moulin Rouge is quite possibily the most unwatchable movie I've ever seen roughly three minutes of.
1. Behavior of players in WoW tends to be highly anti-social. Someone gets to a high level and gets bored, so he wanders into the lowbie areas and starts killing all the Non Player Characters he can find. Lowbies cannot interact with dead NPCs, so they can't advance in the game.
2. Immaturity of players - From observation, people I've seen play, and players I've seen interact with other players seem to take the persona of a 12 year old kid. WoW seems to operate mostly on the principle of "Playground Justice" only without the justice part.
3. Everyone who plays a particular type of character (Elf, Orc, whatever) looks like everyone else who plays that type of character. Gosh that's boring.
4. Fantasy setting. Just like every other MMO.
5. Emphasis on player-versus-player interaction - again with the anti-social - and on "loot". Listen to a high level player talk about what's involved in getting his high-level items
Well, I have to do this one map where the end bad guy might drop the Left Boot of Smiting one in every 316 battles, but there's another guy I play with who is the same class as me, who also wants that boot, so I might have to do the fight 732 times. It takes 2 hours to fight to the guy who might have my boot and I need to make a party with six people before I can even try... so I might be looking at 1500 hours of play to get that left boot. Now, the Right boot of Smiting...
Sadly, I'm not exaggerating all that much.
I actually had a student who was so addicted to WoW that he brought his own, personal laptop to play WoW while I was trying to teach. Not going to say that didn't spark a little resentment, either.
Handruin said:
1. Behavior of players in WoW tends to be highly anti-social. Someone gets to a high level and gets bored, so he wanders into the lowbie areas and starts killing all the Non Player Characters he can find. Lowbies cannot interact with dead NPCs, so they can't advance in the game.
2. Immaturity of players - From observation, people I've seen play, and players I've seen interact with other players seem to take the persona of a 12 year old kid. WoW seems to operate mostly on the principle of "Playground Justice" only without the justice part.
3. Everyone who plays a particular type of character (Elf, Orc, whatever) looks like everyone else who plays that type of character. Gosh that's boring.
4. Fantasy setting. Just like every other MMO.
5. Emphasis on player-versus-player interaction - again with the anti-social - and on "loot". Listen to a high level player talk about what's involved in getting his high-level items
Well, I have to do this one map where the end bad guy might drop the Left Boot of Smiting one in every 316 battles, but there's another guy I play with who is the same class as me, who also wants that boot, so I might have to do the fight 732 times. It takes 2 hours to fight to the guy who might have my boot and I need to make a party with six people before I can even try... so I might be looking at 1500 hours of play to get that left boot. Now, the Right boot of Smiting...
Sadly, I'm not exaggerating all that much.
I actually had a student who was so addicted to WoW that he brought his own, personal laptop to play WoW while I was trying to teach. Not going to say that didn't spark a little resentment, either.
Buck
Storage? I am Storage!
LOL @ Steve
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
Mercutio said:
This explains a lot about your personal life....
This reminds me of another story from when I worked technical support at Electronic Arts....
For those of you who don't know (and bless you all), The Sims Online is a "game" -- I use the quotes, because it's not much more than the original single-player Sims game hacked into a chat room with Sims as avatars. The game was released with basically no content, so those hard-core Sims addicts who joined really had nothing to do. The more savvy users started to get together and find interesting things to do.
This group, which eventually was knick-named the Sims Mob, would basically spend their time harassing people -- especially new and stupid players - for any reason that you could imagine. One of their more interesting tactics would be to get a very large number of their members to show up on the target's lot. This would make the game chug, even on the most powerful computer, disallowing anyone from being able to reasonably control their character. After enough time had passed, each player character would hit a threshhold for its bladder requirement and, uh, leave a puddle on the lot. With so much of this happening, the lot got to state wherein it was pretty much impossible to clean it to a usable level. The target lot owner would then have to sell the lot back to the game at a major loss and find elsewhere to live -- where the Mob would find him again.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
I'm personally fond of the 12 year old boy who realized he could make real-life money by being a (female) Simwhore in the Sims Online.
Enterprising little tyke.
Of course, a lot of these stories came to attention of the general public because of a site that IIRC was called "The Alphaville Herald". The gentleman who reported on the anti-social behavior in The Sims online was apparently instantly banninated by EA... while the 12 year old SimHooker went merrily on with all manner of SimJohns.
Enterprising little tyke.
Of course, a lot of these stories came to attention of the general public because of a site that IIRC was called "The Alphaville Herald". The gentleman who reported on the anti-social behavior in The Sims online was apparently instantly banninated by EA... while the 12 year old SimHooker went merrily on with all manner of SimJohns.
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
Just don't break the EULA. That's where they get you.
Or when you're too expensive to support.
Or when you're too expensive to support.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Speaking of "Busted"...
(maybe not safe for work if hot geek Everquest-playin' chicks in purple bikinis are not safe for work. But it's probably OK to read the article, which is what I linked to)
(maybe not safe for work if hot geek Everquest-playin' chicks in purple bikinis are not safe for work. But it's probably OK to read the article, which is what I linked to)