WAR Steady State Gaming
Monday, November 10. 2008, 10:02 AM
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I'm starting to think that while our gaming habits have evolved as we've matured (we no longer need to play 18 hours a day and, instead, fit playtime in where real adult life allows), our gaming desires have remained rather immature. You mention people spreading doubt (in your comments at Syp's, I think) by commenting on a game -- but why? It should be possible to comment on games, to like and dislike, and to debate things without the blogosphere instantly incandescing to cries of "omg InsertName hates the game! Go back to WoW, byotch!"
I'm not enjoying WAR right now. That doesn't make WAR crap... it just means, quite simply, that I'm not enjoying WAR right now. In a week that may change. In six months it may be the case again. Why that should directly affect anyone else is beyond me. When a film critic hates a movie I want to see, I don't let that prevent me from seeing said movie -- and indeed enjoying it, if it's good. It certainly doesn't make me consign the movie to the bin just because some other person said I should.
I'll stop before I rant. But really... there's commentary, and there's acting like bloggers are the word of God, which we really are not. And most of us don't even try to be!
I'm not enjoying WAR right now. That doesn't make WAR crap... it just means, quite simply, that I'm not enjoying WAR right now. In a week that may change. In six months it may be the case again. Why that should directly affect anyone else is beyond me. When a film critic hates a movie I want to see, I don't let that prevent me from seeing said movie -- and indeed enjoying it, if it's good. It certainly doesn't make me consign the movie to the bin just because some other person said I should.
I'll stop before I rant. But really... there's commentary, and there's acting like bloggers are the word of God, which we really are not. And most of us don't even try to be!
I don't think spreading doubt is intentional. I really am posting my thoughts on where I think where WAR is currently and how it may put players "on the fence."
So when we read the thoughts of others it may tilt us one way or the other on the game in general. If I was a sociologists this be an interesting study. However, I am just a It geek and MMO nerd armed with a blog (take cover!!).
So when we read the thoughts of others it may tilt us one way or the other on the game in general. If I was a sociologists this be an interesting study. However, I am just a It geek and MMO nerd armed with a blog (take cover!!).
