As this is beta, you will find a particular brand of crazy I like to call the professional MMO'er. They are absolutely certain that their view is completely correct and that if you do not cater to them, it will destroy the game. A few warning signs of a professional MMO'er are:

1. Demands for more timesinks
2. Demands that things in game that are fun be incredibly exclusionary or have a ridiculously
low droprate.
3. Demands for the implementation of tedious mechanics as if they somehow build character.
4. High minded intellectual criticism of trivial aspects of the game as if they are game breaking.

You see, the professional MMO'er is a creature with a ridiculous amount of time on their hands, and a desire to be on top in a game. They know they have the advantage of time, and as they have nothing better to do, enjoy grinding out long measures of time to show everyone else they have what is "fun".

They do not enjoy bringing others up, but bringing others down. You cannot please them. You cannot reason with them. And as their sole purpose is a selfish means of shoving everyone else down so they can be a special snowflake, they ruin whatever game they touch.

Don't listen to them devs. Cater your game to appeal to a wide audience with engaging gameplay and fun, but actually obtainable rewards. Your professional MMO'er will whine, complain, and throw a fit, but they'll be there. Because ultimately, what the professional MMO'er needs is to stand out from the crowd, and the bigger the game, the more they can stand out. Cater to the sane, don't worry, the insane will always follow.

^ Pretty much what he said

lol'd at #4

Amen! I couldn't have said it better.

My thanks to you for this lovely read, good sir.

As if you and your thread are anymore insightful as the people you're complaining about.

Maybe the dev's shouldn't listen to you either.

You have the professional MMO'er, and the MMO psychologist.

How about that.

Electroflux shows a symptom of "worthlesspostitis" This disease inflicts an individual to post negative things that don't take any of your points into account, as they don't have anything actually worthwhile to say.

What they are really saying, is they are angry at your thread, (most likely because you hit on something that's hard to deny), and should either be ignored, or smiled at because you know you hit a nerve somewhere.

Sounds a lot like denial o.o.

Well, that's a pretty solid assumption, too bad you don't have anything factual to back yourself up with; the same goes for this thread as well.

This thread was obviously intended as a trolling/flaming attempt, therefore I will report it as such. If you want to speak to the dev's directly, since that's clearly what you are attempting to do with this thread, then send them an email.

At Electroflux: = )

See my second post for explanation.

Quote: Wirius on 04/20/2012, 09:16 PM - view

I'm waiting.