Timesinks != difficult

[godbox]

i read your post and then tried to ask my doctor about how he was going to poopsock the cancer in my colon.
Based on his reaction I think there might be some differences to being a doctor and being an mmo junky...

[theaetatus]

Originally Posted by bluejam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

this.

comparing any noteworthy real life achievement with gaining more pixels is just lol.

I consider any sports-related achievement to be exactly as worthy as a video-game related achievement. Both are as pointless as each other.

The veneration of sportsmen and women is of far more worry than the number of people on welfare. Oh amazing, you can spend all day running and you can run fast, congratulations.

[Breeziyo]

Originally Posted by theaetatus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I consider any sports-related achievement to be exactly as worthy as a video-game related achievement. Both are as pointless as each other.

The veneration of sportsmen and women is of far more worry than the number of people on welfare. Oh amazing, you can spend all day running and you can run fast, congratulations.

I think the veneration comes from seeing how far people can push their bodies in certain areas of athletics through vigorous training.

Pooping in your sock to get a chance at a specific item in a video game isn't so impressive.

Originally Posted by Anesthia [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Rainbowned.

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[Cippofra]

in my personal opinion eq and wow are challenging in very different ways. even as a raid tank in kunark and velious nothing was ever nearly as difficult as some of wow's end game content. in wow you can find encounters when every single person in your group had to be perfect or you'd wipe. as a healer if i dropped the ball for half a second the tank goes down and we wipe in seconds. eq simply does not work like this. sure some things are frustrating, like corpse retrievals in end game content, or deep in dungeons like at myconid spore king, but the actual encounters are just rinse and repeat.

fact of the matter is, who cares? i play here because it brings back good memories. whether its that rare flawless group you get or grinding all alone for 2 days to get out of level 59. the things that drove me nuts when i was a 16 year old kid like 10 hour corpse retrievals or spending an hour to run somewhere only to be struck down by an undead cleric are simply amusing now and all part of a good experience that most of us miss

[lawll]

A good timesink has you interacting with the game on some level, earning some level of enjoyment or moving the story along. It might be “realistic”, but keep in mind that you are trying to entertain people here and useless timesinks tend to do the opposite of entertain.
—Matt Miller, MMODesigner.com

[theaetatus]

Originally Posted by square [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Spoken like a true untalented/nonathletic jelly sandwich.

So, my preference for intellectual pursuits over base athletic ones somehow makes me untalented?

I'd just rather look up to the rather unathletic Bertrand Russell, Socrates or Prousts of this world than the idiotic David Beckhams or Michael Johnsons... People who have achieved something more than just placing an object in a hole or over a line marginally better than the others.

[Houdiny]

Originally Posted by square [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I already pointed out why you're a tool in the WoW thread so I'll just add some small stuff here.

No, you're just a troll who got all butt hurt when someone started telling the truth about your beloved WoW


What is different in EQ than that, except that you don't hand in quests at the same rate? You still go around soloing/duoing/grinding. Its the same thing in the long run. Keep in mind, most games use the path to the max level almost like a tutorial to learn your class, hence getting spells throughout the levels, you know, like EQ.

The difference is interaction. People generally solo through these quests and miss the entire concept of an MMO. It basically becomes a single player RPG until they hit raid level.

There still is consequences and "reputation" on many other MMOs. I however, play video games for fun, I don't sit there sweating like a shook nerd wondering if someone will be mad at me. Its a damn game. You prefer to be the internet police, and generally people like you are compensating. Just saiyan.

Another troll attempt...so sad. I just prefer my MMO's to be more like MMO's. Sorry if this disappoints you.

How is farming the main room of unrest hard? Mobs spawn, you kill them. Rinse repeat. You keep admitting to having limited experiences, yet keep insisting on making comparisons. You also say things instantly becomes trivial once you've done something in MMO's, yet the other thread you keep saying how difficult EQ is. Oh boy...this guy...

Don't ever recall saying EQ was hard. In fact I said EQ was pretty easy. Once again you fail to read posts. Another annoying trait of the elusive troll. Now go back into your mom's basement and fire up the Atari

[Dirtnap]

The funniest part about this thread, and the wow thread, is that half the people can't accept people have different opinions. "This is fact because I said it's fact!"

It will help many of you out exponentially in life to realize that people will have different opinions than you, and that's OK. Different opinions help you to form your own opinion, unless you're an arrogant prick.

[Dirtnap]

Originally Posted by square [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Baiting in multiple topics isn't helping your point.

My opinion is that cars in 2016 will all suck, and cars from 1988 are better. I have no facts or experience with 2016 cars, however I'm right. Please don't call me out on this because I am very sensitive, thanks.

I am just offering my opinion on the matter of both threads. There are two opinions clashing in discussion, both have valid points, but only one opinion is blatantly telling the other its wrong.

Please, you don't have to play a game to have experience with it. You can watch any raid, from any game, on youtube. That is all the experience you need to form an opinion on a game.

[bluntfang]

Originally Posted by Dirtnap [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Please, you don't have to play a game to have experience with it. You can watch any raid, from any game, on youtube. That is all the experience you need to form an opinion on a game.

lol

That's like saying you don't have to play a sport to have experience with it, you can just watch any play, from any game, on youtube. That is all the experience you need to form an opinion on a sport.

Replace "Play a sport" with "build a house" or "build a website"

Try to get a job by telling your potential employer that you've never built a website before, but you've seen a few of them so you're qualified to build one