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 Post subject: Re: Just unsubbed because I dont give a dead mans last fuck
PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 5:43 pm  
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Aestu wrote:
Jubbergun wrote:
LFD only spans your Battlegroup.


This was changed; it's been region-wide for a while now.


Must have changed after I left, which was over four months ago (and counting). Looks like we might be able to hold out hope that there's still one subject on which you're not ass-backwards. My bad, especially when you pull something bright like this outta your ass:

Aestu wrote:
Speaking for myself, I don't have a problem admitting that I enjoyed playing the game. Or that I still follow it. Or that the time was wasted, except insofar as time one enjoys wasting isn't necessarily wasted time. And I don't see the irony in taking satisfaction in the fact that other players, however diverse, feel the same way about the direction of the game.


You and Dvergar hit the nail on the head. I'm also not going to feel bad about enjoying the schadenfreude of watching the game implode after a lot of shit that worked a nerve with me so hard that I quit, Tuhl.

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And for the record, yes I know the Gulf War occurred during Bush's term. I was comparing GOP vs Dems.


Yes, of course, that's why you lumped it in with a Reagan-era list...but didn't list anything from G. W. Bush's presidency, or from previous republicans like Nixon or Ford. An excuse like that would be believable if it had come sooner and was wasn't preceded by a long and storied history of never being able to admit to an error.

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 Post subject: Re: Just unsubbed because I dont give a dead mans last fuck
PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 6:40 pm  
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Dvergar wrote:
The fun of the time spent was the people not the game in particular. We are the older generations of wow players, our friends have stopped playing, and so we too stopped.


It's beyond that. It's not even the older generation of WoW players, it's the older generation of players, period. What's really remarkable is that the generation gap is a decade at most.

The younger generation of players has no concept of challenge for its own sake. They don't understand sportsmanship as it pertains to video gaming. They have no patience, no discipline, no humility, insofar as those things pertain to video gaming.

If something doesn't go as it should it's never their fault. They don't understand that all power in a game is relative, or that prestige can exist only through challenge.

I had this dialogue with this kid in LFD shortly before I stopped logging in. He thought 4.2 was a huge improvement because now he can get epics without raiding so he can "see the content" and "get better gear". In PvP, he said, "now I can rape 'em in greens then get epics and rape 'em harder."

I pointed out that really nothing had changed except that blues were now epic and that if he wasn't good enough to get epics when they were hard to get, he would still get destroyed by players who were, even with superior gear. He responded, typically, by saying he was awesome. Then why not good enough to get epics when it took challenge? I'm pretty sure you can guess his response.

It's a typical dialogue. Everyone on this forum has had a conversation like this with someone in WoW at some point. Except Krizen, of course.

Kids will be kids, but I remember when I was his age, I enjoyed the challenge in games for its own sake. I remember having the patience to try again and again at things until I succeeded.

Recently there was a Zarhym post in which he said, "we don't want to gate prestige through difficulty".

How the hell does that work? Humans will always associate prestige with difficulty - so you either get players who are socially/mentally retarded, or change human nature. Either strategy is doomed to long-term failure.


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 Post subject: Re: Just unsubbed because I dont give a dead mans last fuck
PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 3:47 am  
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Aestu wrote:
Dvergar wrote:
The fun of the time spent was the people not the game in particular. We are the older generations of wow players, our friends have stopped playing, and so we too stopped.


It's beyond that. It's not even the older generation of WoW players, it's the older generation of players, period. What's really remarkable is that the generation gap is a decade at most.

The younger generation of players has no concept of challenge for its own sake. They don't understand sportsmanship as it pertains to video gaming. They have no patience, no discipline, no humility, insofar as those things pertain to video gaming.

If something doesn't go as it should it's never their fault. They don't understand that all power in a game is relative, or that prestige can exist only through challenge.

I had this dialogue with this kid in LFD shortly before I stopped logging in. He thought 4.2 was a huge improvement because now he can get epics without raiding so he can "see the content" and "get better gear". In PvP, he said, "now I can rape 'em in greens then get epics and rape 'em harder."

I pointed out that really nothing had changed except that blues were now epic and that if he wasn't good enough to get epics when they were hard to get, he would still get destroyed by players who were, even with superior gear. He responded, typically, by saying he was awesome. Then why not good enough to get epics when it took challenge? I'm pretty sure you can guess his response.

It's a typical dialogue. Everyone on this forum has had a conversation like this with someone in WoW at some point. Except Krizen, of course.

Kids will be kids, but I remember when I was his age, I enjoyed the challenge in games for its own sake. I remember having the patience to try again and again at things until I succeeded.

Recently there was a Zarhym post in which he said, "we don't want to gate prestige through difficulty".

How the hell does that work? Humans will always associate prestige with difficulty - so you either get players who are socially/mentally retarded, or change human nature. Either strategy is doomed to long-term failure.


tl;dr: Blizzard sucks copious amounts of dick and should just /gdisband


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 Post subject: Re: Just unsubbed because I dont give a dead mans last fuck
PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 10:17 am  
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Battletard wrote:
tl;dr: Blizzard sucks copious amounts of dick and should just /gdisband

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 Post subject: Re: Just unsubbed because I dont give a dead mans last fuck
PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 10:22 am  
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I wholeheartedly agree with the bit about the prestige. Aside from I Has a Bucket ceasing to exist, the only other reason I stopped raiding was because there was no challenge in it anymore meaning there was no such thing as a number one guild anymore. Nowadays, being number one means you have a shitload of extra time in your life that you can afford to spend 6 hours a night in a single raid. It's been like this since Ulduar. The function for success in raids has shifted from something like success = skill + time to success = time^2. Basically, put a lot of time into it and you will be rewarded with a clear. Can you imagine trying to pug raids in BC or vanilla? Unpossible, and I liked it that way.


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 Post subject: Re: Just unsubbed because I dont give a dead mans last fuck
PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 11:03 am  
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Fantastique wrote:
Can you imagine trying to pug raids in BC or vanilla? Unpossible, and I liked it that way.




(Yes I know what you mean - TBC was just right, no matter what the whiners say).


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 Post subject: Re: Just unsubbed because I dont give a dead mans last fuck
PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 11:45 am  
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absolute fucking win


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 Post subject: Re: Just unsubbed because I dont give a dead mans last fuck
PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 12:36 pm  
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i enjoyed the shit out of farming karazhan.


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