Originally posted by mindw0rk

"The secret world sucks"

I stopped reading here. Post was amusing at first, after this it became clear - another GW2 fanboy

Maybe you should read the whole post and then come to a conclusion... not stop halfway through and come to one.  How did you even come to that conclusion after reading the title?  People can think TSW sucks and not be a GW2 fan.  I know, I know.. the world is a strange and amazing place.

Originally posted by spankybus

Wow...all that from toast and tormenting your child ...forgive me if I resist owing this bandwagon.

 

And let your wife sleep and fucking give your son toast, dad of the year.

You really think this was an actual event that occurred?

I don't believe people question anything anymore on the internet. They just read a paragraph and then automatically take their next step, which seems to be primarily one of the following:

• rage against it
• get offended at it
• share it on social media

Nowhere in that process is there any level of sanity checking, fact checking or - god forfrikkenbid - an attempt to discern the intent of the agenda of the content.

Originally posted by colddog04
I'm not around kids very much, but aren't nine years olds able to make their own toast? 

My eight year old does. He can even make his own sandwich and use the microwave as long as you tell him for how long.

Originally posted by Loktofeit

You really think this was an actual event that occurred?

I didn't.  I just said it was the stupidest thing I've heard in a while for that exact reason: ie: someone tried to sound deep and witty and it came off as immature and nonsensical.  I remember some poster had a sig that said to stop making analogies because you're no good at them (was referring to the whole forum).  This guy needs to take their advice.

Pretty sure the OP is trying to use a metaphor (albeit not a very good one) to get his point about lack of innovation across. 

What I'm not sure about are the number of people who are saying 'go feed your son, what kind of parent are you?'. Do they all get the whole metaphor thing and are trying to be funny, [mod edit]

[Thanks for the edit mods, you obviously fit into the edited part then!]

I want innovation as much as the next gamer... but GW2 failing would just drive away more investors.

It is hard enough to get people to make an MMO as it is, without veterans of the industry failing as well.

I wholeheartedly agree that the MMO genre is in big trouble, even if most people dont realize it yet.

The lack of diversity is mindboggling. The fact that people think that GW2 is "innovative" is a testament to how little the genre is changing.

Part of me sadly does agree that the MMO industry might need some sort of crash. Though I've been saying it for years, there needs to be some sort of implosion before real change will ever happen.

In all honesty, I just wish a developer will take a look at the older games and give players their freedoms back. What ever happened to open ended play? Skill based, classless systems. Player housing? A real economy? Community focused games?

Sad.

We need a toast-making MMORPG, obviously.

Originally posted by Thebigthrill

I was thinking this morning at my kitchen table when my 9 yearold son woke up and walked in. He said dad can you make me some toast?

No I wont make you toast today son. He asked me why and I told him I always make him toast , his mother never makes him toast.

Go wake up your mom and tell her to make you some toast. He started to cry and went to wake her up.

A few minutes later his mother appeared and asked me why I wont make him toast, hes crying. I told her its because I didnt feel motivated to make good toast , I had no competition from her since she always let me make the toast.

Now as I sat at the table thinking some more I realized that is what mmorpg's need but in order for that to happen we need Guild Wars 2 to fail along with the secret world and all future mmorpg's.

We need a mmorpg crash similar to the video game crash of the 80's. We need it to be clear to future developers that we need innovation and competition.

Not copying.

The secret world sucks , SWTOR was a disaster and hopefully GW2 will bomb.

That way in the future we can have as I suggested before....

 

 

A prison mmorpg

A cowboy themed mmorpg

A zombie mmorpg

We need to be able to build towns , cities , houses , use our webcams so we can put our faces on our toons, upload jpegs so we can add custom logos to our creations.

Upload mp3s so we can put custom music in our houses , we need 1 server so we can play with millions of people.

 

A zombie mmorpg? You mean like TSW....the game you think sucks?

So, basically you want sandbox games right? Why not just say that?

Otherwise please avoid the use of the word "innovate", the prudes on this forum will tear you a new one for misusing it.

I with you, but I'd be bored to tears while it's crashing :(

edit - everything after TSW, GW2. and TESO, okay?

Originally posted by Thebigthrill

We need to be able to build towns , cities , houses , use our webcams so we can put our faces on our toons, upload jpegs so we can add custom logos to our creations.

I am available to design custom logos; but you won't like my freelance rate.

What did i just read ?

You did not make your son a toast ? Shame on you !!

Originally posted by Eir_S

Originally posted by roo67

A zombie mmo is already in the works .

This.  Then again, I'm not sure how well it'll fair.  Loke666 on the forums seems to have a lot of faith in (I don't remember what it's called now... brain's fried).  It will probably be much different than most fantasy MMOs though, in terms of visuals (obviously) and mechanics.  

i have faith in it  http://undeadlabs.com/

its being developed by Jeff Strain, one of the people that co-founded ANET and gave this inspiring speech in 2007

How to Create a Successful MMO

http://www.guildwars.com/events/tradeshows/gc2007/gcspeech.php

Originally posted by Thane

Originally posted by Thebigthrill

I was thinking this morning at my kitchen table when my 9 yearold son woke up and walked in. He said dad can you make me some toast?

No I wont make you toast today son. He asked me why and I told him I always make him toast , his mother never makes him toast.

Go wake up your mom and tell her to make you some toast. He started to cry and went to wake her up.

A few minutes later his mother appeared and asked me why I wont make him toast, hes crying. I told her its because I didnt feel motivated to make good toast , I had no competition from her since she always let me make the toast.

Now as I sat at the table thinking some more I realized that is what mmorpg's need but in order for that to happen we need Guild Wars 2 to fail along with the secret world and all future mmorpg's.

We need a mmorpg crash similar to the video game crash of the 80's. We need it to be clear to future developers that we need innovation and competition.

Not copying.

The secret world sucks , SWTOR was a disaster and hopefully GW2 will bomb.

That way in the future we can have as I suggested before....

 

 

A prison mmorpg

A cowboy themed mmorpg

A zombie mmorpg

We need to be able to build towns , cities , houses , use our webcams so we can put our faces on our toons, upload jpegs so we can add custom logos to our creations.

Upload mp3s so we can put custom music in our houses , we need 1 server so we can play with millions of people.

 

or, maybe... just maybe. you need to treat your son better ^^

just make him some toast ffs

Hes 9 years old he should be able to make them himself.

Originally posted by Torgrim

Hes 9 years old he should be able to make them himself.

Er--you can lead a man to toast, but you can't make him butter?

No, that doesn't quite work, does it.