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Player "skill" does not equal "hand-eye coordination"
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion 5/31/06 1:10:20 PM
Ironically it takes hand-eye coordination to operate a computer, start up a game, use a keyboard, and click those spell casting and special move icons. It's all hand-eye coordination. All of it. While I agree with the misnomer identified with the OP I strongly disagree with some of the following posts that claim that hand-eye coordination isn't a skill or that downplay the efforts of obtaining those skills. I think many proponents (myself included) of "player skills" are arguing that it takes more skill to manually aim and hit something and more skill and even interaction on the players part to dodge and block and parry manually than to have those actions automatically calculated by the computer without any need and usually any ability for the player to handle those functions manually themselves. While I agree hand-eye cordination by itself isn't everything (even in quake and half-life, a player with better hand eye coordination can easily lose against a player with inferior aim but better strategic skill) , a company would do well to make a good mmorpg that catered to those wanting a more direct manual control over more of their characters basic combat manuevers.
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