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• • Why isn't WoW ranked nr.1?

  • Originally posted by Bane82
    

     

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    Originally posted by Vortigon
    *Insert any example you wish*
    Quantity (amount of users) Does Not = Quality
    This applies to all walks of life, all products in the world and all people in the world.  That is why WoW isn't ranked number 1. 
    It's not the best game, only the most popular, why are some people having so much trouble understanding that difference?  Very confusing.

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    What is "best" is subjective from person to person, use art as an example, can't stand abstract art, I think it's ridiculous that people will spend MILLIONS of dollars to buy something that looks like a bunch of squares put together by a 4 year old, and yet, I love impressionist art like Monet. So, YOU may think WoW is not the best out there, and yet, I believe that, thanks to a lot of publishers having a lack of vision, a lot of their MMO's including the one you may like, are crap. Are you going to say I'm wrong? or are you going to start calling me a "fanboi"? as one movie actor once pointed out: "The ball's in your park Chuckles"

     

    You're now equating taste with a value. If you have the correct tools and knowledge about it, you can actually judge the quality of something without falling into "this sucks FOR ME" terrain. The truth is, we're all going on intuition here, since most of the posters here, including me, concretely know nothing of game design, costs, etc. They think they do, just like you think you know anything about art, and go on a limb and judge based on pure matters of taste, and not on what they should, which is non-superficial knowledge of that which they are judging. You're not wrong per se, but you're blurring the line between opinion and informed judgement. This is where it's at. Unfortunately, professional reviewers and people with an actual idea of what they're saying are scarce, so, ultimately, this is also all we'll get. So, you're both wrong because you're both going for absolute positions; one because popular instantly means it's not good, and the other because good is directly associated with personal experience ("I like it, therefore it must be good"). And there's nothing "right" I'll be able to say about the whole thing either, and not many of us will. So stop with the antagonizing, because you're both standing on the same damn soapbox. WoW isn't ranked number one because the people in this site simply don't want to rank it number one. That's it. There's no authentic debate surrounding it beyond what you two are doing, and that's it. It's not negative at all, after all, not everyone can have deep knowledge about games. Just be conscious of it, and please, don't make "good" a pairing of "I like".

  • Posted: 7/06/08 2:15 PM
    General Discussion
• • NDA Update (If All Goes Well In Guild Beta...)

  • Wow that's very cool. It shows how confident they are with their game, which is something to look for in companies nowadays. Man I can't wait for this game! I don't think it's gonna be hard for me to drop Conan once this comes out, too.

  • Posted: 7/06/08 1:40 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Favorite Race(not in the game)

  • Originally posted by StuntyCrusha
    

    My opinion, expansions in order I would like to see:

    Skaven vs Lizardmen

    Beastmen vs Woodelves

    Vampire Counts vs Bretonnia

    After that, there would need to be new lore written to support anything else.  Tomb Kings and Ogre Kingdoms would both be difficult to work in without some serious support from Games Workshop.

     

     

    Those would be awesome!

    They could pair up Tomb Kings against Vampire Counts... if I remember my lore correctly (haven't played WH for years), the seconds are kind of a rebellious offshoot of the firsts. I believe Tomb Kings were kind of a "neutral" army, in similar fashion to the Lizardmen, so they could be used for the side of Order.

  • Posted: 7/06/08 12:36 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Whiner Threads Here..

  • Rest assured, WAR will suffer from the exact same thing. Even if it's bug-less, people will whine about design decisions. It's just that some persons really need to whine about a product they buy, regardless of the aspect they are whining about. I don't know, I think complaints are healthy until they start being one-liners. Really, all the whiner threads here have some truth to them. The game IS bugged and many things are broken, but it's nothing Funcom can't solve in due time. Of course, some people expect them to FIX IT NOW FOR TOMORROW BECAUSE I WANNA PLAY, but hey, we all know that's just not gonna happen. Read through the good and valid complaints, and leave the ones who are just hating for later.

  • Posted: 6/27/08 11:05 AM
    Age of Conan
• • AoC: The rise and fall

  • Originally posted by Teala
    

    Originally posted by TheHumannBee
    

    Umm..Sorry I haven't read all of the pages, but I don't think it's that funny. I never played Conan, and don't really care about the state that it's in, but the comic just isn't funny. It doesn't really have many jokes and relies too heavily on that l33t speak to make it funny. Hey, that's just my opinion though. At least they're accurate.

    
     

    You have to know the game to really understand why it is so funny.  Trust me on this...if you've played the game...you'd be LYAO.

     

    ...or you have to be about 12 years old to still find l33tspeak funny. I've played the game, I've seen the bugs, I've suffered the lag, I've been booted from the server, whatever. Replace l33t with normal words and all its "comedic gold" value is gone. Try again.

  • Posted: 6/27/08 10:59 AM
    Age of Conan