Yes, it's another forums bitch.
1. All opinions matter
There has been some things that has been bugging me on the forums for quite some time (okay, years): this thought of "You don't raid XXX so what you say doesn't matter."
Who the hell invented that rule? What full of himself moron decided that this was okay? The last I checked, we all play the same game. So people don't do more than LFR? So friggin what? That doesn't mean they aren't allowed to have any kind of opinion on a class change.
Using myself as an example, the last I checked: resto shaman healing works the same in dungeons, and LFR, and flex, and normal mode, and heroic mode. I don't get some sort of new fangled spell when I join any higher mode of raiding.
So why the hell does someone who doesn't do heroic raiding opinion matter less? It doesn't. As long as the post is constructive, it shouldn't matter what mode of raiding they do or don't do. Basic class mechanics do not change depending on what you do in the game. The application might change, but the basics don't.
No, I may not agree with what the poster is saying (especially when it's just a rant post), but I respect that it's their opinion on the matter.
2. "You shouldn't be playing MMO's if you don't have time for XX"
Sick and fucking tired of this meme (that's all it is now).
I get it, you're pissed that casuals have their own mode of raiding now and you aren't "special" anymore (note: you have not been special since Vanilla and even then that was iffy.) Lay the fuck off. The LF systems did a lot of good- even with the negatives- for WoW. It opened up accessibility for those folks that otherwise would not have partaken in the content.
On the Wildstar forums, some guy was bitching about the fact that WS plans on having a LFG feature that teleports you to the dungeon. And like the WoW forums, he was trying to use the same old tired arguments against it: "It hurts immersion" "It hurts wpvp" etc etc (you know the rhetoric).
As I've said prior in this blog: the system exists for a reason in WoW and it exists for the same reason in WS: so people aren't spending whatever limited time they have to play running to the dungeon from the other side of the world and hoping someone doesn't drop (forcing the group leader to go find another body). It eliminates having to sit around in town in chat trying to put a group together for an hour. That shit was stupid back in Vanilla and it was stupid in BC (and early LK).
I'm sorry but this isn't 10 years ago: the world has moved on since then. The typical gamer of those days has grown up, gotten married, had families, and graduated from college (hell, I'll be 40 in November- I've basically have played WoW for my entire 30's). But they still enjoy logging into an MMO environment. For those people to be able to still enjoy MMO's, things have to start being more accessible.
Just because someone has limited time does not mean that an MMO is not for them. A lot of the newer game models that have been coming out, take peoples personal time in effect.
I swear people use this argument because they really have no counter points to make. They must think it makes them look smart. No, it makes you look like an idiotic douche-bag
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Sorry for the rant guys. I just needed to get that off my chest.. It's been pissing me off for a while now.
1. All opinions matter
There has been some things that has been bugging me on the forums for quite some time (okay, years): this thought of "You don't raid XXX so what you say doesn't matter."
Who the hell invented that rule? What full of himself moron decided that this was okay? The last I checked, we all play the same game. So people don't do more than LFR? So friggin what? That doesn't mean they aren't allowed to have any kind of opinion on a class change.
Using myself as an example, the last I checked: resto shaman healing works the same in dungeons, and LFR, and flex, and normal mode, and heroic mode. I don't get some sort of new fangled spell when I join any higher mode of raiding.
So why the hell does someone who doesn't do heroic raiding opinion matter less? It doesn't. As long as the post is constructive, it shouldn't matter what mode of raiding they do or don't do. Basic class mechanics do not change depending on what you do in the game. The application might change, but the basics don't.
No, I may not agree with what the poster is saying (especially when it's just a rant post), but I respect that it's their opinion on the matter.
2. "You shouldn't be playing MMO's if you don't have time for XX"
Sick and fucking tired of this meme (that's all it is now).
I get it, you're pissed that casuals have their own mode of raiding now and you aren't "special" anymore (note: you have not been special since Vanilla and even then that was iffy.) Lay the fuck off. The LF systems did a lot of good- even with the negatives- for WoW. It opened up accessibility for those folks that otherwise would not have partaken in the content.
On the Wildstar forums, some guy was bitching about the fact that WS plans on having a LFG feature that teleports you to the dungeon. And like the WoW forums, he was trying to use the same old tired arguments against it: "It hurts immersion" "It hurts wpvp" etc etc (you know the rhetoric).
As I've said prior in this blog: the system exists for a reason in WoW and it exists for the same reason in WS: so people aren't spending whatever limited time they have to play running to the dungeon from the other side of the world and hoping someone doesn't drop (forcing the group leader to go find another body). It eliminates having to sit around in town in chat trying to put a group together for an hour. That shit was stupid back in Vanilla and it was stupid in BC (and early LK).
I'm sorry but this isn't 10 years ago: the world has moved on since then. The typical gamer of those days has grown up, gotten married, had families, and graduated from college (hell, I'll be 40 in November- I've basically have played WoW for my entire 30's). But they still enjoy logging into an MMO environment. For those people to be able to still enjoy MMO's, things have to start being more accessible.
Just because someone has limited time does not mean that an MMO is not for them. A lot of the newer game models that have been coming out, take peoples personal time in effect.
I swear people use this argument because they really have no counter points to make. They must think it makes them look smart. No, it makes you look like an idiotic douche-bag
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Sorry for the rant guys. I just needed to get that off my chest.. It's been pissing me off for a while now.