duck&cover - 2022-12-30
No, I don't want to watch a 90 minute dissertation about MMOs.
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Binro the Heretic - 2022-12-30 SUMMARY: MMORPGS tend to attract Min/Maxing stat nerd control freaks who get pissy if they feel you're not enjoying the game the right way.
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SolRo - 2022-12-30 The other big takeaway is that WoW specifically has made content overwhelmingly unplayable because of an arms race with mod tools.
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jfcaron_ca - 2022-12-30 I enjoyed making parallels to other games or even non-game situations. E.g. for MNR some people think the goal is to show terrible movies, while for other's it's just cool movies, or maybe cool-but-awful. The meta-text around MNR is our discussions and unwritten traditions about why we do this.
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Binro the Heretic  - 2022-12-30
This is an old problem.
I remember being at a LAN party playing "Diablo II" and everyone getting pissed at me when I chose Necromancer because I wouldn't be able to unlock all NPC dialogue or get the best prices from merchants.
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jfcaron_ca - 2022-12-30 For LAN it probably wouldn't matter, but over Battle.net everyone hated Necromancers if they used skeletons and revives because anyone with a non-top-of-the-line PC would get graphical lag and make it harder to play.
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Robin Kestrel - 2022-12-31
In every online game, MMORPG or not, there is always somebody bitching that someone else is not playing the right way. Always.
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Gmork - 2022-12-31
Online gaming became so toxic I barely engage in any of it anymore.
Even in a free PVE game like Warframe, somehow they manage to make everything in a co-op setting into a toxic dick measuring contest. Every time the exit sign pops up, it's a race. Ever time the final game stat page starts up, it's a contest. Every time anything happens ever, you're not playing the way they want you to.
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badideasinaction - 2023-01-02
This was a bit of a miss for them - I think it got too deep into the weeds and I literally fell asleep partway through.
But I get the sentiment, and it's one reason why I avoid gaming with people, online or otherwise, unless I know that we're all at similar levels of fun vs. competition, because frankly I can't invest that much time and effort into anything like that.
Same is true for board games, LARP, RPGs, pickup sports, jam nights etc.
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cognitivedissonance - 2023-01-02
I just started a Vulpera Arcane Mage and have deliberately chosen all the wrong talents and somehow I get people asking me a) if I'm a furry and b) why I'm better than them.
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