The Like/Hate Thread

[Nori]

Yup. That was the expected response.

If you're not going to see the conversation for what it actually is, then there's no point in me wasting my time. I'm out.

EDIT: And, for the record, I've played plenty of WoW. Definitely enough to understand the ramifications (or, specifically, the lack thereof) of this kind of decision. You deciding I don't because you didn't think I played was another point I was going to make. Doesn't really matter now, though.

U mad?

Seriously though, I never said "stfu u don't play wow" like you think I did, apparently. I was saying you don't know how it's effected the game. Did you play for more then two months, raiding, in wotlk? Did you raid for a few months during any expansion?

Even during your "I played" statement, you fail to testify any actual experience with the game. I never stated your opinion wasn't relevant. I stated that, to my knowledge, you were blowing something out of proportion because you didn't have inner game knowledge of the discussion at hand. The game in my opinion is a massive multi-player game. Warcraft uses guilds to accomplish this. By pugging you encourage people to come together once a week, maybe a few more, whom rarely, if ever, have met. These people are more prone to by dicks to each other, ninja, whatever, because of virtually no repercussions. After said raid, they do their own thing for a week, instead of joining in community based activities (via raiding or pvp).

It promotes a single player mindset for a game that was developed as a multi-player game. Now if you just pug say, 25 mans to get more loot because your guild does 10 mans, I can feel your pain. However from a business perspective it makes more sense to now have a individual run through the same raid twice a week and gear up quicker then Blizzard can put out more raid content.

Now I'm no expert, and no oldie (at least to Vad, Belle, or Ashe), but I raided partly through BC, through Wrath, and through Cata. So I know what pugging is, and the negative and positive effects on the game as a whole. I've seen what it's done to the game through not months, but years. It's my opinion that it's good that you can't do a raid twice a week anymore, and that's just it; it's my opinion. You obviously don't agree, and you apparently think your talking to a brick wall.

That being said.

Hate: Fighting games. I get so frustrated because you have to be cheap to do well.