09-10-2003, 10:54 PM
Hi,
The thing is, Diablo II is probably not the target game for that article.
Yes, but since it was pointed out on *this* board by the webmaster, that made the discussion *here* of necessity about Blizzard, Buzzard, and their games.
MMORPG's tend to have the biggest (and boy do i mean biggest) whiners you'll ever see running around there.
Be that as it may, but are they hard core gamers? Are they true grognards that take games apart for the fun of it, or are they just brats that think because they play games for hours on end they have a clue? The article was about hard core gamers, not the average game brat.
But, perhaps, I no longer know what a "hard core gamers" is, much as I no longer know what a "hacker" is. Perhaps nowadays a hard core gamer is someone who spends large quantities of his folk's dough on games, consoles and magazines. Which makes the average teen an automotive designer by analogy.
Once again, if a player tells a game company "U got 2 put in dark elves they roolz", the game company is fully justified in ignoring that player. But if a player tells the company that "mana shield gets *less* effective as it goes up in level, not more" and the company puts out a patch but doesn't fix that problem (two minutes work) or fixes it wrong, then were is the fault?
And if that happens time after time, how long does it take to see the company gives not a damn?
--Pete
The thing is, Diablo II is probably not the target game for that article.
Yes, but since it was pointed out on *this* board by the webmaster, that made the discussion *here* of necessity about Blizzard, Buzzard, and their games.
MMORPG's tend to have the biggest (and boy do i mean biggest) whiners you'll ever see running around there.
Be that as it may, but are they hard core gamers? Are they true grognards that take games apart for the fun of it, or are they just brats that think because they play games for hours on end they have a clue? The article was about hard core gamers, not the average game brat.
But, perhaps, I no longer know what a "hard core gamers" is, much as I no longer know what a "hacker" is. Perhaps nowadays a hard core gamer is someone who spends large quantities of his folk's dough on games, consoles and magazines. Which makes the average teen an automotive designer by analogy.
Once again, if a player tells a game company "U got 2 put in dark elves they roolz", the game company is fully justified in ignoring that player. But if a player tells the company that "mana shield gets *less* effective as it goes up in level, not more" and the company puts out a patch but doesn't fix that problem (two minutes work) or fixes it wrong, then were is the fault?
And if that happens time after time, how long does it take to see the company gives not a damn?
--Pete
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