07-12-2004, 06:21 AM
The motive you suggested makes no sense -- if it was blizzard's intention to prod people into exploring all areas of the game, why would they not announce such a counter? Keeping it secret would punish the runners, but would not directly encourage more diverse play. Announcing such a counter would both punish runners AND encourage, at the least, far more "new" character creation.
That's really besides the point, however. The point is that still, no one has attempted to actually do some experiments to verify this. As I've mentioned before, the burden of proof lies on you to prove such a thing exists. So go prove it. Give me numbers. Give me evidence. Then we'll talk. Until you do that, your theory holds no more weight than my suggestion that blizzard doesn't want me to find a SOJ. Regardless of whether you think my theory is more or less ridiculous, we both have no more than our assertion that we "definately know it's true, because we've seen it."
gekko
That's really besides the point, however. The point is that still, no one has attempted to actually do some experiments to verify this. As I've mentioned before, the burden of proof lies on you to prove such a thing exists. So go prove it. Give me numbers. Give me evidence. Then we'll talk. Until you do that, your theory holds no more weight than my suggestion that blizzard doesn't want me to find a SOJ. Regardless of whether you think my theory is more or less ridiculous, we both have no more than our assertion that we "definately know it's true, because we've seen it."
gekko
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-Michael Ventura, "Letters@3AM"
-Michael Ventura, "Letters@3AM"