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Posted - 2006.12.16 11:39:00 -
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 Originally by: Benny Baker
Hi All,
Been playing Eve for about 4 months now and this is my first real attempt at playing a MMORPG (played Guildwars, but thats not the same).
My first reactions were amazement and awe at the sheer scope of the gameplay available. Now despite a few technical hitches here and there and the sometimes laggy play, I've had a great time playing this Sci-Fi feast of a game. I like the fact that you stand to lose a great deal in assets/Isk if you don't take precautions, a feature which is one of the games most endearing qualities I believe. So Far so good right.
This is where things get confusing for me, cos I read the forums and am amazed at the number of idiotic responses from so called intelligent people, *****ing and whining about every aspect of the game. For sure there are people with genuine technical problems and they can get damn annoying. What I can't understand is the down right shameful comments some people make towards other players and especially CCP. The game mechanics are very complex and are tweaked now and again in response to genuine issues regarding game play balancing. No game is gonna be perfect and considering how ambitious the Eve project is, I think CCP have done a grand job of delivering a masterpiece of online gaming.
What worries me is that the complainers which seem to engulf these forums make up the majority of players online. If so, I'm not sure I wanna continue playing this game, cos it's the players that make or break online gaming for me and if this is the norm for MMORPGs, I think ill stick to LAN gaming. A real shame considering the quality of this game.
The explanation is easy. Noone complains about the stuff they like. The voices of whiners are dominant, because the majority of people who are quite satisfied don't often feel the need to say so.
As for the original question - yes, all MMORPGs are like this in this regard.
Every single time the devs make a change in any MMORPG, statistics dictate that some people will not like it. Those people will complain. Since most people aren't game designers, most of them will say nonsense, propose fixes that are much worse than the problem, and fail to understand why they are ignored.
Everyone else probably won't say anything, because they'll be busy playing. And so the forums fill with garbage.
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