I demand the most perfect game evar because I am special!
May 23, 2008 Games
The Age of Conan forums are a complete war zone filled with the whiniest, most demanding people I have read in a long while.
Sadly, this sort of nay-saying, negative charged flood of posting seems to be the general trend in game forums. Especially when they first open or release.
I understand they paid money for a product, I understand they think they’re entitled to some things–but demanding a MMORPG game to work, and work perfectly without a hitch anywhere, immediately seems just plain ridiculous to me.
Hasn’t anyone beta tested any other game? Have those who beta tested and played a game for at least a year forgotten how bad it was at first? Every game has a bumpy launch. I remember almost two days of downtime for Ever Quest II and I hear horror stories of the first week of World of Warcraft being pretty much unplayable.
This trend in the last few years to demand perfection in an MMORPG is mind boggling. There’s no way a small group of people could test for all of the bugs or inconsistencies several thousand people would have a better chance of finding. Yes, there are closed betas and open betas–but they aren’t really the real numbers, are they? They aren’t the handful of thousands that flood the server all at once and all try to sign on at the same time during release.
MMORPG’s take time because they are an evolving game. To demand that it be perfect, run perfectly on your 1988 MAC, be completely smooth and bug free on release date is a lot like squatting down to give birth, pointing at your newborn and demanding that it walks itself to a doctor.
A masssively multi-player online game, surprisingly, shouldn’t be about rushing. Developers spent years of their lives perfecting a world far more expansive and sprawling to explore than your usual single player game. That means no matter how much sleep you lose or how many bottles you have near your computer desk–it’s going to take time to do anything or go anywhere. Why the rush?
The game isn’t going anywhere during it’s downtime for patches, updates and fixes–but if you can’t live through that, maybe you should go somewhere–outside and away from the computer preferably.
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