Comment Re:I'm shocked, but so far I like it.... (Score 2, Insightful) 184
Interleaved revisionism? How exactly do you consider my post, which discussed in detail my actual experiences with the new system, among other things, to be devoid of substance? Disagree if you like, and I realize you are incapable of civility, but your disagreement doesn't render all other opinions invalid; neither does it erase others' words from existence. A reference to revisionism here is absurd; certainly not all disagreement is revisionism. Those words would at least stand as an impressive display of your vocabulary, if they had not appeared as part of the truly regrettable phrase "the biggest crap of interleaved revisionism."
You've chosen to reply to my post specifically, surely to display your poorly executed personal attacks, but you would be well advised to constrain the content of your reply to subject matter which is clearly related to the original post. In other words, how do weapon caps and certifications or crafting achievements relate directly to anything I said? I'm sure you had a good reason to mention them, but rather than demonstrating the relationship, you chose to simply rant maniacally. I very clearly discussed how functional the game appeared to me upon playing it. If you had specific grievances with my account of my experiences, you should have aired them, but it is beyond useless to simply say you don't understand how any sane player could say that the character level system doesn't ruin the game; such statement is a waste of your time in writing it and a waste of everyone else's time in reading it. Certainly my experience with the new system is limited, and I conceded as much in my original post, but the fact is, and I found it surprising myself, SWG is very functional with regard to my character at least.
You've cheated yourself in saying that it took you two years to achieve your padawans, as I don't think SWG itself is that old. Regardless, I understand it's taken you a long time, and if I had to guess, I'd say the reason for the delay was some combination of the attitude on display here, directed at the original system for unlocking, and your own ineptitude. I realize "[your] game was building communities," but that's a thin excuse. Really, it's not as though you had to sit in meetings with developers on a daily basis, or take calls from utilities, zoning boards, etc. Perhaps you had to respond to an unsually, even extraordinarily, high number of tells and emails, but given the simplicity of the old combat system, I cannot imagine that any amount of simultaneous conversations would interfere with grinding combat professions. Oh, and 12 out of 480 people remaining? Apparently your community-building game was as effective as your Jedi-unlocking game. Blame it on the CU, though, by all means.
Easily my favorite part of your post is when you chastise me for "running away because a 'revamp' affected me." What are you doing here then? I did not like what was done with SWG in publish 9, so I walked away. You don't like what's being done with this publish, so you shriek and weep, and attack those who disagree with you, and you find this behavior not only acceptable but actually superior. Does the hypocrisy not register at all with you? You have dared to presume to criticize me for a more stable variation of the same sort of reaction you were exhibiting even in typing out your insults. You are fighting for the game you love though, I'm sure, which gives your drama-queen antics a righteousness that my reaction lacked, I suppose. I must admit, I find this fascinating even taking into consideration the overtly juvenile nature of your post. I'm also curious as to whether you've told your 468 AWOL friends how you feel about them running away because a "revamp" affected them.
I also enjoy the overall self-destructiveness of your post. I almost regret mentioning it, on the slim chance that you will give these words any consideration whatsoever, but hostile, flame-strewn, essentially rambling posts like yours are rarely if ever taken seriously, even when they contain something worthy of being taken seriously. Worse, should any person of significance read it, it's more than possible that your post will, to that reader, become more evidence of the vocal minority, another outburst from one of the fifty loud and presumably obnoxious dissenters whom Tiggs is alleged to have postulated. For me, the combination of your attitude and your discontent is further evidence that SWG has begun down the right path; I don't think I want to play the game that your sort of person would like.
You've chosen to reply to my post specifically, surely to display your poorly executed personal attacks, but you would be well advised to constrain the content of your reply to subject matter which is clearly related to the original post. In other words, how do weapon caps and certifications or crafting achievements relate directly to anything I said? I'm sure you had a good reason to mention them, but rather than demonstrating the relationship, you chose to simply rant maniacally. I very clearly discussed how functional the game appeared to me upon playing it. If you had specific grievances with my account of my experiences, you should have aired them, but it is beyond useless to simply say you don't understand how any sane player could say that the character level system doesn't ruin the game; such statement is a waste of your time in writing it and a waste of everyone else's time in reading it. Certainly my experience with the new system is limited, and I conceded as much in my original post, but the fact is, and I found it surprising myself, SWG is very functional with regard to my character at least.
You've cheated yourself in saying that it took you two years to achieve your padawans, as I don't think SWG itself is that old. Regardless, I understand it's taken you a long time, and if I had to guess, I'd say the reason for the delay was some combination of the attitude on display here, directed at the original system for unlocking, and your own ineptitude. I realize "[your] game was building communities," but that's a thin excuse. Really, it's not as though you had to sit in meetings with developers on a daily basis, or take calls from utilities, zoning boards, etc. Perhaps you had to respond to an unsually, even extraordinarily, high number of tells and emails, but given the simplicity of the old combat system, I cannot imagine that any amount of simultaneous conversations would interfere with grinding combat professions. Oh, and 12 out of 480 people remaining? Apparently your community-building game was as effective as your Jedi-unlocking game. Blame it on the CU, though, by all means.
Easily my favorite part of your post is when you chastise me for "running away because a 'revamp' affected me." What are you doing here then? I did not like what was done with SWG in publish 9, so I walked away. You don't like what's being done with this publish, so you shriek and weep, and attack those who disagree with you, and you find this behavior not only acceptable but actually superior. Does the hypocrisy not register at all with you? You have dared to presume to criticize me for a more stable variation of the same sort of reaction you were exhibiting even in typing out your insults. You are fighting for the game you love though, I'm sure, which gives your drama-queen antics a righteousness that my reaction lacked, I suppose. I must admit, I find this fascinating even taking into consideration the overtly juvenile nature of your post. I'm also curious as to whether you've told your 468 AWOL friends how you feel about them running away because a "revamp" affected them.
I also enjoy the overall self-destructiveness of your post. I almost regret mentioning it, on the slim chance that you will give these words any consideration whatsoever, but hostile, flame-strewn, essentially rambling posts like yours are rarely if ever taken seriously, even when they contain something worthy of being taken seriously. Worse, should any person of significance read it, it's more than possible that your post will, to that reader, become more evidence of the vocal minority, another outburst from one of the fifty loud and presumably obnoxious dissenters whom Tiggs is alleged to have postulated. For me, the combination of your attitude and your discontent is further evidence that SWG has begun down the right path; I don't think I want to play the game that your sort of person would like.
