So now I have to have played a game in beta or bought a retail box to critique an MMO? This is such an incredibly stupid statement that I'm at a loss for words. Wait, is this Groundhog day? Didn't I just go through this kind of thing already?
I mean, I could get that argument if we were debating our personal feelings about how the game feels, char models, etc, even though you can still do that through screenshots and the like. But I'm not arguing any of that. I'm arguing about how well the game has done and the breadth and depth of it's reception, from alpha/beta through release. So explain to me how I need to have played a game in order to argue about a game's success, or the lack of it. Explain to me how asking me what level I got to has to do with TESO's console delay and subsequent reluctance to announce a release date. Explain to me how any of that relates to debating how many potential sales they'll get from the console release.
But in case you missed it anyways:
I mean, we argued the fuck out of this during beta, and I still almost played just because Tuco one-upped me in an animated gif response war in PMs. But even then...
As an aside, if the Masek account is an alt account of Rescorla's I'd just like to add that alt accounts aren't allowed. Now, I know that you can get output IPs that match between different users simply because of the provider, but I have to say that when I look this up on a hunch and 2 of your 4 post IPs match up with someone else from the same thread where both have been defending TESO and one of those accounts has a single digit post count...I mean, it makes me scratch my head. This is where Tuco usually tells me"you're imagining things"but whatever, I'll let him look at it.
