Blackwulf
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I'm just going to clarify this point, since it seems to have struck a nerve with a lot of you little tigers. I'm certainly not saying you have to be a dev to criticize a game. I think my statement has to do with the lack of insight a lot of you show with your complaints. It's one thing to say the game could have been a lot better or the devs are obviously idiots because they did X, but if you don't actually think about WHY they did X, then, really, what's the point of complaining?So now I have to be a Developer to be able to critique an MMO? This is such an incredibly stupid statement that I'm at a loss for words.
For example, a lot of people complain that the game isn't enough MMO and it's too much quest grind. Well, you can either assume that the devs are idiots, or you can think about why things came out this way. It's obvious to me that the devs were actually hamstrung by the very thing people assume is their strength - their very successful IP. On the one hand, you have a great history of successful ES games with lots of sandboxy elements. On the other hand, you have Skyrim selling 20M units and bean counters shouting at you to, "Make it more Skyrim!!" Then you have the other bean counters looking at WOW's success, shouting at you to, "Make it more WOW!" Now, if you are Matt Firor, who came to this gig with the, perhaps ignorant, plan of using this successful IP to make an unofficial DAOC 2, you've got to try to figure out how to please everyone. It's not as easy as you think.
So, my point wasn't that you shouldn't armchair dev, it's more along the lines of don't be a moron and make blanket statements about how dumb the devs are or how easy it would be to make this game perfect. You need to realize the fact that if you were given 100M+ to make an MMO, you'd have just as many strings attached to that money with people on the other ends tugging your game in different directions.
So, Erronius, they've made a few decisions that you didn't like (or that you think you wouldn't like based on you reading reviews), why don't you list a few of them? If you think about it logically, and ask yourself, "why would the devs do this?" you'll probably come to one of the following conclusions:
- there are other types of gamers that like it the way they did it
- they ran out of time/money and are working to improve the issue post release
- there was a suit forcing their hand to be "more Skyrim" or "more WOW"
Do you see what I'm getting at? The correct explanation isusually not: The devs are dumb and Erronius is smart.
My gripe isn't with armchair devs, it's with narrow minded armchair devs that don't consider all sides of a problem and just hurl insults left and right.
ESO isn't the game I dream of - it's just a decent game right now, and I don't have a better option. I'm hoping they keep improving things so that it becomes an actuallygoodgame that I look forward to staying with, but it's not there yet.
Personally, I'll repeat what I've said before:I don't think any AAA MMO will ever be what I (or you), consider a perfect game.There are just way too many people with ties to the money pulling the game in different directions. I'm really hoping that someone will release a world building type game where you can run your own server, with your own rulesets, and just have a smaller population (~200) per server. This would allow for a lot more freedom and people like you and I can play the types of games that we like.