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"Vladesch" <vladeschxxxx@bigxxxxxpond.net.auxxx> wrote in
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OrAe.37543$oJ.30211@news-server.bigpond.net.au:
> "Palindrome" <damon-nomad@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:8kq2d1lia01lkmt7i2a83jrca4ct308cc1@4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:27:07 GMT, Rumbledor
>> <Rumbledor@hotspamsuxmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>"Vladesch" <vladeschxxxx@bigxxxxxpond.net.auxxx> wrote in
>>>news:SuKze.28521$oJ.26554@news-server.bigpond.net.au:
>>>
>>>> "pross" <philip.e.ross@verizon.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:1120863875.750290.255530@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>>>>> EverQuest, as seen from an engineer's point of view, is the cover
>>>>> story of the July issue of IEEE Spectrum, the magazine of the
>>>>> Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Tech-savvy
>>>>> friends of mine who play the game tell me it's the best such piece
>>>>> they've ever seen.
>>
>>>> Anyone new reading this needs to check out WoW before falling for
>>>> the above hype.
>>
>>
>>>What hype? Did you even read it? It was an article about the inner
>>>workings
>>>and network operations of EverQuest. What does that have to do with
>>>WoW? They didn't seem to me to be selling anything or making any
>>>comparisons at all.
>>
>> Yes, I thought that when I read the article. Sounds like he didn't
>> actually bother reading it, if he considers an article dealing with
>> the systems/operations "hype."
>>
>
>
> The article was fine, this was the hype....
> "Tech-savvy friends of mine who play the game tell me it's the best
> such piece they've ever seen".
Except the OP was referring to the article, not the game. I have nothing
against people who prefer WoW. I don't think they are ignorant of
certain important facts that left them to make a poor choice in games or
anything silly like that. People will like what they like.
However, I still don't understand why people would choose to defend
their choices in a newsgroup dedicated to the alternate views.
>> Still, we must be tolerant of (yet another) Born-Again MMORPG'er who
>> has seen the Gaming Light and froths on behalf of (yet another)
>> all-singing, all-dancing MMORPG. He's harmless, and in a week or two
>> there'll be some other game to froth over
>>
>
> 2 million people agree with me, so flame all you like. I played eq for
> 5 years, and it could have done much better, but the devs pretty much
> drove people away. I could fill a page with eq's faults, but its all
> been said before.
I can respect that, as I would expect you to respect the fact that WoW,
along with a list of others, was a game for which I took a break from EQ
to try. When all was said and done, I was back in EQ. Of course it could
have done much better, but my opinion is that all the others have merely
done much *less* in trying.
But that's for a different thread.
--
Rumble
"Write something worth reading, or do something worth writing."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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