Antioche
03-03-2007, 09:52 AM
~ I really just can't resist, and I know I should.
I was hopping around the boards as I readied myself for the gym this morn, and it occurs to me how interestingly high seems the number of people who will leap onto a post and try to invalidate some malcontents complaint about a "beta release" version of the game with arguments like "you should have done your homework".
Which is another way of saying "Don't pay attention to marketing or claims made on the box."
We'll come back to that very point in a moment, suffice for now to say I am eternally pleased you people don't make a majority of the consumer advocacy laws in existence today.
For my part, so you know where I stand; I held onto EQ and the dying carcass of their pathetic excuse for a role-play server for six years. by the time I stopped playing a month or so ago I had two full-blown accounts *only one character per account on the RP server for those who don't know* One with a 70th cleric, and the other with my main, my mage. I watched more good friends leave that server in the years that have passed than it had people left playing on it when in the days I said my farewells.
So I have abit of experience with taking the good with the bad and learning to keep my mouth shut lest it get filled with something I'd rather not eat.
I plan to..For the most part, do that here as well.
I will continue to play Vanguard, irregardless of the woes my pc has with it's framerate, my characters have with their muddled power-sets or appearances. NPC's can keep their blank stares when I know they should be quest givers, empty rooms clearly listed as you enter as " crafting halls " can stay empty for now and the miles upon miles of vapid wasteland devoid of life or resources. ( No not FOX network, I meant Thestra ) can remain unchanged for the time being.
Why?
Because, I'm a dreamer, I have high hopes for the game, based on multitudes of talks from Brad, sketches from Parkinson, as well as dreams made possible during my youth by people like Gygax, Hickman, and Weiss. I will wait for them to " get it right " as it were, as long as they continue to show progress and hope towards the future they claim is the goal.
I will not however sit and idly listen to people like *insert whatever name here* and their smug little comments like:
"If you don't like the game cancel your subscription and stop whining."
If I were to (politely) and justifiably mention a lack of quality of my cooked meal in a resturaunt, ( Never had to do that ) and you were to overhear from a nearby table and make some-such comment?
I'd tell you where to shove your opinion.
No-one should presume to tell people when to say out loud that they believe they have been slighted.
I personally believe we have entered a new era in consumer marketing, and it is simply following a trend that has been set unfortunatly time and time again.
Does a carmaker tell you the weaknesses in their suspension system next to the MSRP rating on the windshield? Does Ford really make a viable comparison and bare-it-all when they talk about how their new all-wheel drive system is better than Dodges'? Does the 2007 Corvette let you know in its owners manual the level of competition it was REALLY held up against..How it fared vs the best of the best? Not just the ones it beat?
Of course not. I use vehicles here as an example, but it exists everywhere. The pure and simple fact is this
If you are in the market for a minivan, and you listen to the television ads and the car salesman alone...Without doing your OWN research into the vehicle you plan to buy, I hate to say it, but you almost deserve what you get. Yes there are laws in place to protect people from heinous abuse or misrepresentation.
Sigil is guilty of neither.
It does seem a pity however that we need now carry along as much care as we would when shopping for...anything else...Before we buy a game to play.
~ ignore the box, listen to your heart.
~ No ..scratch that...Read the reviews and let a friend try it first.
I was hopping around the boards as I readied myself for the gym this morn, and it occurs to me how interestingly high seems the number of people who will leap onto a post and try to invalidate some malcontents complaint about a "beta release" version of the game with arguments like "you should have done your homework".
Which is another way of saying "Don't pay attention to marketing or claims made on the box."
We'll come back to that very point in a moment, suffice for now to say I am eternally pleased you people don't make a majority of the consumer advocacy laws in existence today.
For my part, so you know where I stand; I held onto EQ and the dying carcass of their pathetic excuse for a role-play server for six years. by the time I stopped playing a month or so ago I had two full-blown accounts *only one character per account on the RP server for those who don't know* One with a 70th cleric, and the other with my main, my mage. I watched more good friends leave that server in the years that have passed than it had people left playing on it when in the days I said my farewells.
So I have abit of experience with taking the good with the bad and learning to keep my mouth shut lest it get filled with something I'd rather not eat.
I plan to..For the most part, do that here as well.
I will continue to play Vanguard, irregardless of the woes my pc has with it's framerate, my characters have with their muddled power-sets or appearances. NPC's can keep their blank stares when I know they should be quest givers, empty rooms clearly listed as you enter as " crafting halls " can stay empty for now and the miles upon miles of vapid wasteland devoid of life or resources. ( No not FOX network, I meant Thestra ) can remain unchanged for the time being.
Why?
Because, I'm a dreamer, I have high hopes for the game, based on multitudes of talks from Brad, sketches from Parkinson, as well as dreams made possible during my youth by people like Gygax, Hickman, and Weiss. I will wait for them to " get it right " as it were, as long as they continue to show progress and hope towards the future they claim is the goal.
I will not however sit and idly listen to people like *insert whatever name here* and their smug little comments like:
"If you don't like the game cancel your subscription and stop whining."
If I were to (politely) and justifiably mention a lack of quality of my cooked meal in a resturaunt, ( Never had to do that ) and you were to overhear from a nearby table and make some-such comment?
I'd tell you where to shove your opinion.
No-one should presume to tell people when to say out loud that they believe they have been slighted.
I personally believe we have entered a new era in consumer marketing, and it is simply following a trend that has been set unfortunatly time and time again.
Does a carmaker tell you the weaknesses in their suspension system next to the MSRP rating on the windshield? Does Ford really make a viable comparison and bare-it-all when they talk about how their new all-wheel drive system is better than Dodges'? Does the 2007 Corvette let you know in its owners manual the level of competition it was REALLY held up against..How it fared vs the best of the best? Not just the ones it beat?
Of course not. I use vehicles here as an example, but it exists everywhere. The pure and simple fact is this
If you are in the market for a minivan, and you listen to the television ads and the car salesman alone...Without doing your OWN research into the vehicle you plan to buy, I hate to say it, but you almost deserve what you get. Yes there are laws in place to protect people from heinous abuse or misrepresentation.
Sigil is guilty of neither.
It does seem a pity however that we need now carry along as much care as we would when shopping for...anything else...Before we buy a game to play.
~ ignore the box, listen to your heart.
~ No ..scratch that...Read the reviews and let a friend try it first.