I'm not trying to open a discussion with the following. This is a fire and forget diatribe in the truest sense of the word.
To the white knights:
The nature of people (humans) and how they react to stimulus, and how they behave socially at scale, that is not going to change. We are talking about genetics and instinct. We are talking about pools cultural inertia far larger than this game and your voices in it.
Unless the game changes adequately you will always have yesterday's new players, becoming tomorrow's jaded, bored, disillusioned veterans.
(If you are lucky. If you are unlucky, the new players will dry up, and then your game WILL die. I think there are many white knights who are actually fine with the game dieing, as long as it can stay their happy game until it does, because they have already reverse rationalised to themselves, that that's inevitable for every MMO. Which I agree with. The question is 'when'. WoW still isn't dieing yet. Not nearly. And it was. But they did what needed to be done. They changed, and it became a new game. My god did we learn nothing with 1.0 Vs ARR?!)
So I am quite serious in the point I am making. It is you who just need to get used to how the game is and that it makes people fedup, and that you will always have this in your community. It is the 'reality' of how XIV shapes it's community, or it is 'you' that needs to leave and 'go play other games', hopping from one game to the next, every time a game gets things wrong and the players start to complain. Because everyone gets it wrong sometimes.
Humans be humans.
Or you need to just stop complaining about people complaining (oh the irony) and stay in Island sanctuary, or keep soloing Khloes books, or standing around Limsa ostracizing the players you don't approve of, or getting back to progging ultimates with those 3trd party tools or what ever it is you've been doing for five or more years.
I'm not trying to piss you off (I just accept I will but you'll get over it because you don't respect my opinion much anyway). But I am trying to make a point that will hopefully, sow a seed in subconscious of just a few of the more mentally agile and flexible among you.
It might be that it's you that are the more resilient ones. It might that yours is the best way to lead a happy content life. But your not going to be able to make other people more resilient, and frankly you don't sound 'happy' about other people being unhappy.
Or maybe you can actually start to contribute to making things better and do a little bit of campaigning to make things better where they need to be (changing the bloody software) instead of just complaining about complaints.
But... I guess people don't change. Like I say I'm just trying to sow one or two seeds where 98 others will never grow. Making a big change needs more charisma than I have.
I doubt cider will read this properly if at all. It's too long and boring for any YouTube audience. I didn't come to the forums for you tube attention in the first place.
Continue reading...
To the white knights:
The nature of people (humans) and how they react to stimulus, and how they behave socially at scale, that is not going to change. We are talking about genetics and instinct. We are talking about pools cultural inertia far larger than this game and your voices in it.
Unless the game changes adequately you will always have yesterday's new players, becoming tomorrow's jaded, bored, disillusioned veterans.
(If you are lucky. If you are unlucky, the new players will dry up, and then your game WILL die. I think there are many white knights who are actually fine with the game dieing, as long as it can stay their happy game until it does, because they have already reverse rationalised to themselves, that that's inevitable for every MMO. Which I agree with. The question is 'when'. WoW still isn't dieing yet. Not nearly. And it was. But they did what needed to be done. They changed, and it became a new game. My god did we learn nothing with 1.0 Vs ARR?!)
So I am quite serious in the point I am making. It is you who just need to get used to how the game is and that it makes people fedup, and that you will always have this in your community. It is the 'reality' of how XIV shapes it's community, or it is 'you' that needs to leave and 'go play other games', hopping from one game to the next, every time a game gets things wrong and the players start to complain. Because everyone gets it wrong sometimes.
Humans be humans.
Or you need to just stop complaining about people complaining (oh the irony) and stay in Island sanctuary, or keep soloing Khloes books, or standing around Limsa ostracizing the players you don't approve of, or getting back to progging ultimates with those 3trd party tools or what ever it is you've been doing for five or more years.
I'm not trying to piss you off (I just accept I will but you'll get over it because you don't respect my opinion much anyway). But I am trying to make a point that will hopefully, sow a seed in subconscious of just a few of the more mentally agile and flexible among you.
It might be that it's you that are the more resilient ones. It might that yours is the best way to lead a happy content life. But your not going to be able to make other people more resilient, and frankly you don't sound 'happy' about other people being unhappy.
Or maybe you can actually start to contribute to making things better and do a little bit of campaigning to make things better where they need to be (changing the bloody software) instead of just complaining about complaints.
But... I guess people don't change. Like I say I'm just trying to sow one or two seeds where 98 others will never grow. Making a big change needs more charisma than I have.
I doubt cider will read this properly if at all. It's too long and boring for any YouTube audience. I didn't come to the forums for you tube attention in the first place.
Continue reading...