I remember how I hated when people wanted you to link epic achievement, since seen it as pointless, since it doesn't say anything about their current gear. With new tiers, it became meaningless, and now people use addons to measure how geared you are, and check your current gear, the one you will use on the raids. Of course it is far from perfect, since it speaks only about the level of gear and not your choice of gear.
But lets see the whole thing from a different perspective. If
When people talk about the recent ban on Ensidia raiding guild a lot of arguments about a simple question: Was the exploit intentional? Conspiracy theories in comments to the post on wow.com seems to be interesting. But why such conspiracy theories are bad? Lets start with known and verifiable facts:
- Using the same item is standard practice
- Old log parses show that Ensidia members used the same items on regular basis.
- The encounter wasn't tested on PTR so noone had information about bug from
Would you pay for access to a news portal? Most of the people would say: No way. And they would explain they have access to the news already. You hear about new events on facebook and twitter, you see them in the TV and there are many free portals. Why would you pay good money for the same news?
You shouldn't pay a cent for the news, but you can consider paying a bit for the quality of the content you see. You see the difference? You can get the same news for free everywhere, but you
I have seen a realy nice article on an MMORPG related site, trying to explain why simple quests are the industry standard. It was a realy nice attempt, and for this reason I don't want to link to it. Don't want to link to it, when I would point out why all such explanations are stupid. I don't want to show that article in bad light.
After all, whats wrong with some experts claiming, that when quest stories don't make sense, how they are told to your PCs aren't part of the game, when
While for us players and DMs PDFs are valuable, I am not sure if PDF sales are important. If I would be responsible for revitalizing RPG markets I wouldn't sell any PDFs and would try to end some cheap discounts at Amazon. Why? Simply because for the game to fluorish we would need brick and mortar stores and clubs where new players can meet people from the D&D community and we also need online demo groups.
How Wizards can ensure local storescan compete with Amazon, if they can't add