Fellow EQ player base...
I've been in and out of EQ since March 99, starting at release. I have multiple level 65s and have done just about everything EQ has to offer. I've found nothing in EQ requiring advanced gaming skill.
The only skill I see in EQ is the ability to make pseudo friends and cooperate long enough with them to get new virtual toys.
Here are my examples for this...
First the use of meaningless and false terms of endearment, IE: Why is every one of the virtual opposite sex "Hun?" Going around in RL calling everyone Hun will get you fired, sued, beat up, or all the above.
Why do people congratulate you on a dice roll or say something totally stupid like "NICE ROLL" A trained rat could get the same dice roll. It's a key press. Do you realize how totally, unbelievably, ignorant is it to congratulate someone for a dice roll! Am I the only one with half a brain playing this game?
Endless congratulations....Lets see, the aforementioned good dice rolls, leveling, AA's, quest completions (and every step along the way), killing names, obtaining flags, etc, etc, etc. I recall a Seinfeld episode about the cake celebrations at the office, for some reason I relate this to the endless, meaningless, "GRATZ" of EQ. Its so bad I simply hotkeyed "Gratz." How much more meaningless could this get?
Encounters. Hard by the fact the first few times someone does this, you have to learn what unfair cheat this "named" uses. The developers are unable to actually play fairly and must resort to unfair tricks to make their game have any form of "challenge." A few weeks later the "strategy" is posted online and you simply gather your drones and break out your random dice.
Time is the only true currency in EQ. With enough time, any feeble minded, unskilled person can become "leet" in the eyes of their fellow EQ players.
In closing get over yourself EQ elite. You want to try a game actually requiring some tactics, strategy, reflexes, and gaming skill play an FPS or RTS, or a game of online cards or chess. Myself I would recommend Planetside, Counterstrike, BF1942, Starcraft, Warcraft, Axis and Allies, any of the MSN card games, or the ultimate game of skill Internet Chess.
I think Maddox would be insulted by you invoking his name in an overused argument such as this to flame a game that obviously warrents enough of your time for you to come here and post about it.
If you dont like it, dont play it.
Time I could have spent, camping for yet another endless AA?
<scratches head> Wrong area to post I think.
And like above said, if you hate it that much dont bother playing.
P.S. Who's Maddox?? :roll:
You should post rants in the rants forum.
Quote from: BangaFellow EQ player base...
I've been in and out of EQ since March 99, starting at release. I have multiple level 65s and have done just about everything EQ has to offer. I've found nothing in EQ requiring advanced gaming skill.
The only skill I see in EQ is the ability to make pseudo friends and cooperate long enough with them to get new virtual toys.
And yet this skillless game kept you occupied for over 4 years and multiple 65's !!! :twisted:
whoah! who the hell is Maddox and why should I give a rats ass!?
Quote from: sarjentwhoah! who the hell is Maddox and why should I give a rats ass!?
That was a detective show during the 70's.
Maddox = http://maddox.xmission.com/
Our thread starter just wants to be funny too but can't afford a domain.
Somone move this to the Sewers before I start posting racially questionable lyrics from hate groups and tailor them to specifically target people who post in the wrong forums! omg~
I always felt that FPS where like commiting virtual murder on fellow players which I find questionable.
I'm sorry you have such a pesimistic view on life.
QuoteBlahblahblah ... maddox ... blahblah ... lotsatoons ... blahblah ... whine whine ... blahblah ... time currency ... blahblah ...
The currency is dual: Friends and fun. I have both because of EQ. Yes, OMGZ, I MET NEW FRIENDS BECAUSE OF EQ!
Yeah, I met my godson's parents through EQ. I met a load of nice people to drink beer and laugh with. I have met lovers/partners through EQ. Given a choice of sitting in a smoke filled pub talking crap about football or sitting on EQ for an evening kickin' some butt with my friends ... I'll take EQ anyday. Least I won't get lung cancer from passive smoking and I'll end the month with a pile more cash that I didn't spend on over priced drinks.
The other aspect is fun. I've had fun playing EQ ... sure, some boring and crap times, but over all I play because I enjoy it. Admittedly when I leave EQ there's no way I'm going to ever play another SoE game, but I don't regret my time in EQ at all.
Shove that in your Maddox pipe and smoke it.
Another wonderfully insightful post from Banga.
I am surprised we haven't banned you yet. You have done nothing but stir up discontent on this board.
Everything in your post is basically a flame attack on all EQ players. That is showing the utmost disrespect for those of us who enjoy the game.
I pray your worthless time spent here is short.
Ignore Banga. He/she/it just likes to try to stir up some poo. His/her/its opinion is only as good as a man who believes there is only one side to a discussion. All other views are trivial and meaningless. It is sad.
-Lith
Well.......WTF......hehehehe.
Maybe in the US sayin HUN to someone will get you fired/killed/beat up or whatever. In Canada maybe we are a bit more relaxed. Hear it all the time.
Your so antisocial that if your playing a game of cards or dice or any board game, you don't say "Nice roll" or "Nice hand"? WTF.
You also appear to not congratualate your friends or loved ones (if you have any) when they achieve some goal in their lives? Finding a good deal at a store, getting a job, getting a divorce :) , anything that they feel is important.
As for things that require "Real gaming skills"? WTF. Get a big gun and blow the other virtual guy away before he blows you away? Build the farm, build the barracks, get that peon to mine gold or chop wood 0.0234 seconds faster to you can bum rush the other guy that had a hiccup so he didnt get that gnomish flying machine out in time to stop your ambush?
Real gaming skills......yup.
Ever notice how everyone elses stuff is schit and your schit is stuff?
That's just how it goes lol. What requires skill and is good is what one person says because they say it. The problem comes about when one person tries to judge someone else by their own standards and you lose things like the values and goals of the person being judged.
This is just how things are now. An excuse is only good and valid if the person you tell it to values things the same as you or hopefully is capable of seeing things from your pov. Far more often though people can only see things their way and force everyone else to be measured by their standards. If you don't want to say grats or don't feel a ding warrants it then don't announce your's and don't congradulate others. However, when you rack up a 37 and 1 on hackerstrike don't be surprised if others aren't patting you on the back and crowning you king schit of turd moutain. I think it's a shame that some people still haven't learned that you can live by your own standards and values, but you don't have to ignore others in doing so. What is "right" or "good" or "worthwhile" to one is something completely different to another. Why people can't just be happy living with the choices they made without flaunting how much happier/better they are and putting down others that don't see things the same is truely beyond me. *shrugs* this too is just an opinion though and "wrong" to some and meaningless to others. Only differance is my opinion allows you to still have your's well your opinion continues to tell everyone else how wrong they are for having theirs'.
Based upon the responses, I have my answer.
Continue on, nothing further to see here.
Answer to what?
I never saw a question. Just saw the blithering of a lonely, spiteful individual.
Do what makes ya happy bro. If you aren't happy, go find it. Don't try and drag everyone down to your level so you feel better about your situation.
I'm sorry were those actual questions you wanted honest answers to? lol
*goes looking for the questions*...
"Am I the only one with half a brain playing this game? "
Most definitely "YES!". I'd say your posts have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that everyone else who is playing this game is atleast twice as smart as you are.
"How much more meaningless could this get? "
Well it could be one of your posts. They are about as meaningful as a "sorry it won't happen again" when a person on jerry springer is confronted by their other half for having cheated 17 times in the last week with their other half's sister, mother, dead grandfather and the family dog.
Quotea person on jerry springer is confronted by their other half for having cheated 17 times in the last week with their other half's sister, mother, dead grandfather and the family dog.
You had me at "Jerry Springer".
/tear
Another attention-seeker who somehow thinks his opinions are worth hearing.
I thought he was talking about Tommy Maddox, Pittsburgh QB :P
Gratz Banga! Nice roll!
So you think Banga (since I am assuming he won't be coming back to this thread anyway) is short for something like ... Head Banga? or Gang Banga? Or is it pronounced Bane jah... like a Ranga. Or maybe its Bahn Jah... like Ganja.
I am in aw of the potentially dazzling wit that may well have been behind the name. (Yah... ad hominem argument... but its just so easy.)
is maddox a guy if so what does he use his nipples for i have a pair i haven't ever used i don't even try to hide them when i take my top off some guys cover them with their fingers for comedic effect but it never makes me laugh oh well
my friend rang me on his mobile phone the once while a girl was performing an 'action' on him (i don't understand what thats supposed to mean) his name is darren but when he passed the phone to the girl i couldn't make out her name it came out muffled they were giggling a lot darren said she wants to meet me and 'teach me a lesson' but i haven't done anything wrong she sounds a bit crazy oh well
Grats on the sweet post Hun, it was leet.
Quote from: sarjentwhoah! who the hell is Maddox and why should I give a rats ass!?
Amazing, that's exactly what I said when I read this.
It's a game. It's entertainment. You can bitch and whine about how "broken" x is or how y is "wrong", but in the end, you're the one to blame for paying for it.
If you don't like it...stop.
Shmuck.
I'm an Attention Whore™ too! =)
BC
Quote from: Banga
First the use of meaningless and false terms of endearment, IE: Why is every one of the virtual opposite sex "Hun?" Going around in RL calling everyone Hun will get you fired, sued, beat up, or all the above.
You must not be from the south.