The Glade 4.0

I've come to the conclusion that if one watches the RSI Forums for too long, one could be completely convinced that all our hopes are in vain. I don't know why/how people can be so negative when we haven't seen anything yet.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

It's the same with TESO. The game is in beta, and people are freaking out that if major game systems are not changed to their liking, the entire game will fail.

Hystrionics are the specialty of the gaming public.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

That's pretty much right. The problem with offering a hugely transparent development process right from the start and being a responsive, communicative dev team, is that people get the crazy notion that because the devs want to listen to feedback, they can pledge/become active early on and change the entire point/direction of the game into something other than the pitch that they bought into by being obnoxious and opinionated.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

What I find amazing is that other games get the exact same behavior, based on threats to not buy the game, and that their hundreds of thousands of imaginary friends won't either.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

This is really the first beta I've "participated" in, (if walking around a hangar going "oooh" "ahh" can be called participation) so the cynicism is new to me. I guess I thought it wouldn't start until you actually got to try something.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

The ability of the gaming community to overthink things and generally freak out is truly astonishing. You should ahve seen the uproar about 6 months back when it got out that there would be "no raids" in ESO. By "no raids" they meant "we call them Adventure Zones and they won't work quite like raids in WoW because we are not trying to beat WoW and being WoW" but the community instantly jumped to the conclusion that this meant "no high-end PVE whatsoever".

What made this doubly hilarious was that some of the people freaking out the worst were gaming site staff, who were going to meet Matt Frior personally at PAX east which was less than a week after this revelation. Never mind waiting until we can speak to the man in person and clarify a few days from now, guys, let's have a complete meltdown now!

Right now, there's people freaking out that the races are divided into 3 factions. Never mind that this has been known for a year, now that the game is in Beta let's start talking about how it means IMPENDING DOOM!! Because we all know that Bet is the right time to decide we don't like the underlying premise of a game, and demand it be changed.

In all honesty, I haven't spent much time on the RSI forums, but from what I have seen the community there actually seems to be more realistic and has a smaller proportion of total idiots than ESO's community does. EVE has occasional freakouts about how the game is doomed by some gameplay element that's been around for most or all of it's 10 year history too, but that community mostly laughs off the stupid too. I'm starting to wonder if space games just attract fewer idiots in general.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."