Forumophobia: The mortal fear of going to — or posting on — an internet gaming forum due to the abundance of know-it-alls, trolls, malcontents, leet-speakers and 95% trash post rate. How can we combat this people? With lollipops, of course. With LOLlipops.
Once again I bring you /AFK, my personal pick of the best or most interesting posts from this past week:
- Overly Positive — Getting Over the Forumophobia
“But if there’s one constant among some of the reactions and thoughts I hear about online forums, it’s plain jane vanilla fear.”
- Ardwulf’s Lair — How LotRO Works
“This is a world I know and am at home in, in a way that Norrath and Azeroth – and even Telon, which otherwise came closest – never were.”
- Elder Game — Why We Need More Women Developers
“Magical woman knowledge.”
- ETCmmo.com — The Not-So Glorious Return to EverQuest
“Is the risk worth it? Well, the whole game is pretty risky.”
- Wolfshead Online — Is Blizzard’s Cataclysm the Worst Expansion in MMO History?
“Like some deranged madman bent on suicide, Blizzard has destroyed everything that was good and noble about MMOs and seemingly wants to take the entire genre with it into existential oblivion.”
- The Pink Pigtail Inn — The Honeymoon is Over for the Bitter Veterans
“But when it comes to WoW it’s a little bit different. For some reason, those who are unhappy can’t just cancel their subscription and play another game that suites them better, which seems to be the logical thing to do.”
- MMO Gamer Chick — Oh, The Insanity! My Thoughts on Amnesia: The Dark Descent
“My husband, being closest to me at the time, fell prey to my impulses as I stormed into the living room, wide-eyed and holding myself and babbling about how creeped out I was.”
- Screaming Monkeys — The Cataclysmic WoW Disease
“The game is suffering from a strange disease and we don’t know what it is. We see the victims, friends, family, bloggers, guild members who are quitting WoW after only a month and a half of Cataclysm.”
- Levelcapped — Naivete
“Winzen should have released this mod to the community, as is intended to be done with mods, and garnered the accolades of an appreciative Internet. Instead, Winzen aimed higher. Much too high.”
- KIASA — A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence
“What does the boar parry with? Its head? A foreleg? Because I hate to break it to people, but the fundamental idea behind a sword or axe is to go through unprotected legs and heads like a hot knife through a leg or head.”
- Werit — Where is Mythic?
“What surprises me (and bothers me) is that Mythic has to know what kind of impression this lack of communication gives to the playerbase (well, the website/blog going part). Yet they don’t really do much about it.”
- Elder Game — Classes vs. Open Skill Systems
“But if you accept this premise, you need to know what you’re doing here: you’re intentionally creating an illusion of complexity that will wear off in six months, tops. If it takes you twelve months to make it, you’re betting a LOT of resources on that illusion.”
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