Originally Posted by
Mastablasta
I'm not on any high horse. Just telling you to take a chillpill, if you aren't having fun, why bother? I cut my playing time back because spending time on something I wasn't having fun with just to drive up online hours was not productive, and not amusing.
You can have all kinds of complaints, but if your complaint is how everything is a waste of time and how you are right and everyone else is wrong, and how you are labeling everything changed with the game the last 6 years as nothing but bad direction and turning it into a waste of time for you, then, really, I don't think I'm on any high horse in saying that maybe they got all the enjoyment from AO they could get, and should either find a new game to play or find some other way to play AO if they still want to play it. It's better for them, if they don't have that stresspoint in their life, and I'm sure they'd be a lot happier if they didn't spend hours every day being angry about things in a videogame.
Are there complaints I have with AO? Yeah, hundreds, no doubt. Do I let them dominate my life? No. I stopped bothering so much about something supposed to be entertaining. I used to be on the high horse you others are on, but I just can't be arsed to care in that way anymore. Chill out. Have fun. Make decent posts instead of hateful things, and if you can't, then well, your very abstract hatepost that only says things like "in the past 10 years you did nothing but screw the game up and driving players away", which is evidently true, as less players are active in AO now than on launchday. Except, they made the game way more accessible and far less timeconsuming than it used to be.
Thus, you have more to do ingame in less time, and everything is designed after the new paradigm of "you must never punish the player", meaning you're always rewarded, no matter what you do. Leading you in to the belief that you should always be rewarded, no matter what you do, and any lack of a reward is a punishment and thus a waste of time.
So, get down and stop caring. Don't bother posting. I'm not, as you can see, because there's no reason to. Just relax. Give your feedback where it's required, and make it useful. That's just a suggestion of course. You're free to keep on riding the horse of hate and make everything sound like the world is ending and that nothing good has ever been added to AO, ever.
But then if that were true, the game must've been exceptionally good to begin with, like, extremely good. The best game ever. And I think we all know that not to be true. Or anywhere near the truth.