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Originally Posted by jcr4990
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Do you ever stop and listen to the things you say? Cause I'm almost embarrassed for you at this point. Do you think ANYONE on the original EQ dev team thought to themselves "We need to make an item that will allow hardcore neckbeards to jump indefinitely so they can win FTE footraces and show those casual scum who's boss til they go farm VP themselves for 5 years so they can 'earn it'" you're quite literally out of your mind if that's honestly what you think. But we all know that's not really what you think it's just a dumb argument you made to support your dumb position. Let me ask you this. Do you REALLY think the average A/A member puts in significantly more "work" to "earn" their pixels than the average BDA or Europa or Anonymous member? For those that don't know here's a day in the life of the average raider in ANY (not just a/a) raid guild on P99.
1: Carry x y z 'required' consumables that 1/2 the raid doesn't bother to get or keep charged
2: "Park" your character wherever /get or website tells you to for upcoming dragon
3: Log in when you receive a batphone
4: Perform your classes (almost always) extremely easy role
5: Collect DKP/Pixels
6: Go back to step 2 rinse/repeat
This isn't rocket science. Almost all of the "hard" work is carried out by a super small group of people at the top of each guild. I put "hard" in quotes cause I'm not really sure you can call staring at a screen waiting for a mob to pop for 16 hrs or spam clicking a crown of rile to run to a mob faster "hard" but I'll let that slide. The vast majority of every raider on this server just logs in and hits their ch macro or backstab button for a while then logs off. You're not better than me cause the core neckbeard group in your guild neckbearded harder than the core neckbeard group in my guild. You didn't "earn" something that I didn't because when you get a batphone and log in to do exactly what everyone else does your guild tag happens to be Aftermath. You also didn't "earn" the right to have a significant advantage in all Velious footraces cause you belong to one of 2 guilds that had a monopoly on Veeshan's Peak for 5 years.
Get real
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anyone who has ever been a game dev can confirm that no matter what you intended players are going to play your game in ways you personally never thought of. All they are doing is giving you a bunch of tools to play with. I'm sure if Brad read all this we're doing all sorts of shit he and his team never thought of. Two examples below.
1. rocket jumping in quake - this was huge back then and changed the way maps worked and new games planned around this.
2. Anytime someone speed speed run a game. They are typically abusing mechanics they never thought of. Ever watch a Zelda Speed Run?
Go watch the video below. Here's the perfect example of a speed runner with the doublefine team. This is video is pure gold on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsDc1YVxHA0