Originally posted by SUPERFLY
Also, placing blame on the younger player base is bigotous. It seems to be all too fashionable here to blame every bad act in AH on a kid. The older players are far more dastardly and deceptive.
It was my mistake to mention score padders in the same sentence. So let me try again.
It is the fact that there are more young players subscribing than ever before. They see and play game differently and for different reasons than older guys do. They also tend to pick bad habits faster, if given chance, than older players, especially if there's enough older players being bad example, which again many are, simply because they get away with it.
At the same time, HTC is treating gameplay ethics as form of cheating, under the carpet.
Ethics is not something to be put into obscurity, instead, HTC should be very vocal about it.
On the end, it does not matter what players do, but HTC. Players already do what they can, they fly, they do skins, scenarios, they teach, make maps, they fight, have fun (or not), they vulch in DA and some pad the score.
Originally posted by Kurt
2Big, you are what... Maybe 17 on the outside these days? And you're blaming it on the 'kids'. You were 15ish when you left ~FATE~ two years ago... (And if I'm confusing you with someone else, I seriously apologize... But I'm about 80% sure here)
Kurt, I remember three kids from Fate, Paul, TheBest and Bally. Don't know which one you've mistaken me with.
I wasn't
15ish when I left. I was 15 years older than you and unless something has changed, I still am.
Originally posted by Kurt
Come on.
After I left Fate I've spent a year in TA, working with new players, lots of them were kids. If I say that they play game 'differently' you can assume I know what I'm talking about.
After TA, I did the same in DA. For the most part, majority of the kids were OK. It was bad only when 'vets' did misbehave and kids started to do the same.
Lots of players 'quietly' complained about via emails to HTC. Later on here on BBS. And what happened? Those who complained where accused of whining by those who rarely if ever used DA. Some where banned from BBS because they were vocal about it. The killshooter was turned on. According to HTC we were NOT using DA as intended, therefore we were punished instead of perps, who are still doing the same, although not as much, simply because there's not much going in DA and there's not enough players to spoil their fun.
Now, there are the score padders. Similar situation. We shouldn't talk about it. Just pretend all is OK, until it grows out of hand, then we'll get smacked by HTC with solution nobody will like it.
Those who talk about it are labeled as 'whiners' in good ol' AH BBS tradition. Strangely enough, labeled by those who whine the most about everything else.
Is ranking so important? No. If it goes away, there will be something else to abuse, there will be those who will abuse it, there will be those who complain and talk about.
According to some, talking about is bad for the game. Maybe. Or is just that new players won't find about it (and how's dealt with it) upfront, but later down the road. The way how HTC deals with, it seems to me that abusers actually get encouraged, because they get away with it.
As for 'come on'... Maybe in next game...
