Fits nicely into this thread, doesn't it?
Problem is: It's from 2003. A random bit from seven years ago. You can find a lot more like this, from even older times.
Even when I joined in 2005, I read the recurring complaints about how the gameplay has degrade, how nobody is going to FIGHT anymore, it's just landgrabbing, Hoing running anymore. And that the game / gameplay was sooo much better 2-4 years ago.
Today I read the same stuff by guys that joined about the same time as me. They remember how good the fights were back in 2005, and tell us how bad it is today.
Full circle.
The generation joining today will do the same in 4 years: "oh man, in 2010 they knew how to fight. Now it's 2014, and all they now do is hording & running!"
Any actual changes aside - many players tend to ignore the fact that they are changing too. The same fight that once gave you a rush of adrenaline once ago may be just a boring interlude today. The same battle that once made you talk about for days can easily make you log off today. "been there, dome that". Your standards may be rising, but you perceive it as if the standards of the arena are lowering.
Let me reprise an old anecdote:
There was that player who joined about the same time as me. I clearly remember camping spawns in our tigers, side by side,landing 50+ kills (spawn camping was far easier back then!). We had fun, and we proudly did collect our share of "WTFG" on country channel.
Three years later I did see him complain about how much the game sucks today, and "It's all just spawncamping n00bs now."
Just food for thought.
+1
just fly of peak (U.S)....you get some of that but the majority is good fun fighting....
+1
The glass is always half empty for some people.
This is also very true here. I have a rather unique approach to this age old phrase. I like to think that the glass is half empty, but only because I've been drinking and enjoying it for a long time already.
