Post by wafflemage on Aug 29, 2006 11:43:24 GMT -5
Ahh, it's been a while since I've ranted on useless things. So let's get the show on the road.
As of late, I have been playing this MMORPG called "Ragnarok Online".
Since I'm a cheap bastard, I play a private server, called "Deliverance".
Since the 1337 gamer's code state that you must find out how the system works in order for you to win, I'll explain the system.
As any real gamer would do, I've put a lot of thought into this game, figuring things out, what does every skill do and how can that skill help me win.
The system runs like this: You have like nine classes to play, out of those nine, seven classes can branch off into two separate classes, and futhermore, six of those can "Trancend" into stronger versions of those two paths. Now in order to power up these classes, you have equipment and stats. Equipment is self explanatory. Stats, however, are another deal. You have six stats: Strength, Agility, Vitality, Intelligence, Dexterity, and Luck.
The stats are used to help the character grow strong and assist in formulae. Any good MMORPG has a little something to the mix, this one boast skills unique to the classes explained above. These skills are also powered up by the stats.
With all that said, we move along to the three factors in MMORPG's that add to this system: 1. Friends, with other people you are bound to make friends and enemies. With friends, it becomes fairly easy to find stuff and level up together. Mass quantity of friends = Good.
2. Time, how much time you have available to put into this game. The concept of time available is important to the gamer. In any game, you must have some time to do what you must do to play. In MMORPG's, it's no different. It's basicly a gamer who has little time versus a gamer who has a lot of time on their hands.
3. Money, both real and fake money decides your ability to aquire a wide range of stuff going from rare items to special privilages. In short, a poor person can't hope to match up to a rich person.
These three factors help each other. In order to have that fake money, you could have your friends find you rare stuff, provided they have the time to look for stuff. If they are already rich, no problem, just have them buy stuff for you. If they are not, they could use their time to get rich. Having enough time on their hands yields some good results.
...And this is where the proverbial shit hits the fan. I myself have been diagnosed with Schizoid Paranoid Disorder with Social Phobia, thus not having much friends to help me find stuff or train together, therefore I have to do stuff on my own.
My time is limited, I have friends outside of this game who are capable of great things, and I meet them on a weekly basis. I'm also attending college, I can't blow them off just to play this game, nor let my aquisition of knowledge be put on hold for this game.
Oh, what little money do I have. I have no job to provide money in the form of a donation for rare items and those special privilages. In game, I have next to nothing. Yes, tell me I can match up to people who have rare items and sell those at ridiculous prices, thus not having a stable economy. By the time I have gathered that much money (We're talikng from 50 million zeny* to 100 millon and such.) someone has already bought the item or the seller is gone.
Taking the above into consideration, why in the 9th circle of hell are you, the players of RO and Deliverance that are in high places, so goddamn cocky!? Jesus Christ, you have friends to help you, enough time in your dirty hands to play and get powerful, and money to rival a digital Bill Gates, so why exactly are you cocky when someone of lesser gain tries to take you own? What exactly makes you so goddamn superior to people around you? You have amassed friends like a myspace whore, you have godly equipment from the time and money you have spent, not by any intelligent means, but by how much time you have, how much money you earn.
Even the way they play is not intelligent to warrant calling it strategy. Yes, you can pump a stat that only helps one skill, one, and use this skill over and over again, ad nauseum, and proclaim you are "the best". Well braniac, when you face a problem, you have ways around it and eventually find a solution. I will shut you down, render you useless with careful use of skills, but yet I face another problem: That accursed triangle of factors! I shut you down yet you have friends to back you up and gang up on people who have beaten your dipshit strategy. Curses! You have godly equipment due to an ill-gotten way of aquiring your precious playmoney. Zounds! You not only have that, but also the time to do this, because everyone and their mothers have the most time to spend like a madman while us, the average joe, the critical thinkers , the true gamers, haven't got the time like you do, Colonel Lardass.
In closing, this goes to the people who keep it real and smart, and a big fuck you goes to those you are cocky due to the wrong reasons. Long live the real gamers! Down with smug scrubs who have no skill!
Footnotes:
*Zeny is the currency of Ragnarok Online, as Gil is to Final Fantasy.
As of late, I have been playing this MMORPG called "Ragnarok Online".
Since I'm a cheap bastard, I play a private server, called "Deliverance".
Since the 1337 gamer's code state that you must find out how the system works in order for you to win, I'll explain the system.
As any real gamer would do, I've put a lot of thought into this game, figuring things out, what does every skill do and how can that skill help me win.
The system runs like this: You have like nine classes to play, out of those nine, seven classes can branch off into two separate classes, and futhermore, six of those can "Trancend" into stronger versions of those two paths. Now in order to power up these classes, you have equipment and stats. Equipment is self explanatory. Stats, however, are another deal. You have six stats: Strength, Agility, Vitality, Intelligence, Dexterity, and Luck.
The stats are used to help the character grow strong and assist in formulae. Any good MMORPG has a little something to the mix, this one boast skills unique to the classes explained above. These skills are also powered up by the stats.
With all that said, we move along to the three factors in MMORPG's that add to this system: 1. Friends, with other people you are bound to make friends and enemies. With friends, it becomes fairly easy to find stuff and level up together. Mass quantity of friends = Good.
2. Time, how much time you have available to put into this game. The concept of time available is important to the gamer. In any game, you must have some time to do what you must do to play. In MMORPG's, it's no different. It's basicly a gamer who has little time versus a gamer who has a lot of time on their hands.
3. Money, both real and fake money decides your ability to aquire a wide range of stuff going from rare items to special privilages. In short, a poor person can't hope to match up to a rich person.
These three factors help each other. In order to have that fake money, you could have your friends find you rare stuff, provided they have the time to look for stuff. If they are already rich, no problem, just have them buy stuff for you. If they are not, they could use their time to get rich. Having enough time on their hands yields some good results.
...And this is where the proverbial shit hits the fan. I myself have been diagnosed with Schizoid Paranoid Disorder with Social Phobia, thus not having much friends to help me find stuff or train together, therefore I have to do stuff on my own.
My time is limited, I have friends outside of this game who are capable of great things, and I meet them on a weekly basis. I'm also attending college, I can't blow them off just to play this game, nor let my aquisition of knowledge be put on hold for this game.
Oh, what little money do I have. I have no job to provide money in the form of a donation for rare items and those special privilages. In game, I have next to nothing. Yes, tell me I can match up to people who have rare items and sell those at ridiculous prices, thus not having a stable economy. By the time I have gathered that much money (We're talikng from 50 million zeny* to 100 millon and such.) someone has already bought the item or the seller is gone.
Taking the above into consideration, why in the 9th circle of hell are you, the players of RO and Deliverance that are in high places, so goddamn cocky!? Jesus Christ, you have friends to help you, enough time in your dirty hands to play and get powerful, and money to rival a digital Bill Gates, so why exactly are you cocky when someone of lesser gain tries to take you own? What exactly makes you so goddamn superior to people around you? You have amassed friends like a myspace whore, you have godly equipment from the time and money you have spent, not by any intelligent means, but by how much time you have, how much money you earn.
Even the way they play is not intelligent to warrant calling it strategy. Yes, you can pump a stat that only helps one skill, one, and use this skill over and over again, ad nauseum, and proclaim you are "the best". Well braniac, when you face a problem, you have ways around it and eventually find a solution. I will shut you down, render you useless with careful use of skills, but yet I face another problem: That accursed triangle of factors! I shut you down yet you have friends to back you up and gang up on people who have beaten your dipshit strategy. Curses! You have godly equipment due to an ill-gotten way of aquiring your precious playmoney. Zounds! You not only have that, but also the time to do this, because everyone and their mothers have the most time to spend like a madman while us, the average joe, the critical thinkers , the true gamers, haven't got the time like you do, Colonel Lardass.
In closing, this goes to the people who keep it real and smart, and a big fuck you goes to those you are cocky due to the wrong reasons. Long live the real gamers! Down with smug scrubs who have no skill!
Footnotes:
*Zeny is the currency of Ragnarok Online, as Gil is to Final Fantasy.