{"id":1032,"date":"2005-12-08T02:43:55","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T09:43:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-12-08T02:49:14","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T09:49:14","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/1032\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Jacobs, for a change, says nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Previous incursions here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We have invented a bunch of stuff over the years, we have improved a bunch of stuff, we’ve done a bunch of dumb stuff.”<\/i> <\/p>\n

I’m sorry but I the useless hype and that self righteous attitude gives me annoying itches. I cannot suffer it. Plus it reminds me the failing-proof slogans of Vanguard<\/a> or that other Q&A session<\/a> on Slashdot.<\/p>\n

I read the full chat log on Corpnews<\/a> and this is my thoughtful<\/u> commentary:<\/p>\n

1- There still nothing that he says about “WAR” that wouldn’t fit DAoC. So absolutely no reason again to feel actually interested about it (beside the lame “it’s new!”).<\/p>\n

2- Mark Jacobs needed a good acronym. Because, you know, mmorpg are all about acronyms and if you win on that field you win everything. WoW was good but WAR is better, no?<\/p>\n

3- MMORPG sequels are dumb. Even when disguised.<\/p>\n

The best part remains this one:<\/p>\n

Wraithstorm<\/b>: Ooh, Mark, I’ve gotta ask. Does the race you choose decide your realm? Or is it possible for someone like a Dark Elf to work side by side with somebody from the Empire<\/p>\n

MBJ<\/b>: Ah, that would be telling, wouldn’t it?<\/p>\n

Wraithstorm<\/b>: That’s kinda the point.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The rest is pure, pointless, hype:<\/p>\n

MBJ<\/b>: I couldn’t answer that without giving away a lot more about the game. I can say, without any fear of contradiction, that what we have in the design so far if a lot more than I’ve seen in any MMORPG to date.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pure, candid fluff.<\/p>\n

MBJ<\/b>: Well, let me be as clear as I can be about the WAR = DaoC +
\nNo way in hell.
\nHow’s that?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Previous incursions here and here. “We have invented a bunch of stuff over the years, we have improved a bunch of stuff, we’ve done a bunch of dumb stuff.” I’m sorry but I the useless hype and that self righteous attitude gives me annoying itches. I cannot suffer it. Plus it reminds me the failing-proof […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}