{"id":1628,"date":"2007-02-17T11:18:53","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T18:18:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-02-17T15:05:59","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T22:05:59","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/1628\/","title":{"rendered":"Replying"},"content":{"rendered":"

I enjoy crossovers, so while I typed this in his blog’s comment window, I cut the text and pasted it over here (also because it’s pertinent to a few other things<\/a>). <\/p>\n

Answer to this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nI’d accept your reply if it was accurate against my point, but it isn’t.<\/p>\n

I’ve never represented that kind of critics that judge things based on personal aesthetics in spite of popular success. Instead I take into consideration popular success because I believe that popular success is ALWAYS motivated and proves a point.<\/p>\n

If I say MEO is mediocre I don’t intend FOR ME, if I don’t specify that precisely. I NEVER judge things from my very own preference if not stated, especially when I write observations about the whole industry as in that case.<\/p>\n

What I meant is: another LotR that isn’t just a bland WoW clone could have been easily MORE successful.<\/p>\n

And: because MEO is a poor WoW clone, it won’t be successful.<\/p>\n

Then you can argue that this is not going to be the case, that making it a WoW clone means making it MORE successful. I accept that point of view (while disagreeing), but I don’t accept if you say that I’m whining because they didn’t build a game for ME.<\/p>\n

What I said is that MEO is another huge wasted potential. And for “potential” I NEVER, in any case, intend a kind of niche and selected audience. I never write with a niche audience in mind and I never mistake my personal preference for what everyone else must like as well. This is valid both for my opinions as for my design ideas. The great majority of things I write here are intended to be in the interest of the majority of people, hopefully, but not obligatorily, including me.<\/p>\n

And I surely don’t believe that SWG wasn’t successful because NOT COMPLETELY a diku in space. That’s a wrong lesson that you and many others have learnt. Or better, a wrong assumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I enjoy crossovers, so while I typed this in his blog’s comment window, I cut the text and pasted it over here (also because it’s pertinent to a few other things). Answer to this. — I’d accept your reply if it was accurate against my point, but it isn’t. I’ve never represented that kind of […]<\/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-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","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=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}