Article on a typical Asian MMOs

[tanithryudo]

Or, to be more precise, a western viewpoint to an Asian type MMO. It would be interesting to read the original Chinese and see how much of the tone matches up, I think.

I actually found some of the comments more interesting (and less biased :p)... Eg. "An MMO such as ZT Online is no different than countless other MMO's like World of Warcraft or EVE Online. They all seek to exploit superficial aspects of Human Nature."

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[cashew.insanejournal.com]

Blerg, I saw the link on Guru but couldn't get myself to read. I still can't read that article (the first paragraph made so little sense I couldn't continue on). Read some of the comments tho', and it seems to boil down to "wah, people are playing the game I want to play", which is kind of standard fare for this stuff.

I don't know why the people QQing (need to stop picking up lingo...) about balanced/fair/challenge/skill are all bitching about MMOs. If they want that kind of game, they need to go play chess (as one has pointed out as an example of good gaming). MMOs are not chess, people need to stop wishing it was.

Anyway. *mops up after self*