Dueling Gamers
My last post about Team Fortress 2 has uncovered what is basically at the heart of the problem with online gaming...from competitive games (like TF2) to level-crunching RPGs (like World of Warcraft).
The casual gamer and the hardcore gamer cannot sit in the same room and agree on anything. Ever.
The casual gamer thinks the hardcore gamer is a basement-dwelling troll who has no life outside of the game and is just there to humiliate them and tell them how much they suck.
The hardcore gamer thinks that the casual gamer is being a pain by not putting enough time into the game, thus getting themselves killed a lot and then whining about the game being too hard.
The problem is...online gaming all seems to be geared toward the hardcore gamer, so casual gamers (like me) get totally screwed when playing games like WoW (I'm still level 30 while my friends got their third level 70 months ago), or perpetually frustrated by games like TF2 (I die a gajillion times on offense, and rarely get any class other than Engy to work a fraction as well as everyone else seems to).
It's why I quit playing HALO and WoW.
The casual gamer and the hardcore gamer cannot sit in the same room and agree on anything. Ever.
The casual gamer thinks the hardcore gamer is a basement-dwelling troll who has no life outside of the game and is just there to humiliate them and tell them how much they suck.
The hardcore gamer thinks that the casual gamer is being a pain by not putting enough time into the game, thus getting themselves killed a lot and then whining about the game being too hard.
The problem is...online gaming all seems to be geared toward the hardcore gamer, so casual gamers (like me) get totally screwed when playing games like WoW (I'm still level 30 while my friends got their third level 70 months ago), or perpetually frustrated by games like TF2 (I die a gajillion times on offense, and rarely get any class other than Engy to work a fraction as well as everyone else seems to).
It's why I quit playing HALO and WoW.