What is this I don't even...

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Originally Posted by Wolfie

She might as well have written the article in first person narrative, skipped out on the grammar and punctuation, and laced it with profanity. It's absolutely nothing more than someone's s**tty fanboy/hateclub opinion, written with 10th grade vocabulary.

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ie: typical G4TV audience

Nvm..........

Well everyone will have their opinion. (Mine is I can't stand playing GW2 personally) but all we can do is encourage them to sign up for beta, let them test it themselves and then they will have their foot in their mouths (assuming arr is awesome, which I am hopeful it will be)

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Originally Posted by Wolfie

She might as well have written the article in first person narrative, skipped out on the grammar and punctuation, and laced it with profanity. It's absolutely nothing more than someone's s**tty fanboy/hateclub opinion, written with 10th grade vocabulary.

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And here I thought having a blog meant you had to have something akin to an expansive vocabulary and at least some understanding on how to write things. >.>;;;

The tone of the "article" could have been different. Less comparisons to GW2 would have also helped. It's one thing to present examples from another game to argue a point on forums. It's another when an article keeps referencing something else when said article doesn't have much to do with it.

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Originally Posted by Duelle

And here I thought having a blog meant you had to have something akin to an expansive vocabulary and at least some understanding on how to write things. >.>;;;

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Unfortunately that's not a simple blog, but an actually popular website curated by supposedly professional journalists.

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Originally Posted by Abriael

Unfortunately that's not a simple blog, but an actually popular website curated by supposedly professional journalists.

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I think it was "half-assed" if you get what I mean... ;)

I loved GW. GW2 was ok, but honestly I am bored with it and enjoy the first one better. O.o I could never choose GW over FFXIV though. This article is pathetic. She does not have enough experience with this game to write an effective review. Of course... she doesn't seem to have the vocabulary either. o.O Who hires these people!?!

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Originally Posted by Abriael

Unfortunately that's not a simple blog, but an actually popular website curated by supposedly professional journalists.

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That's really the only thing that made me a little worried, as I thought penny arcade was still held in somewhat high regard by gamers.

Well, it's an editorial. If she were objective enough to write reviews then that's what she would be doing.

Regardless of whether it's an opinion article or a review though, it remains a distinctly shallow analysis of a game that's still months away from release. It focuses on pinpointing the negative aspects and makes no more than a passing mention to the positive aspects (oh, and there's a job system, graphics, battle system and storyline, but meh)

Clearly, she disliked the game. She's allowed to. However, some of the points she made were utterly ridiculous. Omg I can't open a map and look for the name of a place written on it, such hard work!

After reading that article, its all the more reason as to why I don't take reviews of games seriously. The only opinion that should matter is your own on whether or not you like the game or not. I tried GW2 with a few friends for awhile, probably close to a month or more, but even then that alone didn't help keep me from dropping it. To me, GW2 was just too boring and the lack of roles didn't help either since none of the classes felt different to me not to mention other things but I won't get into that.

I went back to 1.0 shortly afterwards since it was able to keep my interest even if it was lacking in some departments at that time. In the end it really comes down to the player themselves in deciding what to play that tickles their fancy.