Fighting Desperately...

[fusional]

i want to sympathize with you in this thread, op, but your gross lack of game experience makes me seriously doubt your clout as a character witness.

whether the game is easy or not (and it is- though you miss the mark on why), how do you even know? how could you begin to?

lol, oh well. moving on then.

[Biggs]

i want to sympathize with you in this thread, op, but your gross lack of game experience makes me seriously doubt your clout as a character witness.

whether the game is easy or not (and it is- though you miss the mark on why), how do you even know? how could you begin to?

lol, oh well. moving on then.

I have seen this stance taken by so many on these forums. What then would you classify as an acceptable level of experience one would need then to have an opinion about the game? Should I go out and level all my jobs to 50? Say I did that, and made a comment; some douche would then just say "well yeah but your haven't done the dungeons yet". So then say I did that as well. I would then have some asshat say I didn't know what I was talking about until I had completed all the achievments. We could play this retarded nitpicking game all day actually, but the fact remains people like that will never be satisfied with other opinions that don't mesh with theirs mostly because they are too stupid to grasp the concept of what an opinion actually is. I could play this game for all of 35 seconds and decide it sucks with zero basis for my argument besides not liking the character models, and it would still form a sound opinion because opinions are like assholes Fusional, whether you like it or not, best to just accept it and move on.

[fusional]

What then would you classify as an acceptable level of experience one would need then to have an opinion about the game?

do you think healing in a leveling party is the same as healing moogle? do you think dpsing in a leveling party or in solo leves is the same as dpsing in AV? for that matter, do you think doing anything in darkhold is the same as in CC? are ifrit and moogle the same? are av and cc the same? do you think dh and av/cc are the same? do you think because you've fought ifrit you could oneshot moogle? do you think because you beat batraal you could faceroll through av speed clears?

the point is- i take this stance because i get tired of people experiencing a very finite section of a game and assuming they can make a 100% accurate judgment about everything else in the game as a result. it's absolutely stupid, for the same reason it's stupid when people start playing WoW and get run through wailing caverns for the first time then assume every endgame raid is that way.

speaking from experience is fine, as long as you speak about that which you actually have experience with. if you don't have experience with something, either don't address it or do so prefaced with "i haven't actually done this, but my assumption is _______" so it's very clear you're contributing your largely baseless opinion.

and opinions are fine. we can have those. we can share those. i'm just saying- having an opinion on Simurgh, whether valid or not, doesn't mean you have a valid opinion on King Behemoth. if you've experienced both, though, and want to share your opinions on either or both- fine. completely and totally fine.

but that's not what people are doing, and it's dumb, and i take issue with that.

[Xoo]

i want to sympathize with you in this thread, op, but your gross lack of game experience makes me seriously doubt your clout as a character witness.

whether the game is easy or not (and it is- though you miss the mark on why), how do you even know? how could you begin to?

lol, oh well. moving on then.

Hello Verily,

Now that that's outta the way...

Are you to tell me that you don't, and therefore nobody, can form an honest and experienced opinion about a particular subject after being exposed to it for an average of 40hrs. per week during a 18-month span? Sorry, some of us aren't that slow.

/picks up a stone, lurches backward and hurls it at the world's population, amazingly, hitting Verily himself/herself square between the eyes.

[Jinko]

/picks up a stone, lurches backward and hurls it at the world's population, amazingly, hitting Verily himself/herself square between the eyes.

That's just mean ..