Please stop showing boring videos

[Priya]

I don't understand the purpose behind that quest/battle video. All it showed was stuff we're used to from old-school WoW-type MMO's. Generic kill/fetch quests with brainless combat. This doesn't mean all quests will be like that. Or that combat won't be intricate. But this is what they decided to show, and I don't blame people's reactions.

That said, I'm sure people will forget about these alpha videos once we get closer to release and they pull out the big guns when they start marketing the game properly.

Alphas generally test the structure/design of the game, betas are more for content/balance. The video is there to showcase the UI functions/display, latency, response, etc. It is not meant to show how incredibly awesome, immerse and fine-tuned content is.

Gamebreaker TV dudes are completely ignorant and inept. A further nod to how terrible they are at their jobs, they obviously never read the "mouse is used for clarity" and "gcd's will be reduced." They act like level 10 in other games is something epic by comparison (Guild Wars 2 had the "end game from the start" mentality that got old super fast. Not all games are going to go the "your level doesn't matter at all!" route). I lol'd at the end when they softened up: "maybe this is just Alpha, guys." --- then got annoyed again at the slightly racist sounding remarks... "people in the East like to play slow games with one hand and smoke".... So WoW's Asian clients must be totally different than the rest of them, right? Completely worthless humans.

[fusional]

then got annoyed again at the slightly racist sounding remarks... "people in the East like to play slow games with one hand and smoke".... So WoW's Asian clients must be totally different than the rest of them, right? Completely worthless humans.

meanwhile they get completely destroyed by the koreans in starcraft, lineage, aion, etc...