Quote Originally Posted by Deusteele View Post
As for the then and now comparisons for player skill. You're wrong, simple as that. Players now are so much more skilled then they used to be. 10 years ago forums and databases didn't exist the way they do now. Sites like Wowhead, Gamerescape, and these very forums were non-existent. The sphere of plat that exists for MMO has changed radically and a lot of players in this very thread refuse to see or accept that.
Sorry but moving from point A to point B because the video tells you that now is the time to do it is not skill.

In the old days, players learned and adapted on the fly, thats more skill than someone nowadays who just looks up a video of a pre-scripted fight and just follows the same movements everyone else does.

There's no skill in following a pre-scripted movement pattern. Adapting on the fly takes skill.

The only thing the modern player is skilled at is looking up strategies so they dont have to exert 1 ounce of mental effort to learn it on their own, and looking up what drops there are in the dungeon that they want to roll on. Google-Fu is strong with this generation, but "on the spur of the moment thinking"... not so much.