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    The context - rather than the words - of the title is misleading -

    Even I initially read it as:
    * "AS4 downed in 4 days in China" - 'omg wow it only took China 4 days to figure out and down AS4, but took a long time for JP/NA to figure it out and win'
    ^This seems to be how it was initially taken... it's read into as if this were their first encounter with AS4, when it's really not... due to playing on other servers already. It's like a newspaper headline that alludes to something grand, so there was an expectation of something grand - that the 4 days is something exciting.

    It's also read as a simple statement/fact:
    * "AS4 downed in 4 days in China" - 'AS4 was downed for the first time *on Chinese servers*' (and not touching into the fact that it's not those player's first time downing AS4 - they were just the first to down it on the server(s)).

    I think this is where the miscommunication is coming in - how people are reading the title. It's just a matter of difference - "Exciting news" vs "fact".

    It's a world first for the Chinese servers in a matter of that server's statistic, but it begs to ask if it's really a 'world first' when the same players have already done it on a server that's already cleared. IE - it's not their first time clearing it, just the first time it's been cleared on a server.
    If none of those players cleared it before now, then I'd be a little more excited for them.

    Either way, I'm not downplaying them - I certainly couldn't do all that, and it did look like impressive teamwork - but rather trying to give a third person perspective into the debate. >.>
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    Last edited by Saseal; 01-22-2016 at 01:58 AM.