Quote Originally Posted by thegreatonemal View Post
This might be news to you but most people don't google how to play video games they buy this problem is an mmo in general issue. when i play street fighter or ff7 i don't have to google how to do haduken or insert materia I press pause and go down to move list and have a tutorial on that very subject when it becomes relevant to the game that I can revisit anytime I please
...what? Depending on the game I'm googling stuff all the time - whenever I get stuck.
The problem with an MMO here is: You might not realise that you are "stuck", because 3, 7 or 23 other people are doing your work for you and pick up your slack. You dont get individual feedback, like you would get on a solo-game - you get a group feedback of "Your group did well enough to clear this content!"
In a solo-game that means you have done well enough and clearly understood what the game is asking of you. Here... it means nothing in regards to your indivual level of skill that your group managed to clear something.

Why would there be thousands of guides out there for solo-games? Why do I have official Walkthroughs, released by SE, for FFX, FFX-2 and FFXII on my shelf? (Okay, I actually didnt bought them because I needed help, but because I was hoping to learn more about the lore and stuff in the games... bit disappointing that there wasnt that much in them)

There are strategy guides out there for solo-games and when I couldnt complete a mission in HoMM V recently I discovered that there are foren-threads filled with people giving each other advice on how to beat those missions.

The problem clearly isnt that people dont want to consulte outside sources to beat a game - the problem is that the game doesnt tell them that they might "have" to - or put some more effort into figuring stuff out by themself, because for the most part, if you read your tooltips and thinking about the skills you have, you can come up with a rotation on your own thats good enough to beat content.