Nope. Not even close.
I’m not saying this is new. I’m asking the question: Has the situation gotten to a point that my be game-breaking for some players.
I still remember the World of Warcraft. Beginner’s Guide - BradyGames - 2011 Paperback
I may still have that book some where. But Things have changed beyond that.
Just my perspective.
Wow, is it Friday afternoon already? The day really got away from me. I blame it being a short holiday week.
Time for Tigersan’s traditional dopamine farm purposeful bad take weekend thread.
Metagamers have one difficulty settings for them, yup not an entire content just a setting.
More over if you want to make a lot of gold these guys are your sheep 
In any case anything in wow can be accomplished casually as it last 4 to 5 months per season , it is just a matter of if you want it or not
Hello Jalanili. Thanks for the reply. Have a nice Friday.
Saw meta in title, and it reminded me I haven’t looked at fakebook in awhile 
Classic “I’m not good enough for it therefore it’s cheating”
that’s a lot of words for “I have a few skill issues and don’t want to improve”
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I’m fairly confident he’s only in it for the attention.
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I mean, anyone opposed to putting in the effort to do a little research isn’t going to be playing at a level where doing research matters.
If you are going to be a heroic/mythic raider, or do M+ keys above the “casual” range past 16 or so, you should be expected to do some research on the best way to handle a mechanic, do the most dps, or otherwise.
It’s worked this way in all games. There is the option where you can just play the way you want (LFR/normal, keys below 15, random bgs), but if you want to get better or do the higher difficulties, you’ll be doing some research.
Was the same for older games of other styles, like the diablos, the starcrafts, WC3 to an extent, Dota, even console games follow this style. I mean, stuff like starcraft and other RTS have it dialed down to the half-second on when you should be making your 3rd drone, when to build the barracks, etc, if you are following a specific strategy. If you want to just play COD, you could, but if you want to understand the best combo of weapons/other stuff then you’d watch streams (or youtube clips, once upon a time), and you’d learn more.
TLDR: If you want to be better or do harder stuff, you need to learn the stuff. If you don’t want to get better, or don’t want to do the harder difficulties, you dont really need to learn the stuff. Aberrus was a cakewalk on the first day of the patch and I didn’t look at a single guide or PTR video.
Im getting the impression this is some thinly veiled addons are bad thread.
No, it’s the same it ever was, addons are in the game to give directions, they don’t “play the game for you”.
No, information sites aren’t bad, where would you turn if you couldn’t figure something out? Be it a build, quest objective, rotation, or where to get that rare thing, it’s good to have access to databases.
And since it’s the same it’s always been, it’s not game breaking.
“Everyone who doesn’t play this game according to my own personal idiosyncratic restrictions I have chosen for myself is cheating, and must be stopped.”
That’s actually a common gamer archetype.
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As much fun as the expanded definition of meta-gaming was, I don’t see how you connect it to cheating. Meta-gaming and cheating are not the same thing and never have been. Competitive players meta-game to a certain extent in just about every game they play. Right down to the very first Nintendo Power magazines ever sold.
It is not for you to tell players which ways they are allowed to have fun in WoW. There have never been any rules against using online resources to help learn the optimal rotation. If a player dislikes those resources and doesn’t want to use them then that’s their prerogative. But it doesn’t mean that if they fall behind that other players who did use those tools were cheating. Setting limitations for yourself does not set similar limitations for everyone else. The only ones with the capacity to do that are Blizzard themselves.
And before you ask, no this isn’t a problem. WoW has multiple difficulty levels for a reason. Players who don’t want to put in the effort to maximize their character can easily play in lower level content where that’s not as required and get along just fine.
- You tell them about old game stores nearby their area.
- You tell them about the PS2.
I wanna see homies release an RPG to the public and try to not have people meta.
What Hpellispis is most likely saying, your complaints are pretty generic sounding that it sounded like a computer wrote it. And essentially saying “This isn’t a problem, and you’re not the first person to complain about this.”.
People meta non-RPG’s too. Even something simple as Spyro.
People Meta everything.
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I really don’t think there’s a game where people can’t. Going meta is literally doing what’s optimal. I bet there’s meta routes in every Spyro game.
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