JadeTora

-Nope. Leave it alone.-

-removed-

Don't need to defend myself.

You don't agree with how I handled it? Now you must be kidding me.

What don't you agree with? How I kept calm through the entire experience? How I explained to him in great detail three times my problem and ended up doing most of the work by trying to explain to him that I could not take the quest that he insisted I take again over and over? That I simply ignored him finally after trying for so long and explaining three times, by the way did I mention THREE TIMES my problem and still received the same response?

I'd say I was far too giving. I shouldn't have to explain anything three times to anyone, especially not a GM. Especially not in the great and painstaking detail I explained it to him and all the text I ended up entering that night to him in an attempt to get him to understand.

What would it have accomplished?

Not much.

But it would have made me grin which would have been something for the headache I ended up getting from this GM. The point is I didn't do it.

I find it interesting how so many people seem so offended by this little joke when I've seen much more offensive and explicit jokes made regularly on Virtue by all sorts of folk. Are only the hyper conservative flamer crowd on the forums?

...Wait.. Stupid question..

Okay, opinions on whether the Devs are doing their jobs or not aside. A previous post I made in another thread made me think, wonder and then decide to bring this up with the whole of the Virtue forum community..

Last year I was playing on Redside with my other ( boyfriend ) and we were doing the little quest-line leading up to Ghost Widow. As we took on a follow up quest after finishing another we noticed the little nav point ( that shows you where your quest is ) was pointing to one area and surprisingly it wasn't the quest ( the nav point was stuck ) so we kinda just went "whatever" and finished the quest ( via the whole "drop the quest to finish" thing ) so we got the next follow up quest and surprise surprise, it was doing the same thing.

So irritated, I looked at him and said "You want to contact a GM?" and he goes "Yeah.." so I sent in a ticket..

About half an hour later we finally get a response, we'd decided after the first ten minutes to just move on so we left the building the nav point was stuck on and began to randomly search around the city ( going from door to door to try to find where our quest was ) and surprisingly we finally found it.. So we did our quest and then received a response from a GM a full thirty minutes after..

The GM asked me what the problem was and I told him, you know.. We got a quest and the nav point was stuck so we had no clue where to go and surprise surprise surprise surprise (?) the quest AFTER the two we had just completed had the very same problem. So I told him this in great detail explaining how we had specifically completed two quests prior and that we were currently searching for the location of our third because the nav point wasn't working properly ( note that from the get go it was difficult to understand him, he clearly didn't understand or know how to speak English very well ), he asked us what the first quest that started this line was and I told him.. Then he says "retake it" and I'm like "Uh.. We can't, dude. We completed it." to which he responds "you have to retake it to me help you" ( I kid you not he typed like this ) so we went to the quest-giver thinking maybe he'd enabled it to be taken again and tried to take it.. Surprise, we couldn't.. So I explained to him again that we had already taken the quest and completed it and therefore couldn't retake it.. To which.. Surprise.. He said... "you have to take it again for to help you", at this point I'm rubbing my temples going "Okay, let me try this again." so once more I explain to him in great and painful detail the problems we're having and the fact that we have completed two quests in the line already and to this he responses YET AGAIN with "retake it" to which I just randomly exploded and went "AUUGH @#$! IT! asdfgas" and stopped responding ( I didn't actually send the whole @#$! IT ) and after a while the GM stopped sending me messages.

I walked away convinced this was my WORST experience with a GM to date. I was wrong, of course.. I've had worse since then but I won't go into detail about them..

Anyway.. After this they sent me to my email one of those "tell us how good we did" surveys and of course I didn't fill it out but due to the massive headache this guy gave me in trying to understand him I was tempted to fill it out entirely with just "YOU WAN FWIED WICE!?"

My question is this.. With the outsourcing of GM's ( which seems like a horrible idea because I mean, y'know. They're only working on U.S servers so why would they need something as silly as a knowledge of the English language? ) have you had problems like this? Understanding or dealing with GM's?

I tend to agree. The Rikti were new what? 2007? Guys, it's 2010. It's been a little more than three years since the Rikti were new. In the grand scheme of things ( MMO time ) it's high time for an update and something new.

I realize we're waiting for Going Rogue but what I also realize is we've received no new information on it since Hero Con and no release date.

Going Rogue coming out ( "Soon" TM ) doesn't excuse the devs from doing their jobs and frankly even while it's in the pre-release phases I think we should see something new. I however have the sneaking suspicion that Going Rogue is going to be used as an excuse to avoid doing any actual work or adding anything new until Going Rogue..

...Whenever it comes out ( "SOON"! TM )

So is this Phoenix or Goblin Mondo?

With my last post being my last post I'm going to call this one the true last post.. Wait, what?

Anyway, after I post this I'm falling out of the conversation. Frankly I can't motivate myself to actually care or argue with people about this subject. Everyone has their own opinion and frankly more often than not people voice their opinions on the internet as absolute fact, frankly I just can't be bothered with that sort of crap.

Oh sure, I'll be flamed pulling out like this 'Oh she didn't have a tough enough skin', 'this proves we're right' blah blah blah ego stroke low self esteem +2 level up but to be honest I'd rather be flamed and pull out with some dignity than to sit here and argue for days on end about something that doesn't matter.

You know the end result of this entire thread? It will accomplish nothing, people will sit here, argue and flame each other for a while looking like total tards in the process ( Yes, even I look like a total tard for allowing myself to be drawn into this drama ) and eventually the thread will die away to make way for a new one. No ones opinions will be changed, nothing will be different and people will go on doing, thinking and saying what they want. As a general rule from now on I think I'm going to just avoid having my say all together as it's more a headache than it's worth arguing with people who are clearly just so much more superior and god-like than myself and who are so unimaginably enlightened I could never hope to even comprehend their intellects.

Enjoy your net fights, kids. Remember. It's serious business.

You want to argue that? Show me ANYWHERE where ANYONE can prove a person is an adult on the internet.

Age verification through credit cards? ID? Birth Certificate? Social Security? All can be faked or can be gotten to use to be faked. By your logic any eroticism on the internet as a generalized whole must therefore be illegal by the argument that you can't prove viewers and participants are of legal age.

Please.

Get a more serious argument if you wish to down this. With people in the game who have ERP and all stated clearly in their profiles and the fact that the City of Heroes team seems okay with this as long as it's kept private I really don't think it's of that great a concern to them or they'd have said/done something about it.

Most people on the game ERP or not are probably of age and if they're not, it's fairly obvious ( as a general rule, check their typing proficiency. Do they misspell words often? Do they use punctuation? If so, it's probably not someone of age. ) and you may call this argument flimsy but it's just as flimsy as yours and I seriously doubt they could actually prosecute you in court or would even bother.

You're mad at ERPers because they're selfish? Then what are you? By your post you've rather clearly indicated you're only angry because it might ( not even a realistic chance, however ) inconvenience you. So you're guilty of being self centered as well.

Derp derp. Pot calling the kettle black.

-removed. Nothing needs to be said.-

Watch out for overbearing, self righteous and judgmental behaviour as well.

Go to Triumph and post several ERP posts in local around people. Do it.

You know it's a good idea.

My take on this is pretty simple

1. Some people are just immature and never got past the giggling at things pertaining to sex phase ( I.E. early teens )
2. Some people are just too narrow minded to consider that even if someone does ERP perhaps they're not the basement dwelling mouth breathing loser they seem to so strongly wish they were
3. Some people seem fixated on the whole 'no girls on the internet thing' so much so I question whether the males that say this perhaps aren't gay and hoping for an all male utopia ( IT'S RAININ MEN! )
4. People from a certain chan. Nuff said.
5. Some are simply talking out their ****. Looking for drama, thriving off drama and arguing/starting trouble just to argue/start trouble because they can't feel self important without it
6. The above + Low self esteem = Half the retards who get into arguments on the internet

Basically I think there's a stigma because people want there to be a stigma. Otherwise they'd have to find something else to complain about so they can feel important.

Played it, beat it with Siren and was extremely unimpressed.

For all the hype the games received it fell short on expectations that had been created through all the "zomg this game is so good" and "Must play of 2009!" reviews

Story? Paper thin. Sucked..

World? Felt like Fallout 3. Boring

Combat? Seen it before. RPG elements have been in shooters before Borderlands. Why everyone acts like Borderlands is innovative for something that's been done before, I'll never understand

Weapons? Meh. Bland and rather done.. If you've had one fire gun, you've had them all. Also the alien tech was few and far between and even when you got it the tech just felt underpowered and bland as well

End boss? TOTAL disappointment. Where's my reward at the end of the game? No reward = Major disappointment

I was unimpressed at the start of the game and then content at the middle and considering it 'okay' and then I reached the end at which point I wanted to chuck my controller at the screen and scream at it for getting my hopes up.