{"id":561,"date":"2009-05-18T04:46:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T03:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=561"},"modified":"2009-05-18T04:46:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T03:46:32","slug":"bartle-explains-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/18\/bartle-explains-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartle explains himself"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard has often been accused of being “arrogant”, “insane”, and even, simply, “wrong” for his comments along the lines of:<\/p>\n

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  1. He hasn’t “played” an MMO in decades (possibly “ever”) … because he can’t stop himself from interpreting as he uses them\n
  2. Surprisingly many MMOs are just WoW by another name\n
  3. He only needs to play the first few levels of a new MMO to see if it’s really new; he needn’t bother with the rest of it\n<\/ol>\n

    He’s explained before, in abstract terms, why this is all true *to him*, and pretty much left people to stew if they don’t understand that (while always actively engaging them in conversation to try and explain further).<\/p>\n

    Now he’s blogged a concrete example of what goes through his head when playing a particular quest-chain \/ zone: WoW’s STV<\/a>. If you’ve ever wondered, and\/or been confused\/horrified\/dismayed\/insulted by Richard’s statements online and haven’t had the chance to speak to him about it all in person, then I’d highly recommend reading it. I suspect that this concrete analysis will elucidate to a lot more people most of the meaning that the abstract explanations failed to convey. Well, we’ll see…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Richard has often been accused of being “arrogant”, “insane”, and even, simply, “wrong” for his comments along the lines of: He hasn’t “played” an MMO in decades (possibly “ever”) … because he can’t stop himself from interpreting as he uses them Surprisingly many MMOs are just WoW by another name He only needs to play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,47,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}