The Jimquisition: Why you're dumber than casual gamers

[Manic Maverick]

Episode here.

This is a topic that many people refuse to recognize, but know to be true to a certain extent. Just because the masses flock after something doesn't mean they're doing it solely because everyone else is doing it. Of course half the reason is because everyone else is doing it--most people are spineless sheep with no sense of direction. But the other half is because the game is actually enjoyable.

I spent about two or three months flocking about my cafe, restaurant, amusement park, and apartment on the internet. How did I start? I can't even fucking remember. But I got sucked in. I don't know what it is about these games, but they're doing something right. I stopped after a while, however, because I got bored. But that's just to do with my own preferences.

This same idea could be brought to those seemingly mass-produced Korean MMOs you see popping up everywhere. They rake in people like Lady Gaga rakes in herpes. Because they're doing something right, somewhere. They're free, unless you feel like getting special items, and people find them just as fun as any other MMO you'd spend $15-$20 a month playing. But they play for free. Others might not enjoy the whole cookie-cutter copy MMOs, but there are thousands of others who do.

When a company puts out a product that gathers a crowd, it's good to study the product before judging. It's like saying you hate taking a shit when you've never actually taken a shit before. It feels good.

[Jon Bloodspray]

I'd still plow Lady Gaga.

[digtastik]

She'd plow you.

[Jon Bloodspray]

As long as I got to blow on her face, I think I'm ok with that.

[digtastik]

I didn't doubt you, just so you know.

[Jon Bloodspray]

Never would have assumed as much.

Need I bring up the rule that whenever I say anything, "would plow" is assumed.

[Manic Maverick]

And thus ends the intellectual debate that is this thread. XD

[Byronic Man]

I've got an idea, let's discuss the topic!

Look at it this way: economically priced games similarly exist for the 'hardcore' demography. My housemates recently spent a collective three or four months on this free-to-play Korean MMO. Meanwhile I just bought Mortal Kombat II for three quid on PSN. If being a cheapskate is a mark of intelligence, we are just as smart as the 'casual' group. But it isn't, because that's all down to being a consumer and not to being this or that kind of gamer, isn't it?

As it happens, the gaming tastes of 'hardcore' or normal gamers are usually too sophisticated to be sated by whatever happens to be free, to use a stupidly pretentious metaphor. We love our chainsaw-guns and hadouken's so much, paying for them is only reasonable.


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I hope everyone gets the joke in saying that buying MKII at a bargain price is smart, because that game is shit.