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On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 08:51:22 +0100, "Vincenzo Beretta"
<reckall@hotmail.com> wrote:

>> Might be good stuff if they find a way to keep what's good
>> about existing Elder Scrolls games separate about what
>> makes WoW and similar games so tiresome.
>
>> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ZeniMax-Bethesda-Elder-Scrolls-Online-MMO,news-14481.html
>
>I see, by looking around, that there is the usual number of "tragedy 
>chasers" who are predicting the end of the World after this "news". There 
>are at least three observations worth of making, here:
>
>A) These aren't "news" but "rumors".
>
>B) A "MMORPG set in the Elder Scrolls Universe" is not the same as "Skyrim 
>successor", the way World of Warcraft was not Warcraft 3 successor.
>
>C) It is this kind of "tragedy chasing" that gives lifeblood to those 
>moronic "op eds" who call the players upset by Mass Effect 3 ending 
>"whiners". By whining about everything you simply lose steam when real 
>tragedy strikes (AKA "Cry wolf"). 

As far as "Skyrim successor", that's why I added the question mark.
That part was food for thought.

You're surfing a flimsy line between rumor and news.  Its been
"rumored" for about 5 years now that Bethsoft was working on a MMO.
Its been substantiated as fact that they have staffed workers to work
on an MMO for at least the last couple of years to my knowledge.  What
has not been known until recently is whether this was a TES series
game or based on the FO universe, or new franchise altogether.  An
anonymous source has been cited as saying it is TES, so yes, that
aspect of it could be considered rumor.  But there are also cases
where "news stories" have been published and later retracted after
learning they were inaccurate.  It was still news at the time it was
published.  Some journalist somewhere is banking his reputation that
the anonymous source is probably not bullshitting.  In fact, if the
source WAS NOT anonymous, I would say it is almost certainly bullshit
because if you've never seen one of the nondisclosure agreements
involved in a project like this, I can tell you they are pretty much
entitled to your first born if they find out you've leaked
information, thus no employee is going to leak it and put their
signature on the leak.

As far as whiners, I cannot explain the enigma behind why PC Gaming
(1) and whining are so intertwined.  I cannot think of any other hobby
I've been involved in during my lifetime that had such an overwhelming
ratio of whiners to regular guys.  I wonder if anyone can name one
other hobby that is meant to be enjoyable, by definition, that results
in so many grown men temporarily spawning vaginas of their own and
bleeding aloud about what's sucks about it.  I do see similar behavior
from Mac users bitching about why there isn't a Mac version of their
favorite Windows software, but I'm not putting them in the same
behavioral cluster because arguably their complaints could be work
related in many cases (and bitching about one's job is not the same as
bitching about a non-mandatory hobby that they are supposed to be
enjoying).

(1) No doubt this is worse at the console level