[MUD-Dev] Interesting EQ rant (very long quote)

[the_logos at www.achaea.com]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Jeff Freeman wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <the_logos at www.achaea.com>
>>>> From: Daniel.Harman at barclayscapital.com

>>> How do I find out what an Aviak Charm is used for, then?  Besides
>>> doing the "/gu What's an Aviak Charm for?"  Asking in Guild chat
>>> is, in what I was trying to say, the same to me as looking it up
>>> on a spoiler site.  There is nothing about the Aviak Charm that
>>> says "Centaurs might want this."  If I looted a Centaur Hoof off
>>> of an Aviak, I might intuitively know that I should go talk to a
>>> centaur about it.

>> Erm, other people are the _whole point_ of multiplayer games. If
>> you want to pretend they don't exist, why not just play a
>> one-player game instead?

> Well, the Other People are the ones that put up the spoiler site to
> begin with.  And they did it because it's a more efficient method of
> communication than answering the same question for the bazillionth
> time.  When you ask them what an Aviak Charm is used for, they'll
> tell you.  And then when you ask them what the next doodad you
> discover is for, they'll tell you that too.  The third time, they'll
> tell you to go to everlore.com and look it up for yourself like
> everyone else.

Well, from my point of view, going to everlore.com makes perfect
sense. You've probably not given players a medium in the game that is
nearly as efficient at displaying whatever data they want to display
(non-web equivalent in real world is things like books and
such). People collect data and pass it on either for free or for some
consideration. It's just the way people are. Fighting against it seems
odd.
 
> Not all of the players, I guess, but an awful lot of them.

> Anyway, I do agree with you though that a quest which required you
> to go talk to another player, rather than to a centaur NPC, would be
> much cooler than either the spoiler-site based thingie or "go do
> something for an npc in exchange for a trinket, which ultimately
> won't make the least bit of difference to anyone in the world,
> except maybe you - if it is a nice trinket."

That's not quite what I meant actually. I meant that there's nothing
at all unreasonable or 'cheaty' about going to a spoiler site to learn
how to do a quest. I just find it silly to bitch about players
enlisting the aid of other players in a multiplayer game.

--matt

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