[acridiel]

Well... in the last few days I´ve accompanied a very friendly and cool Newbe and I´ve witnessed him almost giving up on a mission because there was no arrow to point him to the "Ragus and Gingos on the road outside Yrkanis" he was supposed to hunt.
I told him, "Hey it says outside the City, so why don´t you just go outside and look what you can find there."
His reply was: "How was I supposed to know?" -.-

Ok, now the point is quite arguable, but either he´s not as clever as I thought, or the missions MUST have these pointers. As far as I could glean from him, he just didn´t bother to read the Missions text until I told him so.
He was looking for "the arrow to point him the way". To which he was used to from some Asia Grinder he had played before. *shudder*

I think its rather saddening if not really, really scary that normal people (I think he´s in his late 20s to early 30s, having a wife and a child) can´t play a game without blatant visual help and/or someone else helping them along.

What does that say about society in general?
What does it say about "gaming culture" specifically?

And sorry to say so, but just take a look at all those other free and not free games out there, sample that which they call a "community" and experience the general attitude of many vocal "Gamers" towards each other and the games they play, and you´ll get a good picture of what the dark underside of western and eastern society looks like.

I can only hope and pray to the "Gods of Gaming" that our new Devs will find some good middle ground to go walk on the path to a "better" and "new gaming experience"...

Heed the lessons of SWG.

CU
Acridiel