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Old 03-15-2007, 07:10 AM   #8 (permalink)
Hungkung
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Re: The Test Server Economy

*Ok everybody against the wall, this is a hijack*

well sorta,

Ysa. said something which I so need to jump around and point at, maybe light a great fire near it and dance naked under the moonlight for it's pleasure...

I've never understood the mentality of letting bullies of any stripe win, whether its schoolyard toughs or little fat ladies in a chatroom who call the place home and by hook crook or simple attration drive anyone off who doesn't tell them how wonderful they are.

Used to be in the Pagan real world, you'd get these cliques, which is kinda the opposite point of the faith and with MMO's I've seen it as an ever growing cancer, esp. on the test servers, --where you should have everybody doing something different trying to break as much as possible, rather than obeying the powers that be. Niether one makes sense to me I brought up the pagan one because of the preconcieved notion that it is the little boys who are "the problem". Little boys are supposed to be a problem, they are still working on thier biology, it wasn't too long ago pugnacious little shits were an asset to the tribe because they were being pugnacious to lions while they guarded the flocks with nothing but a big stick. I find it so weary to see yet another 40something lady, holding court, whether in a Grove or outside Ogrimmar, where it's wear her t-shirt or leave. I'm guilty of pulling roots on test servers because the politics got old to me so the people who are staying and dealing wiht the drama I want to thank each and everyone of them for making patch day a lot less hectic than it could be.

and now that I've taken you around a pointless mountain, did you enjoy the ride? with an ecomony The Market is always right, and I like capatilists, I don't trust them, I like 2 year olds too, but I won't have them without a diaper on the couch, and the two groups have a lot in common, both have an absolute blindness for any other point of view, niehter can ever be satisfied and both have the lack of self restraint to contol themselves.

an example: A 2 year old who can't get up on teh couch by herself and cries for a hand up, ok not a problem, but leave a bag of cookies unattended on the high counter and you will come in to see a building-block ladder made out of furniture to the cookies; A capatlist who does not want government regulation suddenly gets beat in the market place starts crying for tarriffs on the compeition.

and in both cases if you try to regulate the situation you end up with a mess --an adult who used to be 2 who has no personal-hustpa to get what she wants herself, or a capitalist who is just going through the numbers until retirment offering nothing new or changing strategies and ends dragging the rest of your economy down the recession river with him. so before we start suggesting "limitations" on anything, including the test server, maybe lets think about it and just keep the cookies out of sight and see how well that handles the situation.

we now return you to your normal scheduled programs, you can take your hands down.
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