AestheticDeath
08-23-2007, 09:51 PM
Post all your Gemstone rants in here! I'll start with one of the many I have:
I just got a new character the other day, and was excited and all set to go hunting and crap. After I fried and went to go rest to absorb the exp, I realized what I was doing. I was sitting there, doing nothing. Watching a little red bar not move. Waiting for it to turn pink. I got bored rather quickly and went to playing another game.
The enormous stupidity of it just hit me all over again while waiting for the bar to change colors, and my mind to start emptying. It's just ridiculous. The game is no longer uncapped, and there is an end point (of a sort). I would like to reach that end game at some point in my lifetime. And then I can restart or something. But I don't want to waste the majority of my time sitting on my ass doing nothing.
I realize many people have other things to do while waiting for their mind to empty. And for some hunting isn't even a favorable pastime in Gemstone. Personally though, I find more enjoyment in hunting the creatures, finding loot, and all that jazz. I like a sense of accomplishment.
All this comes to a realization that they have managed to stretch something that could take less than 127 hours*, into something that takes the most astute gamer 3788 hours. OR over two years of gameplay at 5 hours a day for an average Joe who holds a full time job and plays the rest of his free time. Which is more than a responsible person should be playing per day. Most shouldn't be playing that often. Just because some can or do, doesn't mean everyone else should be slowed down as well.
So they stretched less than seven days into over two years. Hurray!
Absorption sucks.
*Using 100 exp per kill, at 6 seconds of soft cast RT per kill, no absorption necessary.
I just got a new character the other day, and was excited and all set to go hunting and crap. After I fried and went to go rest to absorb the exp, I realized what I was doing. I was sitting there, doing nothing. Watching a little red bar not move. Waiting for it to turn pink. I got bored rather quickly and went to playing another game.
The enormous stupidity of it just hit me all over again while waiting for the bar to change colors, and my mind to start emptying. It's just ridiculous. The game is no longer uncapped, and there is an end point (of a sort). I would like to reach that end game at some point in my lifetime. And then I can restart or something. But I don't want to waste the majority of my time sitting on my ass doing nothing.
I realize many people have other things to do while waiting for their mind to empty. And for some hunting isn't even a favorable pastime in Gemstone. Personally though, I find more enjoyment in hunting the creatures, finding loot, and all that jazz. I like a sense of accomplishment.
All this comes to a realization that they have managed to stretch something that could take less than 127 hours*, into something that takes the most astute gamer 3788 hours. OR over two years of gameplay at 5 hours a day for an average Joe who holds a full time job and plays the rest of his free time. Which is more than a responsible person should be playing per day. Most shouldn't be playing that often. Just because some can or do, doesn't mean everyone else should be slowed down as well.
So they stretched less than seven days into over two years. Hurray!
Absorption sucks.
*Using 100 exp per kill, at 6 seconds of soft cast RT per kill, no absorption necessary.