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abc33kr wrote on 2010-09-11 01:49
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wayy better than facebook/myspace and it makes blockparty look like nothing.
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Drifter wrote on 2010-09-11 02:01
What is this, and why does it look so awesome :O?
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Zeo wrote on 2010-09-11 02:55
Quote from Drifter;151780:
What is this, and why does it look so awesome :O?
This... I don't really get what you're saying on first post. ._.
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Zid wrote on 2010-09-11 03:04
If it doesn't have external-to-game chatting (like how AIM people can talk to Xfire users while they're in-game), I'm not going to bother with it.
I understand that recently the integration of social features into games is in demand, but...
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Zandero wrote on 2010-09-11 03:08
Looks bad and you should feel bad. :o
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Haydrian wrote on 2010-09-13 03:49
Quote from Zid;151824:
If it doesn't have external-to-game chatting (like how AIM people can talk to Xfire users while they're in-game), I'm not going to bother with it.
I understand that recently the integration of social features into games is in demand, but...
Right beside you...
I don't really use IM anymore though, I sometimes wonder if I fell off the internet or something this past year..
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Swordslayer wrote on 2010-09-13 10:02
eh... I can barely handle facebook as it is .-.
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Trigger wrote on 2010-09-13 15:39
Adding social networking to online games will be the downfall of the real gamer and the rise of the socialite.
DO. NOT. F**KING. WANT.
If BlockParty EVER gets completed and released I will never touch it. ErinnON would get the same treatment.
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Finnea wrote on 2010-09-13 15:42
Social networking is lame.
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Trigger wrote on 2010-09-13 16:01
Quote from Finnea;154003:
Social networking is lame.
This. If I wanted to network I'd go get a Facebook account. I want to game, not socialize. The inherent concept of the MMORPG is the building of a social aspect into the game itself! I don't need an external website in order to communicate with people; that's what the friendlist and the note/mail systems are for.
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Kueh wrote on 2010-09-13 22:46
Since when does being a gamer equate to being anti social?
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Kueh wrote on 2010-09-13 22:59
Since when does being a gamer equate to being anti social?
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Trigger wrote on 2010-09-13 23:07
Equating being anti-social with not wanting a built-in social networking system is not accurate in the least. =P I simply dislike the entire idea of the social networking website and all the shallow fluff and unnecessary e-drama that comes along with it. We've got enough of that sort of thing in-game already, don't we?
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Kueh wrote on 2010-09-13 23:12
That's stuff we get for being social creatures. We get real drama from real interactions and e-drama from e-interactions.
And I didn't mean that if you're against the idea that you're anti-social. You can be against it for whatever reason.
That was more a response to when you said, "the downfall of the real gamer and the rise of the socialite."
Why can't a real gamer be a socialite?
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Trigger wrote on 2010-09-13 23:38
Because virtuality and real life are diametrically opposed to one another. In virtuality, nothing matters in the end. In real life, everything matters -- everything has a physical consequence that can't be remedied with a save state or shut off like an MMO. Virtuality is rewritable and avoidable; reality is not. Virtuality grants people the ability to make all the choices they wouldn't be able to make in real life, to be what they normally could not be. Applying real-world limitations, social ladders, pecking orders, etc. to that virtual system destroys its inherent freedom and turns it into a pointless extension of the existing order.
And yes, I am a cynic, and I despise the mindlessness with which most people follow the social system into which they were born. <_< That's the main reason I have such a strong distaste for social networking.