I’ll get back to the grovelling “Sorry I haven’t posted a lot recently, I’ve been busy” stuff in a second, but if I don’t say something about this, it’ll totally leave my head.
You may or may not know that Richard Bartle has been blog topic du jour a lot recently, all stemming from an interview he did with Massively in which he said:
“I’ve already played Warhammer [Online]. It was called World of Warcraft. “
Which apparently, is the Quote That Was Heard Around The World. Assuming your world consists of nothing except reading MMOG-focused blogs and then getting very upset that either:
(a) your new favourite (unreleased) MMOG is being ‘dissed’ or
(b) your old favourite (out right now and doing very well) MMOG is, er, also being ‘dissed’ or
(c) Someone has an opinion on either game.
A few days ago I might have tried to weigh in on the reaction to Richard’s comments, but better people have beaten me to it - read this very good summary by Alec Meer over at Rock Paper Shotgun if you want a good overall view (and read the comments too).
All I really wanted to say is, I’ve met Richard Bartle a couple of times, and very nice he is too.
Now, considering Richard seems to be ‘doing a Derek‘ and appearing at every blog that mentions his name, I should probably qualify even that statement. (And yes Richard, the Derek Smart reference is a joke.) Read More
