Jeff Freeman

My prior post may have beaten around the bush just a bit too much for some. Possibly it even beat around the wrong bush, just to throw you off.

As noted virgin Brent, commented:

This entire post reads like an example of how to hypnotize people. In this case, your objective is to lull us into complacency so that we’ll overlook the fact that you’re mad and don’t really have a clear point to make. Good work.

However, as he also threw in a TLDR, we must infer that his assertion the above applies to the entire post was pure assumption.

Proof-reading the post today, for the first time, as I scanned for what might pass as a “sound-bite” were one to read it out loud, of course I found nothing of the sort.

But I did say this in the comments, and it’s pretty close to being a point that I might have nearly touched upon:

What I find really interesting though, is that if one stops comparing everything to WoW for a moment - just pretend for a second there’s no such thing, or that it’s something else - and looks at the MMO field:

My gosh are things ever great.

For an essay on the same topic which does not hide the point amidst a great number of unrelated statements, or by not actually getting to the point ever, Inhibitor of Lagorama provides a more traditional treatment (for example, saying what he means).

Aside From The Success, Subscription MMORPGs Are Dying

By the standards we seem to be using to judge MMOs, Jessica Simpson is a failure, and should try something different, simply because she’s never been the absolute best at anything…”Titantic” ended her career before it ever began.

Via VirginWorlds, however, which I originally went to looking for ammunition to use against Brent for making fun of me, I found a link which distracted me from that entirely.

Another Here is a wonderfully snarky blog, even featuring a snark roll rather than a blogroll.

They say brevity is the sole of wit (not bite me, Brenden, you freakin’ showoff, as I’d been thinking it went).

His post is shorter even than the comment Brent left to my post, gets to the point I’m going to say that I meant to get around to mentioning sooner or later, and yet is still every bit as sarcastic and snarky as discriminating readers would demand.

MMOs are dead!
This latest data from Gamestop.com proves it:

Apart from a picture - which serves to make the point, rather than just being a gratuitous boob-shot tossed-in on the weakest possible pretense - the above quote is actually the entire post.

What I’m sayin’ is, if you found the parts of ‘There Has Only Ever Been One MMO’ that you read to be aimless and boring, then click on MMOs are dead!

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Someone tell Brent, ’cause I’m sure I lost him way back there.