Guild Wars 2

The build up for Flame and Frost has been way too slow. Sign posts and memento collecting is underwhelming. It should’ve started with the 26th update instead.

Also, dungeons, lack of trinity, lack of dungeon finder tool.. are disappointing PVE players. It’s the lack of any meaningful PVE too.

The halloween and christmas events were fun, then the Karka event was okay, but there was ZERO reason to ever go back there.

maddoctor.2738:

Rizzy.8293:

Anyone who says the game population is still strong is in denial.
try finding a group for story mode even on the external dungeon finder sites.

What does story mode group finding have to do with population?

Everything.

Khal Drogo.9631:

Vayne.8563:

When someone comes along and says there’s no excuse for a game not to have a dungeon finder, when in fact, very few games have launched with a dungeon finder to date, it implies that somehow this game is different from others that came before it. The implication is that this game lacks something others had included. In this case, this isn’t the case.

And I’m happy to leave up my post about anecdotal, since I happen to be right about it. If I experience something and relate the experience, that is in fact direct knowledge. In history courses, when you interview someone who was there, and record the results, that’s direct knowlege. It’s when you talk to someone who talked to someone that it becomes anecdotal.

When you write your thesis, I’m sure they’ll explain it to you.

1) You didn’t experience anything, you read some ranting on another game’s forums.
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence.
In the general context of the word and common usage:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/anecdotal

What university are you a doctorate of btw?

Oh I’m not a doctor. I’m a professional editor who’s worked with academics and I’ve published a fair bit of work myself (though it’s unlikely you’d have read of or heard of any of it).

The problem with your definition is one of context. If I a say something that is demonstrably provable, like Rift didn’t have a dungeon finder at launch and that the forums had a kittenstorm about it, well that’s provable. Not just by my memory but something you can actually research. It is, in fact, a fact. There’s nothing annecdotal about a researchable fact ever.

Something only because anecdotal if it can’t be researched or proved. If I tell you that the earth isn’t flat, that’s not really anecdotal, nor is anything that’s a matter of public record.

What you’re trying to do is use the word anecdotal to diminish what I’m saying which is completely disingenuous and you ought to probably not do that. It’s a fact that Rift had dungeons at launch and didn’t have a dungeon finder at launch. It’s not anecdotal at all. No fact is.