It’s not a question of requirement, but ease. For example, watching a video or guide that tells you exactly where those gold coins are is much easier than randomly searching everywhere.
Granted, if you’d rather randomly search, that’s up to the player.
The issue this thread asks is: why didn’t you look it up or ask the players around you?
No one expects anyone to be the Gyro Gearloose of the Internet. And saying someone is unaware of how the Internet works, while playing an MMO, is just not going to cut it in this day and age. No matter how colorful, or sympathetic, you paint it.
The problem is that group of people didn’t even bother to ASK the question.
They expected to be lead, as another poster put it ‘like sheep’, by everyone else in the know. And then pointed fingers when that didn’t happen.
Again, all they had to do was ask. If even that’s too much of a requirement these days, then there’s the OP’s answer right there.
Colorful stories about someone’s ignorance on how the Internet works, again while playing games on it, is a moot and nonsense point.
Ask the question before the event. You’ll get the answer.
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I’ve very rarely seen casuals who don’t know any better going into an event and failing it and then saying why didn’t you tell us. There’s no reason to even say that if someone doesn’t accuse you of something. It makes very little sense.
Frankly, I’m not buying it.
I’ve seen it. Not recently, mind. About two or three weeks ago, I think. No, it didn’t make sense, as I’ve alluded to with these posts, but it certainly happened.
Failure to get that loot brings out the monster in many.
The OP is talking about common sense. I think there’s definitely a lack of common sense here.
Do you know how many people in my guild are over 40 and just didn’t grow up with the net? Do you know how many people in my guild have never played a computer game at all before this?
You just can’t make these sweeping generalations. And it’s not just what I’ve said so far. There are TONS of reasons why people don’t speak up, or even look things up.
Again, the biggest one, though, is that people don’t expect to have to. In all my years of playing playstation games, I never looked anything up. Not once. And a lot of people play console games.
You make this broad based assumption that looking things up is the rule. Based on what? What makes people think they have to do it? Even if some kitten in the zone is yelling at them and telling them to, what makes you think that person’s opinion means ANYTHING. Because it’s just some kid yelling at them in map chat.
And you know, I’ve seen that side of it too. Trying to explain stuff back at the marionette, commanding one of the lanes and if something didn’t go well, a bunch of people would start blaming noobs, rangers, necros, or anything else. No attempt to explain. No attempt to do anything but blame. And then, one of those people says you should go look up the fight on the internet and watch some videos. Well the guy was just busying yelling, why should anyone be open to his suggestions.
Some people play a couple of hours a week. That’s what they have time for. And you think those people are going to go and start researching the game on the computer like it’s some kind of second job? What about people who don’t speak or read English well?
You ask about why not ask in chat. Maybe some people have social phobias. It’s common. Much more common than you think it is, particularly with the tendency of someone in map chat to insult anyone asking questions. I know people who have map chat switched off completely because they feel safer doing so.
You see only your limited perspective but there’s no room in your vision for where anyone else is coming from. You keep talking about in this day and age. Not everyone was brought up in this day and age.
