WTF! A game getting dumped on because it is good.

This has got to be the dumbest thing I have ever seen. The guy calls himself the “Game Anthropologist” So you know he already doesn’t get it. But another clue is he is trying to analyze a games community a mere two weeks after launch. But here are a couple of snippets from the article.

If you try WAR alone, it’ll feel lonelier than some other MMOs. For starters, grouping requires less communication, which enhances play time but lessens bonding or memory of other players. I’ve not yet added a single person to my friends list because it simply doesn’t enter into my mind.

Because WAR gives you multiple paths to level your characters, there’s no urgency to find someone you can rely on for a specific task—if a task is difficult, it is not an opportunity you regret skipping. Continuing to explore or saying “you know, I’d rather do something else instead, I don’t want to wait around” give the journey a different flavor.

He goes on later bemoan the lack of long waits for boat rides or flights from point a to point b. He pretty much complains about the lack of many things most gamers with brains have hated for 15 years in MMO’s. Pretty much what he seems to imply are negatives, most will find positives. In fact the commentors all took the review as a good one.