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9 years ago

Arena Sniping, "Clock Blocking", and Being a Jerk

Before I begin, I'd like to acknowledge that I understand the proverbial dead horse on this matter is quite flogged and dead. I'm aware of at least one significant and mostly thoughtful thread on aren...

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medetec

9 years ago

Sniping in and of itself isn't the problem, its a byproduct of a bad system. Imagine CG tried to have actual announced scheduled maintenance. Say, 1pm Pacific Time with a ETA for relaunch of 2-6 hours. People would lose their gorram minds.

There's no good reason to have a competitive system based around who can watch a clock better in an sRPG, and it causes a cascade of other problems for the game.