JoAyanami posted:
No, not really.
Having an old account only shows that you have an old account. It doesn't show whether or not you are knowledgeable and if so in which areas.
-Jo
MacAran posted:
No... but it sure makes is a heck of a lot more likely that you DO!
No... but it sure makes is a heck of a lot more likely that you DO!
No, not really.
Having an old account only shows that you have an old account. It doesn't show whether or not you are knowledgeable and if so in which areas.
-Jo
ArkadyTepes posted:
this is completely and utterly false...
MMOs are fluid, there mechanics are changing constantly...
someone who created an account 10 years ago, has a bunch of old, obsolete information mixed in with current changes... and if there dense, or just dont care about mechanics... if they just log in and play... they wont know shoot all about the game...
but someone that has been playing for 2 months and studied up on patch notes, tested things out and ask'd the right questions could possibly know more about how things are in the current game...
age of daoc account is meaningless... i've known players in EvE that played for 6 years, but stuck just to high sec mission running... they didnt know anything at all about warp bubbles or how they worked, or even what region of space they were usable in.... while other players jump straight into low/null sec pvp, and learn about these things in a matter of weeks/months.... but they couldnt tell you shite about how to run a level 4 mission...
time is a meaningless factor as you dont know what people focused on in that time.
MacAran posted:
Someone who has been playing the game for 10 years is much more LIKELY to know what they are talking about than someone who has been playing for three. There is nothing in my statement saying that they ARE more knowledgeable.
Someone who has been playing the game for 10 years is much more LIKELY to know what they are talking about than someone who has been playing for three. There is nothing in my statement saying that they ARE more knowledgeable.
this is completely and utterly false...
MMOs are fluid, there mechanics are changing constantly...
someone who created an account 10 years ago, has a bunch of old, obsolete information mixed in with current changes... and if there dense, or just dont care about mechanics... if they just log in and play... they wont know shoot all about the game...
but someone that has been playing for 2 months and studied up on patch notes, tested things out and ask'd the right questions could possibly know more about how things are in the current game...
age of daoc account is meaningless... i've known players in EvE that played for 6 years, but stuck just to high sec mission running... they didnt know anything at all about warp bubbles or how they worked, or even what region of space they were usable in.... while other players jump straight into low/null sec pvp, and learn about these things in a matter of weeks/months.... but they couldnt tell you shite about how to run a level 4 mission...
time is a meaningless factor as you dont know what people focused on in that time.
I completely agree with both JoAyanami and ArkadyTepes.
Also, having an account that is 10 years old does not show that the player has actually been playing for those 10 years. There are more closed accounts than open accounts by a factor of 40 to 60. The vast majority of owners of old accounts have no real clue about today’s game so it is far more “likely†for an old account owner to be mostly clueless, than for the age of an account to be proof of “cred†(which is the exact opposite of the OP supposition).
I see how there could be some fun in having a “pissing contest†to see who has the oldest account but to take that contest and use it to jump over to try and prove that the older an account the more “likely†they are “to know what they are talking aboutâ€, that has a very strange lack of logic to it.
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