While doing some blog-hopping (one of my stress-busters after office work), I came upon Horonaim’s blog. And hell yeah, I haven’t been to that part of the blogosphere lately. And his post on Gamers Need To Read caught my fancy.

It’s still just 1:00AM and I decide to give gmtristan.com one more post about online games (Perfect World in this instance) before shut-eye… with inspiration (and due credit of course to the one of the pillars of “Online Gaming Forum Adminstration” – Horonaim).

Excerpts from his post and my opinions up next…

“people asking me what to do with certain quests when the quest description clearly states what needs to be done. There are very few quests that do not have the coordinates for the NPC that you need to talk to. So far I only count 2 such quests.”

Sometimes, I am guilty of this (boo! hiss! GM T, you’re a slob!!! Wakoko). But you can always go back to your quest then READ C-A-R-E-F-U-L-L-Y 

Saves you the braincells, believe me.

“H- people ask me where X monster is. The quest description gives you a general idea of where the monster should be. Hunt for them! I also go through these quests and I bust my ass looking for these monsters. That’s part of the challenge people!”

Amen. Why do we always want to be given the silver spoon? Well, damnit! There is NO SPOON (*insert “Gun-Fu” action scene here). Seriously, not all games come with a manual – yet (yeah… we’re doing one for PW soon, okay?) and for some; part of the fun is in the discovery. If you want to be given all the info, go find yourself a PS2 game and go to gamefaqs.com for the walkthrough (whew… load off my chest).

“If gamers could only learn how to read, then the PMs I get in game would be the ones greeting me, those wishing me a nice day, bug reports, name violations, etc. In short I’d be getting community messages and the reports that matter.”

And mods, GMs, Brand Managers, Community Managers, Level Up Sales Executives, (etc. etc.) DO NOT KNOW ALL the answers (we know some, but not ALL), if we did, we’d be billionaires and just have a consultancy business or do lotto. Believe it, we’re human too.

Thanks for the nice post, Horonaim.

Now where’s that stupid spoon?!?!?

I’m eating cereal…