"Here's a simple question for you: Do you play to win? I bet 90% of the people reading this would immediately answer - Yes, of course. The problem is, a great number of them would be wrong."
Lost another game? Your teammates made mistakes, the game is buggy, your dog is too loud and all of your enemies use cheap tricks. Sounds familiar? Despite what we may claim, each of us at least once blamed his loss on others and as we're being pointed out in this article - in most cases that's the exact reason why we'll lose again and again.
According to the author. we use such excuses to comfort our ego and by doing so, we create a massive mental barrier, making improving much harder. Bridger - author of the article, proceeds to explain that often loss isn't an effect of our own mistakes but is directly caused by faulty game mechanics and that it's important to be able to discern between these. By providing great examples from his own gaming background, we're shown that having the right attitude is already half a success.
I definitely recommend reading the whole thing - it covers a lot more points than what I've mentioned here.
If you liked it, be sure to leave a comment, I'm sure they'd appreciate that.
Wccftech talked to Guild Wars 2 Game Director Josh Davis about the learnings from the Secrets of the Obscure expansion and what's coming to the MMORPG.
The "slippery slope" debate has started, now we wait to see what ArenaNet does.
"ArenaNet and NCSOFT are today very happy and excited to announce that they have just released the "Secrets of the Obscure" expansion for their award-winning and critically acclaimed MMORPG "Guild Wars 2"." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
very much so... "blank" is still a thing" is also still a thing as you can can surmise.
Anet also announced the 5th expansion. "We’ve already started applying lessons from the development of Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure to our fifth expansion, which we expect to be released next year." From their site, been with this game since 1st beta, and announcing the 5th expansion so soon, the game is doing very well, plus the graphics are improved a bit now that it's on DX11🙃
Correct, and yes. Imo, they've done very well for themselves, and I'm very impressed with what they have achived with GW2 since the game launched.
