The ELO system is broken for team based gameplay. ELO is designed to measure an individuals skill against another individual not a team based game. Even the Glicko algorithm is problematic with teams as it favors people losing out opposed to winning up.

My problem with this article is that all of your points take away what the game is trying itself to promote.

It promotes longevity. Grinds are there to introduce that to a game that would otherwise get old fast; think ME3 MP. If you didn't have to work for anything, do you honestly think anyone would play it past the first month?

This is why I can't take Kotaku serious anymore. This is a gaming new network; at least was supposed to be. I never bookmarked or gave Kotaku publicity as a platform for an angry little girl to cry about "adversity" or whine about something that annoys them.

Will Ascended Gear be only attainable through the new FoM dungeon? Reason I ask is, I am a main WvW player and having to PvE to stay competitive in WvW is frustrating. If so; will this open the gates to vertical gear progression, something Arena.net has said they wanted to avoid?

Honestly comparing Starcraft's success to League of Legends or DotA is completely unfair; not only are both of those games free (And DotA 2 is still in beta so limited access and won't come close to competing with LoL when it releases in terms of size and scope of the audience). Let's not forget they are completely…

If you watched episode 1 and and 2 like you say you did you would realize unhooking the VR it still has an internal battery life. This allows people to take care of them.

Yuru Yuri; the President a married man being mistaken for liking Yuru Yuri. Highly, HIGHLY unlikely. Japan you so cray.

Yuru Yuri; the President a married man being mistaken for liking Yuru Yuri. Highly, HIGHLY unlikely. Japan you so cray.

I know, not only is she beyond cute.... she has an awesome personality :3

I guess; I've just always taken myself to Rachel's more cynical brand of humor.

More than likely with Tao; she makes me want to punch kittens (See what I did there)

Its funny that you would post this, I'm playing BlazBlue right now xD

I feel as if the game is fairing pretty well for me; I haven't played much in Co-op but solo I am really enjoying the game. It's pretty unforgiving but there are still some class bugs that I feel bad for using but it's the nature of Diablo *cough*cough*Hammerdins.

Anything on Normal is stupid easy; I can tank stuff on my Glass Cannon Wiz without Force Armor. The game gets more difficult around Act 4 NM and Hell is pretty challenging if you're not good at the game, and can be pretty unforgiving with Jailer/DoT Champ mobs; I've died my fair share of times on my monk fighting…

Certain DH Builds that are viable in Inferno require a lot of Dexterity, its the same concept as the glass cannon wiz. But once you reach a certain point in the game IE Act 4/Inferno, for classes such as Monk/Barb/WD you pretty much forgo focusing on offensive stats and get stats for defense rather than offense and…

These people weren't smart enough to log onto Asian servers which were completely stable the entire time. I never DCd once when playing on the Asian server cluster; at which point I tried every class to about 15 then remade my Monk today and I'm playing through Nightmare currently and enjoying the fucking hell out of…

EQ and WoW that is.

Its funny they get inducted at the same time, they're both practically the same game

@ImpulseDrive: Cheaper than official X-Box Wireless controllers recently released. lol.