** Skyrim up the game a bit **

If you are considering criticizing a game to be synonymous with deriving pleasure from taking the offensive against perceived threats to submissiveness, then I guess so. The apologist personal name calling thing kinda ruined any chance for intellectual credibility, as personal name calling usually does.

Note for future reference:

When you imply that someone shares psychological traits with a sociopathic mass murderer for disagreeing with you on a message board, you have sort of left intellectual credibility somewhere south of Pluto.

No one disagreed with me, at least that I saw. I continued a discussion with someone that had nothing to do with anything but our convo on the psychology of Interwebs players. Perhaps my posts are TL;DR causing people to simply not read them before attacking them. Wouldn't be the first time, and frankly I'm used to it by now.

Anyway, the assumption that criticizing a game is synonymous with deriving pleasure from taking the offensive against perceived threats to submissiveness was all yours. But that's between you and your conscience.

They perceive themselves in your descriptions, thus they see an attack upon themselves.

HERE IS WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE:

People who want sandbox gameplay stop making threads begging the devs to completely alter the game we all play. Instead, they go PLAY A GADDAM SANDBOX GAME.

Yeah, I played EQ1. I would never go back in a million years.

Apparently your definition, but not the typical one. Skyrim is absolutely a sandbox game in that it lets the player do whatever they want to advance, and not on rails/guided like themepark games (i.e. this one).

Here you go, since you seem confused: http://www.techopedia.com/definition...sandbox-gaming

No one disagreed with me, at least that I saw. I continued a discussion with someone that had nothing to do with anything but our convo on the psychology of Interwebs players. Perhaps my posts are TL;DR causing people to simply not read them before attacking them. Wouldn't be the first time, and frankly I'm used to it by now.

Anyway, the assumption that criticizing a game is synonymous with deriving pleasure from taking the offensive against perceived threats to submissiveness was all yours. But that's between you and your conscience.

i think you need to find out what a sandbox MMO actually is. he is not asking for TOR to be a sandbox game. Sandbox refers to leveling and changing the terrain i.e. player hosing. that is not what he is asking for. is is asking to make the planets bigger and the ability to roam around and swim to places.. completely different from making it sandbox

you are focusing on the wrong part of your definition of sandbox. by your definition wow is a sandbox game and it isnt. sandbox refers to the leveling and changing the terrain not just open world.

I don't care either way anymore.

I'm just killing time till the new MMOs release. Hoping ESO is a decent enough time killer to hold me over till Star Citizen and/or EQNext.

Whew. For a minute there I thought you might be one of the obsessive compulsives who follow people around and attempt to goad them into personal attacks for the sole purpose of "telling on them".

I'm glad you are totally not one of those people!

you are focusing on the wrong part of your definition of sandbox. by your definition wow is a sandbox game and it isnt. sandbox refers to the leveling and changing the terrain not just open world.