Why are so many people so poorly informed?

Post » Mon Dec 03, 2012 4:36 am

Now before anyone says anything know that this IS NOT a "complaining about complainers" or something like that thread, it is an actual legitimate poll/questionnaire/research thingy.

So anyway after hanging around the forums here and other places and the comments on youtube videos and articles about the game for quite some time, it's really started to hit me that A LOT of people seem to be really poorly informed about the game or they're extremely confused.

For example some of the more popular cases are things like people complaining about/thinking that the game is only 3rd person, that it uses WoW and in general most MMO's "point and click and ability spam" combat type system, that the game is made by Bethesda meaning there won't be an Elder Scrolls 6, that the games classes are like most other games where you are EXTREMELY restricted and so on. You get the idea.

So of course coming across TONS of people thinking stuff like this is pretty depressing, since the information exists out there that would correct all of these misinformed judgements/opinions/knowledge, but people either seem oblivious to it's existence or too lazy to go do any real digging and research so instead they are happy to just jump on the "game is WoW clone because it's an MMO and has monsters and classes and it stole GW2's PvP, , game will fail" train rather than taking the time to become factually informed about the game.

So that's where this whole poll comes in. I've noticed that most people on here seem to be far better informed about the game than those on the "outside" so I'm curious as to where most people here got/get their information from and just how much real digging/research did you do.

So please vote and feel free to leave a comment or response or something.
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Post » Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:53 am

Maybe because there still isn't that much information out there, also, your title does make it soundlike a "complaining about complainers" thread.

j/s
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