![]() ![]() The Meta is using that in-game content to your advantage.Įdited by mogs01gt, 13 February 2015 - 07:02 AM. Meaning either a certain item, weapon or character that is now more powerful than others. Meta is a term in gaming that simply means you are using the most current and efficient use of in-game content. You are going off the Greek definition of the word which means nothing in the gaming world. WHY HAVE PEOPLE SUDDENLY STARTED USING "META" WHEN WHAT THEY MEAN IS GAMEPLAY?Įdited by Paigan, 13 February 2015 - 06:02 AM. STOP USING IT THAT WAY, it causes brain pain simply by reading it. Tl dr: "meta" means above/beyond/outside, not unfair. ![]() ("Thank you for reading this text" with meta logic) Say "OP" or "imba", that actually means what it should. So I beg you: stop writing "meta" if you mean unfair or too good. It drives you crazy if you know about the correct meaning of the term. Maybe this clears it up a bit how painful it is to read that utter error over and over again. ![]() Or like saing "I have 12" every time I have won something, just because in MWO you win with 12 kills. It's like saying "I'm water" every time I'm cold, just because water is cold as well. If the internet era really causes such dramatic intellectual decay, I fear for humanity. Whoever falls for such a fallacy has a serious problem with logical thinking.Īnd using that in texts read by others drives those with intact logical thinking INSANE. That does NOT mean that everything that is (perceived) unfair or OP or imba or whatnot is described correctly with "meta".Īn (allgedly) OP build is NOT a "Meta build", it's just OP. Meta gaming is unfair, OP, imba, whatever. The meta gaming is to exploiting the "magical" special logout feature while coordinating OUTSIDE the game to gain an ingame tactical advantage.Īn example for MWO might be if you can induce lag at will to gain a protection advantage for your mech due to outside technical reasons, not by ingame game-mechanical reasons. The single pilot notifies his buddies outside the game upon being attacked, all buddies log in simultaneously and easily kill the squad. This allows to lay unpredictable and unpreventable traps:Ī single ship would idle at a stargate while all his buddies log out and wait in IRC/TS.Ī squad of enemy players would roam the area, see the solitary ship and decide to take the easy kill. If they log in, the ship magically reappears and warps back to the place where the player "left" it. The ship would float there for a while, then warp away and magically disappear, untrackable for enemies. In Eve-Online (a spaceship game) people could log out / disconnect with their ship being in in mid-space. "Meta gaming" means to get an advantage inside a game by using an OUTSIDE means. The word "meta" does NOT mean what so many of you MWO players use it for. I have long struggled, but now I simply must write this, as the misuse of this word drives me crazy. ![]()
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