I was reading a post over at We Fly Spitfires and felt the urge to comment. This isn’t something I do often on foreign soil, but it’s been known to happen. It’s not for any particular reason, mind you, I just rarely see the effort involved in making the lurker->community member transition to be a useful one. But that whole dynamic is another post entirely. I actually like reading Gordon’s stuff as we have similar sensibilities when it comes to MMOs. We Fly Spitfires is one of the few gaming blogs that I deign to add into my “Gaming” folder in ye olde Firefox toolbar.

At any rate, my flow of thoughts on his Old Republic review turned into a fairly lengthy rebuttal, so instead of dropping a deuce on someone’s front lawn I thought it would be more appropriate to post here and let the magic of trackbacks do their thing. Direct quotes are quoted, although things are fairly out of order. You can read his full review here. My rebuttal starts with a cold open regarding launch in general. Check it out after the fold…

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