How about Entirely Too Rare?
But soft! What rock through yonder window breaks? It is a brick! And Juliet is out cold.Drop Of Discord? Dangerously Desirable Drop? Spoils Of Strife?
Although I like Fighting Over Rare Pixels, it's probably unnecessary finger-wagging to MMO Fanatics (though I can't imagine how they find time for MM Os and TV Tropes.)
Eh, as an MMO fanatic I don't find it too insulting. Most of us look down on "drama" in the first place, so looking down on the kinds of people who do this is appropriate.
Although the "pixels" thing always annoys me, but that's a separate complaint.
Edit: Actually, they call it Loot Drama in World Of Warcraft, so maybe that's a possibility.
edited 17th Oct '10 3:07:23 AM by Clarste
^ That does seem to be a pre-existing term
on World Of Warcraft. Given that World Of Warcraft is the most well known MMO out there, I think using the term that its fanbase uses for this would be appropriate.
Loot Drama. Looooooot Draaaaaaaaamah! I like it. It's got a good beat and you can dance to it.
Seriously, I like it. The onl;y question I have is, is it too broad? Or do we want to broaden the definition from incredibly rare drops to something more inclusive?
edited 17th Oct '10 7:13:10 AM by Madrugada
well, look according to the description:
So, if this trope is being used to mean just "This item is incredibly rare," that's misuse of the trope.
edited 17th Oct '10 7:26:42 AM by Twilightdusk
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Ooh, I like Loot Drama. Nice and short, easily usable in a sentence, pretty descriptive of the phenomenon. If we get consensus to rename, I would support this as the main title; adding as a redirect in the meantime.
Hmm.. Loot Drama works, but there's still something missing... Something to let people know that it's an MMO or multiplayer game thing. Drama itself isn't always just people fighting over something. It can be literally anything that invokes an emotional response from a player. Fighting Over Rare Pixels at least indicates that it's about something that would draw the ire of a player in a video game.
Loot Drama is good although I have seen Loot Drama start over rather inane epics just weeks before everything gets replaced with an Xpac.
Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!I think it should be at least something that has some sense of permanence. While you might get annoyed at someone who hogs the tank in an FPS, that'll reset for the next game. With Loot Drama, you might hate someone forever, they'll get blacklisted from servers, real death threats from internet stalkers, etc etc. I'd call that quite different.
^ I agree completely. This is a trope that truly draws ire and hatred out of players. Something they don't forget or won't let go for a while. Just because someone gets a special weapon during an FPS match doesn't mean anything compared to the hours, days, weeks, MONTHS a player may spend just trying to get one rare item, and then have it taken away from some random passer-by who only wants to sell it for money. FPS matches reset, which means that special weapon is obtained numerous times a day, so finding it doesn't mean as much.
Yeah one particular example I remember quite well was one the first person to get both the The Twin Blades of Azzinoth
on my server which was fought over to no end between the Rogues and Warriors on who should get it first, He server transferred the next day... The whole server was up in arms over it not just the guild.
Loot Drama sounds like a couple of old school pirates fighting over a treasure chest. It doesn't sound like it has anything to do with video games.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickI just thought of another possible name. How about Sword of Flaming? (Pun on Flaming Sword and people flaming each other over the item) Just throwing it out there.
Well that was like playing a game of Whack-A-Mole where "mole" is defined as "Cthulhu". -Count DorkuMMO Loot Drama — even if it not restricted to MMOs the name is not misleading as to the sort of thing we mean: short, snappy, in general use and not confusable with pirates. Or cows, spelt correctly.
(I was thinking of MM Oh The Loot Drama but that's a tad too long.)
edited 27th Oct '10 5:00:29 PM by Camacan
Loot Drama sounds fine. Trying to be more specific just adds clunk.
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The only issue with that is that it makes the anger over these items (see, cloudsong
) seem entirely unjustified.
Imagine you're in some sort of (IRL) contest, where various competitors have to find some hidden object and return it to the starting point for some sort of prize. You happen to find this item and excitedly start heading back to the start point, only for someone to steal the item from you while nobody's looking. They then turn it in for the prize that you rightfully (if through pure luck) earned. You'd be pretty angry right?
Now take that above situation and make it all take place on an MMO, that tends to be the situation. The items not existing in Real Life doesn't make them any less valuable to the people fighting over it, it seems a bit over reactionary to an outside observer but if you think about it in the context in which the item exists, the attitude is entirely justified.