Assumptions and Rumors
Over at Warhammer Alliance they recently published an interesting article that cover "leaps of assumptions" about the game and what not.
You know, it's probably the recent news with the delay of Warhammer Online to Autumn of 2008, but there's certainly been more of the kinds of posts in the community that I like to affectionately refer to as "Chicken Little" posts.
For those of you who are somehow unaware of this wonderful little fable, the short version is as follows:
- Chicken Little assumes the sky is falling because an acorn falls on her head.
- Chicken Little convinces other animals of her story and whips them into a frenzy.
- Chicken Little and her friends are eventually eaten by a fox for their stupidity.
Oh, how I wish there was a fox to eat all the Chicken Littles that happen to be popping up lately. You may have seen some of these posts in your travels around the WAR community. Sometimes based upon as little as a few sentences from EA Mythic or even 4 or 5 seconds of grainy video footage, the people who like to post these wonderful nuggets of supposed knowledge about the game have no problem making a huge leap when it comes to the way something is going to work. General sweeping statements, proclamations of doom, and worst of all a definitive conclusion are the telltale signs of a Chicken Little popping up. With the amount of pre-cognition you see in these threads you would think that they had paid for a reading by Miss Cleo and actually believed what they got.
Check out the full article!
