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[Hotthedd]

Ohgodtherats, on 18 May 2013 - 10:28 PM, said:

Dude how dare you use sarcasm tags in what is obviously a super serious meta discussion.

It's the new meta. Get with the times, bro.

[Odins Fist]

Ohgodtherats, on 18 May 2013 - 12:22 AM, said:

"Why Have People Suddenly Started Using "meta" When What They Mean Is Gameplay?"

#1. It makes them feel like they appear to everyone else like they know what they are talking about when they get into a game discussion (even though they don't)

#2. It's the "jump on the band wagon buzzword" that will be a sad cliche that some sad old tired hipster wannabes will pull out an use in game discussion to fool some newcomer to MWO into thinking that the wannabe hipster has any clue what he's talking about, so again, see #1. for partial explanation.

#3. Sheep follow other sheep.

#4. Quasi intellectualism, again see numbers #1, #2, #3... That about covers it..

[Stoicblitzer]

i am so glad you created this thread because, having used this word myself, I began to wonder where the word came from and if I was using correctly.

[Dirus Nigh]

Metagame: Players who use player knowledge of the game as a whole and use it to the benefit of their character in game. Regardless of whether or not that character would have or have access to that knowledge.

This is a term used in P&P RPGs like D&D, Shadowrun, Roll Master, and others.

See also Power gamer, and rules lawyer.

MWO does not have a meta game. It is just the game as is when a player is in a match or choosing a load out for their mech. That really is weapons/equipment and the tactics they would dictate.

[Noesis]

Metagaming is a gaming term to reflect the use of inappropriate knowledge in a game due to character limits. This may apply to Community warfare issues potentially in the future.

However, I don't think people on the forums when describing issues relating to "Meta" are staying in character in the process to do so, hence the term must been applying the literal definition.

Meta as exists by literal language definition means a categorisation that may have many details within it as subsets pertaining to the described term. Meta then is the overlying form presented as an abstraction or construct.

e.g. A JJing Sniper Mech has an abstraction Poptart, so Poptart Meta will be a term for all the relevant details associated to it. Be it long range weaponry, JJing, modules and so on.

Edited by Noesis, 19 May 2013 - 11:35 AM.