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Originally Posted by Fog  I don't understand. How could you make that argument? In WoW, you know quite a lot without the threat meter (more than you know about your opponent's cards in poker!) You see about how much damage you're doing, you have experience fighting with your tank so you know vaguely how much threat he produces, and you know who's on top of the threat list right now because they're getting attacked.
Anyway, I'm not trying to make some complicated analogy. I'm just pointing out one example of a game -- and there are many -- where limited information is used as an important component of the gameplay. |
Well, in much the same way that you don't know when that next AE will trigger or how much damage the next swing is going to hit for. Even with threat there are X factors such as threat wipes and fixations and stuff thrown in there. To use your poker analogy, even though you don't know exactly what cards he has, you know what cards he -doesn't- have. He doesn't have any of the cards you have, nor does he have the old maid.
So yeah...
