Firstly I'd like to congratulate you on what you've done with the site, it is one of the few sites I go to for my Diablo 3 news. I think that you guys are doing these quizzes, with no distinct time is absolutely great, but I have a minor problem:
Most recently you put forward a question our to your twitter feed, which said:
Where were the Barbarians from?
Now you accepting Harrogath and Arreat and Mount Arreat as answers, but all are wrong.
None of those locations are where the Barbarians were from. It's like saying Americans came from the 14th subway in New Jersey. That answer would obviously be incorrect, and so should they.
Barbarians built cities AROUND Mount Arreat, but not in it, and Harrogath is just ONE of those cities. The answer to the question was The Nothern Steppes, or you could even go farther out and argue that as vague an answer as Sanctuary is technically correct.
So my suggestion is, in future, if you're going to ask a question, please either do a bit of fact checking (if this was just coming from your brain) or only accept answers that are correct.
Because waiting for a couple of minutes before replying because I knew Arreat was incoorect, only to see 4 people get keys with that exact answer, is irritating to the extreme.
For ages, the barbarians dwelling in the shadow of Mount Arreat were shaped to be as strong and unyielding as stone. Immense in size and unmatched in ferocity, they were charged from birth with a duty passed through generations: to protect the sacred mountain.
We went with the most recent lore which would put them in the area of Mount Arreat. Harrogath was technically right also. It didn't specify which barbarians, could have been any, and Harrogath is also in the Mount Arreat region.
For ages, the barbarians dwelling in the shadow of Mount Arreat were shaped to be as strong and unyielding as stone. Immense in size and unmatched in ferocity, they were charged from birth with a duty passed through generations: to protect the sacred mountain.
We went with the most recent lore which would put them in the area of Mount Arreat. Harrogath was technically right also. It didn't specify which barbarians, could have been any, and Harrogath is also in the Mount Arreat region.
I guess questions need to be accessible to everyone, and not lore nerds like myself
I still argue that the 'Mount Arreat Region' is called something, The Northern Steppes, but hey, who would have guessed that if they didn't read the books/spend hours reading the lore? As you were
EDIT: I retract what I just said. After becoming uncertain, I checked the Diablo II Manual and did find one place where they're called the Northern Steppes. Though it hasn't been used anywhere I guess you would still be technically correct.
That being said, Mount Arreat is such a defining factor of the region, and a much more well-known descriptor that I'm not sure this would invalidate answering Mount Arreat.
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Firstly I'd like to congratulate you on what you've done with the site, it is one of the few sites I go to for my Diablo 3 news. I think that you guys are doing these quizzes, with no distinct time is absolutely great, but I have a minor problem:
Most recently you put forward a question our to your twitter feed, which said:
Where were the Barbarians from?
Now you accepting Harrogath and Arreat and Mount Arreat as answers, but all are wrong.
None of those locations are where the Barbarians were from. It's like saying Americans came from the 14th subway in New Jersey. That answer would obviously be incorrect, and so should they.
Barbarians built cities AROUND Mount Arreat, but not in it, and Harrogath is just ONE of those cities. The answer to the question was The Nothern Steppes, or you could even go farther out and argue that as vague an answer as Sanctuary is technically correct.
So my suggestion is, in future, if you're going to ask a question, please either do a bit of fact checking (if this was just coming from your brain) or only accept answers that are correct.
Because waiting for a couple of minutes before replying because I knew Arreat was incoorect, only to see 4 people get keys with that exact answer, is irritating to the extreme.
We went with the most recent lore which would put them in the area of Mount Arreat. Harrogath was technically right also. It didn't specify which barbarians, could have been any, and Harrogath is also in the Mount Arreat region.
I guess questions need to be accessible to everyone, and not lore nerds like myself
I still argue that the 'Mount Arreat Region' is called something, The Northern Steppes, but hey, who would have guessed that if they didn't read the books/spend hours reading the lore? As you were
That being said, Mount Arreat is such a defining factor of the region, and a much more well-known descriptor that I'm not sure this would invalidate answering Mount Arreat.