The whole reason metadarlings came up was because I suggested we find a new word to use instead of AAA.
The reason I suggested that, is because I'm tired of arguing semantics of words. Yes, in the past AAA has meant many different things in many different fields. We don't know the exact origin of how it exists in the gaming world, as there is a lot of speculation.
It could be a quality measure of an investment, coming from the insurance field.
It could be from when EGM or whoever used a 3-person rating process, meaning that for a game to be considered AAA, it had to be given an A by 3 editors in the same review.
It could be a description of the production level, ie $$$, as coming from the movie industry
One thing I've been a little frustrated about with the "new gamers" in this generation is that they've insisted on renaming everything that we've been naming.
So, I just skipped a couple pages of arguing by just caving in and suggesting a new word. That way, we can use that word, which was in part made by the people who had a problem with the old word.
On that same topic, we still don't have a new word to use for the people who play the traditional games like platformers, fps, sports and such. We used to call them core gamers, and while I agree it's not the most intuitive description (core is a marketing term), it was the word we used and we knew what it meant. Maybe some of you have noticed in my posts but I call them "traditional gamers" now.
So on one hand, maybe we need a new, more descriptive term, but on the other hand, the word we've been using for years has been fine until one side decided it was unfair.
