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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8364784" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I think it is a big misreading of what is going on. People adopted it descriptively because they needed a word to describe the approach. There wasn't any intention of saying other styles don't also involve skill, that different types of skilled play can exist, just that this style places special emphasis on something we've decided to call skilled play. Now the term has taken root, and is useful, I think it only muddies the waters when people try to expand the term or have it altered (we could come up with more precise terminology but then you will just have two words floating around to describe the same thing, and skilled play will still likely have its old traction). Also, skilled play is easy to understand what it means. ACE isn't. I didn't have to think twice about what skilled play meant the first time I heard it in context. ACE is something you'd need a glossary for.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8364784, member: 85555"] I think it is a big misreading of what is going on. People adopted it descriptively because they needed a word to describe the approach. There wasn't any intention of saying other styles don't also involve skill, that different types of skilled play can exist, just that this style places special emphasis on something we've decided to call skilled play. Now the term has taken root, and is useful, I think it only muddies the waters when people try to expand the term or have it altered (we could come up with more precise terminology but then you will just have two words floating around to describe the same thing, and skilled play will still likely have its old traction). Also, skilled play is easy to understand what it means. ACE isn't. I didn't have to think twice about what skilled play meant the first time I heard it in context. ACE is something you'd need a glossary for. [/QUOTE]

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