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Originally Posted by Ooloo
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Who is anyone to decide another group of players cares about the game too much?
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Care wouldn't be the word I would use here. Pretty sure platlord and company couldn't care less. Invested might be the better word for it, financially or emotionally.
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Originally Posted by Ooloo
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It's silly to joke about when we are all here playing the same game. "Lol you play a 22 year old elf sim?!? Well..... so do I..."
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Lance Armstrong and the average person with a 10-speed are taking part in the same activity but the two aren't anywhere close to being in the same category. Armstrong didn't care about the sport enough, because the prize and recognition mattered more, which ruined it for others.
MMOs are more like worlds than other types of games. The problem with this is, people still think of themselves as players and the world as a game first and foremost, even though SOE told everyone from the start, "You're in our world now." A game has winners and losers, and it can be beaten. Those who woke the sleeper didn't beat the game. Those who were declared Best of the Best didn't beat the game. Whoever gets the next FTE on KT and Statue won't beat the game either. The world goes on as it has and your achievements, while meaningful together, are individually nothing by comparison. Maybe Ooloo has beaten the game, simply by not trying to at all.