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Originally Posted by somnia
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Well I'm not doubting TMO's quick defense of their play times and I'm not going to assume anything about their living, social, or work situations because in any case we should all remember the truth will be never be revealed.
That being said, it would make sense if upper-middle class (likely not "rich", more below) people played this game to raid heavily. Given TMO's borderline obsession with affirming themselves as "the best" it's obvious they have a great need to feel above others. When one considers the stressful nature and social politics of middle to upper-middle class jobs, P1999 provides an outlet where they can become irresponsible teenagers once again and feel like they "own" the world. The protective veil of the internet only catalyzes this transformation.
If P1999 didn't fulfill a great need, people wouldn't be willing to sacrifice their time on a whim to log into a game and lie to themselves about following strategies established years and years ago to win pixels to parade around, referring to them as "the best".
Well my analysis is done. Let's see if I'll be ripped apart or ignored this time.
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most competitive people play to be the best, who wants to be the mediocre guy in a game?
If you think 10-20mins out of a day randomly is some huge time sink, you have a very shitty life.
Obsession. You could literally put everyone on all of p99 under the label of obsessive. Be it at being the best or hating on people who want to be the best to all sorts of other little titles.
Not everyone has to lie to themselves to enjoy logging in to kill something.
what strategy? This is everquest, ya nerd.
Someone is always going to be the best, no matter how many shitty people are playing, someone else will be shittier and jealous they suck and lack the basic comprehension needed to realize they just suck and make up excuses to seem less sucky.
Enjoy thinking up ways to demean and degrade people who play the game and want to be considered the best. There are millions of other haters in the world who do the exact same thing as you while also living shitty unimportant lives and have nothing else better to do but think of ways other people suck at life as much as you.