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[Danth]

Originally Posted by Ooloo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The entire spirit of the game that attracts this niche playerbase is that not everyone gets a participation trophy.

It could just as easily be argued that P99's oddball, cutthroat culture is part of why it's a niche community--it drives a lot of normal folks away. I definitely see conversation to that effect on various sites across the 'net.

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That being said, I regard our defacto reality here as representing a sort of compromise: Anyone can, without serious hurdles, obtain sufficient stuff to let their characters do the jobs they're meant to do throughout virtually the entire game. That's good enough for me. "Participation trophies" or "welfare gear" or whatever derogatory term you want to call it by very much exists--it's called thurgadin armor (or its non-set equivalents). The folks who built this game made sure people could get the stuff needed for their characters to function, without being blocked. The high-end pixels that people argue and bicker so vehemently over are largely optional fluff. So let 'em argue and bicker. The folks who quit because they can't get that type of stuff are, I think, obsessing over unneeded stuff to an excessive degree and getting themselves bent out of shape over nothing of import.

Danth