YueFei, on 25 May 2014 - 11:31 PM, said:
Bullshit, Jun. Your analogy makes no sense.
No, what you're really doing is throwing a tantrum because someone dared to deploy their Queen, or to use Castling. For whatever reason you refuse to use your Queen, or to leap your Knights over other pieces, because *you* decided it was unsporting. Well guess what? You don't get to decide the rules of Chess, because you're an unranked nobody. I think the World Chess Federation and the Grandmasters are far better qualified to evaluate the nuances of Chess than you are.
Its funny how you made it halfway there then went in a totally different direction.
Who decides what is acceptable in a chess match? Who decides what is acceptable in society? The majority do.
Tryhards are in the minority yet repeatedly insist that their opinions > than that of the majority for reasons like "they are noobs!" "scrubs!" "nobody told me i cant do it so i will!".
In MWO the majority have decided that using metabuilds is unacceptable for a wide variety of reasons already explained many times over.
This doesnt work in real life for obvious reasons but it does in MWO because there are no consequences whatsoever for sociopathic behaviour, unfortunately enough.
The minority in MWO showing up with metabuilds and then telling people to learn2play makes as much sense as me telling all the chess grandmasters to learn2play when i insist on using all queens in a chess match. The only difference is that since the latter happens in real life, i will get laughed out of the room while in MWO people are forced to be in the same match with some of the most disgusting examples of human beings.
Oh in case anyone is interested in real life griefing/trolling : google westboro church. They find the funeral locations of dead US service personnel and then troll the crap out of it with lots of provocative signs, broadcasting speeches, etc. Everything they do is perfectly legal but at the same time most people think they are complete scumbags. Especially since their main aim in doing this is to try and provoke funeral goers into assaulting them at which point they engage in massive lawsuits for "damages" (the church is run by a family of lawyers).
Claiming that something is perfectly ok because it is legal to do fails to understand basic social norms.
I made this nice little comic here to explain the above, but i have a feeling im wasting my time. Its like trying to explain to bank executives that no, causing a global financial crisis so that they can get a fat paycheck is NOT ok, even if it's legal to do so. They are just going to give you blank stares. Actually, i think something similar happened....some large financial company made shareholders lose millions of dollars worth of investments, one executive suggested that all the executives forego their bonuses as an apology, and someone leaked company emails from the other executives that basically went "you must be ********, that is a lot of money! And it's OUR money!". I can't remember which company this was....anyone know?

Demuder, on 25 May 2014 - 11:51 PM, said:
Maybe you can blame players for bad taste, you can blame them for not showing a gentlemanly behavior, but you cannot blame them for not designing the game right.
I dare you -or anyone for that matter- to demonstrate which design choices were affected by the players. I could make a list, but it would only show what is painfully obvious. One thing PGI never did was to listen to the players. They don't listen to whiners, they don't listen to experienced players, they don't listen to new players, they don't listen to hardcore players, they don't listen to BT fans, they don't listen to anyone. One can blame MWO's community for many things, affecting the game design is not one of them.
I think his point was that the resulting bad game experience is partly the fault of the players, which is true since a small group of griefers has been hard at work trying to make as many people quit the game as possible for like a year. Just look at how many people have quit the game citing their terrible gameplay experience, courtesy of sync dropping in metabuilds to pad egos and stats.
Edited by Jun Watarase, 26 May 2014 - 08:34 AM.