PVE competitiveness in the game

[Bigbazz]

PVE isn't about competition, just because it's you and only you, who determine goals for yourself. If you want to be in quest blues - it's your choice. But... There are players, who have so called "killer" archetype - they're players, who's goal is to dominate over others. They are usually PVPers, but the fact, that Wow is mostly PVE game, brought them into PVE too. So, they find different ways to "dominate" in PVE. I guess, Recount - is their best friend.

Blizzard have to deal with them, only because they're second most widespread players' archetype.


I'm "reward driven achiever" - true PVE player by definition. I hate competition. I tried to play PVP games - it's too toxic for me. Everybody thinks only about stomping you into dirt. If game is unbalanced, biased toward some Meta or matchmaker works too poorly, which causes constant stomps: "L2P", "adapt & improve", "you're common denominator" - are the only things, you'll see on forums. The problem is in fact, that there is no bad players in matchmaker-based game. Essential reason for matchmaker's existence - is to provide allies and enemies, that suit your level of skill, and provide gameplay, that is enjoyful for you. If you're at your skill cap and game is too hard for you - then matchmaker doesn't serve it's purpose. But nobody cares. You're easy frag? Even better for them.

I googled the test, it's dumb as fuck like it was written by a 12 year old for a school project. Psychology tests are meant to test you on situations/scenarios that cause your compass to point a certain way, the options should be varied and the answer should be obvious to the person being tested. Anyway I consider myself a very competitive person, as in I am very self critical and I am not happy if I am not capable of playing at the top in the world at generally everything I do. Even if I'm not there (as is generally the case) I am pushing myself often to a level of obsession. That means to say that if I'm going to spend any decent amount of time doing something I want to be the best at it and I will push myself for that, I will just move on and find something else.

That doesn't mean I want an unfair advantage, it doesn't mean I don't like to be social. If you want to brand someone into some stereotype(s) you'd need a very complex and well written extensive test, and then the answer would always be a very vague cross-over of many different aspects. Look at the most competitive types of people in the world and you will find very very different personalities, certainly not something you can brand with 4 catagories and a poorly written test.

[soulzek]

The comments you are seeing are in regards to people wanting to get raid spots and yet they don't have whatever the leader is requiring. They complain that they can't be "competitive", aka they can't get into the raid because they don't meet the requirements.

Reported for thread derailment. This is supposed to be about WoW, not industry job positions in real life.

[WowIsDead64]

I googled the test, it's dumb as fuck like it was written by a 12 year old for a school project. Psychology tests are meant to test you on situations/scenarios that cause your compass to point a certain way, the options should be varied and the answer should be obvious to the person being tested. Anyway I consider myself a very competitive person, as in I am very self critical and I am not happy if I am not capable of playing at the top in the world at generally everything I do. Even if I'm not there (as is generally the case) I am pushing myself often to a level of obsession. That means to say that if I'm going to spend any decent amount of time doing something I want to be the best at it and I will push myself for that, I will just move on and find something else.

That doesn't mean I want an unfair advantage, it doesn't mean I don't like to be social. If you want to brand someone into some stereotype(s) you'd need a very complex and well written extensive test, and then the answer would always be a very vague cross-over of many different aspects. Look at the most competitive types of people in the world and you will find very very different personalities, certainly not something you can brand with 4 catagories and a poorly written test.

I'm not specialist in psychology, but aren't all psychological tests dumb? Almost all tests are self-obvious. In most cases via test you are trying to find answer for question, you already know by yourself. I had known, that I had been achiever, even before doing this test. The only problem - one archetype is 100% capped and total summ is 200% capped - otherwise, I guess, I would be 100%, 0%, 0%, 0%.

[kneehidude]

Reported for thread derailment. This is supposed to be about WoW, not industry job positions in real life.

How is it a derailment? I was talking about WoW.

[Baconeggcheese]

I am not a raider, so maybe that is where people compete, is that it?

Yes its raiding.

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