Originally Posted by
lawow74
They want to believe that, unlike real life, the harder you strive towards a goal the better the reward will be, always and forever. Many of them are probably small and insignificant in their real life and know that no matter what they do, they will remain that for the rest of their days.
So they seek escapism into a fantasy world where they can feel like they're important and matter, and want the rules of that fantasy world to match their dreams of striving towards that goal and then being lauded as special and awesome for getting there.
And when that fantasy world does not match up to that and instead reminds them of their real life, they cry out against it.
(okay, I know that's probably a tiny minority of the actual reasons, but I could not resist taking a jab)