Originally Posted by
Mad_Murdock
But that's an apple's to orange comparison. First, we're talking about a video game, people play for relaxation, enjoyment, to kill time, to hang out. "Competing" in the olympics is a actual event. People competing in that event, aren't there for relaxation and just killing time. In many cases, like Track and field that's pretty much their career.
But using your analogy, We're not talking about competing at the Olympics. We're talking about a bunch of random people out running around on a track. Maybe racing each other, maybe racing against their wrist watch. "SOME" of the complaints isn't even that Blizzard handed out Gold medals 6 months later and nobody see it's because the Olympics are over. It's that these "commoners" were allowed to run on the same tracks that the Olympic Athletes ran on, without Earning that right.
But that is still completely missing my point. We're talking about playing a game for the sake of playing games because we simply enjoy playing the game. Why do we need all these titles, mounts, special weapons colors (all of which I'm fine with) but more importantly, why do players "give up" when they can't be special for longer periods of time ? It's that particular attitude\mindset that I find most interesting.