I remember a couple of sites in the early noughties did this to prevent non-English speakers from joining, and Russians posted walkthroughs. Walkthroughs are still widely used by some mail forwarding services, while others charge buyers a 10 to 15% commission to use a unified adapted storefront.

Who is toxic, me or them? I after all wasn't taking the game all that seriously and that can be kind of annoying.

Oh no no, not you. I'm talking about the people who act like the guy who drove you away from that game. Sorry if i wasn't clear.

You were clear, I'm just defending myself against someone accusing me of not looking at it form both sides. :D

uhm.... I wasn't accusing you of anything.
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I hate the e-sports mentality in gaming, it's completely alien to everything I've come to recognize as part of the gaming community and culture. The “gamification”, the obsession with “DPS” and the like, it’s the utter lack of abstraction in games like LoL, DOTA 2, it’s like they are games that actively make no attempt to disguise this fact. People will only care about the mechanical aspects, what hero/spell/ability is best, what “tactics” work best. The same sort of thing strikes me about MMO’s and competitive RTS too. The players don’t seem to care the game is fantasy, sci-fi, or whatever, the story, setting, anything, it doesn’t matter, all that matters is the rules.

Discussions of MOBA and other multiplayer games sound almost identical to the type of discussions sports fans would have.

It utterly disgusts me. These people have no imagination.

it should be all be burned

OY, I knew you weren't. XD You never would. I was just throwing that out there for my own piece of mind. It is way too early. :P

Brilliant!

I miss the days when being a gamer meant playing for fun, not for rank or to prove your better then others. True, I do that on games that require it. But when its not a game that is competitive, like DDO, or even GW2....Why Compete? Especially if you are on the same team. Those "Trolls" who flame aren't true gamers. They forgot the number one rule of being a Gamer.



You are supposed to have fun.

A better way to describe it: you are meant to play the way you want to play (be it for any reason). I think there's more to gaming than entertainment and competition, that's all.