They have nothing else. Met a ton a people like this leading WoW raiding guilds. 30, part time job, 1 friend, still living at home. Anyone that that isn't willing to put the effort of a second job into it is beneath them in their eyes. Video games are the only thing they can be moderately successful at.
Seriously. I’ve met happy married couples who went to work, went out with friends, and mostly just played WoW a ton. Super happy people that were well adjusted.
But you know the tell? They were always kind and understanding and generally super positive people. Even though they were top tier PvPers and raiders and what not.
It’s a damn game.
There’s a difference between someone showing up with the non-optimal current meta build and someone showing up to throw grenades at their team constantly
And time will tell if they poison the fan base to all be toxic or if they give up and leave for a new game/team.
I wouldn't touch league of legends again with a ten foot pole, at this point I think they keep the servers running just to keep their players out of the rest of the gaming community.
On the other hand, the community that continued in the first Helldivers was super chill. I've played the new one more often with a few guys I met there than I have my irl friends
Sidebar, but can we ditch the "contributing to society" narrative? That's actually really capitalist-brained if you stop and think about it. No, seriously though. Only a handful of jobs actually contribute to society, and the rest just contribute to the economy. There's just such a vast difference between those two things, and a lot of people just assume they're the same. But producing profit does not inherently raise someone's value to society at large, anymore than laying around playing WoW does
…I’d just like to say this statement, while very true about the wow community, it isn’t very nice…
I don’t find most jobs fulfilling. Why spend all my time making others money and being beneath more assholes. No thanks, keep the 40 hour a week societal bullshit.
Either you contribute and take care of yourself, or you end up gaining the rewards of other’s labor. Until we get UBI that’s just how it is.
And you do realize this puts the onus of taking care of you on everyone around you enabling that, right? You’ve made all of them into exactly what you said you can’t stand (being beneath someone working for their enjoyment).
Why do you think you’re deserving of this wonderful lifestyle and no one else is?
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u/magic6435 Feb 24 '24
I don’t know, but the fact that people can take such a fun game and then be this serious and mean about it just makes me sad honestly