2009-12-04, 06:20 PM
Zenkat Wrote:This thread is just a broken record. People who have a moral problem with leeching in an online game, against people who have no problem leeching in an online game because the game company has already said it's ok, but with a warning that you 'wont have as much fun doing it'.
Nearly every person against leeching is against it for a singlular reason. Because they feel it diminishes their leveling accomplishment. The problems start when they avoid this one fact, and start avidly searching for other possible reasons as to why leeching is bad. RL comparisons, economic downfalls, illegitimacy, cheating comparisons, unusable maps. They're all bogus distractions.
Guess what, we're all human. We dont LIKE it when someone gets something with less effort that what we got it for. That's NORMAL. But just because you dont like it, does not make it wrong. Especially in the context of an online game that lets you do it within the scope that the game's rules allow.
The only person who's even had the balls to admit this fact is Grog.
I've always known that most leechers are failures. Mostly because they can't handle the intense grinding that occurs at higher levels. If they had gone up gradually, like most people, they may have not noticed due to the fact that they were use to slow grinding. However. They don't. They Leech.
It's like the real world. Sure, you can cheat all you want in high school, even (not recommended) in college. But. Once the real world comes. Make sure it doesn't give you too much of a beating.
What I'm saying is that, if you're leeching, you're not experiencing the real thing because you're to lazy too. Once the real thing comes, how prepared will you be? Probably alot less than those who actually worked to get where they are.
ANYWAY. I'm dropping out of this discussion. We're obviously not going to agree on this subject, so why bother?