Thanks for your response.
I’d like to defend myself a little more on this point.
So, let me be as absolutely clear as humanly possible here.
If a poster, let’s call him LeetdkQT makes a post called: “Why I love end game but hate levelling”, and outlines his feelings on why levelling sucks, but raiding rocks, then yeah I guess I might write something sardonic in response - something like: “Sheesh what is it with you people focussing entirely on a tiny fraction of the game… blah blah blah…”
I’m probably wrong to do this because, as you say, everyone has their preferences, and who am I do disagree with someone’s personal preference? But I suspect you’re also correct when I say I just love arguing with people. It’s in my blood, and I guess it stems from my former career as a criminal barrister. Arguing with people in court was literally my job! It’s also where I learned my ‘used every dirty trick in the book’ methodology. Some things run deep and become deeply ingrained.
I’m obsessed with digging deep into people’s personal motives, testing their expectations, testing their commitment and beliefs… etc.
But…
If the same poster wrote a post called: “Plz allow me to boost every char to 80 and boost XP rates” then this automatically puts me into defence/combat-mode.
This is because 1) I’m passionate about this game and 2) Views like this run counter to my core beliefs about the nature of RPGs, the whole ethos of ‘journey before destination’. It’s ground into me at absolute bedrock level, so when I see people doing their best to undermine what I regard as a sacrosanct part of the WoW experience I get very worried that this kind of mindset will ultimately spread, and that the devs will actually listen, and grant these people what they want.
Consequently I hammer away at these people, attacking their every point.
You’ll hopefully notice that I never use personal attacks though, I always try to attack only their position, never the people. Obviously I’ll slip up from time to time, I’m only human, but there it is.
