Which is unjust entitlement. What happens is that it’s a system designed for people to compete for spots, against each other. But when people stack the brackets, and someone breaks it, the socially acceptable response is to meet the challenge and compete fairly. Because it’s supposed to only be an agreement, so if someone doesn’t agree then you have no moral high ground where you can say you deserve it more than the other person. No matter what.
But what happens is that these mafias, they use underhanded methods like blacklisting people, sometimes even from the inner circle of the largest guilds on the server and sometimes even more, in order to punish those who tries to compete with them. Instead of actually just competing with them fairly.
Like I said, it’s anti-competitive behavior. It’s why there are antitrust laws for it in society when it’s about business practices. It’s not normal. It’s morally reprehensible.
There are other examples I can give you, I suppose…
Let’s compare this to arenas. While wintrading has been exposed on such a large scale already, so it’s not like it’s entirely hypothetical, but let’s say you’ve got the entire group of every r1-eligible player agreeing who should get what rating just for the heck of it. Like who should be ladder 1, 2, 3 and so on.
Let’s say they stack the entire r1 part of the ladder, down to the predicted lowest rating for it.
But then you’ve got those below trying to break that stacking. So all the r1, let’s say they’re all on the same server, including those under r1, for simplicity’s sake.
So when they try to break that stack, because ofc they also want r1, the r1 players would blacklist them on the server, badmouth them on twitch/youtube and so on. Let’s say they’re highly influential too, so it becomes hard for these guys to do anything.
Let’s also assume there’s no xrealm ofc.
Anyway, just by changing the circumstances, yet describe the exact same behavior it should show you just how morally disgusting that actually is.