Has anyone else noticed a general uptick in folks genuinely pondering the possibility that something nefarious is going on that prevents them from their chosen form of progression?
And I’m not even talking about our resident Vulpera rogue, but I swear in the last few weeks I’ve seen the most insane speculation.
Be it about RSS, 3’s, PVP in general, AWC, Blizzard, etc etc etc, every thread seems to have someone who is convinced or attempting to convince others that the voices do exist and that those voices are really hindering them.
I’m less concerned with the content of the conspiracies than the slow creep that is now everywhere. I’m not old, but I enjoy learning about history, and it’s really giving Red Scare vibes. I’ve (unfortunately) been around the forums since Cataclysm and can’t seem to recall the last time our collective mental state took a nosedive like this.
I am curious as to whether or not the IRL political turbulence of the last few years (fake news, civil rights movements, etc etc) have given way to people who feel more comfortable in their own reality than the one we all live in and that’s translating here.
What actually happened was the consecutive boatload of losses you take across all of your characters have run a train on your MMR to the point that it can’t even get up off of the floor and spare you any points for 3-3.
I rarely bring this into the equation unless it adds scientific value, but here it does:
You have negative winrates on all of your characters - Even at 1100 rating.
There is no scam. You should seek to improve, so that you win more games than you lose, and thus obtain rating.
Everyone is way too cynical these days, that’s all. Outside of that, ease of access probably rolls over into someone’s expectations for things. Tap of a button and food, groceries, Amazon packages and other things show up at your door. Why can’t I tap one button on my keyboard and get all my rewards?
theres no conspiracy and i don’t need to take any medication
i have enemies and theyre everywhere and i dont know about them, i need to kill them before they kill me, theyre trying to make me vulnerable by boosting solo shuffle, it’s everywhere, they think if they make wow unfun enough for me that i’ll go outside and then they’ll have a chance to kill me but i know better than that, they’ve been trying for a long time but it won’t work because i’m smarter than them
i’m actually tired of them pretending to not be afraid of me when i could literally destroy the entire world and everyone on it with just a thought and they just pretend like i’m not a god and they arent afraid of me and i haven’t killed them and destroyed their world hundreds of times before in other realities, im tired of them pretending, i’m tired of solo shuffle boosts and AWC being rigged, blizzard made the women into fruit just so i would stop beating it to the paintings in wow to try and go outside and be vulnerable to get a real girlfriend but i’m not falling for it i know everyone wants to kill me and i won’t be fooled
In real life there are “voices” hindering people. And I’m pretty sure there are some in game as well. Just because you refuse to acknowledge all the bad things in a system doesn’t mean they are nonexistent. Simply trying “harder” doesn’t necessarily equate with success. Having said that, there are definitely a lot of people who fail and blame everything but themselves for it. But there are plenty of times that is not the case. Unfortunately, society (and people like you) refuse to acknowledge those cases.
And where did I refuse to acknowledge any of the bad things? Where did I even make an attempt to refute anything in particular? What are you talking about?
Except it literally does. If you try harder, you will do better. Please don’t hit me with some stupid example like “But if a paraplegic tried even harder to run, Usain Bolt would still beat him!”
WoW is the epitome of a game within which trying harder literally equals results. That’s because trying harder translates to actually improving at the game.
Huge observation really fluffed the word count
You’re attempting to talk about “cases” when the nature of my thread is not discussing specifics but pointing out that a certain behavior is now almost the norm.
Having bad MMR and gaining 0 rating because of it is a good thing in the system
There is not a giant group of boosters playing at 1200 rating.
Can’t acknowledge stuff that isn’t real man. The arena forums have a tendency to complain about stuff that isn’t real because people don’t understand the game
Beedie is straight off the q train. Never seen things like “lefty” and “he got the jab” thrown around here so easily. Dude definitely in a trailer believing 100% Alex Jones is a prophet.
As crazy as the rest are, he shows up the moment someone mentions they’re stuck at sub 1500 to inject his dumb idea into their head.
Honestly I’m giving him too much credit. He’s just a lunatic yelling on a street corner; we just somehow have more idiots willing to believe said loon than normal times.
It seems like an overall protective mechanism for people who perhaps thought they were really good due to wpvp and bgs, and are now in what seemed like it would be an easy environment to do well in - “not held back by the meta of 3s and LFG”.
Instead they are failing miserably but can’t simply accept that they’re bad. Instead it must be something else causing their struggle to climb.
It’s the same reason that people believe things that someone like Alex Jones promotes. We don’t want to believe that terrible things happen; so our minds are very susceptible to being convinced of any reason otherwise - paid actors instead of children being murdered, etc.
It’s a numbers game. The more you queue the less a bad game where one DPS was glaringly impacting the game (for better or worse) will result in your overall rating. Same with stuff like Pikaboo playing 10,000 2’s games a season (or whatever viewer 2’s hero you want to insert here). The actuality of healing RSS is early games suck because the DPS probably are worse than you, and forcing yourself to wade through an ocean of cringe to get away from them just is not fun gameplay, but it’s not like rigged or whatever.
(More seriously for a moment, even after hundreds of rounds in RSS, I’m still changing my UI and creating/testing/changing/relearning keybinds, so I know I have lots of room for improvement. It is a tad annoying getting so many 3-3 and 0 rating games, and watching the other DPS profit off the 0-6 DPS situation. I can definitely see how it’s really annoying for other lower rated healers. But it’s kinda whatevers for me, because I’m still testing/learning. I might feel differently after I finally settle down on my UI/keybind changes.)
Most of this happens bc people are not willing to accept their shortcomings and try to improve, instead people just whine.
I’ll use myself as an example, I haven’t played spriest since like early WoD, I’ve tried playing it again and it turns out I kinda suck at it now.
Instead of whining about it I’ll see if I can play it like I used to, who knows if it’ll work out but it’s probably better than whining on forums asking for buffs or nerfs or blaming Vladimir Putin for my low cr.
