On the lack of humanity in our community.

[MeiUshu]

Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

I did my fair share of hardcore raiding which included all that you said combined with other stuff like making strategies. However those were part of the game for me and never taken anything more.

When you use terms like "losing part of my humanity" it is a red alert that you need to stop cause it effects you on more then just ingame.

Did you get some emotions out of Heurchefant (cant spell that name) story ? if yes, who are you to make such a comment and point fingers at those that let themselves to be dragged into the game too much? remember that if you can feel something for your char you are too taking it beyond the in-game....we all did that really at one point...ergo why people need to have the understanding that what they feel as a char is not to be transposed into real life, or taken with into real life, which is the most difficult part to do...we are all human, and OP is right, in this game because of anonimity people make it a point to be all but human they forgot they are human really.

Mei

[Assirra]

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Your example is something completely different then what this topic is based on about. Becoming emotional because of the story in game is no way negative unless you start being depressed when a character dies of course. Once again, if you do get depressed from playing a game because of x or y reason, just stop. You are not doing yourself a favor to keep going.

[ElHeggunte]

Did you get some emotions out of Heurchefant (cant spell that name) story ? if yes, who are you to make such a comment and point fingers at those that let themselves to be dragged into the game too much? remember that if you can feel something for your char you are too taking it beyond the in-game....we all did that really at one point...ergo why people need to have the understanding that what they feel as a char is not to be transposed into real life, or taken with into real life, which is the most difficult part to do...we are all human, and OP is right, in this game because of anonimity people make it a point to be all but human they forgot they are human really.

Mei

There's quite a big difference between feeling something for your favorite character when something bad happens to them and the OP's rant where they decide to use phrases like "emotional genocide" because their static wouldn't let them play the class they wanted.

[Kallera]

There's quite a big difference between feeling something for your favorite character when something bad happens to them and the OP's rant where they decide to use phrases like "emotional genocide" because their static wouldn't let them play the class they wanted.

The need to accept the standard build, the insistence on watching the video, in this case: playing a job because the job you wanted is shunned? While they aren't the words i'd use, i do understand where they are coming from, with regards to high lvl play and the prevailing attitudes about and within.

[MeiUshu]

There's quite a big difference between feeling something for your favorite character when something bad happens to them and the OP's rant where they decide to use phrases like "emotional genocide" because their static wouldn't let them play the class they wanted.

my example was meant to show that, from the moment you feel something that is in-game related and that your persona behind the screen can get involved into something as trivial as a NPC charactere death, then said person is capable of taking what others char albeit non NPC can say or do and feel it as a real person. That is why i took this example, tehre is no difference if you can feel for a NPC you can still feel equally for anotehr non NPC char, actions will affect you, what they say will affect or can affect you, and if it happens, then I am sorry you do take stuff ingame outside of what it is supposed to be. The person I aswered said in a short way that if peopel take real what is ingame they should go stop playing because that is not what it should be...

See my point....eh? so no I am not at all off topic.. might want to think about this comparison..just because you feel for a NPC doesnt make it less better or worse then for a *real* charactere eh? and the effect that it can have can be very destructive if not mature or ready enough to understand what where and how ...and distanciate themselves from their charactere, if you cant do that, you WILL be affected by ingame stuff as a real person and can go up to some huge extend, much like this of OP.

Mei