Peer pressure, FFXIV's reputation, & subscribing

[Neptune]

To the OP sounds like you have some awesome friends.

Did you even read the OP?

You make things up to get sympathy/attention/etc, you deserve w/e people say about you. Also, to die in a fire.

Did your cupcake taste bad?

[Jinko]

Did you even read the OP?

I did, thanks for asking, FWIW it was a waste of my time.

[Neptune]

fail strawman is fail, I did not dispute the existence of social standing, but when one's "social standing" in a "gaming circle" comes to dictate what one does IRL, well, let's just say the guy has much bigger issues to deal with.

Ok, thanks for clarifying, and I agree with you that someone affected by peer pressure has bigger issues to tackle. Imagine for a moment the life of someone with such issues to tackle. What are the odds that they will suddenly be galvanized to tackle them over this? It's far more likely, in my opinion, that peer pressure will play out differently for them. I wonder, though someone would never come post it here, whether anyone dropped the game in a situation like that.

[Aenarion]

I never said I cared one way or the other, but would you still dismiss the idea of social standing after studying up in psychology?

"As renowned neuroscientist, Michael Gazzaniga, has noted, “When you get up in the morning, you do not think about triangles and squares and these similes that psychologists have been using for the past 100 years. You think about status. You think about where you are in relation to your peers.” Between CEO and employee, quarterback and wide receiver, husband and wife, status looms large."

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...logy-of-social

Social standing affects status, which affects reputation, which affects trust, which affects decisions and relationships.

http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Reputation

fail strawman is fail, I did not dispute the existence of social standing, but when one's "social standing" in a "gaming circle" comes to dictate what one does IRL, well, let's just say the guy has much bigger issues to deal with.