Quote Originally Posted by Hastatus View Post
Sorry. I'm not trying to be a statistician. I was trying to use fewer characters (i.e. words). "The one percent" is a frequent literary idiom referencing an older (but still relevant) idea where the top one percentage of society has the money, power and influence over "the 99%" which are the ordinary people. It doesn't have to mathematically mean exactly 1%. It's a figurative way of expressing a power dynamic differentiating a minority and a majority within a population. I think you could call this an idiomatic moniker or idiomatic epithet? I was also alluding to the happiness of social media influencers who would have content to use on their platforms, some of whom will use it to reenforce their status as "the one percent" of the player base. I am not a big fan of social media influencers because they can make or break content and many followers will accept those views. Chaotic is currently great content for them so they are very likely to hype and praise it but viewers/followers have to be excessively critical of how the level of difficulty is interpreted and transmitted by those influencers who go into these raids like it is a job, which it is. One way of bragging is to say that something is easier than it is.
But that is precisely the point with this kind of rhetoric and hyperbole, it doesn't accurately describe the player base. And that's not only about the numbers, but also about the implications as if the playerbase that engages in this kind of content is some kind of evil conspiratory cabal instead of just ... people playing the game. Especially when the whole genre of combat oriented MMORPGs traditionally featured difficult combat content at whatever the current endgame is, which for a lot of people is the whole argument for buying into such a game in the first place!

It's okay to find this content not to one's liking, or have issues with the difficulty, or wanting it to be different, or any of that. But what isn't acceptable is to just slag on a whole chunk of the playerbase, like they aren't people themselves. Another thread had "do raiders even care about hairstyles?" as a legit statement. The same is true for misrepresenting the social dynamic in PF when people make groups with whatever rules they want to do. It's worrying how many people see others minding their own business as "exclusion" and "discrimination". If a sports team wants to organize and train to participate in some tournament, then they don't just take any random person along for the last team slot just because. Why is it only in video games that's such a hard concept to grasp and understand, because people pay for it?