Who is Optional – A Question of Consumer Value

[Erudain]

You've heard it here people, minions give your character advantages over other players...

If you want to brag about it with your friends and FC-mates....yeah yeah they do.

Edit: was a nice OP and I can relate a lot with what you said, but unfortunatly you are beating a dead horse trying to get ppl to empathize or think stuff rationally.
As I said yesterday in another thread, this argument is like watching an atheist and a theist argue, they won't reach an understanding and will both end the discussion angry.