DRK Consolidated Feedback Thread

[Chrono_Rising]

I'm amazed at the people that will post in these threads with no possible motive other than to be contrarian and discredit people asking for buffs for the current most poorly designed tank. What do they hope to gain?

It threatens their place in groups, even if only in theory. So they want their class to be the best, and want to do what they have to keep it the best.

[TouchandFeel]

It threatens their place in groups, even if only in theory. So they want their class to be the best, and want to do what they have to keep it the best.

I'd say it is even more simple and foundational in human psychology than that.

Many people feel that by being part of a group that is at an advantage within whatever niche is being looked at, by association it makes them better as an individual within that niche, even though in reality they as individuals are no better and they are being artificially propped up by the advantages of the group they are part of.
When that advantage is called out and/or challenged, the individual feels personally attacked because by pointing out the advantage granted by the group they are forced to admit that they are not ahead due to individual merit but through advantages provided by the group. It hits them right in the ego.

This even occurs oddly enough from the opposite side too, in which a person that is part of a disadvantaged group will sometimes attempt to avoid acknowledging that disadvantage because they feel that being part of a group with a disadvantage then belittles them as an individual and reflects on their personal merit and capabilities. Basically they do not want to admit that they could in anyway be viewed as lesser even if it has nothing to do with them as an individual.

It's essentially the false sense of individual worth or lack thereof through association.

Pretty crazy and ridiculous, huh? Well that's people for you.