Quote Originally Posted by Veis_Alveare View Post
I suppose I shouldn't expect much from someone who claims to know how I feel better than I do. It's not as if I've given a lot of thought to how we can try to help players who don't understand game basics or mentored countless people through my FC over the years (no crown, the real deal) of every role. Those things were clearly somehow all just me being selfish.
What you do in game is not in question, so there is no need to pat yourself on the back. You shouldn't even have to express yourself in this manner because the only person who needs to know your courtesy is genuine is you. Again, you don't even realize that you're not giving players the respect you think you do. An issue is that you improve your own gameplay and expect other players to follow suit, and then you try to rationalize this erroneous mindset by saying you are doing your part in the community; but what you're actually doing is attempt to dictate the playstyles of others. This easily falls within the definition of selfish.

I am guessing you went on the defensive because I said you lost my sympathy with defeatism. This is not an attack, or even an inflammatory comment. All it means is that I cannot see your side to things if you are going to approach it like it a negative nancy. Once you acknowledge that you are indeed in a community, then you immediately should know that you can't just increase the difficulty of casual content and solo content to something you find suitable. How do you even define this? If you can answer this question, I will bow right the hell out of this thread. Of course, this is rhetorical because not even the devs can answer that question.

Just like in a community, you can't go into a room full of people watching a TV and turn up the volume to a level you find comfortable without pissing someone else off. Instead, the person in charge of that community puts the TV volume at a set level, and those who want to watch it can do so. Meanwhile, the TV set with the headphones where you can look at what you want when you want, and how loud you want is all by itself in another room. See where I am going with that analogy?