Quote Originally Posted by dododogu View Post
about how nobody appreciates you for giving them virtual currency
This is such a gross simplication that I can't tell if it's a bait or if you just don't know the inner workings and semi-dark underlying purpose of venues as a whole because the only way I can answer/reply to why that simplication is wrong is to put people's mental health in the community on blast. The bare surface/public reason for venues existing, is actually not the reason the most passionate people delve into it. Same goes for roleplay. People simplify and say "to have fun", but what that entails for a good chunk of the community, what they are escaping from, is a lot more concerning and is not what most people would assume. Like this is not a conversation to be had on the forums. Especially knowing people are linking this thread on twitter, I don't want to be openly talking about trigger subjects without reason. Like I am genuinely the last person you should be concerned about.

As for my ego, my ego does not rest entirely on this game. I have higher accomplishments irl and on other games. This game, is a retirement for me. One online cog, in a lot of other online cogs, that benefit the irl cog on occasion. This game does not know what economic competition looks like, they do not know what PvE competition looks like. This is not a game to build ego on because noone here in the general community is competitive by my standards. The only people that give me a resemblance of old peaks/competition I'm used to, are the people I know that can make 2-4bil a week. That are 4x the monster that I am currently. People don't need to be worried about my ego, they should be worried about the people I'm humbled by, that I don't even try because I've seen them toss tens of thousands irl to destroy markets across multiple regions far worse than anything I did and had Square shift protocol just for them. I haven't had that type of power to press a game studio directly in a long time. When you can cause extra hirings, permanent patch changes, and features to be removed from the game permanently, that's when you can have an ego, when you left a permanent mark on the game and they personally marked you as a threat above everyone else. When Square Enix tells you to touch grass, that's when you know you peaked and you were a problem. And I know 2 people that have reached that point that are ban on sight if Square finds them. I'm one of the tamer "freaks" you will get to interact with, even within the venue community. Not even getting into the owners that are willing to commit felonies or did in the past for the sake of their ego.