A few thoughts on how players react to what they believe is unfair treatment despite it usually not being the case. email in question Again, first off, you know I generally love your videos and think they're intelligent and to the point. A few comments on this one, though. I regret not all of us were graced with intellect - we're just not. It's humbling and depressing in the first place, and then when other people get mad at you for being stupid, it's that much worse. I'm sorry we can't all be smart and grasp mechanics the way we should; yes, some of us do watch videos before going into a raid, or read up on the tactics, but find we can't really perform well until we've had actual experience at that boss a few times. Are we meant to just not play video games or never try raiding for that reason? I do ever so wish I had the intellectual luxury of saying I "just don't get how someone can do such and such stupid thing," I imagine my life as a whole would be that much easier if that's where I was mentally. That said, I regret not all of us have the financial resources or the know-how to upgrade our PCs every three months when the hardware we have becomes obsolete. Yes, we do upgrade when we can, we do download anti-virus software, but some of us are just plain bad at troubleshooting what's wrong with our PC or knowing how to fix things. And then when someone gets mad at us for "having a shit computer" it's that much worse. I wish I had the luxury of getting angry at someone for having a shit computer, I imagine I would have had a much easier time if I was at a position where having a top of the line PC that ran 60 fps at the ultra setting was something I was easily able to do. As for any comment that begins with "I just don't understand why a person would..." - does why really matter? Fact of the matter is, they do do whatever it is that bugs you, and there is a reason for that, whether you understand it or not. Not necessarily a logical reason, but people never function according to logic - they function first and foremost according to emotion, then justify what they did with logic. I can think of reasons why people wouldn't want to go on voice chat, like if they lied about where they're from or their gender and you'd be able to see that once they logged on - or maybe they don't want their mom and dad who are in the same room to hear them talking - but granted, that's got nothing to do with the fact that they can listen. I don't know, the point is they have some reason, be it a good reason or not, that for whatever reason they don't want to tell you, so it's pointless to say "I don't get why." Mind, I'm not justifying them or saying they ought to come to the raid without vent or whatever. the point is, much as I really like your vids, sometimes you sound kind of elitist, like things that I for example wish were easy for me are so straightforward to you to the point where you

• published: 21 Jan 2014
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