"It's Just A Game!" >.>

Yea You could buy gil to make it easier or pay Linkshells, but ***for the same amount you paid that LS you coulda did it yourself, and buying gil for relics? Really? Paying Real money for fake money I never *** understood, but to each their own I guess

Well for some people $5,000 is just like $0.50 for us :] Pocket money. We've seen people buying WoW account for $10K+, so why not a relic after all :/

I wish I was one of those ppl where 5k was .50. D:

If I worked full time I'd have my mythic by now. I'd totally have me some chinese RMT funding my Alexandrite.

But really, this thread sucks.

*K, edited format from a block to paragraphs [/smile] woot*

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I'm going to add my ramblings here: Yeah, I also hate it when people repeat the "It's just a game" mantra to excuse douchebag behavior like being way under-geared in a party or monopolizing NMs or just generally being a ***.

On the other side of it, though, I myself have reminded people, for completely different reasons, that it's "just a game."

People can get all ridiculous and pathetic and show that they clearly get their only sense of pride and self-worth from their character(s) in this game, and act like giant a-holes because of it. If they keep to themselves, that's fine (as sad as it is). However, when they try to "get" me personally with that crap, I have to respond with ridicule.

I love this game, and I take it seriously enough that I get all mad, just like anyone else, when I lose exp, or my favorite upper-60s FoV camp of Very Toughs is crowded with players to whom the mobs can't possibly check harder than EP, or I accept a party invite and it ends up being a total waste of my time because they're insanely unprepared, or someone takes an NM from under me, or any of the myriad other things there are to get mad at in this game.

So yeah, I take the game seriously. However, I don't mistake my character's accomplishments for anything genuinely important in life. Sure, I loved getting Rank 10 in two nations before I was level 60, and sure I drool over crazy-awesome gear, and of course, sure, I love that I can solo some pretty damned difficult mobs. I love my gardening knowledge and that I raised a sweet li'l red chocobo. I love that I got myself back into skilling up my cooking and it's finally getting to a respectable level. I love that I recently got back to spending more time leveling my RDM and she should be 75 in less time than it took me to take her to 50 once I started playing last year. (I'm no power-leveler, that's fo' sho'.)

But my loving the game and wanting to get things done in it doesn't translate into my being selfish or a *** to other players. If you've met me in-game and you think I AM a ***, then I guarantee you did something totally and completely dickish to see that side of me. I'm hard to anger, and I don't play selfishly. If I want to farm materials from mobs that lower-level players are trying to level on, I move on. If I decide to camp an NM for some R/E gear I won't even use soon but someone with a job that can use it now shows up, I go do something else, or I might even stay and help them get it. I mean seriously, come on.

So anyway, my point is that there are two completely different sets of reasons that people say "It's just a game." Some say it to excuse their own douchbag behavior, but some of us say it to other people in an attempt to get THEM to stop acting like a ***.

Paragraphing goes a long way.

DAMN!

o.o;

it is very difficult to read a wall of text.

And so does not being an ***. :P At least they used decent spelling/grammar.

It's just a forum!
Sheesh!

Hehe... I know... sorry *blush* -- Luckily, I don't post often! [/smile]

I'm not being an ***, I'm being honest. Got anything else to add troll?

But it comes down to...
Why bother posting if will just hurt all of our eyes trying. ; ;

Yeah, you were. No one was forcing you to read it.

Do I hear the pot calling the kettle black?



It didn't hurt my eyes. I enjoyed her post.

Sorry; didn't mean to injure anyone. I read quite a bit online and off-, and it doesn't bother me when it's solid text. If I wanna read it, I do; if I don't wanna read it, I don't. Anyway... I edited the original post to add paragraphs so no one else gets their eyes hurt. I don't like harming people.

Thank you, Tbest! *hugs*

I didn't read it for the previously stated reason. You make less and less sense every time you post my friend.

It's just forum ediqi...
Ededk...
Edi...
Fancyness.

FANCYPANTS!

Atleast I have pants!

The whole "It's just a game." is just a bunch of bull.

Technically, baseball, football, soccer, bowling and basketball are all "just games" but people have turned them into "sports".

Sports where they pay people to play.

I know there are professional gaming tournaments out there.

If people are competing playing some "game" for money and titles, then how come it's not a sport?

If your logic says it's not physically active enough or doesn't require enough natural skill or ect, then why the hell is poker on ESPN?

Who knows, maybe video games are the next category in sports.

"it's just a fukin mmorpg game man -_-"
yes, last few days i've written it a bunch of times.
But not gameplay-wise (or gear-related lol) .. Drama-wise.
My Ls is like a *** Daily Soap (i think all LS with <8 members are lol)
it's so annoying.. "YOU DON'T WANT HELP ME WITH AF XY BUT U HELPED XY WITH XY!"
"YOU WRITE BEHIND MY BACK WITH XY ABOUT XYXY"
These guys need a reality check ...-_-
These Dramaqueens/kings need a RL where they can argue aaall day long. I would love to hear only gameplay-related stuff in my LS.. meh
Hope you get my point, sry for mah raped english.
cheers

BOOM.

Headshot.

I find this amusing because there's a girl on my server that is my friend and linkshellmate, named Xylyndra, we call her Xy for short.

Exactly. Thanks for proving my point. If you don't want to read something, don't. Instead, you feel the need to make a smart-*** comment about it instead. You're such a nice guy. Are you 'trying' to deter people from posting here?

And don't even 'try' to call me a friend. It's just wishful thinking on your part.

Troll much Tbest? I stated the reason why I didn't read it, as others made similar comments the poster thereby corrected their post for our viewing pleasure. It's not even your post and you're here to whine about it? Yeesh.

lol... Read much? I wasn't saying anything bad about her post. I was simply stating if you didn't like it, you didn't have to read it. And you sure didn't have to comment about it to get her to put breaks in it.

As for the trolling part... *Looks at his post count, then looks at Artemicion's.* You were saying?

{Can I have it?}

Edit: You keep failing to realize that I was merely suggesting paragraphing their wall-o-text so we can read it easier. I wasn't interested until they did and upon their edit found it to be a good statement. Instead you somehow managed to Q_Q about it and turn in into an argument.

This is the real reason we type correctly: To avoid derailing threads with arguements about trolling about grammar and punctuation.

And, because it's just the right thing to do!

Proper formatting and grammar for the win! ^^