I don’t get it at all, suppose someone enters the gym and you can tell that they are not in shape would you laugh at them for trying? If someone is working at fast food just to earn money would you laugh at them? It someone was poorer than you, would you? Like I don’t understand why in gaming it seems to be okay to do so. So what if someone is bad at the game? As long as they’re having fun isn’t that okay tho?
I saw a post of someone saying how proud he was to get from silver to gold and people just piled on him. Saying he shouldn’t be proud or that’s not an achievement. Dude if someone told me “I lost 10 lbs but I’m still fat” idc that’s great keep at it. You earn 2 dollars more per hour hell yeah that’s good.
I just don’t get why people feel the need to look down on other players who may not even be playing the game seriously to begin with? Is it an ego thing? But how does a game that has zero effect on your life give you an ego boost? Like there was someone who made it to masters because he played with his buddies but his kd is like .4 or something he was mostly support, that got people pissed for some reason.
Like who cares he played with his friends and they had fun what’s wrong with that? People said that he doesn’t belong there or he’s boosted. And this affects you how? Who cares? I just don’t get it. Do they believe that it devalues their pixelated badge or something? Even if it does who cares? Imagine I walk to someone and tell them I got the highest rank in apex what do you think they’ll say like cool and then what or maybe they don’t even know what apex is right?
I just don’t get it, I don’t understand why it matters so much that they feel the need to show it. I guess it matters to the players who play it. I still don’t get how this feeds someone’s ego. Think of it, this game has maybe around 200,000 players right now. That’s approximately 0.000024 of the planet.
Don’t get me wrong it’s okay to feel proud at being good at the game I just don’t get how gives them a pass to be horrible. I feel like people take the game way too seriously, to the point where if something goes wrong they start lashing out like calm down man I get a child acting this way not a grown ass man. It’s a game have fun out there.
Anyways I’m hoping I can get some kind of clarity here because I just don’t get it.
TLDR I don’t understand the need to look down on others or how does a rank badge feed an ego when it’s just a game
Edit: I’m not complaining guys I’m trying to figure out why a game that has literally no bearing on their life takes way too much importance in their life. I mute people and play pubs for like an hour then hop off. I’m just wondering why a particular behavior seems to fester when there’s no reason for it to. It doesn’t affect your irl life so why the importance that some people will lose sleep, neglect irl stuff , even cheat for some badge that most people don’t even respect anyways. That’s what I don’t get.