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Never got server firsts, but wasn't far behind. Certainly I remember grinding mats and gold for raids. However. To suggest that a bot renders gameplay meaning

Never got server firsts, but wasn't far behind. Certainly I remember grinding mats and gold for raids. However. To suggest that a bot renders gameplay meaningless doesn't make any sense. Is it meaningless to tend a garden because there are gardeners? I could pay someone to cook my food, does that make cooking pointless? You traded your time for experiences and afterwards decided you made a bad decision. That is your right - but I don't regret the entertainment that Eve or Wow have given me. You created a weird equivalence which I don't think holds.

wincy 7y ago
I think you’re confusing me in your first paragraph for another person, sorry. I never used a bot. I’m glad you enjoy your time on WoW and EVE. I was just trying to describe my personal loved experience and contemplation of what I gained (or lost) from it many years later. I was extremely depressed and suffered terrible anxiety after a traumatic experience. I think if socializing had necessitated getting out of my house, or getting a job rather than living in wow and further secluding myself from the world, I would have recovered sooner. I don’t know if that’s true. Maybe things would have been worse without that escape. To be clear, I’m not making value judgments about other people’s enjoyment of an entertainment product. I’m simply describing in retrospect how I feel about wow and EVE after totally immersing myself in those worlds for years.
y4mi 7y ago
> However. To suggest that a bot renders gameplay meaningless doesn't make any sense. The bot was my example of how a game lost its magic for me. I was trying to convey that the tokens which disillusioned the previous commenter aren't actually so bad. It's just that if you stop thinking about these rules as necessary and realize that they're just arbitrary decisions with no actual impact beyond this game and you're currently investing a significant amount of time into them.... Then you're very likely become disillusioned with the game and suddenly everything you do in the game is suddenly tainted by that admission. the triggers vary widely while the actual reasons for the triggers are generally this disillusionment I'm also not saying that gaming is a lesser hobby. I play games quite frequently, but never again with that previous zeal. It just became an activity to kill time with. Before, it was more.

wincy 7y ago

I think you’re confusing me in your first paragraph for another person, sorry. I never used a bot. I’m glad you enjoy your time on WoW and EVE. I was just trying to describe my personal loved experience and contemplation of what I gained (or lost) from it many years later. I was extremely depressed and suffered terrible anxiety after a traumatic experience. I think if socializing had necessitated getting out of my house, or getting a job rather than living in wow and further secluding myself from the world, I would have recovered sooner. I don’t know if that’s true. Maybe things would have been worse without that escape. To be clear, I’m not making value judgments about other people’s enjoyment of an entertainment product. I’m simply describing in retrospect how I feel about wow and EVE after totally immersing myself in those worlds for years.

y4mi 7y ago

> However. To suggest that a bot renders gameplay meaningless doesn't make any sense. The bot was my example of how a game lost its magic for me. I was trying to convey that the tokens which disillusioned the previous commenter aren't actually so bad. It's just that if you stop thinking about these rules as necessary and realize that they're just arbitrary decisions with no actual impact beyond this game and you're currently investing a significant amount of time into them.... Then you're very likely become disillusioned with the game and suddenly everything you do in the game is suddenly tainted by that admission. the triggers vary widely while the actual reasons for the triggers are generally this disillusionment I'm also not saying that gaming is a lesser hobby. I play games quite frequently, but never again with that previous zeal. It just became an activity to kill time with. Before, it was more.