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Originally Posted by Kushiel
WoW! Most? I cringe at the thought that there are more dishonest people than honest. That is a heck of a statement concerning the human condition. I have yet to see more than one team at a time in the same league blatantly tanking.
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It's not quite as bad as that, where we're living in Sodom and Gommorah (sp?) here and we're all a bunch of cheats or anything. It's just adapting to the environment.
IMO it's like jaywalking (crossing the street on a red light or where there is no crosswalk, for non Americans). In America, pretty much everyone jaywalks despite there being nominal laws against it, but when I went to Switzerland last year, no-one did it.
In each country, when that law was put into place, perhaps 5% of people broke it regularly. Switzerland obviously made a point of cracking down on those 5% and everyone else saw that jaywalking was not accepted behavior. In America, nothing happened to that 5% and they got where they were going faster. Everyone else saw that this 5% gained an advantage from jaywalking with no downside, emulated it, and now most people in America will jaywalk according to their own personal needs and physical capabilities.
There had to be an easier way to put that, but I'll leave it...
MP games are the same way. Rules are put into place. Some players break them because that's how they are. If they get away with such violations, every player who seriously wants to compete will play in a similar way, and that becomes sort of the accepted way to play the game.
There will be lots of people who never tank here. But they'll either be:
- Buying tons of pp.
- Working the AH (I think most of those guys are competitive enough to also tank if it became accepted though).
- Zorro.
- .. or nowhere near the elite levels of the game and accepting of that.