ElegantAhses, I very well agree with your perspective and point of view, and it absolutely warms my heart learning that there is someone out there brave and courageous enough to finally explain this sort of point. And in a manner, to tell the truth. It is indeed true that people are taking a mere video game to an extent where it becomes a redundant competition. Over time, people will begin to lose the actual morality and true purpose of playing a video game at all.
I have noticed countless competitive playing, and I have seen a large handful of people stating how disrespectful others can get over a game. It begins to make me think why people would go to such extents like cyber-bullying other people, or in other cases, simply hack in-game.
I do understand that a majority of the competitiveness would simply come through the leaderboards and ongoing statistics, where it analyzes a person's performance, and ranks them amongst thousands upon thousands of other players. And from what I can tell, this is due to inspiration, motivation. A motivation and encouragement to be the best.
Unfortunately, in a majority of cases, that motivation is acknowledged in the wrong terms, hence causing a lot of discouragement and a lot of hate among different parts of the community; it is understandable that people wish to improve their statistics and try to achieve high ranks, however, I do not see what purpose or how big of an impact it will have on someone or anyone around them. This is a matter of the term and emotion: Pride.
Pride is an emotion considerably a very dangerous one, people wish to think of themselves great and mighty, or simply being the best and to have superior comparisons among their peers. This had been discussed between me and
BitoBain before in a thread relating to emotions, and have agreed upon pride being an emotion that's dangerous as it is charming. People do wish to achieve great things in life, to make the most out of it. But the fact that there are many people aiming for such unlikely goals does prove to show how inspiring it is to be an excellent fighter in a video game.
Yet again, how much worth will a video game have in the end? A king can always be overthrown, forgotten like the game itself. Nothing lasts forever, nor does pride.
In this community, the statistics can show how skillful a person is in fighting, or how much of a battle it would be fighting against them, yet again, there are people who are ambitious towards being the best fighter, the one who wins the most games in a Survival Games community, to see themselves ranked #1 on the leaderboards. However, despite the efforts, the chances of achieving it can be considerably slim, but I do commend those who wish to attempt doing so.
Others, however, wish to improve their statistics so they can join clans, and participate in clan wars. But when applying for a specific clan, being a prestigious or famous one; people must take their time in doing so, we mustn't always rush trying to improve statistics so we can join a clan, especially when bombarding and raging in the servers, trying to get better statistics. Yes, as previously stated by others, the statistics are also a way to identifying who is worth hiring in a clan and who isn't, and that is a purpose that seems relevant.
It seems to me that people who go disrespectful over someone's efforts in a video game is considerably immature. Thankfully, it is possible to report people who take a step too far over the edge and continue abusing someone else over a video game. But it does intrigue me towards how people put so much effort, and in some circumstances, abuse others over a mere video game, I do not see why people must lose their morality, their common sense and courtesy over a video game. To trade such incredible emotions over a little moment's of pride. It is like giving away your soul, your spirit to be the most empowered person. In the end, there will be nothing, in the end, nothing would matter at all.
TL;DR The MCGamer community is for making lovely memories and to form friendships and bonds, not to serve ourselves and make a full-out competitive war among one another, the Survival Games is usually for fun and games. Imagine if you were in an in-real-life situation, participating in the Survival Games, would you simply volunteer as tribute every chance you get to join a game, and to willingly lose all your moral empathy?
