xxomegafaustxx
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You're confusing personal aspiration to individual potential. Of course if one chooses to emulate the success of the individual that is up to him/her. But as I like to point out, everyone has a different standard of success whether it is not losing once, twice or perhaps 10 times consecutively during pvping. As time goes by, people may have different goals than prior but the fact is they still have the ability to change their destiny. I don't need to become like him/her to become successful. Rather, I become my own-self, I recognize my potential as an individual, and make my dreams and goals happen. In a classroom, you have the tools to become successful. In order to become successful, one does not need to emulate. To the nonvarium greats as you say: who did they emulate to become successful? Who did the first one emulate? No one.
I would have to disagree with you once more. I'll say this with once more; proverbially, it should be the wielder of the weapon and not the weapon itself that makes a player a formidable foe in a game. I could have a spoon or sandwich against your taser for all I care but the skill I've acquired through personal experience, hardship and also personal endeavour allows me develop and evolve the skills necessary to hone and master a range of versatile and unique weapons. In the hands of the master, anything is deadly, even my sandwich so to say. Yes in time, the so called "apprentice" who holds the sword may learn how to use it better, but this should in no shape or form discredit the master's strategies, skills and expertise who have developed and honed with patience, experience and above all an open mind to adaptability. Say a varium "noob" (amateur) decides to use (with no knowledge of the pvp interface) a strength abusing build against a nonvarium user who acknowledges this weakness (who has experienced and dealt with such builds) and uses the appropriate build to combat that.
I ask you who should win? The one that paid or the one that used a better build?
The reality of this is both should have fair chances of winning (noticed I used fair as a qualifier); it is because paying should preside to at least some advantage whereas one's strategies should also be formulated in the success of a character. But in this example, the varium user is not as knowledgeable and lacks the proper skills and understanding of builds whereas the nonvarium competitor doesn't. Strategy should have at least some value if we're talking pvp. This encourages people to create different builds because ultimately it is one's strategy that champions over the opponents. This is like chess except the varium user is given an extra knight to employ. The advantage at the start of the game does no manifest victory over the one who didn't but rather creates an atmosphere that is challenging to both the players.
Now consider the second senario but lets say the varium user got a 40+ buff in strength. Can the nonvarium player who has close to none of these enhancements compete against that? Here strategy is rendered useless; because the amount of stat abuse over piled by the varium user has an overpowering. It doesn't matter if the nonvarium utilizes the proper build because it'll always succumb to the far-more-enhanced oped build. This is like chess on steroids; the varium user is given an three extra Queens which is more than enough to win the game.
Conclusively, the player who uses the strength abusing build will find prove victorious and will continue to adopt it whilst the nonvarium player will find his build strategies to be futile. This is were imbalance is derived; the GAP encourages monkey-see-monkey-doo builds, less variety of unique builds as we seen b4 in alpha and beta forcing nonvariums which much compromised builds hindering creativity and strategy. ED as I see it is fostering a "spend more to win" it game not a "pvp strategy platform".
To digress momentarily from this subject, in regards to your first point, notice I stated "compete fairly" which does not necessarily imply the fact that varium players will lose to nonvarium users all the time. Of course, they should obtain an advantage but that advantage should never be too large. Varium now has a inflated and pronounced effect on a user (you can tell clearly by the distinction) because of the amount of stats allocated by the user can be used indefinitely and freely without penalty or abuse (encourages oped builds). And it is because of this, varium users have a way easier than the average nonvarium user who must farm for many intensive months just to compete.
I'll ask you again now that you put it into context; Should the master in the scenario you described be penalized for choosing a path that he finds to be more challenging or more difficult? As you spoken previously in one of your posts I quote:
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I also know MANY varium players who would rather play against fellow Varium-ers, because it gives more of a challenge.
Have you considered playing as a nonvarium user as a challenge? Have you considered playing for 2years or so as a nonvarium lvl 34 user? Funny how someone asked for a "real" challenge.
Additionally let me defer you to another contention: What is the point of purchasing varium if the varium you purchased is used to compete against varium users? Don't you find this reasoning flawed? You're paying a game just to compete with others who have paid. Similarly this may be analogous to purchasing airplane tickets. A man pays more money (or so he thought) than the average joe just to get on the plane first on onto your destination. The airplane company has promised you the first class seats, personal luxury, and also tasty food accompanying your purchase. He thinks wow, that's a great deal! So off he go, walking heartily with a big smile and big bobby eyes.
But dishearteningly, he sees that others have done the same so in a sense, he has embroiled in a much greater conflict of higher competition than he has ever expected. Where initially he thought he would had a "clear slice of the pie" deal, he finds out he needs to pay more money to exercise the luxury he was promised before hand and to "distinguish" himself as a more credible candidate to get the deal. This is the argument I'm voicing: the man in this scenario should not be cheated where his initial intent or thought was to obtain a leverage with the average joe. Rather, he must compete with the elitist group who he'll find to be much harder: Either he conforms with the situation and prepares to make a expensive sacrifice or if he chooses not to exercise an expensive deal and goes to another airplane offer.
This is how I see it now; varium users are trying harder and harder to compete against varium users resulting into incredulous spending. And I'm also speaking for the behalf of varium users; they're working way to hard to compete in the PvP interface; nobody should pay more than $30 weekly just to play a laggy flash game with constant patches, bugs, and questionably performance.
And to support my rebuttal I quote:
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If there were only Varium players, purchasing Varium would NOT be an issue. Highly competitive players purchase varium ALL THE TIME.
But how many players are willing to spend such sums of money? WoW is comparable because I know the money I purchase will sustain itself over a period of time (whence I get to indulge in the features and the game experience) whereas ED I don't. I don't need to play WoW but the comparison is resolute. As you used in Beta and Alpha, was that varium purchased the sustainable up until now? Look at previous examples, like Zeuszooka, Nautical Sharkzooka, Lightning Rod, etc. Where did that varium go, down the drain?
Of course the game cultivates an elitist feel but again you're focused tentatively less than a quartile percent of users who embrace this. To correct your fallacy, not many people play competitively, some play for fun. Who wants to pay to remain in that top percentile? A few can actually commit to that level because some of us play ED for leisure time, for socialization, release stress, etc. AND not many can support this lifestyle? I can personally testify to this as many of my close friends and varium buddies stepped down once they saw that the promos were getting too expensive, lame, and a "rip-off" to their original purchases.
I'm not going to write more since I literally fried my brain on this subject. I hope you will at least take some of what I said into consideration.
< Message edited by xxomegafaustxx -- 10/25/2011 3:57:16 >
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