What bothers me the most about this is how I can't believe that these PC gamers, much of which laugh at people playing on consoles, on MMOs or "inferior games" are so god damn elitist that they're also entitlement douchebags. Really? Someone else got a free handout, that's not life or death, that's not advantageous or disadvantageous, and everyone else rages for one? It's like getting a free candy from somewhere, giving it out to a random kid in your neighborhood, and suddenly having a bunch of kids following you around everywhere demanding that they deserve one too.
You don't deserve anything! This isn't a matter of deserving something! Everyone seems to care about "skill" and "earning" that they can't handle something being given out for free at all? For fun?
And honestly, I see this as them trying to make the "rare trading card" actually rare. Instead of having someone pay lots and lots of money for boosters, making it the realm of the rich bastards, they're giving everyone a fair chance. And because they're limiting it like this, it's still rare. This is both about diversity and rarity, and you can't have rarity if everyone gets one of the three main hats to find for a class. Once the rarity is lost, all that's left is diversity, and things become less special. Don't you want this to be special? Don't you want these things to be memorable? Not if you can't have one? Why are you so butthurt?
I remember when I first was watching Yugioh, and how the idea of it was really cool. How there were a few rare cards, but not everyone could have them, so you'd need to be able to play well and be awesome without the cards, and that's why I started playing the card game. Unfortunately, I was betrayed by both the publishers of the game, and by all the many people who couldn't stand being one of those without a shiny rare card.
Hell, here's something I ended up writing on the steam forums because I just couldn't hold it in any longer:
"But the rest of you don't get it either, do you, <insert name of whoever I'm talking with>? The system is not wrong. It's a system put in place for something extra to this game service, which for whatever reason many of you feel entitled to. The system is not life or death, does not give advantages or disadvantages, so it can't be "wrong." Disliked, yes, but just because a system is disliked doesn't mean you go around it. You do what you can to change it, or you walk away, but you don't go and do everything you can to get around it. That's fundmenatally wrong, and I didn't know so many PC people were such entitlement douchebags."
I mean, from now on I'm identifying myself as a console gamer that just happens to play a select few games on PC.
This isn't a plead or the asking for discussion and argument or anything. It's obvious that the other side doesn't see it my way, refuses to see it my way, and feel like they were in the right and everyone else and Valve is in the wrong. They don't see how it was wrong to use an external third party program that could spoof their servers.
It's like hacking console systems. Sure you can do it, and it allows you to do something cool with it, and you're not hurting anybody at first, but it's the first step to actually major damaging hacking. That's especially bad for Steam, because it's a platform, and as soon as it's shown to be unreliable and easily to hack and spoof, then guess what? Everyone's gone from Steam, no one but Valve will sell their games anywhere, and that's that. Do you want that? How can you not see these implications just because you feel like it's ok since you're not the doing that last step?
Here's another pointless rant, way too soon after my last one. Respond to this message and I'll be unlikely to respond to save everyone time and energy. At this rate I should start a
private online journal somewhere.
