Nice projection stuff. It's not you cowardly leaving and going to all ends to justify it, it's me "crying" about it. You are the victim. Because, because, because, oh, I know, I am on an OP class and in an OP faction. Keep telling yourself that. There's a guy on RU horde who plays a warlock. He never leaves. Him I respect. Chicken on the other hand can go take a hike, you are going to be laughing stock forever.
This post of yours it's literally what projection looks like.
Do you feel like a laughing stock in real life? Or have you been called that? Does it help you to believe that others will be the laughing stock (so you are not going to be?).
Same way with the chicken, given they way you bring it up, did you feel like it? Or did some1 implied that agaisnt you?
Did you play any competitive sports? Do you have an idea what an actual competition looks like in terms of balancing? You don't match a heavy weight vs a light weight. Sports like fencing instead will not have class categories, but will still regulate equipment (drawing on masks for example).
You refuse to fight on equal ground with fair rules in place, like a member of the team that drops out and you need to get some1 else as replacement or you can't compete? (mind fencing teams tournaments are still fought 1vs1).
Yes, that could be considered a chicken.
And yet you still wouldn't call him so, because you desperately need bodies, so you would try to make him feel better so the next time he shows up (but once again yes, you would not count on him for anything). Did you do something like this, and were your team mates pricks and called you a chicken and it sticked with you?
Now, to our bracket - it has nothing to do with "fair sports competitions".
The friendly soccer match example I made in the other thread is far more logical to use I think.
Did you ever do some friendly team sport with strangers or people that you barely knew?
You will have people of different levels, and if you want them to show up you have to respect the time and money investment they are making.
And you need other 9 of them to show up, so if some1 tells you that he is not having fun, that he doesn't feel like the teams are balanced and he would like some changes, you don't call him a chicken, you try to make things better, because for the love of god the moment you get some1 to show up you really don't want to lose him.
You see - somebody just want the company, so he would't care about balancing. Somebody doesn't have anything better to do with his time, so he too wouldn't care. But the moment somebody that is there to play fcking soccer and has better things to do calls you out for bad team balancing, you don't tell him "but look, the other 2 have nothing against it, so deal with it, chicken" because you can be sure he won't come again,
and once more - you really need people to show up.
More than this, I really don't know what else to say and most of all I feel it's not going anywhere, so I will just rest my case.
As a conclusion and my last say on the topic: this is clearly not the end of twinking and the title was clearly provocative (queues sure could get longer and quality of the game worse) - but an actual argument that could have been interesting for me is "were the previous expansions the end of f2p twinking, so much that very few came back now that gearing for pure f2p is much easier and the gap is almost done?"
