Talk:Combat Logging/@comment-122.148.153.93-20161201033937/@comment-2003:C1:1F19:ED3:289B:C304:4656:914-20171219232059

The chess analogy is actually quite good.

Imagine two chess players. One is a professional, who's played chess for some 10 years, played in a few tournaments, and has an ELO rating of maybe 1000-1200 or so.

The other is a rookie, who enjoys playing chess during his free time and on the weekend. But of course he's not as good.

When the rookie is matched against the pro, it's no wonder he loses. He probably gets checkmate'd within the first few minutes. But it's okay, because he might have learned a thing or two. And he thinks "okay, that was tough luck today. But let's see what tomorrow brings..."

Now comes the interesting part: Imagine the pro player (and maybe some other pro players as well) forcing themselves upon him, making him play match after match against them, while he just wants to play some casual chess. Of course he loses each and every single time. They probably even laugh at him for being so stupid to play against them. If he then decides to quit mid-game, they go "oh, come on, are you such a poor sport that you have to run away when it goes badly for you? why do you play chess if you don't want to lose? Go play chess on your smartphone or something..."

...you see the analogy?