Jadd Hatchen
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Posted - 2013.12.09 17:21:00 -
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Grease Spillett wrote:When I play on my alt I find it hilarious when people go on about corporations and players cheating.
1 if you know how to cheat pm me.
2 anyone ever play me and think I was cheating when something happened or you died?
I'm really curious what popular belief is and what big name players have to say. I feel insulted when accused of cheating. I know i should take it as a compliment but ugh. I just play this game ALL THE TIME. I probably know what you are doing before you know what you are doing...
This is common to all games and even real life too. Everyone wants to believe that they are "doing it right" no matter what it is that they are doing. After all, why would anyone "do it wrong" on purpose? What they don't realize is that no every single person has full knowledge or full visibility to everything that his happening all the time. No one is "God" so they have to operate under the limited info that they have. Using those assumptions, they make the jump that if they and their friends are "doing it right" then the other guys are the bad guys and have to be "doing it wrong".
This happens in sports, in war, in gaming, hell in competitive female social circles it get down right obscene. The truth of the matter is that everyone is a person no more or less than any other. Everyone believes they are the "good guys" or else they wouldn't continue to do what they are doing as it's self-defeating. So they have to attribute "bad guy" thinking and behavior to the "others" in order to reinforce what they are doing. But similarly, the "bad guys" are doing the same. So neither side is actually "cheating" or "evil" or "doing it wrong". They are just regular people competing in a game against one another.
i've been on both sides on many such conflicts in many such games. In the end it's just a motivational tool. What one side thinks is prat of the other's low down chaety behavior is nothing more than how they play the game. And in turn, something you do in game may be viewed and "cheating" by someone else as they don't understand your tactic or behavior also.
A lot of this is similar to the Fundamental Attribution Error as detailed here in this link:
http://lifehacker.com/5946530/fix-the-machine-not-the-person#13488550235563&
It boils down to blaming people for stuff that they didn't do on purpose, but we assume they did:
Quote:This was an extreme case, but we make the same mistake all the time. We see a sloppily-parked car and we think "what a terrible driver," not "he must have been in a real hurry." Someone keeps bumping into you at a concert and you think "what a jerk," not "poor guy, people must keep bumping into him." A policeman beats up a protestor and we think "what an awful person," not "what terrible training." The mistake is so common that in 1977 Lee Ross decided to name it the "fundamental attribution error": we attribute people's behavior to their personality, not their situation. |