Capping, just don't get it

[Lunari]

Playing for fun is something some people don't understand. Oké, winning is more fun then losing. But you have to understand, especialy you PvP maniac's, that not everyone is as consumed by winning as you are.

[Simply Kedde]

Is it now a problem that some players are simply better than others and find winning a lot more fun than losing?

Losing is pretty boring except for epic matches, but that's not really ever going to be the case in AB.

[Lunari]

You just dont get it.

[Ryuujinx]

Huh, I don't see how "playing for fun" and "playing to win" in an AB setting aren't mutually exclusive. Is playing bad with horrible builds "fun"? Horrible Tactics? Because I like actually scoring kills and doing my part to achieve a win. People screaming "CAP CAP CAP" sure as hell wanting to win, and this thread is asking "What's with the cap cap cap?" when everyone has plainly pointed out running at the other team, rolling them, and taking their cap point provides shrine advantage.

So please, what don't I get?

[Simply Kedde]

Sure you can have a good, exciting match and lose in the end, but it sure as hell is more fun to win in the end.

Even going in with **** builds and playing just to annoy others you still play to win the game.

[raspberry jam]

Playing for fun is something some people don't understand. Oké, winning is more fun then losing. But you have to understand, especialy you PvP maniac's, that not everyone is as consumed by winning as you are.

How extraordinarily selfish. You are putting your own fun in front of 11 other peoples' fun.

[Lunari]

You play for fun. I should say this diffrently: whilst playing you're having fun.
Whether you win or not, you first have to play a match to win. You can't win and then play the match and have fun winning.

Ofc I like winning, running a good team build and doing everything good and then winning at the end is great. Duh. But you shouldn't flip it round. You're playing a match, having fun, and then you loose at the end. This doesn't mean you didn't had fun. You enjoyed it, but to bad, you lost in the end.

Back to the topic?

[Alaris]

Here's the tradeoff as I understand it...

There are sacrifices you can make to win that will make it less fun.

Playing with more skilled players who's idea of motivation is yelling at you for making mistakes.

Running builds you don't enjoy just because they are slightly more efficient.

Etc

So while generally there are ways to have both, sometimes you have to make choices.

[Ryuujinx]

I've never got yelled at for screwing up. I've been corrected and told what I did wrong, most good people aren't the jackasses everyone makes them out to be.

And most times "slightly more efficient" tends to be "significantly more efficient" I don't care if you run a Blessed Light monk instead of WoH in AB, but if you come in with 4 smiting skills, 2 heals, blood ritual and order of pain I'm gonna ask you to choose a different build.

[Wethospu]

And what all of this has to do with this topic? :/

Well, doesn't really matter. I think this topic has ended way ago.