Well thats what offline is for.. you can win all by yourself!
Hey, I never said I agreed with it, but that seems to be the motivating factor.
I believe it stems from the way the rest of gaming has gone. When was the last time you saw a game where there was a goal you could not complete if your threshold for boredom was high enough? Video games have moved away from something you play with a chance of losing that requires skill to complete to something you consume, like a movie. There is an implicit understanding when people play a video game these days that they will be able to see and do everything in the game.
It seems to me most gamers have grown used to this, and when they encounter an unlimited PvP game, such as this one, suddenly they run into unwinnable situations. Often times things in this game are simply not fair. That really kinks a lot of peoples' tails, and you can see it in the whines about gangs, hording, NOEs, HOing better than you, and soforth on 200 and in here.
Most people want a little bit of resistance from their opponents, but resistance that they can overcome and ultimately prevail in their inexorable march to 'winning' however they've defined it.
People who are looking for a challenge, going into situations with 50/50 chances of winning are a vast minority these days. It is my sneaking suspicion they were a minority in the old days too, but there were enough of them to entertain one another. I wasn't there, can't say for sure.
Wiley.
