Anet is Promoting Unsportsmanship
May 8, 2008Anet introduced new Zaishen Title with emotes and released an interesting video… It shows a person ranking their fallen enemy.
The Zaishen Rank emotes were created to be very interactive. For example, if you position yourself correctly, you can use it as a finishing move after you defeat someone!
Ranking is cheap anywhere, but especially after the battle. Sportsmanship is conduct and attitude considered as befitting participants in sports, especially fair play, courtesy, striving spirit, and grace in losing and winning. Poor sportsmanship is “rubbing salt in the wounds” of the losers among other things. Decent players never rank.
One person wrote a nice analogy for this situation: A person who taunts another in dojo before or after a match is an absolute disgrace to everything that he represents, and a failure as a practitioner of the art regardless of technical skill. It has nothing to do with being a carebear or a treehugger and everything to do with dignity. Or then maybe it’s just a male thing. Every chimp pounding his chest thinks that he’s a gorilla.
Anet specifically encouraged unsportsmanship by releasing that video and including that functionality in the emote to nail the dead body of your opponent. There used to be a time when someone could get reported then de-ranked and/or temp banned for making rank emote over enemy’s dead body in HA because of unsportsmanlike behavior. The times have changed it seems…
The very addition of this title is a reflection of Anet’s vision for GW, and this vision seems dim to me.
Guru thread on this subject
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed that. I also wish the PvE players could have their own emote, but that is a barrel of worms better left unopened…
guild wars is a game based on competition. The fact that titles exist is to show off your accomplishments.
Since the zaishen title is hard to get. As such, showing it off would normally be among the elite players.
Also, showing off different sets of weapons at different ranks allows the loser to know if he’s defeated by a higher ranked zaishen or not.
Sportsmanship was never a thing in PVP anyway, people always dance over corpses after victories… rather than something to mock a person’s corpse, a display of rank a the end of battle would be a better emote, imho.
“guild wars is a game based on competition”
Yes, it was originally envisioned as a PvP game, but many people enjoy PvE aspect of it and are not competitive at all.
“The fact that titles exist is to show off your accomplishments.”
If one can, does not mean one should show off.
“Since the zaishen title is hard to get. As such, showing it off would normally be among the elite players.”
If by elite players you mean PvE farmers, expoiters, and not so bright PvPers, then yes.
“Also, showing off different sets of weapons at different ranks allows the loser to know if he’s defeated by a higher ranked zaishen or not.”
Why should I care what Zaishen rank my opponent is?
“Sportsmanship was never a thing in PVP anyway”
Be the change you want to see in the world.
“people always dance over corpses after victories… rather than something to mock a person’s corpse, a display of rank a the end of battle would be a better emote, imho.”
Making a nice comment in chat and/or saluting to your fallen opponent by bowing or kneeling instead of flashing a peacock tail would be better imho.
whats ur ign, i ought to add you sometime
Pfft… look what they did with the Charrs in GW:EN.
Basically, they are reflecting what players usually do. What do I see when high rank groups beat another? Rank. If they don’t have rank, they flame. So it’s not about ranking, it’s all about their ego.
Charr rank because they are evil, so it is natural
You lost me when you used the words “treehugger” and “carebear”.
Care Bear: Name used in online gaming, particular MMORPGs, referring to players who do not enjoy PvP or RPK. Playing style prefers to play nice, enjoys fighting Mobs, and doing other non-pvp related things, such as tradeskills like cooking (ie, baking cakes or fishing, etc.). Usually picked on by rpk’ers. Not very skilled in player versus player fighting.
Tree Hugger: An environmentalist or one who believes trees and all living things should not be cut down or harmed. Someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution.
Source: Urban Dictionary