Concerns About the Change to Sitting

[Band of Horses]

The biggest flaw in your argument is that you present it as a "choice" to wake up in the middle of the night. It is simply not so for everyone. Plus you're switching back and forth between saying it gives no "in-game advantage" and it gives no "unfair/competitive advantage" which are not mutually exclusive things. In-game is playing the game at its base level, whereas competitive is playing the game at a much higher level. I realize waffling between those two concepts makes it easier to always be right, but you're playing both sides of the field in order to always be right and it's not like we can't see you doing it. ;)

We as people have free will. You can choose to set an alarm. You can choose to not go to work. You can choose to not go to your life saving surgery, and instead stay home and play Utopia and die, then you no longer have a choice. Arguing the definition of pay 2 win and arguing the effect of this change are different aspects of this discussion. I would recommend looking up Truth Trees and Propositional Logic.

Except they're not playing in that environment, they're getting someone else to play for them. All the aspects that turn the normal environment into a hardcore environment (waking up in the middle of the night to hit for instance) can now be passed off to someone else to deal with. It doesn't change the way the casual player plays much at all, except maybe that they're paying more money into the game than before.

"Aha" ...

A casual player playing in a hardcore environment does not become a hardcore player even with sub 24hr sitting (or above 24hr sitting, they could just set sitter the entire war). However, a casual player with more options to reduce the time commitment such as sub 24hr sitting, is able to play competitively in that higher tier without making choices that sacrifice their real life to maintain that tier.

I do find your emoticons and aha's to be cute though. I wish you could better express your chit eating grin through the internet though, it makes it more amusing to me.
I have more respect for those that argue that sitting in general is pay 2 win, than those that crusade for this reduction in time, dealing in absolutes are far better.

David did a far better job explaining this subject than I. I just don't know how to reach these keeeeeeeeeeds. (I don't mean that as an insult, just enjoy that esoteric reference.)