Last post on this subject cause I'm tired of it. Jynne is more fun to annoy
Little story. Different game. Star Wars: Jedi Knight II. Anyone that played multiplayer knows it places players in a far more direct competition against another individual that AO ever can.
When released, there were 2 manuevers in JKII. How to do them was outlined in the manual. One was called 'Death From Above', shortened to 'DFA'. Essentially Strong stance, jump and strike with your saber. This caused you to land an unblockable overhead strike on your target for massive damage. The other I called "Nosejob". Essentially rush your target, use the Force to run up him like he was a wall and kick him in the face for moderate damage. Shortly, the players of JKII were howling like rabid monkeys over these manuevers on the forums. People were just as quick to toss around words like "Exploit", "Cheater" and "Dishonorable". I actually did not use these manuevers, not because I didn't know how though. I preferred a quicker stance which allowed faster strikes, parries, and ripostes. But I had them used against me many times.
Now instead of jumping around like a rabbit with its ass on fire, screaming 'foul' and slandering people that used these techniques, I fought on. I lost. I said 'GG' and 'GF' ('Good Game'/'Good Fight') that people that used them on me. I also analyzed what they did. Both were
easily overcome using Force Push or Force Pull. And would cost the attacker their life when countered (Force Push on the Nar'Shadda map being especially deadly). I did not quit in disgust. I did not slander people, making personal actions in
a game. And while people who took that game
FAR too seriously were being frustrated constantly, often quitting or shutting down their hosts in disgust, I was deriving far more satisfaction out of the game than their Honor Code ever could allow them.
Moral of the Story:
It's only a game. Attmpting to force serious, real world concepts onto people who do not care what your beliefs are will not harm their gameplay. It will harm yours.