Original question by: @rainrain@sh.itjust.works

Is it the other players, because they beat you?

Is it you, because you chose to play the game?

Is it the game manufacturer?

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    I feel like this implies never losing is an option. The other players aren’t idiots either, so of course they’re going to prevail a statistically reasonable percent of the time.

    (Serious answers are allowed, right?)

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    It depends, and it’s not necessarily the same answer every time even if it’s the same player(s) playing the same scenario in the same game over and over.

  • RadicalEagle@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Obviously it is god’s fault for creating this flawed universe in which I don’t win every single game I play.

  • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It is yourself. Because winning or losing is less important than having fun. If you did not have fun, then you lost, no matter the outcome.

    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 month ago

      There’s nothing wrong with admitting you don’t have fun when you lose. Some games are just like that. Most people can handle a few losses, but losing a game over and over again, no matter what the cause, eventually stops being fun for most people.

        • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          1 month ago

          I’m not sure who said otherwise? Or how that relates to the original comment?

          If you’re not having fun, don’t play. But this person is (essentially) saying that winning/losing is not tied to fun, which is not true. It’s not 1:1, but it is certainly tied to it. No one likes feeling like they are engaging in a Sisyphean exercise

  • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    1 month ago

    It depends if I feel the death is deserved and if I’m having fun.

    If I’m playing something like Battlefield and keep dying because of someone’s skills with a plane I’m fine with that and it definitely feels like it’s on me. If it’s someone sliding around shipment in Call of Duty mobile killing me as soon as I spawn and I’m lucky if I end their kill streak I feel like that’s on the game because of baked in mechanics being frustrating to counter.

    I would say it’s definitely the most noticeable with games like Elden Ring. I suck so bad at them but I feel like I deserve each death and don’t feel irritated by dying.

    It’s only in situations where someone is hacking that I would actually blame another player.