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		<title>By: Jon Monreal</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jon Monreal</dc:creator>
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		<description>I completely agree that games are better when people play to have a good time and enjoy participating in the game. This makes the game more enjoyable.

However, when you say, &quot;When it is not cool, usually you have that douchebag who is really in it to win it. You can recognize this person from certain behaviors, such having a hard time when they lose. as a result, they would call other players cheaters, and kick, scratch, bite, complain, and whine just until they get even a semi-satisfactory win (or just a better advantage) out of their newly defined rules and technicalities,&quot; you fail to consider that there are some people who play to win in certain types of games, but who do not get overly concerned when they lose. There is nothing wrong with playing to win so long as you don&#039;t overdo it. At any rate, I understand the angle that you are coming from concerning those who have a hard time losing and so try to cheat.

I once played a computed game called Jedi Academy (clearly a Star Wars game.) I played on a server with this administration mod turned on. As it turned out, it was a clan server for recruitment that was not well labeled. At any rate, one of the &quot;recruiters&quot; used the in-game dueling function, which makes the competitors use their lightsabers in a duel. The duel was supposed to be for entry into the clan, but I wasn&#039;t there for that and was just hoping to get in a match. I won the duel (not by much), which surprised the recruiting officer, who started talking about how the clan is elite and only accepts expert players. He &quot;challenged&quot; me to a rematch, using the built-in administration functions to bring me to him and force a duel. He then used the function to stop me from moving (although I could still fight) and then decreased my health, then winning the duel. After that, I simply left the server and joined another one.

Point being, some people are so concerned with winning that nothing else matters, and they are indeed willing to cheat to get what they want.</description>
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I completely agree that games are better when people play to have a good time and enjoy participating in the game. This makes the game more enjoyable.</p>
<p>However, when you say, &#8220;When it is not cool, usually you have that douchebag who is really in it to win it. You can recognize this person from certain behaviors, such having a hard time when they lose. as a result, they would call other players cheaters, and kick, scratch, bite, complain, and whine just until they get even a semi-satisfactory win (or just a better advantage) out of their newly defined rules and technicalities,&#8221; you fail to consider that there are some people who play to win in certain types of games, but who do not get overly concerned when they lose. There is nothing wrong with playing to win so long as you don&#8217;t overdo it. At any rate, I understand the angle that you are coming from concerning those who have a hard time losing and so try to cheat.</p>
<p>I once played a computed game called Jedi Academy (clearly a Star Wars game.) I played on a server with this administration mod turned on. As it turned out, it was a clan server for recruitment that was not well labeled. At any rate, one of the &#8220;recruiters&#8221; used the in-game dueling function, which makes the competitors use their lightsabers in a duel. The duel was supposed to be for entry into the clan, but I wasn&#8217;t there for that and was just hoping to get in a match. I won the duel (not by much), which surprised the recruiting officer, who started talking about how the clan is elite and only accepts expert players. He &#8220;challenged&#8221; me to a rematch, using the built-in administration functions to bring me to him and force a duel. He then used the function to stop me from moving (although I could still fight) and then decreased my health, then winning the duel. After that, I simply left the server and joined another one.</p>
<p>Point being, some people are so concerned with winning that nothing else matters, and they are indeed willing to cheat to get what they want.<!-- google_ad_section_end --></p>
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