Originally posted by didymus
OK, right. Run your team the way you want. Please get out of my league. Find someplace where you can just play with yourself all day.
I believe "Get out of my league" says it all. This is no more your league than mine, and the fact that you think otherwise speaks volumes about your selfish approach to this game and the arbitrary rules you would have Bort play by.
Originally posted by didymus
Bort alters the code about every day, so he is surely too busy to address this issue.
Yes, because if he really believed an aspect of the game was deterring people from purchasing flex points, and thereby throwing the entire financial structure of the game into jeopardy, surely he would allow the fix to languish at the bottom of his list of priorities while he works on, say, making minor tweaks to energy or something.
Originally posted by didymus
Buying a ticket to a movie doesn't give you the right to stand and talk and ruin the film for those around you. You get tossed out, ticket and all.
A team that loses intentionally (which you seem to be admitting) cheapens GLB for everyone around you. This is "what you have done" to me.
If bort decided to arbitrarily kick me out of team ownership and refund my flex, I would not complain. Further, if he decided to change the rules and require everyone to play 40 players, and I broke that rule, he could kick me out w/o a refund and again, I would not complain. I recognize this is only a license to play. Still, until bort says otherwise, it is a license to play as I would like. If, on the other hand, you think that the operation of my team in the way most pleasing to me impairs your GLB experience and entitles you to demand removal of my team ownership, then I say that having to read your drivel on this board impairs my GLB experience (it does) and that you should be kicked out as well.
Oh and by the way I defy you to show me where I "seem to admit" I'm intentionally losing. Reading comprehension test here.
Originally posted by didymus
What am I asking for? I feel you owe your opponents, and the game, your best effort. The Liqours are shamelessly clowning around.
When I buy my flex points I feel that I am paying for a competitive environment. I am being cheated of this.
Again, this is (a) attempted imposition of your own playing philosophy on others despite the fact that they paid flex every bit as good as yours, and (b) a curiously misguided belief in what you purchase with your flex points. You buy the right to make your player better and/or to run a team. Your purchase of flex entitles you to nothing more than this, and Bort would say so to your face if you ask for a refund. Consequently, you are only being cheated of something to which you have no right.
Originally posted by didymus
What points will I cede? First, I don't know you. Maybe you are a nice guy. Maybe we served in the same unit somewhere. I respectfully withdraw all comments not pertaining to the percieved operations of the Liqours.
Second, how much of your team's problems are of the current owner's making? Probably less than half. How much could anyone have really expected of the Liqours? Who's to say.
What is in evidence is every roster move, position decision, play call. It's all there to see. Is it sufficient grounds to have a CPU take over the Liqours? Are your actions detrimental to the future success of GLB? If, of the 16 opponents you face, you disgust enough to deter flex purchases in excess of what you buy yourself, you are then a liability.
I suspect my individual actions have not deterred anyone, not even you, from purchasing flex. Threats will be made and self-righteous chests will be thrust out, but in the end you will continue to buy flex. This is the case for the vast majority of complainers in this game. Still, even if you were being intellectually honest and really believed that my actions may deter flex purchasers in excess of what I paid, it is far from obvious that the right economic decision would be to force sale of my team. You have failed to look at the chilling effect on team ownership implementation of draconian rules and/or known arbitrary removal of teams would cause. If I were thinking about getting a new team and saw a bunch of tightlaced rules, or heard that bort was pulling people's team ownership because others didn't like them even though they broke no rules, I would not buy a team in the first place. Consequently, it seems highly likely that your shortsighted view of the economic interests of the game is not the right one; people are far more likely NOT to take on team ownership than to QUIT team ownership once they have it, and so the economically inferior decision would almost certainly be the one you're advocating.
Finally...cool your jets. It appears I will be gone in under a season, and then you can put all your self-righteous airs to use somewhere else.
