"Dozens" of thoughts perhaps, like what to cook for dinner while one-handing a great T6 rift clear time, but very few actual difficult decisions beyond guesstimating where the most mob density usually is on the map. Most people would probably consider those very easy decisions, considering the lack of need to watch and use your cooldowns and resources in a planned manner being what most people attribute as one of the core components to skilled play and thus deserving of respect when combined in their totality. I think an experienced player would be rather more likely to understand that positioning, while extremely important at higher difficulties, is pretty much the easier half to master in this situation and almost completely negligible compared to what is expected from normal play.
People generally admire feats and accomplishments that they themselves think would be difficult to accomplish. Automated gameplay is never deserving of respect, in my opinion, as anyone can do it and in fact you aren't even really doing it yourself but setting up the scene to play out by itself for the most part. Just because Blizzard doesn't take actions against partially automated play in this situation doesn't mean they intend or balance the game to be played in this way or that you can expect people's opinions of it to change. However...
I don't think this is the best way to express this opinion, for the overall health of a conversation, and that was the primary problem here. It caused huge walls of text that could have been summed up in a few sentences and derailed the conversation in a negative direction.Yeah very impressive to use autoclicker or macros to push 4 keys sametime and and just move your char. Very impressive idd... just watch how those 4 skills are pushed sametime the whole run and after boss died hes still "pushing" those until he swiched autoclicker or macros off.
Impressive...
This is by far nowhere near the worst piece posted on this site. Compared to previous things that have been so potato and literally misleading/incorrect, this is rather tame. I imagine the moderation of what is posted is likely lax due to D3 not being very exciting on the news front more so than your personal degree of... whatever words you want to use here to describe things that don't even matter.Oh, and just so we're on the same page.
I have no quarrel with the criticism on my commentary, of whether something is admirable or not. That's what I'm here for, to take feedback and criticism. Someone can come out and say this is the worst piece of news they've ever seen on DFans, and we'll have a civil discussion on it.
The issue is I can't just watch public shaming (and judging) of a community member that has recorded and uploaded such footage with good intentions - to show other players it can be done, and how. That's the perspective I'd like my argument to be seen. Please keep that in mind.
Shaming is bad, but judging is not (hoping just poor word choice here). If you do not want to be judged, you don't interact with anyone ever. People judge others all the time, and those are how opinions are formed. Some people just don't know how to express those opinions without being an asshat about it (ie: constructively).
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." This video simply shows people, by what the majority experience, an unrealistic standard of play. It says that to be this fast you use automated gameplay to make fewer mistakes. It does not show us someone doing it otherwise, and that is the problem. This person should have expected that and likely only shared to show off to the people that wouldn't catch on or doesn't really care. The standards of what is considered "legitimate" will likely always be up for debate.
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