As far as console or arcade games go, my friends and I have loads of fun losing games. Sometimes it’s funny to watch your character scrambling for the right spell or weapon and failing miserably. The best games to lose are the ones that have humorous results from getting injured or dying, such as a character taunting you or your character getting turned into a tomb stone landmark.

“If you were smart and had a good sense of how to play, you didn’t need to play every waking hour to compete with the best.”

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If you were smart and had a good sense of how to play, you didn’t need to play every waking hour to compete with the catassers.

Still, the conclusion drawn from this study explains a lot about MMO addiction.

In my experience, the people who really catass in these games aren’t always the best. UO was a perfect example. If you were smart and had a good sense of how to play, you didn’t need to play every waking hour to compete with the best.

So a person would rather lose by a wide margin or win, but hates to lose by a narrow margin. That makes sense to me. Many if not most of the catassers I know either suck, but claim to enjoy the games for the social aspects, or refuse to compete in any sort of difficult challenge unless they have an overwhelming advantage.