Yeah, but my point is most gamers, the vast majority, don't know how games are made, they don't know what the mechanics are, they don't know why the mechanics are, or how they interact, or anything.
My personal experience is D&D players who try to make the most broken optimized characters and never think about how that fits in to the campaign, the party, what work the dm has to do to balance the game around their broken character. They just see mathematically optimal character == best character because they either don't know or don't care how the game actually functions.
... or not, because not everyone who's enthusiastic in those subjects has the money or time to make it a full time job, let alone energy.
Yeah, but my point is most gamers, the vast majority, don't know how games are made, they don't know what the mechanics are, they don't know why the mechanics are, or how they interact, or anything.
My personal experience is D&D players who try to make the most broken optimized characters and never think about how that fits in to the campaign, the party, what work the dm has to do to balance the game around their broken character. They just see mathematically optimal character == best character because they either don't know or don't care how the game actually functions.
... yeah that's true