I have gotten in to it with friends who explicitly play games to optimize numbers and sneer at me when I imply that the game itself might actually be fun if you weren't minmaxing so goddamn hard. It's very frustrating. Like go play with a calculator if all you want is to see number go up. I've no interest in diablof for that exact reason. I don't want to spend dozens of hours in front of a slot machine looking for +3% to your sex magick resistance or whatever.
We used to call these "spreadsheet gamers". Their favorite game is not what they're playing, their favorite game is Microsoft Excel. They'll open it up, populate a spreadsheet with all the modifiers, and analyze the numbers for optimal results.
They find this way of playing games very satisfying and will never stop. Nerds ruin everything.
I have gotten in to it with friends who explicitly play games to optimize numbers and sneer at me when I imply that the game itself might actually be fun if you weren't minmaxing so goddamn hard. It's very frustrating. Like go play with a calculator if all you want is to see number go up. I've no interest in diablof for that exact reason. I don't want to spend dozens of hours in front of a slot machine looking for +3% to your sex magick resistance or whatever.
We used to call these "spreadsheet gamers". Their favorite game is not what they're playing, their favorite game is Microsoft Excel. They'll open it up, populate a spreadsheet with all the modifiers, and analyze the numbers for optimal results.
They find this way of playing games very satisfying and will never stop. Nerds ruin everything.