>>15209928Just reading the article in question makes me laugh.
"The game doesn't care about cheapness" no, but players do.
If you were in an arcade, and you constantly pulled off impressive combos and difficult moves, players would happily challenge you to put you to the test. They want to see a master in action, and be impressed by his skill.
If all you did was throwspam, people would stop wasting their quarters on you.
Thou Shalt Not Bore; we don't spend our money on that. This guy says "play to win" like winning MEANS anything. It's an objective condition, but then all the game does is fling you back to the title screen for doing it. You get some "Ryu Wins!" text and then it's over.
What you're really after is an experience with other players; validation that comes from others acknowledging that they're impressed by your skill. But when you're denied that validation because everyone else finds out that you aren't doing anything impressive, suddenly it's a whiny diatribe about scrubs
The sad thing is, this guy should not be playing Street Fighter. He'd be right at home among Wall Street sociopaths, what with the lack of regard for other people and the single-minded focus on winning by any means necessary.
It makes me saddest that we live in a world that rewards that kind of behavior, but at least I can take solace in the knowledge that a lot of those people just wind up being the insufferable shit at some fighting game tournament.
