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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 9101515" data-attributes="member: 7026617"><p>I agree to one extent or another with most of what you said in this post, but I want to comment about this.</p><p></p><p><em>There are absolutely low engagement players, and there are players who aren't all the time but are some of the time.</em></p><p></p><p>I'm not the former, but I <em>am</em> the latter. There are parts of the games that engage me, and parts that don't. But the latter engage other people, so its not all about me. And sometimes I'm just not altogether with it (partly because I have the chronic GM disease of getting bored easily).</p><p></p><p>But I still get things out of the game as a whole, even if I'm not constantly engaged, and probably can't constantly be engaged.</p><p></p><p>And the people who are borderline engaged are still getting things out of the game, but they don't really <em>want</em> a higher level of engagement, at least in many cases.</p><p></p><p>I think people in the hobby who don't get that are going to constantly not understand some players and why certain things are useful to some GMs. That doesn't mean anyone has to want to deal with low or intermittent engagement players, but they're very much real and very much a thing some GMs are dealing with.</p><p></p><p>(To make it clear, that's not an excuse for the generic infantalization of players by some GMs, but there's some middle ground here).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 9101515, member: 7026617"] I agree to one extent or another with most of what you said in this post, but I want to comment about this. [I]There are absolutely low engagement players, and there are players who aren't all the time but are some of the time.[/I] I'm not the former, but I [I]am[/I] the latter. There are parts of the games that engage me, and parts that don't. But the latter engage other people, so its not all about me. And sometimes I'm just not altogether with it (partly because I have the chronic GM disease of getting bored easily). But I still get things out of the game as a whole, even if I'm not constantly engaged, and probably can't constantly be engaged. And the people who are borderline engaged are still getting things out of the game, but they don't really [I]want[/I] a higher level of engagement, at least in many cases. I think people in the hobby who don't get that are going to constantly not understand some players and why certain things are useful to some GMs. That doesn't mean anyone has to want to deal with low or intermittent engagement players, but they're very much real and very much a thing some GMs are dealing with. (To make it clear, that's not an excuse for the generic infantalization of players by some GMs, but there's some middle ground here). [/QUOTE]
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