Technology is making us revert from homo Sapiens to the previous Homo Neanderthal Ensis species. The microwave oven sales boom in the 1970s guaranteed that a major portion of the human population no longer knows how to cook. Search engines like Google, Yahoo, AOL, Bing, Yandex (Russian) is where many get their education versus going to school, reading books, getting a high level education and learning how to think. Social Networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube, Pinterest provide our major life decisions in relationships, careers, politics, social status deciding our fate with emotions based on a lot of mis-information. No need to actually socialize face-to-face live.
Add in texting that destroys languages all over the world moving fingers around a smartphone keyboard with abbreviations for just about everything. How natural it is that abbreviating words becomes the language. Soon many won't be able to spell the full word much less it's proper usage. Shorthand texting also causes problems as one text message can be taken 10 different ways so someone invented emoticons. Even less typing.
Being proficient at this is often a status symbol for many even in ED (shorthand for Elite Dangerous) with ploit, BGS, DBS, FDL, SRV, CG, CZ, Imp, KWS, NPC, PvP, PvE, USS, WSS feeling they are cool conveying to others that they know all about the game while new players have to look some of them up. For me the coolness is helping others to enjoy the game with my experience and play style I'm really good at and still it's a suggestion and never a definitive solution. We all play so differently.
The result? Too many live their life online detached from the human condition relying on an Internet to resolve their life issues often with an emotional response versus a highly educated one. An example would be street interviews where in the USA someone totally hates President Trump but don't know who is the vice president Pence, the three branches of government, and a thousand other important moments in human history they have no clue about. They are missing thousands of years of humanity and learning from some of the best and worst. I don't see a lot of scientists, doctors, philosophers, and engineers skating around Venice Beach in SoCal. Technology is a great thing but use it wisely to your advantage less you become a servant of it. Deep huh?
As for this post? Of course Open play is the majority. Everyone sooner or later goes to Open play even many who profess that they NEVER play in Open. Thus the numbers on a spreadsheet. I play in Open about 50 percent of the time but my reasons for being there are not dedicated PvP nor will I ever kill live players. WHY we play in Open is the real issue. So have Frontier email every player who bought the game and ask them why they sometimes play in Open and what they expect doing it. That would be the definitive poll that Frontier could use. The hard core PvPers may not like the results.
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