This is why I quit playing Magic the Gathering, the one person I regularly played against was the sorest possible loser. Every win I got was because I “just got lucky” and every win he got was “strategy” (his strategy was pouring hundreds of dollars into the game for the most expensive and broken cards).
Bro its not luck theyre hacking.
Haxor.
Thing is, I know I am a Mid player of any competitive game I actually get into. COD/Halo I was always middle of the board, a relatively 1-1 k/d ratio so nothing great but not dragging my team down, so I knew when someone was just better than me or when BS was going on, and I definitely knew when my team fucking sucked. If I was at the top of the board for my team, my team was ASS, I am not good enough to be up that high with a competent team.
Now, I just don’t play PVP stuff, only PVE, but my teams still fucking suck. I hate carrying a team who can’t do their jobs.
Funny enough there’s a whole section of social psychology dedicated to this type of causal attribution. See also: “it was lag!!”
Long story short: personal, stable factors we like it it’s a success, dislike in failure; situational, unstable factors we like it it’s a failure, dislike in success. Self-serving and group serving biases, basically.
I mostly lose when my team is clueless (typical lack of situational awareness) or expects me to carry them (I don’t carry trash). That’s when I stop playing and start trolling. Either way, I’m having a good time.
