Just drop the multiple openings (Destiny)

by Monochron, Sunday, May 17, 2015, 22:51 (3293 days ago) @ RaichuKFM

If it's that much fun, just run the race anyways!

In general, competitive things can be fun because you are racing for a goal or a "win".

And this isn't competitive? You're not trying to get more laps than Joe Whatshisface... Are you?

Sure, it feels great to beat the people I am playing with. Then when we go about our business I can dance right up in there face to rub it in :D
But I think we agree, the fun is in the completion similar to how PvP games wouldn't be much fun if their was no completion. Without any kind of visible progress...eh it's not fun. We play simulated games for simulated success.

Sprinters don't race if no one is going to win. There has to be some kind of goal

I dispute both of these assertions.

I don't know, is my point really not clear? Playing to win is a huge motivation. In games, in life, in whatever. Playing to win is great motivation and is fun as hell.

Though it's a bit dramatic, this Vince Lombardi quote kind of sums up the idea:
"we will chase perfection . . . knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence."