(16-09-2014, 06:13 PM)Murrow link Wrote: Haven't seen Winter drop his items for people he didn't know.
You also haven't seen me in about 9 months, I could have had a baby since then for all you know! Things change, Murrow. I assure you, I definitely drop my items now.
Still, since you have brought it up, I guess I'll give some semblance of an explanation of the common rationalizations behind that concept - a lot of people feel that they worked very hard for items and it bothers them when people are able to get the same things for free. That wasn't my particular reason back then, though. My reason was that after countless times of having people pick up weapons outside of their class, Commandos pick up weapons and refuse to shield while the team wiped around them because they wanted to try out a fun new toy (this is why even during this time period, I always dropped shields), and watching archers block each other while peeking to try to get the other killed so they could take their weapon, I decided I'd rather not drop items when it seems to have such annoying and terrible consequences. Because of that, I'd reserve dropping items for teams of people that I knew could handle fun new toys without playing worse because of them. Clearly there was flawed logic behind that and I stopped sheathing my items before death a very long time ago.
Anyways, I get you were making a joke but I guess it is a fair point, even if it isn't the point of this topic. If you feel the need for further discussion, feel free to send me some PMs.