Posted by Void

You´re either a troll or You really just don´t get it.
You catch bugs and others tower, spar or pk. You´re better at bug catching and looting and they´re better at their competitive aspects.
What is Your reason for bug catching and looting? For many it is the gralats, that´s their incentive.

Without incentive there would be no motivation to do any competitive things at all. People want things to brag about and stuff to show for their achievements, a reward for all the effort they put into whatever they were doing. If there is nothing to show for it, most players will just stop.

For example, if they took away or heavily nerfed the Gralat rewards You get from Bugs/Looting that many of the Players, who do these things, would complain and eventually stop doing these activities. Or imagine if You had no way to show us all of these bugs You caught and loot You retrieved, how would You feel?
Wouldn´t it suck to not be able to display Your achievement?

People don´t want to pet their egos. They want to Tower/Spar/PK and have fun on Graal (and maybe have their retired friends return as well).

I don´t know if a comparison like this has been made before, I skimmed through some of the posts in this thread but picture this:

Professional Football Players wouldn´t get paid anymore for competing in tournaments, thus they stop doing so. Now worse players, who previously had no chance in these tournaments, compete in these Tournaments and play (For Honour or some **** maybe). But it´s also a lot less, than when You would get $$$ for winning.
Now, a smaller group of people competes and from the perspective of someone who doesn´t know anything about Football at all it looks like it´s just fine. But those who played in those tournaments or spectated them know that it´s a dead scene. They know that the thing they once loved doing/watching is on a decline.

I don´t know if You just hate others and don´t want them to enjoy something, or if it´s some kind of personal grudge You have against Sparrers/BKers/PKers, but arguing against betterment of a game You play Yourself is stupid.

Also I made this many comparisons in this post to help You understand, because You don´t seem to.
Also sorry for this wall of text lol competitive communities are something i am passionate about