It's always confused me when I'll be playing with my friends in some videogame, whether it's an FPS, or an RTS, or even an MMO and I try to play really hard to be better than them...and I end up playing worse than usual. This was even more prevalent when I played WoW. On raids I'd try to be top DPS and end up dropping way lower than I was capable of, or I'd make a mistake to get me killed. It's when I'd decide to relax a bit, on things like heroics or just not really trying that hard my skill would increase ten fold.
One example was when I was running a 10 man with some newly leveled 80 clan mates, and my DPS nearly tripled. I was playing nice and relaxed because I know there would be some mistakes made that day, and I was over geared for that instance. Another is when I'd play CoD4 with some of my friends from school and go like 10/30...I go and play by myself and I go 25/5. Under those circumstances I'm not pressured to do my best, because I'm only playing for fun.
It's confusing I know, because you'd think you'd be better when you're trying to concentrate harder than normal, but it's just the opposite. Well at least for me, how about you?
One example was when I was running a 10 man with some newly leveled 80 clan mates, and my DPS nearly tripled. I was playing nice and relaxed because I know there would be some mistakes made that day, and I was over geared for that instance. Another is when I'd play CoD4 with some of my friends from school and go like 10/30...I go and play by myself and I go 25/5. Under those circumstances I'm not pressured to do my best, because I'm only playing for fun.
It's confusing I know, because you'd think you'd be better when you're trying to concentrate harder than normal, but it's just the opposite. Well at least for me, how about you?
