greenfoxx wrote:elise:) wrote:would anyone else like to take a few swings at me?
please, go right ahead.
We're not trying to "swing" at you. We are just voicing our opinion, and everyone has a right to an opinion. I personally think that it shouldn't always be about the money, but I understand that you want your horses to have winnings etc. But, it is true that in the RL Olympics there are no winnings, and nobody complains about that
It's about the prestige. (plus fun, on VHR)
I wasn't, and I don't think anyone else was, trying to offend you or anything.
Exactly, we're all entitled to an opinion... funny how that seems to only work one way here
You can't even pretend that people weren't trying to offend me, with the unbelievable level of condescension found in many of the responses. sorry.
I really don't think i made a big deal about the winnings. I felt as though we were just having a conversation until people starting jumping down my throat. I tried to point out that I wasn't bent out of shape over it, I was just thinking out loud. I had just been so caught up in trying to get my entries bred up/bought and trained, that i didn't really think about it. No where did I say that I expected it to change, it was just wishful thinking.
And yes, I know that there isn't prize money awarded in the real Olympics, but I was just pointing out that, while we are trying to run the Olympics like they are run in real life, the situation is not at all as it is in real life. Like I said before, horses that are entered in the real Olympics are able to compete and earn money before and after the event. And the real Olympics only take up a week or so of a horse's life, rather than 2ish years, as is the case here. I'm not saying there are flaws with the way the VHR olympics are being run, I actually feel as though they've come up with the most fair way to run the events. I am trying to point out that you just can't really compare our Olympics to the real one, because the entire situation is very different.
Excuse me for thinking this was a community where you could voice your opinion without getting bashed for it. I was mistaken, you may only safely express your opinion, if most of the community agrees with you. My bad, I won't make that mistake again.
I really resent being made out to be an ungrateful, greedy person. I have not been going around bashing the Olympics or the wonderful job the Ops have been doing. And I am not ungrateful. I have voiced my appreciation and thanks for all their work on other threads. And yes, my goal in this game is usually to make money. But not just to have it. I am certainly not rolling in the VHR dough and the only reason I'm trying to save up money is so that I can upgrade my accounts in a few month when they expire (otherwise I will not be able to keep playing the game) and because I want to hold a huge pony trainoff with an awesome prize pool. I never said I would be any less proud of my entries or that i didn't think it was worth my time anymore. I simply said that I would keep that in mind in future Olympics and likely not enter horses that i paid a crapton for. How can anyone really blame me for that? I highly doubt people would enter their most prized horses in the real Olympics if that meant they couldn't compete them before the event and that they would be past their prime age for competing after the Olympics.
Now if we could please just lay this thread to rest. I get it, I'm a terrible, greedy person. Let's move on.
edit;; i also just want to say that i've read over the rules a number of times and I have not seen anywhere that it say there will be no entry fees/purses on events. Perhaps I looked over it, but I do not ever recall hearing that. And also there was talk about prizes being awarded depending on the turn out. So, no. I did not exactly know it was going to be like this.