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Winter Wonderland JP - % that can make it

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To all the people who say “It’s easy—you just aren’t trying hard enough”: while any skill can be improved by practice there is also an upper bound which each person has based on their own limitations—reflexes, hand-eye coordination, translation of a computer screen into a 3D visualization that they react to, etc. Those limitations both enforce an upper bound on what that individual can accomplish, and impact the amount of practice required to get a skill level to a given point. If it’s easy for you—great, but that doesn’t mean telling people they just need to try harder is helpful. It’s easy for some people to dunk a basketball, but no matter how hard I try and no matter how much practicing I do, I just won’t be able to do it. I also, regrettably, was born without the “twitch” gene and that makes many of these jumping puzzles simply unattainable for me. At some point, continuing to “try harder” becomes frustrating, not fun.
To the OP and others saying “Because I can’t do this jumping puzzle this game is unfair to me”: Many people (like you and me) can’t do everything in this game. If something is just frustrating to you, and any satisfaction you get out of what you do accomplish in that area doesn’t outweigh that frustration, why let that sour you on the entire game? There’s lots to do in GW2. Just because you can’t do everything doesn’t mean you can’t have fun with other parts of the game. Find what’s fun for you. But please don’t let the fact that you don’t enjoy a particular aspect of the game become a crusade to prevent the people who do enjoy it from having their fun.