McNulty wrote:
trail wrote:
McNulty wrote:
I haven't read much of this thread at all but, real question, why does anyone care if people manipulate their wkg?
This is the core question. The key to enjoying both Strava and Swift competition is the ability to compartmentalize butthurt and savage type-A competitive instinct to only real-life racing. If you're prone to butthurt, virtual competition may not be for you. Have fun with Strava and Zwift.
Yep.
I could care less if some electronic image rolls away from me as long as I’m getting my work in. Zwift is a fun way to distract and one can generally tell if the image next to you is connected to a person of comparable ability to you or not. Or, alternatively, has adjusted their virtual wkg the way you have. In any case, it’s virtual. Pin on a number in the heat, wet, or cold, draft, pull, and risk crashing out, flatting and or being dropped while your gf stands roadside, bored stiff, texting her other bf if you want to race bikes, versus game. Then, you can give a shit, be humbled, humiliated, etc.
This I agree with. Now, a qualifier to my comment: I can handle getting dropped in real life but not virtual so won’t be signing up for Zwift.
But, lots of people pay good money for their fun there. The business model isn’t sustainable if customers get pissed that the competition is fake?
Why did so much big sponsor money leave real world cycling? Cheating.
Sure, it’s a video game. Sure, it’s not a blood bag cheater in the world tour. But it involves people’s money, so there has to be some assurance otherwise that money won’t stay. In this case customer money.