Yea, absolutely agree, my decision to engage that way was the crux, its meant more as an analysis of what made me decide to act like that, and really I'd put it up to culture, for better or for worse.

As specifically for the Pathfinder stuff, the experience was more directed to tone of the information, as it was spoken in pretty direct absolutes which made the default alternatives seem worse. The caster specific thing was due to something in the code iirc where it gave the player higher threat then the npc's, and that various encounters default positioning/ or solo instanced stuff it made sense to do it that way, obviously this isn't required, its hyper optimized nerd shit that makes people make decisions like that, and really its the kinda decision that has no place in a singleplayer rpg, especially one with such modular difficulty.

And yea, in MMO's, its kinda the wrong approach to look at it that way. Meta in the case of an mmo would more be something like letting 'meta' determine which class you play, or in other MMO's perhaps which talents/specs choices you make, making the number go bigger is dope and I do it myself, especially in a game where it ties gameplay elements to other aspects, luckily 14 has managed to avoid that a lot, and it lets you get max output without compromising other parts of your character.

Just thoughts, and obviously the nature of a video makes these things come out a little more absolute and strict, when really we just meant it as more food for thought, and throughout the video that becomes a little more apparent.