The developers have stated that the highest ranking player from the Alliance that sacks the Imperial City will be selected as an Emperor but what about the little guy? That lone PvP’er that spends 10 hours a day fighting for the cause, only to lack the ridiculous level of skill required to out-perform every single person on your server.
Most honest gamers will admit to never seeing themselves featured on a high score or leader board table. When was the last time you went undefeated in a run from Division 10 to Division 1 in FIFA Ultimate Team? When was the last time you were considered the best Call of Duty player in your country? Have you ever participated in MMO PvP where you’ve been undefeated in 3 weeks? 99% of players will find themselves with little to no chance of ever experiencing The Elder Scrolls Online Emperor feature.
I agree to that. In my opinion there should be no title given to a single person like "Emperor" at all. Only an AI should have it, imho.
In the SWTOR forums I've ome across a type of person who is just an "Eliticist". He (seldom "she") would do anything possible to become the pinnacle of that game - even if it encompasses insulting people and using psychological warfare to make sure that there will be less competors to battle against. And they call it with the Euphemism of "trash talk", doing so as if their insulting and bullying "trash talk" was nothing. They even call it "forums-PvP".
Those elitict PvP players have begun to call casual PvP players
- "Bads"
- "Bottom-feeders"
- "Carebears"
- "Window-lickers"
and similar things (they in fact don't often use the word "scrub").
They are the most aggressive and most exploitive kinds of people. They would do
anything to make sure that THEY get into a position from which they can look upon everyone else. They are the hooligans of the forums.
In the SWTOR forums there was recently someone going fully ballistic against those "Life Day" items being sold this year again in the in-game "Cartel Market". He was fully against it, because he had "spent millions" for aquiring those items - and fully holds the opinion that no-one else should get these items.
Same goes for the "Rakghul-Event" (which I never saw, because it was before my time.)
And someone argueing in his cause as well simply called everyonean "sycophant".
The best thing is that an "Lex Rileysoph" was created - Bioware kind of bowed before him and said that yes, these "Life Day" items will be "embargoed" in the future … So he got his will … Eliticists rule MMOs …