User blog comment:Endless Exceptions/Lame Support Excuses./@comment-4082038-20120707132356/@comment-4874056-20120709061924

"Why do people play by meta in normal games?" Take into account that there are people like me who play draft pick or 5 man premade for practice where this meta actually does exist. Blind pick is not "normal" to me as it might be for 99,9% of the playerbase so this question itself is rather vague, depending on what you are used to seen depicted as "normal".

But then again your questions are probably targeted towards casual people who most likely have absolutely no basic understanding about this genre and how it works on a fundamental level because they don't think stuff through as deeply (and if they try they end up mimicing people who know their shit but masses don't necessarily understand why those people play the way they play and what makes the playstyle efficient) as talented players like myself and they might play this game only to have fun and think only in the shallow, most simple level, and this brings me to my point, like why ask this stupid question in the first place when the answer is so damn obvious? Just let them play however they want because it is likely that the way they play is the way "we" top players have shown those people how this game is played efficiently and it is only NATURAL THAT THEY MIMIC it because they've seen it work well even though they don't even understand the idea behind it and think it is "the right way" and for them any other way is WRONG because they're so used to "the right way". It's just basic logic for simple minded beings. So people of inferior skill level might seek help from guides which are probably written by people who understand this game to some extend and have seen it work in pro games or something but the basic idea is that people mimic what they've seen work even though they might not even understand it completely. Maybe that answers your ridiculous question about the mindset of the masses and human beings in general.