User blog comment:Mineko Charat Lucky/Don't Play to Win, Ever/@comment-77.98.197.209-20130111090522/@comment-216.36.26.248-20130111094603

What the author is trying to say isn't that you shouldn't win, or even enjoy winning, or feel that depressed feeling of defeat. What he's saying is that, win or lose, you should take a step back, look at your actions, determine what you did right and wrong, and improve yourself. Do this and you'll win more consistently.

Apart from that, this is a team game. Unless you're playing with a dedicated team, the best you can strive for is being super awesome yourself. Building yourself over the course of many games will be more satisfying than getting real mad because you lost ~50% of those games.

As for a waste of time. This is a video game. If you don't get paid to play, aren't you just wasting your time to begin with? As for real life applications, whenever you are tasked to do anything in real life, it's always a learning experience. "This worked well" or "this could be improved." In that facet, it's a good exercise to get into and will get you great results.