For this observe its a combination of both an obsession and how software constructs a user. I’m talking about what is known as a “tier list” when it comes to competitive gaming. The one I show is for a fighting game called Dragonball FighterZ. A tier list for competitive gaming is to show how how popular certain characters are over others and ranks them accordingly in groups called tiers. The one offered by the site eventhub tracks this popularity and updates it daily and shows the changes and popularity over days as well as weeks and months. This contributes heavily to how competitive games are played, mainly because there is a common misconception that the tier list shows how powerful a certain character. This is important for this game in particular (only being a few weeks old) because when people see this they are more inclined to use the characters who are top tier and “overpowered” and less inclined to the lower tiered characters who apparently have something wrong with them. Sure there is some truth in them that some characters do more damage and are easier to use than others but it doesn’t mean that a low tier character with not as much damage or utility in the hands of someone who practices them a lot can’t completely decimate someone who uses top tier characters. Its very crucial to this games online diversity because when I play I see so many of the same characters over and over again who just so happened to be the best tier and it makes it so boring. Due to this game being new and people learning new things about it, the tier list can change drastically in the matter of a day which is why I find it so interesting to check up on frequently to see who everyone thinks is badass one day and who is completely “unusable” the next day.