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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
If there's no discernible effect, how useful is it?
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To me, when players are quoted after a game saying "that fight really gave us a spark" and other such comments, I tend to put a lot of weight into them, as they're the ones out there playing the game.
That's not to be confused with jirihrdina's point that players aren't necessarily the best ones to ask about player safety related topics, as I'm somewhat on board with him there.
But certainly, there's tons of evidence that fighting (staged included) has an effect on players, momentum and therefore outcomes. Whether those effects on outcomes are worth the risk and compromise to player health is definitly up for debate and not what I'm arguing here.