Think Zhukov caught it right on the head - polarization turns everyone into a dick unwilling to evolve or compromise, and without new members, yer just rehashing the same arguments with the same people. Online communities only work if you have common ground. Without that, it's all flame wars...
I think some of it is the terseness of "gg" from the victor... I'd much rather hear "Good try, mate," or "You nearly got me, you know," than "gg" .
But that's just me...
You know, I think here you run into a quandary that developers have already found -- see how much the Sonic game sucked when they changed to 3D? That's because Sonic was a side scroller at heart. It's like removing the jetpacks from Tribes, or making Gears of War an MMO.
Devs will usually try...
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