The boasting ceases to have meaning when the player has to fight and show what he can do
Your Void and Custom Belt still remain, which look pretty good. You might not impress people with your skills, but surely your fancy Tori will. Maybe not as much, but it's still pretty cool.
In toribash no matter if you had full demon or full orc it doesn't have an effect on anything else except your appearance ingame so it's pretty different from MMORPGS.
Well yeah, that's true. I can't help but agree with that.
Though the main point is that in the end you'll have more fun. It certainly feels good when you activate your badass Vampire 'n Demon combination even though it's only about appearance.
Some people might not believe it, but even a little change from your usual routines makes you feel a lot better.
Belt in martial arts as in related to real-life is a mark of your skills and experience. You can have elf, demon, void or whatever items but if you've played 500 games and you've bought your way to 10th dan you'll just make a clown out of yourself when it comes to the common situation ingame fighting - and this is the only possible situation for anyone to see your tori.
True, in real life belt measures your skill, but notice that it is in real life.
It is true that the more you play the better you'll be, but some people learn faster than others. I have been beaten many, many times by people who have lower belt than mine, and not only by luck. The best example for this would be shook who is a green belt but still a superb player.
Selling Qi just adds to this. I don't think that not having Qi sales would make this that much different - there's not that many people who buy Qi, after all.
Time for a reference: "Qi is a didactic concept in many Chinese, Korean and Japanese martial arts. Martial qigong is a feature of both internal and external training systems in China and other East Asian cultures.". Higher qi = Higher experience and capabilites of one as mentioned earlier. This is not a fucking habbo hotel; If you want to enjoy the game more - become better at it in multiplayer, singleplayer replays, as an artist or a marketeer, but by using real-life money you only create an _illusion_ of having better attributes, which IMO is pretty lame as in the end this is just a game [/kindaclichesounding].
Again, comparing real life martial arts to Toribash fighting does not really fit.
In Toribash, you advance through the amount of matches you play. In real life (note: there's damn many martial arts, I just checked jiu-jitsu), at least in the lower rank belts there's experienced people watching you until you're eligible enough for the next belt. I don't know about Black Belt and above.
Also, you don't necessarily need to be good in the game. You can have a friend playing with you or you can play the mods... There's a lot of things to do in Toribash.
also, I laughed at the Habbo Hotel reference
