Editing Metagame (section)

== So it's like Powergaming? ==
Except it's not. The line is fine between metagamers and powergamers, and both can certainly be the other at the same time, but they need not be one and the same. Powergamers eschew story and personal taste in order to be the most effective players, mechanically speaking. They optimize their strategy and choices in order to win the game. Metagamers use information or agency outside of the rules of the game in order to achieve an end goal, though that goal need not be winning. Powergamers can certainly metagame to win, but metagamers need not strive for victory in the game they play.

It should be noted that choosing mechanically superior items, skills, or traits based on statistics or numerical superiority is not metagaming trickery, that's powergaming (specifically min-maxing) shenanigans. Despite what many [[/v/|competitive video gamers]] may tell you, just because the developers didn't fix an overpowered mechanic doesn't mean that the powergaming community created a "metagame" around the game in question. They created an optimized strategy; distracting your opponents would be metagaming.