I'm going to give you a quiz because you're annoying me.
First, take a deep breath: we're discussing a video game. Also, I'm not trying to annoy you; I just happen to have a different opinion than you. And yes, I do believe a game should be fun. Of course, everyone is entitled to a different opinion about what should/can be fun in a game. Hence, forum discussion. No worries!
srry u failed. now im gonna go off topic
I guess most people just don't think about this. Pretty much every medium when first introduced went through a phase of people believing that it wasn't a serious medium, or that it should just be one type of thing.
When writing was first introduced as stories it was only as poems, and it was seen as silly. When prose was brought around (the majority of what books are now, stories written with no rhyming or form), it was seen as something childish and vulgar compared to poetry.
Fast forward, now we have games. Games should be fun! That's an easy assumption, most games are made to be fun. But what a game actually is is "an interactive experience." Art gives you an image, writing gives you a story, film gives you a story that you can experience as an audience member, and now games give you an experience that you can interact with.
The point is not to be fun, it's to experience something through interaction. And going from poetry back to durability, that's why durability exists, because games don't have to be fun, and with an rpg the goal doesn't always have to be fun, but when it is that fun is created through things that couldn't be directly classified as "fun".
