There are only 2 options...
1) Everyone come together and make a rotation list
2) First Come, First Serve
Let me start by saying, I'm not in the top teir of P99 raiding.
I was back in the day on live, as well as on EQ2. For quite some time I did see it (on both games) unfortunately I managed to do that because I had shit loads of free time. When I had more responsibility and commitments to undertake, I put MMO's on the back burner. I continued to play, but only did so thinking "oh yea, I'll be raiding again soon". That never happened, because raiding is a fucking job, playing MMO's are a job... actually it's fucking slavery because the game takes your time (and money if your playing any type of game with a subscription) to RENT space in an online world.
Think about it: How much bullshit do you put up with in game? And for what? What is it worth?
If people can't play nice and share, fuck it, turn this fucking bitch into a 3rd world country. Fuck play nice rules. If someone is going to sit and camp (or poopsock as you'd say) to alert there guild that mobs are up so they can lock it down, let them.
People won't sacrifice that much and quit. People have done so in other games. This is the reason everything is instanced in every game now. EQ2 for example, everything is instanced except a small percentage of mobs, and only a few guilds lay claim to them by using 24/7 call lists and "poopsockin" the zone.
I think of it as natural selection in the MMO world. The pions will level up 50 different toons cause they genuinely like to play, but there's a massive amount of shit they will never see cause of stuff like this. The elite will lay claim to mobs forcing people out of seeing said content by perma-camping the shit. But you know what? Thats their decision, they go to those lengths, and if GMs / Devs don't see anything wrong with it, than it's the law of the land and everyone else will have to deal with it.
I am among the population in between. I like to casually play and also raid, but not in exchange for my soul sitting in front of a game (on a free server) that went out of style commercially years ago. Someone is clearly going to go to greater lengths to make sure I don't see end game and or have a good time playing. If they aren't willing to change, The rules aren't willing to change, and I can't play a part in stabbing my competition to death or assassinating my predecessor to take his or her place, I simply won't play. Because I realize the fact that I'll never see a good portion of the game, why bother play it?
Theres no money shot. If one were reading a book with 30 chapters, but you only get to read 20 and someone takes the shit away from you, what a fucking waste. It's like having a dick, lots of money, good looks and personality but being too afraid to talk to a woman and dying a virgin when you're fucking 80 years old. Makes no fucking sense....
I quit.
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P.S.
I'm fucking drunk
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