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Originally Posted by Barkingturtle
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While I appreciate your attempt at candor, I don't know how much of this is based in reality. I believe you when you say one reason you stay here is that it's free. I have long suspected the denizens of P99 are largely unemployed or underemployed. I also understand not wanting to go through the bizarre hurdles required by raid guilds to gain membership.
Other than that, it's all rather disingenuous. Saying you don't have the time to commit to raid in another game and then stating you get texts and then log in to raid is totally counter-intuitive. I mean, being available to raid at the drop of a tweet is a far greater time commitment than anything I can imagine in any other game. For that matter, other games do have open-world raid mobs to sate your competitive desires, and some even avoid instanced content, altogether. The only really unique thing about Classic EQ is the Tunnel and the naked corpse-running. You could level to cap and be a bleeding-edge content-devourer within two months in WoW, and then you could minimize the impact the game had on your life by setting two nights a week to raid.
See, I don't really believe your justifications. I believe you believe them, and you are no doubt really invested in them, but they just sound pretty fake. I think the joy taken in killing mobs on this server has more to do with depriving your perceived enemies of the kills than anyone would like to admit, because if you did admit it you'd feel pretty sad inside.
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You'd think differently if you saw my raid attendance. I'll also submit that I'm not even level 60 yet, my guild knows the reasons I have less time to play than I used to and that those commitments in real life will continue to only get worse over the next few years.
While you say it's more of a time commitment to log in for 15 minutes to kill a mob, I think you're wrong. If I'm home and available I will always log in, but if I'm not you won't find me rushing home - largely because the mob is most likely down by the time I get home - or scrambling to find a comp I can log in very quickly. For what you're suggesting I do in WoW would take months of regular play time, gearing, raiding, then getting lucky enough to get a shot at a truly high end guild all while treating the game like a second job. I don't want to play a game where I have to be logged in at a specific time multiple times per week, and if we're being honest about top raid guilds that typically 5+ nights, because my life doesn't afford that type of stable availability.
I'm also realistic about what this means for my progression on this server in the future and I'm fortunate enough to be a member of a guild that looks out for their own when real life requires more focus. You say we're unemployed and while I won't argue that we certainly have some people who fit that bill, I think you'll find a ton of people on this server who fall into that category. I'd wager the majority of TR is either students or small business owners who have the ability to play from work. If you actually did a poll you'd be surprised how many healthcare related students and professionals we have. We've also had a solid group of day traders and investment bankers who are typically tethered to computers for long hours with the ability to keep characters logged in. The same goes for our web developers and programmers. In fact, if you took the time to ask each member what they did or where they lived I think you'd be really surprised how many of us are located in major cities that require substantial incomes to live in.
08-17-2011, 09:23 PM
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