not a single player has told me to plan on raiding

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Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No, the variance is the effect of the congestion, not the cause. Rogean and co got tired of having 200 people on every bosses spawnpoint.

I don't like variance because although it does solve the congestion problem it does so by making the endgame so annoying that most people can't/choose not to participate. I was chatting with Flemming yesterday on my mage and asked how much tracking he did. He said 10 hours and I thought that was a lot, but apparently a lot of people do 40+ hours (!).

The variance started in the spring of 2010 when it was decided that adding variance would mean people wouldn't poopsock. It was thought that nobody would be stupid enough to stoop to such a low level to sit there logged/afk for +/- 48. Well, three years later and the variance has done absolutely nothing about the problem in the first place. For three years it hasn't worked

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Just to add, it was also pushed, and later defended by some people who later ended up getting caught SEQ/MQing. They didn't exactly mind the "tracking."