What motivates VQ, Riot, Gravity, and GOML?

[long.liam]

Having done a little bit raiding in semi-casual raiding guilds, I'm curious what motivates people in the Hardcore raiding guilds? Raiding, from my experience, is the most boring, aggravating, part of classic EQ, especially here on P99. What drives people to spend days sitting in 1 spot to wait for something to spawn, at a slim chance of enough guildies showing up in time to kill it and having enough DKP to outbid everyone else in your guild. I enjoy my sleep too much to spend 24hrs awake trying to get some rare mob to spawn. Why do they find this fun? I would rather roll a new naked toon and level up again than spend a significant amount of time trying to do this. Also, all of the cheating and exploiting of certain parts of the game suggest that the hardcore raiding guilds actually don't want fair competition. Why then do they say that they do? I'm very confused by the people that play in those guilds.

[Ekco]

so they can post "sorry you don't got" in response to posts like yours

[long.liam]

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

so they can post "sorry you don't got" in response to posts like yours

Okay?

[long.liam]

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

so they can post "sorry you don't got" in response to posts like yours

How do I even respond to this? It doesn't even annoy me. More like, " oh Look another Idiot." I mean the whole" Sorry you don't, hope this help." Response is pretty much the most overused meme here in RNF. It's not even creative at this point, just mimicking other idiots that just repeat it. How about instead of parroting others, actually being honest about what makes you want to raid in whatever guild you're in. I'm actually legitimately curious about it, I'm not trying to be a jackass, I just want to understand what drives people to do this?

[Ekco]

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

How do I even respond to this?

idk, accept the fact other people are going to play video games differently than you and move the fuck on?

there is like 100+ other servers available for those not willing to deal with the way this server handles raids

hope this helps.

[long.liam]

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

idk, accept the fact other people are going to play video games differently than you and move the fuck on?

there is like 100+ other servers available for those not willing to deal with the way this server handles raids

hope this helps.

I don't question that people do play it differently than me. Just want to know why they enjoying playing the game the way they do. The whole "Fair Competition" still doesn't make sense though, because it's quite clear there is a lot of cheating and exploiting that is going on in the raid scene. You would think given all the cheating that they be more in favor of a system that makes the raid scene easier and more approachable for everyone, including them. Instead they want the facade of "Fair Competition", but the reality of cheating and exploitation. Just really bizarre to me. Also, I would like understand why people think "poopsocking" is fun.

[Diziet]

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

so they can post "sorry you don't got" in response to posts like yours

For once Jib is actually right.

[magnetaress]

 

super serious mental health awareness trigger warning

 

A u t i s m aka neurodivergence (*note there are both pros and cons to being autistic so a whole-istic approach is best (don't be so negative or such a downer about it! (Big sweaty bob from fight club hugs)))

[long.liam]

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

 

super serious mental health awareness trigger warning

 

A u t i s m aka neurodivergence (*note there are both pros and cons to being autistic so a whole-istic approach is best (don't be so negative or such a downer about it! (Big sweaty bob from fight club hugs)))

Are you saying that everyone in these guilds is on the Autism spectrum? Or is this a pretty insult you projected towards me, because your tiny ego feels triggered by my questioning of what most normal people would considered quite bizarre behavior?

[magnetaress]

Both?