What motivates VQ, Riot, Gravity, and GOML?

[Videri]

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[long.liam]

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Hmm. I wonder What I did wrong?

[Arvan]

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

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.

Mental illness mixed with sunk cost fallacy

[long.liam]

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Mental illness mixed with sunk cost fallacy

Yep, more than likely. Although, some people have suggested that they may actually be real into the high stress playstyle. Personality A. types, I guess? Or Sociopaths maybe? I don't know.

[long.liam]

I myself am more a Personality C or D than a A, but I don't know maybe just lots of crazies here? Shrug*

[Videri]

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

Yep, more than likely. Although, some people have suggested that they may actually be real into the high stress playstyle. Personality A. types, I guess? Or Sociopaths maybe? I don't know.

I wouldn’t judge these people before you meet them.

Some sweet and conscientious people in my guild do some sweaty, hardcore wall-watching. I believe it’s loyalty to the cause.

[long.liam]

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

I wouldn’t judge these people before you meet them.

Some sweet and conscientious people in my guild do some sweaty, hardcore wall-watching. I believe it’s loyalty to the cause.

I'm not judging anyone at this point, just speculating. I haven't really had the chance to meet enough of them to make an accurate assessment of what kind of people they are. To be fair most of my individual experiences with Riot and VQ members have been relatively pleasant with only a few exceptions maybe. However, GOML kind of seems like maybe a Troll guild. I'm not sure what to make of them.

[Bardp1999]

Friendly reminder that Velious was beaten on Day 1 in Kunark gear

[Confit]

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

I'm not judging anyone at this point, just speculating. I haven't really had the chance to meet enough of them to make an accurate assessment of what kind of people they are. To be fair most of my individual experiences with Riot and VQ members have been relatively pleasant with only a few exceptions maybe. However, GOML kind of seems like maybe a Troll guild. I'm not sure what to make of them.

Definitely not a troll guild, more like a change of pace guild but it is funny to see people take things like 150 vindi concessions seriously. Right now we are building our foundation and gearing up our new recruits. Most of us are ex-raiders who like to have fun and help people out. It's really refreshing to kill things with 1/5 the numbers of the bigger guilds.

[Smoofers]

Sorry you don't got the basic drive to improve yourself and acquire treasure.