It's not very far to think that A LOT of people do that same thing. That's not to say some people think that LFR is nothing and it's all about Heroics. But we're talking about the larger population here.
I love how every single WoW fan goes right to assumptions and generalizations about any EQ players. You guys are so delusional it's hilarious to an outsider.
Assuming you mean kudos, save your sanity and put him on ignore. Dude is the definition of irrational.
LOL. Seriously fucking lol.
But at its core, this is what most MMO design was even going back to EQ1: Carrots/pellets that you follow pretty much forever and without end. New expansion, restart the grind. Eventually it starts to feel more like a job than a game. While some people get off on it, it removes the fun factor. It happened with EQ1, FFXI, WOW, etc.
Maybe Dumar gets into Blizzcon for free? And I told you before I liked early Cataclysm. It gave me hope, albeit hope that was ran into the mud again.
I agree that were is some of that present and every MMO, but the case with WoW and probably even the most recent expansions from EQ,EQ2 and damn near every other MMO is that they have swung the pendulum to far in the direction of really turning the whole thing into easy bite sized single player experience. This is great for some games but not for MMO's at least for not me personally. No game ever hit the reset button as often as WoW or really made the effort put into a character as worthless as WoW. I mean really in like what 2-3 weeks you can go from a new character to having seen everything in game. Everything is pretty much on rails, you can't lose at WoW,
I suppose it comes down to what you get out of the game. If I cared about my 'standing' amongst the general population in the game, what you describe might be important to me ... but what keeps me subbed is VERY simple and what I alluded to earlier - I very much enjoy beating tough raid encounters with a group of people I like. For that, there isn't anything that comes close atm (Rift came closest in terms of quality of raiding).
Trust me nobody has an opinion of your guild or any other like it. Was there ever even a guild site like FoH that people gave a shit about during the height of WoW's golden era? To think that most people even know you on your x-realm instanced server it pretty fucking egotistical in WoW's current state, outside of your guild nobody knows you or gives two fucks and they don't have to you don't influence the game. There was a time in WoW when people might know your guild on your own server but that was when you put Ony's and Nef's head up in the middle of town and everyone got a buff and you were the only one with Warrior Teir 2 trashcan armor, not MoP.
The great thing about you is your last avatar was some socialist marxist bullshit. You sir are an idiot, you said not playing nets you the same results, no shit thats why communism doesn't work cause the guys working don't want to carry the worthless pieces of shit for the same pay. At Draegan a couple posts down yeah this is why people hate listening to this asshole Dumar, you mean people like their ability to determine their accomplishments? No shit. Also btw saying the guy who passes the 5th grade competence test is the same as the guy who passes the bar exam is a retarded analogy.
That's exactly my point - raiding for the purpose of having people masturbate over your T2 armor was stupid in the first place. Is this really what motivates people? If so, praise allah for my lucking into a place that raids because, oh I don't know, it's good fucking fun to beat bosses after smashing your head against them for a bunch of nights.
