OMFG, best thing I’ve read today: Logistics, real life dinnertime and raiding schedules
OMFG, best thing I’ve read today: Logistics, real life dinnertime and raiding schedules
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I’m actually a little sorry to say when my various times at raiding (I played 3 characters to level 60) came, I wasn’t cut out for it, and either started over (new guy) or quit.
WoW raiding is some serious shit; most guilds expect sacrifice of all things real life in order to take part in the quest to obtain these mythical virtual loots. SRSLYEPIXFTW!#@%
I can’t imagine raising a child while addicted to one of these games. it is wrong on so many levels.
I actually wrote a handful of blog posts during my 2nd (and last) WoW bout (probably not interesting for those who’ve never played.)
Having no experience myself with WoW or really any MMORPG, what exactly is raiding?
“‘Raids’ are assaults by larger groups of players on powerful monsters or dungeons and in World of Warcraft can include everything from a group of lower level characters tackling a quest well above their level to the epic end-game, high-level attacks against god-like foes. ” (from worldofwarcraft.com) — the lj link you posted refers to the latter; high level raiding requires a ridiculous amount of time investment.
for instance, “hardcore” guilds raid day/nightly, each require (to be successful) 20 or 40 people to be fully vested in-game for roughly 3-6 hours. you can imagine how stressful this can be for people who basically only have that exact amount of free time each day,
so, if people can’t make it (kids need to eat…or “S.O. agro”) – they are usually booted from the event (and sometimes guild) losing any opportunity to progress, either by means of in-game: experience, reputation, and/or gear.
I could go on… =/
Let me reiterate: OMFG!