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Gaining the Whole World, Forfeiting a Life

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While stalking one of our rival guild’s websites, I ran across a link for a series of blog posts that I hadn’t seen anywhere else. Admittedly, I’m not the best blogger out there at keeping his/her/its finger on the pulse of Game Blogger Nation, but I’m surprised I didn’t run across it before. Anyways, it’s a brief series from guest authors about World of Warcraft and the costs/benefits of hardcore raiding on the players. The View from the Top, written by a former guildleader of a raiding guild who walked away from it all and tells his tale. There’s a followup, The View from the Top: Redux, which clarifies authorship of the first article and highlights some of the comments it generated. The final in the series, Warcraft: Another Point of View, is written by another guest author who is still a hardcore raider and disputes any implied responsibility of the game itself. Other than some jackholes going wild in the comments, the short series is a balanced, civilized discussion of MMO raiding and its toll — the blog owners should be proud, it’s fine work. Listen to the bell, raider, it tolls for thee.

Screenshot Day!

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A few screenshots I’d collected lately of players having fun (sometimes at the expense of others):

The ingame gold sellers/power level services have moved to fancy textual messages to hustle their shit.

Hustling for Work

Well, it would have been fancy if he could have tested his macro first.

Here’s one of my guildmates. His fun had come to an end.

The Friend Zone

Bastard still hasn’t told us the story behind that mistell.

I told you a few weeks ago that my guild had split the membership into two ranks: one for the high-attendance raiders, the other for the lower-attendance raiders. (Link) One of the officers proposed adding a third rank.

Never Count on Me

Bah! If only we had the nerve to follow through on that. I don’t know about other guilds, but mine is losing its edge with the expansion just around the corner. There’s two camps of raiders. One is “the expansion will make our gear worthless, why bother farming it anymore!” and the other is the “umm, you will need SOME gear in the expansion to start off, you twits!”

I’m on the fence. I’ve got my purplez, but I’ll help others with their purplez just cuz what the hell else is there to do besides hide in the beta?

And finally, as you can see below, I’m still winning friends and influencing people in the PVP battlegrounds.

More Battleground Fun!!

I am REALLY surprised I didn’t get reported for that. Not that I cared.

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