Another chapter in the (mis)adventures of my paladin.
During my early days of WoW, before I started the "honor grind" as it was known, I attemped to raid dungeons, rather than fight enemy players. One thing quickly became apparrent: people took (and still take) WoW waaaaaay too seriously. The following stories are taken from the two guilds (an association of players with the typical intention of raiding computer-controlled dungeons).
The first guild required me to download modifications to the game, such as the ability to see all 39 other team member's life bars, rather than the other 4 in my group. Another such download was a calendar that you had to "sign up" for raids and "hope" to be accepted. People would review your gear, your talent spec (all character classes have 3 talent trees involving various aspects of the character. My Paladin, for example, could spend talent points in the Holy skill tree to improve healing aspects, Protection to improve defensive capabilities, or Retribution to enhance offensive capabilities), and how long you had been playing.
If you were declined, you were told to play more, get better gear, or choose a different talent spec to benefit the entire guild. This game isn't free; people play about $15 a month to play. And here comes someone else telling you to spend YOUR $15 dollars differently if you wanted to play the game with them. Frankly, what a bunch of bull&%*^.
After that guild, I attemped to join another. I was asked to "fill out an application" for the guild. That's right; I needed a resume to participate in an online video game. That wasn't the worst part either. The raid organizer was very biased towards my class, seeing it as nothing other than a "heal-bitch class" as the term came to be known. If a monster dropped a piece of gear you could use, you had to see if you had enough "currency points" within the guild to "afford" the item, provided you were allowed to bid on it in the first place.
I also have to say that I have quit jobs before due to blood-pressure from obnoxious bosses, but the organizer gave the absolute worst tongue lashes I have ever heard. Profanity, insults, threats, beratings in giuld channel chat and over headsets or in private channels where she/he could scream at you. I timed him/her, beratings were over fifteen minutes.
Was this a job or a game? What the Hell....?" I told myself.
After all this I walked away from Player vs Environment (PvE) and focused on Player vs Player (PvP).
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I have never played the game, but know a lot of people who do (and I have seen it in action). There are a lot of people who do take it way too seriously. It's mind-blowing. To them, it's more than a game and even a job - it's like their destiny I guess you could say.
I know a lot of people who even met their husbands / wives on WoW - and they play together every night. They talk about not having time to have kids because WoW is much too important. They come home from work and immediately go to their computers. They sit there during meal time, during everything. It's like their lives revolve around WoW.
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