Nice MMO Blog

Saw this today, even if you hate WOW, it's good reading about the struggles with leading a guild:

https://eightyearsinazeroth.blogspot...12/03/1-1.html

FYI, keep reading forward on his posts, there's a lot.

I probably shouldn't say anything...

Over the years the extreme dumbing down of games, especially mmos, has become something of a pet peeve of mine. Brain numbing, faceroll the keyboard gameplay where I have 0.00001% chance of dying, never need help of any kind or have to actually think and strategize and my hand is held as if I were five years old pisses me off no end. I can't play games like that, I feel brain cells dying when I try and almost the entire industry has gone to that model now and *still* people complain about it being too hard for them.

That said, as someone who cut their mmo teeth on EQ, playing it since launch and eventually heading one of the top raiding guilds on the server for 12 years, and no offense to the OP intended, after reading the first paragraph of The Gamble my reaction is that the author is a blithering, gibbering, drooling moron. While I've never played WoW based on what I hear it's no surprise that it was a good fit for him.

And that said, while I don't know what leading a raiding guild in WoW is like, if it's anything like EQ then anyone that beats their head against that brick wall and makes it work deserves some kind of props. I called it quits about two years ago myself.

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Originally Posted by Raeil

I probably shouldn't say anything...

Over the years the extreme dumbing down of games, especially mmos, has become something of a pet peeve of mine. Brain numbing, faceroll the keyboard gameplay where I have 0.00001% chance of dying, never need help of any kind or have to actually think and strategize and my hand is held as if I were five years old pisses me off no end. I can't play games like that, I feel brain cells dying when I try and almost the entire industry has gone to that model now and *still* people complain about it being too hard for them.

That said, as someone who cut their mmo teeth on EQ, playing it since launch and eventually heading one of the top raiding guilds on the server for 12 years, and no offense to the OP intended, after reading the first paragraph of The Gamble my reaction is that the author is a blithering, gibbering, drooling moron. While I've never played WoW based on what I hear it's no surprise that it was a good fit for him.

And that said, while I don't know what leading a raiding guild in WoW is like, if it's anything like EQ then anyone that beats their head against that brick wall and makes it work deserves some kind of props. I called it quits about two years ago myself.

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WoW isn't terrible. I still play occasionally. Is it as hard as the original EQ? By no means. But I actually find it to be more difficult at higher end raiding than AoC. More class synergy, more meaningful class abilities that enhance not only your character but the entire raid(best example is Blood Lust, which gives the entire raid 20% haste, or a 20% increase in attack speed, global cooldown reduction and casting speed).

There is a huge difference in Wow between leveling difficulty and high end raids, which require skill and functionnal brain.

Im saying because I found that over the years, many aoc players tend to think that wow players are crap.
Respect, love and facerolling :p

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Originally Posted by Raeil

Over the years the extreme dumbing down of games, especially mmos, has become something of a pet peeve of mine.

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I hope this changes soon. We had an island of hope, Age of Conan, until Joel (and new leaders or game directors after that) decided to turn into a mess.