So I'm looking to get into some group stuff in this game...
And I'm looking at assorted recruiting ads on places like the Balance and getting way baffled...
Seeing things like:
"we're a midcore static, we raid 8-days a week for 25 hours a day, must be willing to urinate into a 7-Up bottle while raiding, please attach your Flogs which much be in the top 0.0000000001% because we're just casual, not hardcore or anything..."
Or... ok... I'm being silly there...
But I do see things like:
Raid night are M, T, W, Sun, 7pm-2am, casual-midcore...
And I'm like...
Boy... that ain't casual, ain't midcore... back in WoW that wasn't even hardcore... there are crack addicts who take their addiction less seriously than that...
I get it...
I'm killing my shot at getting into ANY group with this post...
But WTF is up with these recruitment ads?
In any other MMO; if you raid more than once a week, you're not casual. More than twice, you just hit hardcore.
If you're keeping logs period; that's upper midcore to hardcore.
I don't mind this... I just want to be able to actually target myself to the right group...
Back in WoW... where folks would publicly shame each other over logs... odd thing was... guilds realized folks had lives outside the game... and the guy who'd actually offer up his logs usually got laughed out because they really wanted your logs of how you did with them... not the padded ones you put together with your mates in the months after progression... last time I saw a guild other than one that was trying for world-scores that raided more than 2-3 times a week was over a decade ago.
Their hardcore guilds would be seen as 'casual scrubs' here... if I read these recruitment posts right.
Am I just totally looking in the absolute wrong place when I look in the Balance discord? Are they freaks there... or is that normal.
As I type this I'm seeing a group looking for:
"7 days/wk commitment
- virtually any time"
and another:
"Hours:
Mon: 8-10 pm est
Tues: 8-10 pm est
Thurs: 6-10 pm est
Fri: 6-8 pm est"
And then:
"Tuesday-Friday 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST"
(unless I read that wrong, that's 4 nights a week). The same ad also has:
Needs to be chill.
Willing to raid on the weekends to get more
... Nah ese; that schedule ain't chill...
And these are not the most intense examples...
Now that WoW is permanently in my rearview mirror thanks to that company's attitude...
I like this game but... where are the people that are not junkies?
I need to find me a better discord to look for them...
sign me as 'casual scrub' or 'pathetic WoW refugee' - your choice I guess.
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And I'm looking at assorted recruiting ads on places like the Balance and getting way baffled...
Seeing things like:
"we're a midcore static, we raid 8-days a week for 25 hours a day, must be willing to urinate into a 7-Up bottle while raiding, please attach your Flogs which much be in the top 0.0000000001% because we're just casual, not hardcore or anything..."
Or... ok... I'm being silly there...
But I do see things like:
Raid night are M, T, W, Sun, 7pm-2am, casual-midcore...
And I'm like...
Boy... that ain't casual, ain't midcore... back in WoW that wasn't even hardcore... there are crack addicts who take their addiction less seriously than that...
I get it...
I'm killing my shot at getting into ANY group with this post...
But WTF is up with these recruitment ads?
In any other MMO; if you raid more than once a week, you're not casual. More than twice, you just hit hardcore.
If you're keeping logs period; that's upper midcore to hardcore.
I don't mind this... I just want to be able to actually target myself to the right group...
Back in WoW... where folks would publicly shame each other over logs... odd thing was... guilds realized folks had lives outside the game... and the guy who'd actually offer up his logs usually got laughed out because they really wanted your logs of how you did with them... not the padded ones you put together with your mates in the months after progression... last time I saw a guild other than one that was trying for world-scores that raided more than 2-3 times a week was over a decade ago.
Their hardcore guilds would be seen as 'casual scrubs' here... if I read these recruitment posts right.
Am I just totally looking in the absolute wrong place when I look in the Balance discord? Are they freaks there... or is that normal.
As I type this I'm seeing a group looking for:
"7 days/wk commitment
- virtually any time"
and another:
"Hours:
Mon: 8-10 pm est
Tues: 8-10 pm est
Thurs: 6-10 pm est
Fri: 6-8 pm est"
And then:
"Tuesday-Friday 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST"
(unless I read that wrong, that's 4 nights a week). The same ad also has:
Needs to be chill.
Willing to raid on the weekends to get more
... Nah ese; that schedule ain't chill...
And these are not the most intense examples...
Now that WoW is permanently in my rearview mirror thanks to that company's attitude...
I like this game but... where are the people that are not junkies?
I need to find me a better discord to look for them...
sign me as 'casual scrub' or 'pathetic WoW refugee' - your choice I guess.
Continue reading...