It's a system that works if the group is made of mostly friends, nobody goes linkdead, nobody bails because RL reasons and all of them have the time to do the run and to actually complete the dungeon. As you know it can take well over 1 hour, if not two. I love it, but it can lead to frustrating nights. In BRD mage goes LD, rogue has an emergency, the other three just wasted half a night just to get there and kill one boss, because of no warlock, no summon, etc.
I agree. There is no reason Developers can't change the way leveling and end game content work in mmos. The first team that does this could very easily have the next wow on their hands. Then again, WOW and EQ are the reason we have this mess.
Because most players of mmos these days are delusional fucks that min/max everything to such extremes that generally a sub level 100 person would never be welcome because while they might perform 98.2% as well as a level 100, there's still a 1.8% deficiency which is more than enough to make you overlooked. You're talking about a genre where people will kick DPS out of raids and shit because they are not at peak efficiency. Fuck that mess.
This is extreme hyperbole. The vast majority of MMO raiding isn't nearly as cutthroat as you describe it. There are plenty of guilds in the MMO raidscene that don't kick people for poor performance. The social issue only arises when people with mismatched goals play together. Either the min-maxer deceiving himself into thinking he can stomach grouping with bad players day in day out, or the bad player deluding himself he can play with the top performers without being a burden.
I fell into this trap. I was interested in playing but didn't want to go through the fuckawful hell of finding good players, so I thought I could just play easier content with bad ones. Except anything easy enough for bad players is made irrelevant in a matter of days, and going any further is a 100 foot brick wall of resumes, interviews, and 3 day a week commitments.
Try playing the FFXIV end game content. It's tuned as such. Being 99% peak performance isn't good enough.
Having had carpal problems, I'd appreciate an ergonomic mouse that would massage my hand. Alas, the stressed bits and on the back, not the more sensitive palm...
I don't commit anymore to a guild, I found a casual one and after a month or two I was considering gouging my own eyes out to stop seeing such bad gameplay. So I just said "fuck it" and now I play alone, do a torist run in LFR and then once I have done everything I want to do, I change the fucking game, it's not worth having to run a boss a couple hundred times because someone is fucking up every single attempt for a small chance at shiny +gooder. If you consider that the use for raid gear is close to zero, except to do a higher tier of raiding, well...
My MMORPG subscription time actually increases dramatically if they have a general chat and it's during an election year. 60% of the time, it's more fun than the game, every time.Another pro tip. If you like general chat for the occasional dick joke, you can go ahead and forget that idea during an election cycle.
At least in EQ we could go kill the goddamn server and people would form raids to hunt us!
