I almost hurt myself laughing when I read this.  Too true, though.  Personally, I would love to see a Starcraft MMO.

World of Starcraft.

By the way, I know someone who does "scenery creation" for WOW. I wouldn't ask him to break his confidentiality with his employer... that would be asking him to do something unethical.

World of diablostarsomethingnew?

Sorry my raid experience differs greatly :)

We don't "obey" our raid leader, we all discuss about strat and always try to find a better way to kill stuff, we have a fun time chatting on vent and are a tight group of people.
We don't follow strat much either as we are far enough ahead in the raiding curve that strats were not available when we started to work on the latest raid bosses. ( and for Sunwell in particular strats have to be tailored heavilly to the strenght of your raid/guild). First time we raided Sunwell, we spent 3 hours going over logs and chatting about it afterwards on vent...

We had to make our own strat for Kalegcos, Brutallus, Felmyst and Twins and are now very close to killing M'uru with our own strat too...

Half of the guild actually has a job is aged over 24 so the urban legend about raiders living in their parent's basement doesn't really apply either...

As for the person commenting how pvp is a grind, have you tried to arena ?????


And no we don't raid for gear, anyone that applies to the guild and puts an emphasis on gear or mentions gear too often while in the guild usually doesn't stay long around.
Better gear is only the mean to be able to down harder stuff, gear in itself has no purpose......

World of Blizzard !!! Diablo, WoW, and Starcraft universe all into 3 diff continents total chaos ! nah I Just want my diablo 3 fix now !

 Thats only te raid experience of people who don't want to put in the effort. Mine went something like this:

1. Wipe misreably to the new boss on our first attempt.
2. Figure out what caused the wipe (not enough healing, damage spikes too large, not DPS too low causing boss to enrage, idiots just not paying attention, etc)
3. Slam head against the wall for a few attempts while trying to fine tune and perfect the best way for your raid group to beat the encounter.
4. Argue endlessly with every one else in my class because we all think completely different ideas would be the best solution and try to find a way to test them all and see who is actualy right.
5. Kill boss (gloat if it was your idea that was right) collect phat lewtz and then move back to step 1.

Quite honestly I always hated it when we got a new guy who thought like you did. They added very little to the raid and required constant baby-sitting. There are times when you just have to react to a new situation with your own solution. People who blindly follow orders never come up with those ideas because they think someone else will have the better solution. I will take 5 stubborn relentless jack-asses who think they know best over 25 idiots who will only follow the walk-through of another guild.

Good. You've come to the ultimate conclusion that frees WoW players from its clutches.

All that's left for you to do it quit the game and stop being a WoWhead.

 Looks to more more like you're one of the gear obsessed player that we see once in a while.

Such players typically cry river when an expansion comes and their shinny gear isn't the best anymore and typically do very badly in a raid setting as their motivation is improving their own gear and not working toward the good of the raid...

Wow isn't different from any other social activity.

To do well in raiding you need a decent amount of time, decent skills and decent social skills ( you can be the best in the world playing your class, if you act like a jackass you still won't be welcome in most serious raiding guilds)...

1. I quit before the expansion.

2. You are not being social. Go out to a bar and chat with random people. THAT is being social. Interacting with people in a virtual world over chat/voice chat is the epitome of being antisocial because it's a simulation of social behavior. In essence, you are playing a farce upon social interaction.

3. Raiding is easy and boring.

4. Those people aren't your friends. They'll leave for a better guild the second the offer arises. And yes, Blizzard thrives on the drama which ensues between guilds as it turns players against each other instead of realizing what a boring, static leveling-treadmill their game is.

Really, quit the game, stop being a WoWhead and go live life.