Why do we play?

Tobold has a series about why do we play. I didn't really like his conclusions but I couldn't disprove him until now, when he wrote about playing for rewards, claiming "rewards are one of the strongest reasons of why we play".This is 100% wrong. No one plays for (ingame) rewards. It sounds weird, considering the unquestionable truth in "Give out epics for PvP, and suddenly a lot of people who never liked PvP before will start to do it."To see what's wrong we must separate two things:"Why do we play?", ...

Articles tagged with: Raiding, Guild Achievements

What signals the end of an expansion?


Wrath of the Lich King ended on kind of a sour note for me, largely because I didn't get to participate in my guild's one and only 25-man heroic Lich King kill before Cataclysm launched. Part of the rankle was ...

Officers' Quarters: Dropping the drama totem


Every Monday, Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. He is the author of The Guild Leader's Handbook, available from No Starch Press.
Selecting players ...

Identify the Fail


In which I realize that WoW raiding and software development have a common element.
How does this relate to raiding? Well, it has to do with learning from one’s mistakes.
In the software development world, we have ...

More Like This: Vodka vs Method Speedrun


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_488Ir0itpU
Forget arenas.
Forget rated BGs.
Give me competitive PvE raiding!
Vodka and Method, 2 of the world’s best guilds, going heads up in the Dragon Soul challenge hosted ...

The Substitute Raid Leader

Remember the days in school where your favourite teacher was away?
Maybe she was sick or needed a personal day.
Then the sub would roll in with a giant, CRT television that was Velcro strapped to a cart and you thought to yourself, “YES! ...