Why top Wow guilds are European Guilds
Re: Why top Wow guilds are European Guilds
23 Aug 2010 21:22
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Tennesseej
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I think zYN has a good point, and I hate to say it because I am from the US, but I think US players are more selfish and whiney and quicker to blame things than to admit they made a mistake and accept criticism to improve. Many of the top US guilds prefaced their LK25HM kills with, well we lost a lot of out raiding core during ICC, so we should have gotten this kill sooner blah blah. I never noticed that trend, and I think zYN has pinpointed it.
Re: Why top Wow guilds are European Guilds
24 Aug 2010 00:57
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zYN
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It does sound a bit flame-y now that I re-read what I wrote, but I do stand by it. I've got a handful of very good "interweb friends" that live in the US, some of whom I have met IRL too. I've also been to the US and everywhere that I've been to, it has been a pretty awesome experience. If I had to choose between living there or here permanently, I'd choose US hands down if it wouldn't make seeing some very close family members very hard.
There's no snobby bullshit like "I hate the country or their policies so I'm making snide remarks wherever I can" here at all, which is the kind of stuff you encounter on the net occasionally. What I wrote is something I've simply observed. It doesn't apply to all players or people (obviously enough) - there could easily be a guild on the US realms already that plays with a "guild first" mentality or otherwise with no drama whatsoever. I just haven't heard of one.
I simply feel like that magical point and overall cohesion is just significantly harder to achieve on the US realms and that significantly more guilds fall apart due to that reason than to other things, when compared to EU guilds. I'd say the same thing about EU guilds when comparing them against Asian guilds (and even Russian guilds, although to a lesser extent).
Although, like I wrote earlier, being able to slack away while still technically being in school definitely has a much bigger impact than attitudes. You see those "EU welfare checks QQ" forum troll posts on roughly every world first kill, but it's true enough to an extent on highly general level.
There's no snobby bullshit like "I hate the country or their policies so I'm making snide remarks wherever I can" here at all, which is the kind of stuff you encounter on the net occasionally. What I wrote is something I've simply observed. It doesn't apply to all players or people (obviously enough) - there could easily be a guild on the US realms already that plays with a "guild first" mentality or otherwise with no drama whatsoever. I just haven't heard of one.
I simply feel like that magical point and overall cohesion is just significantly harder to achieve on the US realms and that significantly more guilds fall apart due to that reason than to other things, when compared to EU guilds. I'd say the same thing about EU guilds when comparing them against Asian guilds (and even Russian guilds, although to a lesser extent).
Although, like I wrote earlier, being able to slack away while still technically being in school definitely has a much bigger impact than attitudes. You see those "EU welfare checks QQ" forum troll posts on roughly every world first kill, but it's true enough to an extent on highly general level.