by Tiffany Bechdel on Oct 11, 2009
I’m
sure that these players do not feel they are in the
wrong. Nor do I think that they are failing in this way to be
malicious. In fact I’m sure that there are those out there
(these face rollers included) that would defend them Maybe pulling out
the excuse they are casual players, who don’t have a lot of
time, and therefore we should go easy on them. But I think that this
excuse is nothing short of a load of Tauren dung.
The old casual player excuse kills me. Mostly because in the last
expansions and patches Blizzard has made WoW much more accessible to
the casual player. However WoW is never going to be a game where you
can just hop on and play. You are going to have to do some work
beforehand. The grind, the farming, and other preparations are as much
a part of the game as any instance.
“But I don’t have time to sit and read a lengthy
strategy, or watch some corny video. Can’t I just figure it
out as I go?” No, you really can’t . If you
don’t have the time to sit and read up on the fights you will
be encountering then in my opinion you have no business trying to do
instances. Stick to single player and save me and the rest of the
population the headache.
At the very least download some boss mods, speak to some people with
more experience than you and get a general idea of what you are up
against. Even mastering the most basic rule of WoW (never, ever stand
in anything unless otherwise instructed) will save you much
embarrassment and give the impression that you at least have some idea
of what you are doing. Keep in mind, if you are dead, you are useless.
Then of course you have the players that there is no hope for. No
amount of reading, training, or explaining will help them. They are
just clueless. What makes it even more annoying is that most of these
players have no idea why they just got kicked from the 5 man, or are
benched at every single raid. They just don’t get it, and
probably
never will.
If they weren’t busy making extra work for the group and
possibly
wiping it, they could almost be felt sorry for. Heck if it
didn’t’
happen over and over again it might even be considered funny. The fact
of the matter is they will fail, and will continue to fail no matter
how many excuses you make for them.