It’s been so long I barely remember the concept of soft reserve but that is what we did in classic WoW. Raid sign up sheets allowed you to soft reserve an item, meaning if it dropped and you had it soft reserved you get it if you were the only person who did. Otherwise you roll against others who did. And if I recall winning a soft reserve roll meant you couldn’t roll on anything else for the rest of the raid (whereas you otherwise could on any drop that wasn’t soft reserved by anyone)
I’m assuming more hardcore guilds did DKP but the casual guilds and PuGs did soft reserve (least until other horrible forms of auctioning insane amounts of credit-card bought gold in raids, known as GDKP, became a thing)
But even with soft reserve I quit classic WoW partly because I had burned out on the PVE. After realizing that winning a piece of raid gear made my entire week and doing 3ish hour raids where it didn’t drop wrecked my night…I told myself “This is just fucking gambling. And I hate it”
And I quit then
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