Screen Sharing & the High End Raid Scene

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Yeah, we messed with that some a while ago and chose not to do it because it seemed dirty. Our choice. I get that.

There was a lot of talk on Sunday about the ability and dedication to commit resources as the differentiation between the top guilds and those in the middle/bottom.

But there's another axis to that, too. It's self-regulation. And Unbrella speaks to that when he says:

High end raiding largely (but not entirely) revolves around, "it's not cheating unless you get caught".

However you want to parse that and however much of that you want to own of that or not, it's a stance that many humans take. Reference the doping in sports, for example. Also invoke the similar notion that: if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying here.

So hypothetically (and I'm not talking screen sharing here - I'm talking generally), if we accept the notion that some people behave that way - and that some self-regulate differently (try to follow the rules out of principle) - you eventually end up with an uneven playing field. A race, as it were, that's unwinnable by a subset of the contestants (a non-doper doesn't beat Lance Armstrong on a bike). (Again, I'm not talking about footraces in Kael, but conceptually.)

I'm not accusing anyone of anything here. That needs to be clear. I'm just setting up the construct (that we probably all know is real).

But that construct speaks to success (high-value target kills) every bit as much as the notion of "devoting resources" to kills does. And shouldn't be ignored as an element in the mix - although we didn't speak to it directly on Sunday.

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That said, and completely detached from the conceptual above, we weren't even running in the same race on Sunday. And that makes me feel stupid for getting up at 2am my time and spending 4 hours staring at the screen before real life intervened. And, worse, asking others to do the same.