Regarding the above commenter, he left the second comment on my blog as well, on an entry that didn’t even have anything to do as raiding. I therefore categorized it as spam, and filtered it accordingly.

You’re trying to tell me how I should come away from the experience. You’re trying to act as though you’re an expert psychologist accurately assessing the cognitive processes I experience playing MMO’s. And you’re trying to sell your personal preference antagonistically to people who don’t agree with you.

Furthermore, it seems like you’re trying to sell your blog through comments like these. On blogs that have generally different audiences. I’m sure many care about your views because they disagree. But I don’t appreciate the bombastic manner in which you advertise. Linking an article and then signing off in a commercial manner is unnecessary. There’s a reason you’re allowed to link your blog through your name on comments.

Thanks.

Think about that, and then ask yourself if it was really worth all the broken friendships, drama, anger, rage, arguments, etc. that it took to get to this point.

Raiding gives a very FALSE sense of accomplishment that often results in people letting their real life accomplishments falter. Everyone has a certain amount of accomplishment they want to attain in life. When they get it from a game, they stop seeking it in real life.

HOLD THE FLAMETHROWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everything I have written above is an exaggeration. I wrote it to make a point. Raiding and gaming should be about fun, not about some kind of titanic “achivement” that feels like you just gave birth.

-Cambios
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