The High-End effect
Those of you who know me may also know that I fly quite a lot between England and Sweden, I did so today, started off in Sweden and took an early flight down to Manchester. I have done this so much in fact that I have recognised a pattern.
The early flights mostly hold business people going down to Manchester for a meeting or two and flying home again in the afternoon. Nothing wrong with that but the thing about business people is that they fly business or 'economy extra' class. Which basically means that they are packed up front of the plane with the other business people having to bustle around for room in the overhead compartments mainly due to the fact that they can't be asked with checking in bags. So they have close to oversized bags that would be better off in the bulk of the plane instead.
From my seat in the far back where I am having an entire row of chairs to myself they look like little sardines packed into a can just a little too small for them. You see Business people tend to be on the larger side thus giving them a fair reason to sit in business class so they can 'work' with their laptops on the two hour flight down. Only not much work ever gets done.
They sort of remind me of the Forerunners of MMORPG's. Those of us who have any experience with playing at the 'high end' of games such as World of Warcraft or any other MMO with respawn timers, limited numbers of mobs etc etc know that being a forerunner among the thousands of others, involve spawncamping mobs, spawncamping special mobs, spawncamping quest items and a lot of other spawncamping which is dull when you are doing it with about 20 other people who are on the exact same quest/stage as you. So why would you want to be a forerunner?
You will forsake an entire game just to be able to say 'I was the first who did this', but you never really get to that, do you? In the end you will have to amend your statements to say 'I was the first on the server', ' I was the first on the alliance side on my server', 'I was the first *insert class here*' , ' I was the first in our guild' etc etc you get the idea.
No one who did anything 'first' are ever remembered unless they do something 'first in the world' or do it repeatadly. So what if you were the first Warrior to hit level 80 when Wotlk came out? wow, a nice flashy achievement... good for you.
But was it really worth it?
The early flights mostly hold business people going down to Manchester for a meeting or two and flying home again in the afternoon. Nothing wrong with that but the thing about business people is that they fly business or 'economy extra' class. Which basically means that they are packed up front of the plane with the other business people having to bustle around for room in the overhead compartments mainly due to the fact that they can't be asked with checking in bags. So they have close to oversized bags that would be better off in the bulk of the plane instead.
From my seat in the far back where I am having an entire row of chairs to myself they look like little sardines packed into a can just a little too small for them. You see Business people tend to be on the larger side thus giving them a fair reason to sit in business class so they can 'work' with their laptops on the two hour flight down. Only not much work ever gets done.
They sort of remind me of the Forerunners of MMORPG's. Those of us who have any experience with playing at the 'high end' of games such as World of Warcraft or any other MMO with respawn timers, limited numbers of mobs etc etc know that being a forerunner among the thousands of others, involve spawncamping mobs, spawncamping special mobs, spawncamping quest items and a lot of other spawncamping which is dull when you are doing it with about 20 other people who are on the exact same quest/stage as you. So why would you want to be a forerunner?
You will forsake an entire game just to be able to say 'I was the first who did this', but you never really get to that, do you? In the end you will have to amend your statements to say 'I was the first on the server', ' I was the first on the alliance side on my server', 'I was the first *insert class here*' , ' I was the first in our guild' etc etc you get the idea.
No one who did anything 'first' are ever remembered unless they do something 'first in the world' or do it repeatadly. So what if you were the first Warrior to hit level 80 when Wotlk came out? wow, a nice flashy achievement... good for you.
But was it really worth it?
