Re: Generation gap?

On May 22, 10:45 am, RogerM <roger.mc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
See, right there you have lost me. I refuse to use websites for guild
business. I want to do game business in-game. No website nonsense or
anything else which requires me to leave the game.

Now, I would be willing to send an in-game letter to apply, and have no
problem with an interview (although that's rather formal for my taste).

Eh, to each his own. We do a HUGE amount of stuff through our guild
website. Raid signups are done there (in game is cumbersome - there
are addons to do it but the you have to get everybody to install them,
update them when a patch breaks it, then they communicate through chat
channels so the information is not always synced up correctly), we do
all of our forum communications (allows us to discuss things
throughout the day when we're not in game), and we can also check each
other's specs, gear, crafting capabilities, etc through the website
(slightly obsoleted now that Armory is in place, but even it doesn't
show as much info as WOWroster does).

We also have required reading on the website such as boss strategies,
gear requirements for raiding, etc, etc on our forums. To me only
communicating in game is like saying that a professional sports team
should never talk to each other except face-to-face. Not phone calls,
emails, playbooks, or anything else. While fine for very casual
playing, I doubt that anyone serious would go that route. We
generally give any new members about a week to signup to the website
and if they aren't signed up by then we just remove them.

Also, it's not that you have to "leave the game" to visit the
website. The guild website is available to me FAR more often than the
game is (lunch break at work for example ;)), and so most stuff like
that can be taken care of throughout the day or before/after you are
logging in/out anyways. And worse comes to worse, tabbing out to your
web browser takes all of 0.75 seconds :D.

Could be another generational gap though. Even my brother's fantasy
football league is all done over the web :).

Mike

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