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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Impressive and disturbing at the same time

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Steve and I play World of Warcraft differently: I like concentrating on increasing the proficiency of just one character, he likes to switch from character to character because fighting in one style for very long gets kind of boring for him. So he rotates his characters every once in a while.

But we're both only playing one character at any one time, because we only have one account each. An account costs about $14 a month.

Check this guy out :-). He plays 36 accounts at the same time.


This is his computer setup for playing 36 characters together at the same time


See that ring of characters, including the ones in the middle? They're all controlled by just one person.

Why does he do it? Well in WoW, there's this a thing called a raid, where people who happen to be signed on at the same time can form a group to attack a big boss.

I've been on a couple of raids myself, and it's fun when you have a good group of players together. Roles are defined before the raid, and people stick to what they're supposed to do until you achieve the objective. You work with the efficiency of the A-Team :-).

But sometimes you end up joining a group where people would rather be a glory hound than work as a team. Before you can say, "Wait, don't attack him yet," a power hungry player decides to forge ahead and just assumes everyone else will follow to save his butt. More often than not the entire group suffers (i.e. dies) because of the lack of teamwork.

So anyway, this guy plays 36 characters at the same time so he doesn't have to worry about getting a group of people together to do a raid.

On one hand I can understand that he doesn't want to deal with 1. having to get people together and 2. making sure they're able to work well with each other. I'm impressed at the steps he's willing to take to do that (he pays over $5000 in subscription costs a year).

On the other hand, a successful raid isn't only about winning, it's about being able to win because a group of strangers got together and they all communicated well enough with each other to make sure the objective was achieved, and they supported each other in doing it.

So let's say this guy does raid the big cities of Stormwind and Ironforge. And let's say he battles through a hundred guards plus a bunch of other players who want to defend the city. And let's say he wins. That's a major victory.

With whom does he celebrate?

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