What I will do this weekend

So Wotlk will be coming out tomorrow and I am making plans. After the debacle of what occurred on the last "standard Maintenance day" a lot of my plans are including not entering WOW at all.

The new James Bond movie is coming out so I planned with some friends to go to that.

I will go out and buy the game tomorrow, however I think to some extent that Blizzard has rushed this expansion in an attempt to get the holiday shopping dollars.

At the very least nothing will happen and we will all play the game this morning with maybe just a little lag from the popularity of the Northrend servers.

At the most we will all be afflicted with the ancient curse of "May you live in interesting times".

Definition of Usefulness

Lately our guild has started raiding again. With the break up of the old guild most of our raiding stopped. We could still handle Kara and ZA but could no longer get 25 people together. With the expansion on the horizon a lot of our players have been coming back and with some recruitment we once again have enough to consistently run 25 mans.

We have been planning one raid of burning Crusade material and one of old school to help with achievements. This weekend we had a Gruul's/Mags run and a Molten core run planned. One of our new players who has been begging to raid was invited to Kara last week and loved it.

This week when we invited him to the Gruul's/Mags run he accepted initially. Saturday morning, however, when the actual invites went out he declined. We didn't have a problem with the fact that he declined, real life issues can come up, and he is a kid so maybe mom said no. The problem came when he told us he didn't want to come because this close to the expansion raiding was useless.

A lot of us in the Raid were a little perturbed to put it mildly that he would tell us something we were enjoying was useless. I tried to ask him to tell why, thinking not to have him dig himself a deeper hole, but that typing does not always convey true meaning and if he elaborated it would create more understanding. He stated that with the expansion 2 weeks away gearing up with raid drops was silly. I told him that we weren't raiding at this point for the gear we were raiding to hang out with each other and to come together as a guild. Also good practice for the future raids for the new and older guildies to shake off the raiding cobwebs and remember how to work together.

Well this guy was having none of it and said it was useless once again and then asked in guild if anyone wanted to do MgT. At this point I whispered him and asked why MgT was not useless when a guild run was? He really didn't have an answer to this and at that point he just ignored everyone and went off to pug MgT. Our Raid leader was highly upset and pretty much said that this character would not be doing any raids in the future unless he apologized.

He has the right to his choice and I am trying to cut him a little slack for being a kid. I just hope that in hindsight he understands that he stepped on a lot of toes on Saturday. It is never a good thing to sign up and at the last minute decline, but his real offense is by saying the raid was useless it made those of us who were in the raid feel as if he was saying we were useless. We continued on and downed Gruul's, then we ended up becoming 2 Kara runs instead of Mags. I had fun and I believe everyone else who was in the raid did as well. The camaraderie that comes in a group made the game fun and I hope some day he understands why that can be a very useful thing.