1) I can't say that I agree with you completely; while guilds pre-60 are "useless" for raiding, that doesn't mean they're completely useless. I'm guilded with TRS because of Sara, Pavel, Cass, and Ben. They are my friends, and we wanted a guild together, so we started one. It's been just about everything we wanted it to be, up to 60. So, at least for 59 levels it hasn't been useless, and I'd absolutely love for us to be able to make it useful at 60, too. But that's where we start to agree: at 60, the guild is pretty useless.
2) The leaving the guild part is also difficult and may or may not be a slightly different situation than you had; I'm co-guildmaster with Sara. If I left the guild, that'd pretty directly lead to her leaving the guild. The reverse is also true; we're not going to split up. Further, I have more than just time invested into this guild, as I devoted (and am still prepared to devote more) time and money into our website. Sure it'sj ust been 20 bucks so far, but I'm no longer a webmaster virgin, and that excites me. I want to remain webmaster of the guild, and I want the guild to prosper and make use of the website. Leaving the guild would be giving up on the entire thing; it'd be giving up on everything we've created... it's not just leaving someone else's guild.
3) My computer is nearly 2 years old and, yes, it is the RAM. Sara got a new compy with a gig, and it runs fine for PVP. Cass has a gig in his machine (and a worse video card than mine) and he's fine for PVP too. I have a huge video card (513 MB ATI Radeon 9200) but only 512 RAM, and all I can do in PVP is slideshow 'till I die. The problem is, though, that my motherboard can't handle any 512 sticks and I already have two 256 in there. So basically I'd have to buy a new motherboard and new RAM ... and if I'm doing that, I might as well buy a new processor... and then a new computer. But I can't really afford to do any of that, since I'm a poor, jobless college student.
4) Stereotypically, you'd be right; but I haven't really had problems finding any groups 'till the patch came in. It's like Sara's computer problems... she was having display issues after the 2nd Retail patch and people said "Maybe it's cuz your computer sucks" but... it was running fine up until the patch, so doesn't that imply that it's the patch's fault? I highly doubt that there was an influx of level 60 rogues the day of the ptch that are better groupers than me that would cause all the people who usually sent me /tells to stop.
5) I think you've basically hit it on the nose, there. The Alliances has the "pretty" and "cool" characters, so MMO newbs choose Human/Elves because of those reasons. Same reason why those same people play Hunters... they have pets? Cool! They don't think about the overall impact of their choice; they don't really bother to learn how to play their character, either, since they're MMO Newbs and don't understand how teamwork is essential to groups. So they solo up to 60 (which Hunters are adept at) and then can't do anything, so they try to find groups but they suck, so no one groups with hunters. The Alliance works in generally the same way... there are enough loners there that don't care about teamwork or fairness, as long as they get their kills in. So you just have a high percentage of idiots and asses on the Alliance, and given their huge numbers, that percentage accounts for more people than the Horde could ever muster.
2) The leaving the guild part is also difficult and may or may not be a slightly different situation than you had; I'm co-guildmaster with Sara. If I left the guild, that'd pretty directly lead to her leaving the guild. The reverse is also true; we're not going to split up. Further, I have more than just time invested into this guild, as I devoted (and am still prepared to devote more) time and money into our website. Sure it'sj ust been 20 bucks so far, but I'm no longer a webmaster virgin, and that excites me. I want to remain webmaster of the guild, and I want the guild to prosper and make use of the website. Leaving the guild would be giving up on the entire thing; it'd be giving up on everything we've created... it's not just leaving someone else's guild.
3) My computer is nearly 2 years old and, yes, it is the RAM. Sara got a new compy with a gig, and it runs fine for PVP. Cass has a gig in his machine (and a worse video card than mine) and he's fine for PVP too. I have a huge video card (513 MB ATI Radeon 9200) but only 512 RAM, and all I can do in PVP is slideshow 'till I die. The problem is, though, that my motherboard can't handle any 512 sticks and I already have two 256 in there. So basically I'd have to buy a new motherboard and new RAM ... and if I'm doing that, I might as well buy a new processor... and then a new computer. But I can't really afford to do any of that, since I'm a poor, jobless college student.
4) Stereotypically, you'd be right; but I haven't really had problems finding any groups 'till the patch came in. It's like Sara's computer problems... she was having display issues after the 2nd Retail patch and people said "Maybe it's cuz your computer sucks" but... it was running fine up until the patch, so doesn't that imply that it's the patch's fault? I highly doubt that there was an influx of level 60 rogues the day of the ptch that are better groupers than me that would cause all the people who usually sent me /tells to stop.
5) I think you've basically hit it on the nose, there. The Alliances has the "pretty" and "cool" characters, so MMO newbs choose Human/Elves because of those reasons. Same reason why those same people play Hunters... they have pets? Cool! They don't think about the overall impact of their choice; they don't really bother to learn how to play their character, either, since they're MMO Newbs and don't understand how teamwork is essential to groups. So they solo up to 60 (which Hunters are adept at) and then can't do anything, so they try to find groups but they suck, so no one groups with hunters. The Alliance works in generally the same way... there are enough loners there that don't care about teamwork or fairness, as long as they get their kills in. So you just have a high percentage of idiots and asses on the Alliance, and given their huge numbers, that percentage accounts for more people than the Horde could ever muster.
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