MMO Gaming

I don’t like to wipe. I don’t understand how people can be okay with it. It’s not alright, while in a group, to fail and attempt again and again. It is not alright to die, laugh it off, and head back into the instance. It is not a time to say that no one is at fault; someone is, undoubtedly, at fault.

People say these things when in a group, I must assume, to console those who died along with them. It is no consolation to me. As a healer when I see someone in the group die I know it was my fault. That’s why it is my job to be the first to die or there is to be no dying at all. If I’m the first to die, then the tank didn’t do his job, he caused the wipe, if anyone else dies first it is my fault. I, as the healer, failed to do what I was supposed to.

I don’t take games too seriously, as some people will say when a person gets mad about wiping. Often times these people are not overly serious about the game. They are frustrated. Frustrated by their own failure and frustrated by the failure of others in the group. Everyone makes mistakes. I make mistakes. Many of them. Looking back on all the time I’ve spent playing I can always pick out times where I messed up when healing, where I didn’t do my job right and it caused the party to fail. Failing is not fun, wiping is not fun. To shrug it off, telling me or anyone else they take the game too seriously is asinine. I like to enjoy the time I spend playing a game. I don’t enjoying sucking and dying. Neither do you. Just because you crack a smile or type some words telling the group it’s okay doesn’t mean it is. We sucked, we died, that’s not okay. It’s not okay because it interrupts my play time and it interrupts yours. It forces us to spend money/time that we would’ve spent experiencing game content. If death was as fun as you make it out to be, we would all walk around dead all the time. Why play the game when we can stare at our dead bodies on the screen? Oh, that’s right; dying isn’t fun.

Dying is an annoyance.

Dying, is not alright.