Well it's AV weekend and already the vultures darken the clear mountain air wearing little cowboy hats with the letters "AFK" stitched into the brim. That's right, over the last three months it has become progressively "cooler" to queue up and demonstrate your mad pvp skillz by pressing spacebar in the cave every couple of minutes while jacking off to nude pics of Heath Ledger (Cowboys hats, mountains and homophobes... It worked to well for me to pass up;)) and let me tell you, the guards are very impressed by your ability to reach for the tissues reel fast!
Okay jokes aside, It may seem like I'm very much against this kind of behaviour, but in reality I do see things from their perspective (except the Heath Ledger part. I'd be more of a Jake Gyllenhal kind of guy, if I swung that way /grin). AV, as it stands now, leaves a lot to be desired but still remains the highest toke of honour for most people. Thus, they claim, forces them to endure it. Even the people who loved the BG and dissed the leachers, are now starting to reach for their tissu... er spacebar and the number of AFKers increases.
In some ways the whole "Can't beat em join em" attitude is kind a great way to send a clear message to The Man(tm). The theory appears to go something like this: "If everyone AFKs aka the 2% of Wow players that aren't bots, farmers or gurlzgamer stalkers, then The Man has no choice but to meet our demands and change things." and that's what we see happening with the latest round of Blue giving (in that wonderfully half-vague PR manner of the CM) sweeping changes to that war-torn valley that has been a little less war-torn of late.
So they want to make people want to play AV again? Well I want to want to want to see people play again and typically there where some amazing suggestions right back at the beginning of the whole phenomenon given in a constructive, thoughtful manner, with one of the best suggestions being: Heroic AV. This was just a AV that would run parrallel to the current that offered players a chance to participate in the "Old School AV" before it received the last set of sweeping changes.
Naturally they were not and will not be implemented.
I for one say bring back Korrak and reinvest a bit of comedy into AV again. Sadly The Amazing Drysc proves yet again The Man is far too busy designing more and more with extra more content to fix any of the old.
I don't know about you but I'm very psyched to have the opportunity to miss even more obsolete new content!
Bring on WOTLK!
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