Originally Posted by
darkwarrior42
Translation: other players are competition to be avoided or crushed, don't ever make the mistake of thinking of them as human beings because that might hinder your ability to do whatever it takes to get what you want, no matter what you have to do to other people in the process.
Edit: Yes, I phrased that rather strongly, because I don't believe the problem is that any particular person cannot get to the node, but that no matter who wins everybody else loses, which is not conducive to a game world that promotes a desire to have other people in the world... which, supposedly, is what Blizzard wants. I'm not arguing that I can't work in the current system, I'm arguing that there is no advantage to the current system over a system like the one that GW2 uses (not counting bots, since they're cheaters and should be summarily banned and stripped from the game either way).
Edit2: And if I wanted to advance myself by being a jackass to other people, I'd be playing EVE, not WoW :-P