Originally Posted by
theWocky
Oh, I agree.
I just brought this whole thing up because some of the people in these other guilds in this other game think they can compare their progress and claim with their limited player-base that they are on par with the skill of the creme of the WoW playerbase skill pool. I fail to see how they can say this is so.
It's like comparing a small town's best baseball team to a team in the world series.
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While certain games can be judged on locality - for example New Zealanders, South Africans, Australians are all Rugby nuts - a higher percentage of the population play and they constantly play on the world stage, so their talent / skills remain high.
Our kids play rugby in school and from even earlier whereas the US kids don't necessarily start this young - even though they may have a higher population.
Difference with an MMO to a game like soccer, rugby is that each individual in the MMORPG pool is not necessarily bound by a country (maybe latency). So, this is a constant. You selected for the best raid teams based on your skill - irrelevant of locale. A game with a playerbase of hardcore raiders of 150,000 are obviously going to have a better selection of skill to choose from than one with 500.