How Cata made me lose my job

[sidsfriend]

Hi.

I just wanted to add my perspective to the Cataclysm expansion and how it has ruined a lot of things for me. About 2 years ago I got my current job as a personal assistant to a mentally handicapped person, let's call him Sid. Sid has the body of a man in his late 20's, but his mind is somewhere around a 5 year old. Sid has always been more or less obsessed by the Warcraft universe, and one aspect that made me get the job in the first place was our common interest in online gaming, and in particular, WoW. His mom wanted someone to not only be a "guard" for her son, but also a friend. It didn't take long for me and Sid to become buddies, when we didn't play WoW together we'd do other stuff, but our gaming sessions were fun most of the time. Eventually Sid's mom even bought a computer for me too to play on so I didn't have to use my personal laptop at work.

On a normal day we'd play two hours every day, one hour in the morning, and one hour after lunch. I must admit we'd sometimes break the rules and play an extra half hour. During WOTLK everything was fine, me playing tank and Sid on his hunter. Back then we'd usually have time to do at least two dungeons everyday. The hunter class fit Sid; he had a fun pet by his side, and with volley he could do some real nice damage. Hell, sometimes he even topped the meter on trash packs. We had both pretty nice gear, both decked in T10 at the end of the x-pack. We even did the weekly raid quests, which Sid liked a lot (9 other people, all shooting stuff at the bad guys! = wow!). A few times Sid's mom let us play for a few hours during weekend nights, then we'd go to ICC and do up to Saurfang in a pug raid.

Then Cata came. Volley disappeared and the game took another turn. Sid became very sad.

We levelled pretty slowly since we had limited game time, and most of those XP were earned in dungeons since Sid sometimes had a hard time understanding quests as well as navigating in a large zone, not only on the ground, but in the air as well. During this time Sid got more and more frustrated. Sid has a tendency to get frustrated when things don't go his way. That means for example when I tried to teach him how to trap things. Even in some normal dungeons people were demanding CC, and that is something he just couldn't pull off.

He doesn't read very well but he has learned the words "retard", "lol 3k dps hunter" and that "ffs" isn't very nice things to say. He has also learned that he can be vote kicked out of the dungeon any second. Like the other night for example. We had just zoned in to our first heroic cata dungeon ever, I had spent most of my gold from levelling on some crafted pieces and AH blues to boost our iLvLs. Sid got kicked out after about 30 seconds with the reason "lol ghetto gear". I also had "ghetto gear" but I guess a tank is valued higher.

Sid went rampage. I had only seen him doing that one time before during our 2 years together, and that was when his cat was hit by a car. He threw his monitor in the floor, and went crazy. When he had calmed down he told me he'd quit WoW. Last night I had a talk with his mom, my employer, and she partly blames me for Sid's behaviour. She's strongly considering replacing me with someone who can "deal with Sid's emotions".

I'm gutted. She doesn't understand WoW at all, or the sudden new elitistic difficulty level, instead she blames me and think I'm the reason to Sid's rage.

I hope you got what you wanted: a hard game. Me, I'm about to lose my job.

Thanks for listening, and remember this game should be for everyone, not only elitistic gamers. And Blizzard if you're reading this: WOTLK heroics were perfectly tuned, please bring the old style back.

[Lewlipopz]

It is your fault and your fault alone if you lose your job due to a game.

[Synthaxx]

Honestly, and no offense intended, but this sounds like a fabricated sob story based around one half of the "Cataclysm is too Easy/Hard" arguement.

[SilkforCalde]

10 / 10

Would definitely read again.

---------- Post added 2011-01-29 at 01:20 AM ----------

It is your fault and your fault alone if you lose your job due to a game.

He's hardcore trolling. I was definitely very entertained though.

[IngoDent]

I think I just ruptured my spleen from laughing so hard.
Great story, truly great, it's a 10'er no doubt!

[Wilian]

This is a community issue, not a game issue.

[micho]

20/10 extremely well done my trolly friend

[Lancer]

6/10 for a wall of text.

[thoukaia]

Honestly, and no offense intended, but this sounds like a fabricated sob story based around one half of the "Cataclysm is too Easy/Hard" arguement.

Agree, this is most likely a troll attempt, its too farfetched. Especially the part about the cat.

[Simca]

It is your fault and your fault alone if you lose your job due to a game.

If you read his post, your statement definitely doesn't apply here.

His job was for somebody who liked this game.

[Grimtor]

I feel sorry for people that didn't laugh out loud

[Orvanoc]

I came into this thread expecting some QQing about someone who couldn't restrain himself from a game, what I read was a lot different.
Sorry to hear about your predicament, mate.

Or I've just been trolled, softly.

[Mojow]

actually i lold
even when u trolling
goodjob on makin my day?(night 2:23 here >_< ) well anyway ... ty XD

[Doom Walker]

This story should be mandatory reading for all schools. 10/10

[Grimtor]

He's not trolling he is telling a funny fabricated story for crying out loud.. learn the difference

[Uggz]

As horrible as this sounds, the online community are a bunch of dicks, and blizzard can't make elitests happy and even make the game as fun and accessible to mentally handicapped people, such as Sid, and since the elitests + casuals to a certain extent are an extreme majority, they'll try to make them happy for the money. :/ it's a cruel world, GL getting a new job.

[Warod]

So if i get it right... your job was playing with a mentally handicapped rich kid all day? Yeah that was going to last! Did it come with a retirement plan?

[Kaoskadosk]

Really, I feel for you, and I feel for Sid too. I know kids with similar problems, but really, WoW is not intended to be a game for mentally handicapped. There's nothing wrong with them, it's just that WoW is not dedicated to them. If an increase in difficulty makes a mentally handicapped person unable to play, well, too bad really. It sucks that his mom is ignorant and that you're losing your job because of it, but that's because of her, not the game. In all honesty, you're quite immature to blame the game for it.

Also, everyone blatantly claiming it's a troll at first sight really points out what a horrible community this actually is.

Edit 2: Alright, I didn't read the ending line. Sorry, this is a troll.

[makak]

we need more troll posts like this

[seam]

Honestly, and no offense intended, but this sounds like a fabricated sob story based around one half of the "Cataclysm is too Easy/Hard" arguement.

Funny, that's how I read it as well.