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I think you're missing the point entirely. His one year experience of playing WoW was a learning experience that ended up shifting his worldview enough that he
by yarou 11y ago
I think you're missing the point entirely.
His one year experience of playing WoW was a learning experience that ended up shifting his worldview enough that he was able to start Glassdoor. Whether or not he was a hardcore player is an entirely different matter, and frankly, quite irrelevant.
- lmartel 11y agoNo, it's important as a source of credibility. Imagine an article about how a career in software inspired a CEO to start his company, and it quoted him as saying "I got tired of writing all those PHPs for Googer." It's so far from what an actual domain expert would say that it's impossible to ignore.
- sklivvz1971 11y agoI am not missing the point. It doesn't take one to be a hardcore player to level up to max level. I am simply skeptical that he did that in a year. Hardcore players do it in days. http://www.quora.com/How-many-hours-did-it-take-to-get-a-level-80-character-in-WoW-pre-Cata http://www.quora.com/How-many-hours-did-it-take-to-get-a-lev...
- morganvachon 11y agoKeep in mind this was in 2006, before the first expansion pack, when it was a more balanced game from level 1 to level 60. I started playing in 2005, and it took me the better part of a year to hit 60 with my main. There are other factors to consider as well; as someone else said, it could be about server ranking. It could also be about "completing" the end game by defeating all of the instances and dominating the arenas on his server. Considering there is no way to truly "beat" WoW, as the end game changes with every new expansion, I'd say he set a goal for himself and accomplished that goal, and was ready to move on to the next (real world) challenge. I certainly grew bored with the game after spending my second year playing the same instances over and over.