People who say that becoming a lawyer or improving yourself are worthwhile pursuits are just brainwashed into believing what is currently fashionable and are staunchly enforcing it on others. Ultimately, as someone said already it is all pointless. You are here for some time and then you are not. Acheievement is subjective and can be anything. Think of the patience, discipline, dedication, passion, focus, organization, ingame social skills, that this guy had to have to achieve that.
In fact I'd like to hire someone like that instead of these mainstream do-gooders chasing socially acceptable achievements with no backbone to pursue what they really want to do.
I dunno. I am not sure that the meaning of life is sitting in front of a computer all the time.
I don't think doing anything to much is good for you and this is probably far too much.
I mean is this really that different from doing drugs all the time? You are gone in your own world, the body does not feel good (you do need to move somewhat or you die rather young) and you miss out on a lot of things.
Playing games is fun, but when it is all in your life then something is wrong. And I can't really see how playing Wow all your awake time could be fun, shouldn't it become boring work after a while just like anything else?
Working or doing something else for more than 10 hours a day really suck. No matter what it is. The world is a huge place, you don't have to do socially accepted things as long as you doesn't hurt anyone but do something more than one single thing.
I don't think anyone lies on his/her deathbed and wishes they played more Wow or (which is worse) watched more TV.
The fact remains though that some achievements are just mind-blowing. Some are so RNG dependant, that it is nearly impossible to get them ( Win AB by 10 points). Some of them just require so much 'useless' time that I can't believe anyone would do them ( Insane in the brain, where you have to raise your rep with factions that were never intended to be raised and offer no reward other than the achievement). And to be able go get the very difficult PVP arena achievements and the very difficult PVE raid achievements is must mind boggling.
And it's not just one RNG or one time-consuming, or one highly skilled pvp/pve acheivement... there are many MANY achievements that fall into each of those groups. I know people who do nothing but try to get the 'salty' title from fishing and have not been able to do it because there are so many RNG achievements under it. I mean, just the sheer amount of fishing this guy had to do is amazing.. then you throw in stuff like having a 2300 arena rating AND clearing 25man ICC on hardmode?? I mean, I am amazed when I see someone with all the fishing achievements.. I almost thnk that person has no life
Yeah Salty is the one that I can see taking the MOST time of any achievement section. I could never have gotten it simply because I could never be online when the fishing competition was being run (being an Aussie, it was on a Monday and well damn thats a workday). I had all the others though. Then again I kind of enjoyed fishing (it wasn't like FFXI fishing though) and would always multitask while doing it. Luck plays a huge part though. For one of the rare fish some people had over 6000 unsuccessful casts and yet when I completed all those achievements my total casts was only somewhere around 8000 - so yeah I was massively lucky. Plus fishing is one of those things that people who play WoW a lot see as wasting time anyway - you could be running heroics instead!
But the other ones you say take a lot of time (the AB one), well you can get that really quickly in a premade. Most achievements are very easily obtainable and don't take much time when you have good backup. And this guy definitely had good backup.
Eh, I'd be a bit more excited to read this, if someone hadn't beat him to the punch several months ago. Asian/Korean player got all the achievements, and to honor him Blizz sent him some swag.
I noticed a lot of the first people to reply said, waste of life, time or whatever. In all honesty, his character is probably worth a few thousand if he/she decided to sell their character. Seems like a decent investment considering MMO's are entertainment. As for his time investment, maybe he/she is in highschool and is a genius and doesn't need 3-4 hours a night to do homework or maybe he/she owns their own business. Whatever the case, it's still quite an accomplishment and my hats off to the individual.
Are WoW accounts worth much at all these days? It is phenomenally easy to level up and gear up so I can't see anyone really paying too much for an account. And why would someone want to buy an account on which everything has been done?
Lazy people buy accounts so they don't have to waste time levelling and gearing, not so they can look at filled bars and go "ahhh look at all those achievements that some other dude got instead".
Awesome how some people can't understand that in order to do what this guy did he likely had to play about 12+ hours a day for a very long period time, which does in fact translate to having no real life.
I work at least 50 hours a week. I have no life. Not many people would ridicule me for making my career my life.
I don't see why we should ridicule him for not having a lilfe.
LOL I beat World of Warcraft when I got my main to level 80.
Don't be terrorized! You're more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder! More people die every year from prescription drugs than terrorism LOL!
I noticed a lot of the first people to reply said, waste of life, time or whatever. In all honesty, his character is probably worth a few thousand if he/she decided to sell their character. Seems like a decent investment considering MMO's are entertainment. As for his time investment, maybe he/she is in highschool and is a genius and doesn't need 3-4 hours a night to do homework or maybe he/she owns their own business. Whatever the case, it's still quite an accomplishment and my hats off to the individual.
Are WoW accounts worth much at all these days? It is phenomenally easy to level up and gear up so I can't see anyone really paying too much for an account. And why would someone want to buy an account on which everything has been done?
Lazy people buy accounts so they don't have to waste time levelling and gearing, not so they can look at filled bars and go "ahhh look at all those achievements that some other dude got instead".
You'd probably be suprised.
George Carlin said it best when he said, "If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it from you, man."
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own. -- Herman Melville
Bravo. The man has done something no-one thought possible. The fact that this thread is full of "he has no life and I meet women" posts only gives more credit to his achievement.
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Just what I was thinking. It takes a mix of skills and no life whatsoever to be able to do this.
But of course, games like Wow is not impossible to "beat". Games like Eve is.
I dunno. I am not sure that the meaning of life is sitting in front of a computer all the time.
I don't think doing anything to much is good for you and this is probably far too much.
I mean is this really that different from doing drugs all the time? You are gone in your own world, the body does not feel good (you do need to move somewhat or you die rather young) and you miss out on a lot of things.
Playing games is fun, but when it is all in your life then something is wrong. And I can't really see how playing Wow all your awake time could be fun, shouldn't it become boring work after a while just like anything else?
Working or doing something else for more than 10 hours a day really suck. No matter what it is. The world is a huge place, you don't have to do socially accepted things as long as you doesn't hurt anyone but do something more than one single thing.
I don't think anyone lies on his/her deathbed and wishes they played more Wow or (which is worse) watched more TV.
Yeah Salty is the one that I can see taking the MOST time of any achievement section. I could never have gotten it simply because I could never be online when the fishing competition was being run (being an Aussie, it was on a Monday and well damn thats a workday). I had all the others though. Then again I kind of enjoyed fishing (it wasn't like FFXI fishing though) and would always multitask while doing it. Luck plays a huge part though. For one of the rare fish some people had over 6000 unsuccessful casts and yet when I completed all those achievements my total casts was only somewhere around 8000 - so yeah I was massively lucky. Plus fishing is one of those things that people who play WoW a lot see as wasting time anyway - you could be running heroics instead!
But the other ones you say take a lot of time (the AB one), well you can get that really quickly in a premade. Most achievements are very easily obtainable and don't take much time when you have good backup. And this guy definitely had good backup.
Eh, I'd be a bit more excited to read this, if someone hadn't beat him to the punch several months ago. Asian/Korean player got all the achievements, and to honor him Blizz sent him some swag.
Are WoW accounts worth much at all these days? It is phenomenally easy to level up and gear up so I can't see anyone really paying too much for an account. And why would someone want to buy an account on which everything has been done?
Lazy people buy accounts so they don't have to waste time levelling and gearing, not so they can look at filled bars and go "ahhh look at all those achievements that some other dude got instead".
Kind of reminds me of this:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103797
I work at least 50 hours a week. I have no life. Not many people would ridicule me for making my career my life.
I don't see why we should ridicule him for not having a lilfe.
LOL I beat World of Warcraft when I got my main to level 80.
Don't be terrorized! You're more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder! More people die every year from prescription drugs than terrorism LOL!
You'd probably be suprised.
George Carlin said it best when he said, "If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it from you, man."
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.
-- Herman Melville
Bravo. The man has done something no-one thought possible. The fact that this thread is full of "he has no life and I meet women" posts only gives more credit to his achievement.