Guild Mum

As you may have read, I’m kind of into making money in WOW at the moment. I’ve found a lot of interesting blogs out there that help and guide and give tips. Probably the most famous, I’ve mentioned before is Greedy Goblin. Now I don’t particularly subscribe to his points of view. He is almost (but not quite) the antithesis of me. He does not do social. I am big time social. He talks politics, I keep away. He theorises. It makes my brain hurt and I have other things to think about like dinner and washing and my children. But anyway. I digress. He posts a weekly scorn at people he calls “Morons and Slackers”. Have a read… here for example. There are lots.

While I do find them amusing I am also sorry for these people. They are just trying to play a game. They obviously don’t try to educate themselves terribly well, but hell, we all have to start somewhere. I used to be a bit like some of these players. Isn’t everyone a bit naive until they learn how to do something. Yes, the information is out there, but maybe they would like to spend their time in other ways. Ah well. I have enjoyed reading these posts on occasion and laughing at the comments. I have educated myself and now have a system that works OK for me. I make between 5000 and 7000 gold a week. I spend most of it on fun, trivial things that goblin would scoff at. I have all the pets I can get, a motorbike, a travellers mammoth, a violet proto-drake, countless dresses and other completely useless and irrelevant things that make me happy. They add to what and how I enjoy the game.

The other day I logged in to one of my bank characters and the following conversation followed…

I was amused. I felt sorry for this guy. He must have been so frustrated at me! All he wanted to do was get rid of his glyphs. We continued….

I love the last sentence here. It really made me smile. I have an add-on that tells me what a player is worth. He had about 2.5k gold. He was obviously happy with the money he had and his other ways of making it, but to think that glyphs were worthless. Hee hee.

It carried on…

He clearly hasn’t read anything about how to make his life easier. He had to click to cancel all his auctions. He had no clue of the market value of his product. He thought things didn’t sell simply because he was being undercut. I’m not sure if I actually came out winning on the deal. I probably didn’t but I don’t really mind. I gave him some things to thing about but I doubt he actaully took them in. I gave him goblin’s blog idea, told him to automate and hinted that he should know his market a bit more. If he had actually read what I said to him he could have realised that it took me only a minute or so to post 300 glyphs.

I spent the gold I had collected from my morning’s posting and I felt a bit like I’d made somebody’s day in a strange sort of way. He was obviously furious at me, but by the end relieved.

I was thinking of sending this to Goblin, but he likes to name and shame and I don’t. If this person ever sees my blog he will know who I am referring to, but I doubt it would do any good to anyone to actually come out and name him. I don’t really want to personally educate too many people about glyphs, even though I am quite happy that I have a big enough market share and enough stocks and supplies to maintain that I’m not quite prepared to let go of all the information I have learnt over the year or so it’s taken me to get here. I know that if others had not shared their knowledge I would not be in this position, but I’m not confident enough that I really know what I’m doing and don’t want to be labelled with the “Morons and Slackers” just because I’ve not gathered all the information available or know all about markey share and cashflow and trading commodities, etc.

I guess I’m just an underconfident Mum doing the best she can and funding her children and husband to play a game we all love. I don’t crave fame and glory. I really don’t care if nobody reads this apart from my friends and family. We had a laugh at the first comment from this guy and it has now become a new family saying (well, not with daughter - she’s only 8 and we don’t say ALL the words with son). But when we get cross or frustrated at someone or something we say “F*** off”……. “Seriously” and it makes us giggle.

At the end of the day it’s a game we are playing. Husband and I are trying to work out how we can replicate this in Real Life. How we can use the skills and devotion that I put into the game in the real world and make us all rich. It may take a while, but I hope we can get there. Things are moving. Slowly, but I feel that life is starting to smile our way.