Why so Serious?
I started playing online games many years sgo on The
Realm and I still have fond memories of sneaking in to other people’s houses
and stealing from their chest while they had it open then suddenly getting
kicked out. It was a drinking game that I did not take seriously.
From there my friends and I moved onto EverQuest. That is
when my experience changed. There were 40 of us killing a dragon in an ice
cave. I had not slept in over 40hrs working on leveling up my character to
maintain my standing with this guild. We would try to organize to be first in
force when a world boss spawned only to be grieved by another guild training
enemies into our raiding party to cause us to wipe.
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Then along came World of Warcraft. This game offered
instanced raids and much better graphics and rich content. It was like sitting
in a new car on the show room floor. I played WOW until the end of the Mist of
Pandaria. Wow had lost its luster for me two expansions ago. I had to force
myself to log in and play so I would not lose my raiding spot. I really wanted
to simply play casually and use the in game group finding tool and raid finder.
But, even then the dungeons were bland and the raids were just okay.
Along the way my kids grew up. Raised on the Nintendo and
then moving to Call of Duty and Destiny. Now as teenagers they play with school
friends in League of Legends, Guild Wars 2 and Final Fantasy XIV.
Being a MMORPG dad, I may have nurtured the MMO games and
rich history of them to my boy’s.
Having used the website The100.io for Destiny the boys
were accustomed to making an event and having people sign up for it. They were
dismayed with the MMO’s in game party finding tools. There is no way to
schedule an event for a future date. Sure you could get a group ‘now’ (and now
being sometime within an hour or two) but there was no way to schedule an event
for their prime game playing times. It’s not amusing to finally get a group
with only 30min left to play.
This is how Raid Finder Pro came into existence. The
boys saved up money and hired a website programmer to create Raid Finder Pro from the ground up. I was happy to support them and proud to see those two
stick with it.
So, Why
so Serious?
Along the way the boys’ website, www.raidfinderpro.com, has
gained attention. Some good and some are bad. They have attracted the attention
of haters. The website has been attacked and notes left on the site and YouTube channel. Some got deleted for being vulgar. As a dad I want things family
friendly. I know trolls come in all forms and we should have taken better
precautions against this, but I honestly did not think a free to use website
that offers a tool to help gamers could be so abhorrent, according to the
trolls. This has not affected them much, more so me, and they are excited to have
a functioning website that offers amenities that in game LFG tools are lacking.
