15 Minutes of Fame: Vive la resistance

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at 7:00 pm

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15 Minutes of Fame is WoW.com’s look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and sizes — from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off to players you’d like to hear more about. When there’s a dozen of Them for every one of You, life on a PvP server gets ugly. PvE progression crawls when your faction’s population is so minuscule that you can’t seem to assemble a PUG even during peak hours. You can’t craft your way into better gear, because an anemic economy means no materials on the Auction House and no players in Trade waiting to craft with them. Log in on a night when the few of raiding guilds don’t happen to be active, and you could find yourself looking at something like 40 other faction-mates online. Welcome to the Alliance of US-Cho’gall. Current player activity levels average an abysmal 1 Alliance hour for every 12.7 Horde hours played — something like a 1:7.5 player ratio, down from 1:15 earlier this year. An incredible community effort and guild named The Resistance rallied rerollers and transfers to infuse new life into the Alliance-side of this notoriously imbalanced community. While the campaign made an impressive stab at pulling the Alliance community up by its bootstraps, the severity of the situation took its toll, and things are not so bright for everyone on the blue side of the tracks. We visited with Aleksey, GM of another Alliance guild, to find out how the beleaguered Allies are holding up and what might help this Horde-crushed realm. Continue reading 15 Minutes of Fame: Vive la resistance 15 Minutes of Fame: Vive la resistance originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments