Quote Originally Posted by van_arn View Post
Ultimately, if there's an 8 person requirement and 7 other people treat the content like it's some sort of job, then you don't experience that content unless you also treat it like a job.
Well, yea, obviously. A static s going to consist of 8 like minded individuals. If that group of 7 that lives and dies by a dps tracker, and puts you through a series of exams to see if you can put out 3,000dps or whatever. And either A) hire you on because you passed, but during a few raids you were a 100dps under mark, so they kick you. Or B) don't pass at all...then the 8th person better have the 'job like' mentality of the other 7, or he is going to hate the experience. However a same set of 7 that is open to mistakes, don't live and die by the numbers, and is willing just to have a good time an try their best, and the stress isn't nearly as overbearing.

I get that there is a level of efficiency involved, and that there needs to be some threshold to weed out the people that just bring you down too much, but turning it in to a fortune 500 job-interview and a paramilitary organization? Surely not every group does this.