Ready Check~

[Rokien]

LOL, I can just see the potential aftermath of people boycotting this feature, or asking for a "toggle" option.

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Party leader: "All right, let's down this boss. Let me fire up a quick ready check to make sure we're all here and let's do this."

*Party leader initiates a ready check. 7 of the 8 party members click "Ready", except for one, Bob, who doesn't respond to the ready check. 30 seconds later, the ready check times out and lists Bob as AFK.*

Party leader: "Hey, Bob, are you here? It says you're AFK."

Bob: "Oh, yeah, I chose not to click the ready check. I don't like that feature. WoW has one, you know."

Party leader: "So...you're ready, but you wanted to make me ask you individually about it and hold the whole group up?"

Bob: "Yup."

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Alternatively, if a toggle feature were implemented:

*Party leader initiates a ready check. 7 of the 8 party members click "Ready", except for one, Bob, who has ready checks disabled. Party leader is notified by the game client that 7/8ths of the party is ready, except for Bob, who has an unknown status due to having ready checks disabled.*

Party leader: "Hey, Bob, are you here? I can't tell because you have ready checks disabled."

Bob: "Oh, yeah, I chose to turn those off. I don't like that feature. WoW has one, you know."

Party leader: "So...you're ready, but you wanted to make me ask you individually about it and hold the whole group up?"

Bob: "Yup."

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You'd only be causing headaches and inconvenience for the rest of your group. Nobody is going to care about your righteous crusade against World of Warcraft, they're only going to care that you're holding the group up by insisting on being a special snowflake. This is nothing but a good thing for group organization.

Wooow, because that's really how it's going to go down.... -.-

Man, how do people manage without this revolutionary idea!?!