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by Eliah Hecht 
Jun 3rd 2009 at 11:00AM
Ensidia got the world-first kill of 10-man Algalon a bit over two weeks ago. They say the 25-man version is "not an easy fight," "highly gear dependent," and "a significant difficulty increase over the 10 man version." Apparently last week they got him to 4%, only 1% over the threshold to beat him (he gives up, like Mal'Ganis in Culling of Stratholme). That must be frustrating as heck.
Well, congratulations to Ensidia, once again! I wonder what they'll be doing until patch 3.2 comes out.
Filed under: Guilds, News items, Raiding
Reader Comments (Page 3 of 4)
Bod Jun 3rd 2009 11:23AM
Congrats to Ensidia.
I just checked the latest stats. Of the top 10 raid guilds, 2 are from the US, 1 is russian and the rest are EU. Given Europe's continued success I find it odd that we have almost no blue support, and our forums are never referenced by Ghostcrawler and the gang.
See for yourself at http://www.guildox.com/go/g.asp
The wow community team has really not caught up with where the game is being played,.
sephirah Jun 3rd 2009 11:38AM
US needs constantly blue support because clearly they need 2L2P! :P
Nerdagain Jun 3rd 2009 11:43AM
@Bod
"The wow community team has really not caught up with where the game is being played,."
Really? I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure the number of US players outweigh the number of EU players by a good margin. EU may have more players with more time to play the game then the US. Which explains why there are more of the better guilds in the EU.
Blizzard is trying to run a company so where they are making the most money is where they are going to show more support. Since the US has more people playing that equals more money so it gets more support
Congrats to this guilds kill.
jfofla Jun 3rd 2009 12:22PM
It just shows Euros have way more time to waste than Americans.
rosencratz Jun 3rd 2009 12:34PM
Back in the vanilla days it was the US forum posters permanently complaining that the EU forums got all the dev love.
Truth be told times change and the only reason we get any dev-love at all is because GC does so in his spare time essentially. The US are just lucky they have a very vocal dev that frequents their forums at the moment, it's quite likely he'll end up with more personal commitments at some point in time and we suddenly lose his feedback. Then we'll be back where we were again.
Additionally the EU forums encompass more than one spoken language, you reckon you could find a dev as vocal as GC who also has a universal pocket translator? Or did you only mean the english speaking EU forums? Would that honestly be better?
The Blizz devs are not naive, the internet is free roaming, whether you are an EU or US player you can still read what GC has to say. Whether you could post on the US or he could post on the EU forums is irrelevant because your still not going to have your stupid questions answered and seeing as every question/suggestion/joke is made at least a hundred times every day on every single forum regarding the subject the chances are YOUR question/suggestion/joke will be anwered if it was going to be answered at all.
Also considering how the Devs can state something on the US forums one week and every moron in the world is complaining as if "the Devs never give feedback on THAT subject" the very next week leads me to believe that we, as a community, probably get more feedback than we deserve already.
TBH - What would be the point in having more "dev-love" on the EU forums anyway?
Just to make us feel better?
What do you want exactly? Feedback or a Hug?
Replex Jun 3rd 2009 4:29PM
Use the real rankings:
http://www.wowprogress.com
3 US Guilds
5 European Guilds
1 Russian Guild
1 Taiwan Guild (Stars, not on the ranking, ranked #2, so pushes off the #10 on there)
The Claw Jun 3rd 2009 7:20PM
"Really? I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure the number of US players outweigh the number of EU players by a good margin"
They don't, actually. It's been a while since Blizzard released a territory-by-territory breakdown of their subscriber base, but the last one I saw was at the time of the "10 million subscribers" announcement: it was 2.5 million US (including Oceanic since they're on US servers), 2 million Europe, the rest Asia.
So more like the number of US players outweighs the number of EU players by a small margin.
Bod Jun 4th 2009 10:25AM
@Replex - ok but the point still stands, whichever data source we use.
@Nerdagain - surely as (i presume) an American you're not arguing against No Taxation without Representation?
and @ rosencratz - I think your point is the most fair, until you got all huggy (your words not mine) but then I also think that simply creating a single english language forum that everyone can contribute to would go a long way to providing fair and impartial representation.
What do I want exactly? Well GC clearly listens to and reacts to feeback on the US forums, we pay the same fee, I'd like the same access.
Jay Jun 3rd 2009 11:28AM
"I wonder what they'll be doing until patch 3.2 comes out."
What, they can only defeat the guy once?
If that were my guild, I'd be farming the crap out of Ulduar. As it is, we're hoping to finish the Antechamber soon; I would have said this week, but patch day instability made it impossible to finish the Siege area last night.
Retropally Jun 3rd 2009 11:43AM
Gratz for them :D
Look at all that hunter lootz that dropped...
RetPallyJil Jun 3rd 2009 11:59AM
If only they knew how no one cares.
SuckItTrebek Jun 3rd 2009 1:37PM
Funny how you have nothing to back up that claim, while there's tons of things that say "people do care". You know, like you having to pay monthly to play on your own equipment, while they're sponsored and reported on worldwide.
RetPallyJil Jun 3rd 2009 2:24PM
Sue me. I don't give a damn about Ensidia.
my2cents Jun 3rd 2009 3:47PM
And yet here you are spending your free time reading about their accomplishments and then commenting about it...
jfofla Jun 3rd 2009 12:09PM
The Yankees are in first place in the East.
I guess money can buy the best team.
Pexxle -=Silver Hand (RP)=- Jun 3rd 2009 12:26PM
/sarcasm
Alright!!
My day gets better and BETTER!!!
:/
jam Jun 3rd 2009 12:35PM
You seemed to care enough to post a comment.
Pexxle -=Silver Hand (RP)=- Jun 3rd 2009 1:03PM
@ Jam
Calm down Ensidia Defense Force...
I am entitled to snipe at news i don't considered to be news. Personally i feel "World Firsts" are immature and pointless especially on PvE content...
So people play more than the average User, equip items, learn patterns, and defeat a computer program that is meant to be defeated...1rst.
Then its posted as "news", and you don't think people, including myself aren't going to poke fun OR not care?
PvP is more news worthy for a human opponent has no pattern.
jam Jun 3rd 2009 1:30PM
I'm not pro-Ensidia, I'm simply anti-stupidity.
Lorem Jun 3rd 2009 12:58PM
Congrats. Your epeen is deees big |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|.