I noticed on wowprogress that out of the top 20 progression guilds only 2 of them are in the US. The other 18 are EU guilds. Why is this? As an American this is extremely upsetting. I thought we were the best at everything!
Posted Dec 12, 2014, 9:28 PM UTC
American culture has a higher focus on personal gain, while European and Asian cultures are more focused on the success of the group. That may play a part, anyway.
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They are literally in the future (Timezones, bro).
You might be on to something here.
Raids are usually open for US before EU because of reset days are different. And sites that follow progression does know about time advantages surprisingly enough.
Argh. How about less working hours?
higher unemployment / more social welfare leading to more time to devote to gaming?
It is because in one little squiggle there is the equivalent of a whole paragraph. They have books and books of what happened just scrolling on the screen. Or at least that is what I like to think.
Not quite how Asian languages work lol.
This is definitely the best guess so far. Also I know many European countries have less than 40 hour work weeks and that is not considered "full-time" . Europe will definitely come out stronger when society progresses to a point of complete job automation by robotic and algorithmic processes, however, in my opinion, because of their more "socialistic" government infrastructure.
There are more people in all of Europe than America? Bigger pool to draw from?