I have this funny conversation during one of my gameplay, while L is me, and A is a player in that game:

A: (shouting) GM, where can I find NPC Z???

L: (whisper to A) You can find NPC X by reading the website guide for NPC.

A: (whisper to me) Which part of the website?

L: (whisper to A, after take a look at the website) Just go to coordinate x, y, u will find NPC Z.

A: (whisper to me) R u a GM?

L: (whisper to A) No I am not.

A: (shouting) GM, where can I find NPC Z???

L: … SWT!!!

I thought to myself: OMG, just because I am not a GM and you don’t believe my information?  And it is only some click away for you to find it by yourself at the website, but you need GM just to find an NPC???  So, I try to “enlighten” him about the usual GM function.  I never become a GM in an online game, but I am sure that one of their job is not to help a newbie to find an NPC.

L: Have u tried the coordinate?  It’s there, u don’t need a GM to find it.  Contact GM if you find bug.

A: R u a GM?

L: I told you before, I am not, just try to help u find the NPC.  Besides GM will only respond to you for bug or special report like when you try to repo

Hell yeah, grinding is BORING!  But I have seen and getting amazed on how people ACTUALLY REALLY can handle it!  There’s time when I felt, “Nobody can stand this!” during my hunting on certain level.  But the next day I login to the game, my fellow guildmate is already pass the same level when the day before we were at the same level!  What really more amazed me is a few days later, he is way beyond my current level!  That left me with a really big question: how the hell did he handle that grinding???

One of my friend did a little research.  Although it’s just for fun (not for published research), but he really test it statistically.  For those of you who don’t need any scientific facts, just skip to the next paragraph.  My friend did this to his friends as a sample for his non parametrical Factor Analysis method.  The dependent variable is grinding durability, while the independent variables are shown in the order below according to their factor load.  He used a 10% alpha.  So the result displayed here is not in random order but rather in hierarchical order.  For those of you who want to discuss the statistic fact, please PM me.  It’s not my research and this is just for fun, but