History Headscratchers / TheGuild

** At least where I live, when WoW launched, people camped out to be sure to get their preorders. The store had I think 1000 copies, and went through them to fill parts of the preorders, and then it was a couple of days before they got any more. It's not unreasonable The Game could have had a similar distribution disaster.

** Since it was based on Felicia's own experience. She said that during her WOW addiction, she was of course working as an actress, but getting very few jobs, so she played for LONG periods in between, but the money she did make from jobs supported her during downtime, though not well, enough to pay the modest rent, food, etc. Cyd works as a violinist, also with gigs few and far between but likely paying enough to support her in between, though not for extravagances or unexpected things like a fried computer.

* Exactly how much personal interaction do people have in this game? I've never played WoW but if some guy is starting to get obsessed with you, and another is a teenager who's planning on destroying your guild (Bladezz, the main protagonist of Season 1), wouldn't you have figured it out before you all met in real life and maybe decided to quit that particular guild to play with more like-minded personalities?

** A big thing about MMOs and online gaming that Felicia wanted to highlight was that you can, quite easily and regularly, befriend people that you usually would not have befriended, due to no common ground outside of the game. So while a lot of people look for guilds that are like-minded and similar, it's not uncommon, particularly for people that get picked up by random guilds, to befriend people that are completely different and even downright weird, even outside the game.

** I figured it's just a very popular game (à la WorldOfWarcraft), so with them living in a major city there's bound to be a few dozen locals on their server.

* Exactly how much personal interaction do people have in this game? I've never played WoW but if some guy is starting to get obsessed with you, and another is a teenager who's planning on destroying your guild (Bladezz, the main protagonist of Season 1), wouldn't you have figured it out before you all met in real life and maybe decided to quit that particular guild to play with more like-minded personalities?

* Why does only Zaboo have the ability to harvest Gold? Why can't Vork do it himself?

* Is Codex actually brodcasting to anyone or is it a talking head segment plot device that's not to be taken seriously in-universe (like Modern Family?)? I imagine if she had people watching her stream and stuff they might give her advice as well as help when things get really dire. She might not, say, need to call her therapist.

** The Guildies did object but they were overruled by the manager. I don't think the manager was painted as being particularly competent. He was clearly pretty gullible if he believed Vork assaulted Venom.