Loved this article!
It's funny, I was just watching my youngest play a game, and he said he was trying to get a higher ranking. I noticed he wasn't with the group he had joined, he was just running around an empty field.
I asked, "Don't you have to kill creatures to go up in rank?" and he said, "That's one way, but if I just wait here, when the rest of the group completes the quest, my rank will go up. If I kill creatures, I can level up faster, but this is to get a higher ranking."
At first, I was thinking, "But that's WRONG!!", then I thought, "Hey, if that works for you, go for it!". It was pushing all my "you must work hard to get rewarded" buttons. I let him know at some point his group might get mad that he wasn't helping, and he said he knew, and he was probably going to join them soon. Or, he might not, and they'd kick him out, and he'd find another group to join.
My sweet funny son, trying on the darkworker way! I love that he found an easy way to get his higher ranking - a ranking that will let him get better weapons and more money, so he can be a better fighter when he does fight. He knows he's a good fighter when he needs to be.
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