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Re:Why Startups Should Only Hire Good StarCraft Players by cageface on Friday September 03, 2010 @10:37PM (#1661840)
Yeah it's a meritocracy assuming you put in the minimum baseline of time it takes to grind up gear. This takes a lot less time than it used to though. I'm not sure if you played recently but the whole thing has been tremendously dumbed down. Players of average ability can now clear all raid content without a huge weekly time investment.

Heroic modes are a different story though.

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Re:Why Startups Should Only Hire Good StarCraft Players by Luyt on Saturday September 04, 2010 @07:03PM (#1663607)
Nowadays participation mostly depends on gear, not abilities. Parties will seek players with for example "at least 5K GS", which means 5000 GearScore points according to a popular GearScore AddOn which analyzes your equipment.

The Dungeon Finder (with which you can find random parties for random instances) also employs a gear filter, albeit less outrageous than human players.

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