Working As Intended Industries / WAII

Working As Intended Industries

Working As Intended Industries was not founded after a heroic operation, a perfectly executed fleet maneuver, or a rousing speech that made everyone clap in voice chat.

It was founded during the quiet moments.

You know the ones.

The moments where you’re logged in, standing on a station, ship fully fueled, contracts available… and you’re alone. Again. Not because you want to be solo, but because every time you try to join a group it somehow turns into homework, a second job, or a personality test you didn’t study for.

It was founded after someone closed Discord and said, out loud,
“I think I’d actually rather play alone than do that again.”

If these sentences feel familiar, congratulations, you’re already halfway to understanding why this organization exists.
Most of us here are experienced gamers. Not “watched a tutorial once” experienced. We’re talking decades. We’ve played MMOs where you needed spreadsheets just to know if you were allowed to have fun. We’ve tanked when no one wanted to, healed when everyone blamed us, and learned exactly how quiet a voice channel can get the moment something goes wrong.

We’ve joined the “casual” guilds that immediately scheduled mandatory events.
The “no drama” groups that somehow generated drama out of thin air.
The “we’re like family” orgs that were a dysfunctional family at best!

You know the routine.
You join the org. Everyone is welcoming. There’s a Discord invite. There are channels you don’t understand yet, but you assume you’ll figure it out. Then comes the onboarding document. Then the calendar. Then the sign-up sheet. Then the message that starts with, “Hey, just checking in…” and ends with you questioning all of your life choices.Then there’s the cliques.most of us have lived through the digital equivalent of sitting at the lunch table and realizing everyone already has assigned seats. There’s the inner circle, the officer circle, the “friends of the officers” circle, and then… everyone else. The inside jokes appear immediately, with no origin story and no explanation. Decisions are made somewhere else, by people you haven’t met yet, and announced like facts of nature. You’re technically “in the group,” but functionally you’re watching a conversation that started six months ago.

So you stay quiet. You observe. You log off.

Not because you don’t like people.
Not because you don’t like teamwork.
But because you didn’t sign up for a second job, a performance review, or an argument about optimal loadouts at 11:30 PM.

Eventually, a lot of us learned the safest way to enjoy MMOs was to play solo, near other people, but not with them. Run contracts alone. Mine alone. Haul cargo alone. Sit in a station scrolling through org recruitment posts that all sound vaguely the same and somehow equally exhausting.
Working As Intended Industries exists because enough of us reached the same conclusion:

“Surely there has to be a middle ground.”

This corporation was built for the players who know what they’re doing, don’t need to be micromanaged, and don’t feel the need to turn every session into a coordinated military operation. It’s for people who enjoy cooperation when it happens naturally, and don’t feel guilty when it doesn’t.
We broke the fourth wall on purpose. Because let’s be honest: this isn’t some ancient megacorp with centuries of lore and a flawless internal hierarchy. It’s a support group for competent gamers who are tired of pretending they don’t notice red flags anymore.

Here, experience is assumed.
Silence in comms is not awkward.
Logging off without explanation is normal behavior.

And no one is keeping score.
We don’t track attendance.
We don’t chase players like they owe us money.
We don’t measure commitment in hours, pings, or how fast you respond to a message that says “urgent” but absolutely isn’t.

WAII was created for players who still love games, but love them differently now. Players who want to laugh when something breaks instead of assigning blame. Players who understand that sometimes the best night in the verse is a smooth run, a few good conversations, and logging out at a reasonable hour.

If you’ve ever joined a group, lasted just long enough to realize you’d never quite belong, and then quietly returned to playing solo, this is us saying:
“Yeah. We noticed that too. Let’s not do that.”

Working As Intended Industries isn’t trying to be everything. It’s trying to be right.

Welcome to a place where the only requirement is being decent, competent, and self-aware enough to know you don’t want to relive sophomore year in space. Just experienced players, enjoying the game the way it actually fits into their lives. Welcome to the place you didn’t know you were looking for.

Everything is, at last, working as intended.