We all play this game to have fun and enjoy ourselves, and so does everyone else, and if people are nice to each other it gets much more enjoyable. The problems are those who are just thinking of themselves, and maybe their close friends, but never give a though to what someone else is thinking or feeling.

In my mind my reputation among other players are even more important then then reputation of whatever faction. My major flaw though is that I tend to forget that not everyone know as much, or more, about the content we are attempting. It’s so easy for me to forget how little I knew and how it was to be new to the game, your class or the content. And therefore I tend to have a bit high expectations, but I try to remember every now and then.

Sincerely
Sah

I don’t know. Maybe they’re the ones who get picked on in school and this is their way of ‘getting back’ at the world. Maybe they hate their jobs at McDonald’s and Blockbuster. Or maybe they’re just socially maladjusted and this is their sole source of attention-getting. Whatever the case, it seems as though each month I have take time out of my play to go through my ‘ignore’ list and remove people just to make room for the new irritants (why is there a limit on ignores, anyway?).

I’m sure there’s a small universe of reasons that these people do what they do but the fact of the matter is that it really doesn’t matter. I propose that Blizzard create a new, special realm exclusively for those people who just can’t seem to get into the swing of things and are compelled to act the fool. Call it ‘Asshatatonia’ or something. I’ve written Blizz several times and have even offered to help with suggestions, but they have yet to respond. Ingrates.

I hate them, ugly ugly pinkskins and squidfaced spacegoats.

May the heads of the alliance be infested with the fleas of a million camels.

And after reading this, I want to re-roll ally just to be a part of your guild, because of this post. Cheers brother

Now. I’m not quite sure if I’m feeding the troll here, but Gevlon: Comparing a bunch of undisciplined 12-30 year olds playing a computer game in the unstructured safety of their own homes with the conditions in a professional army is the pinnacle of self-delusion.

There are no consequences that matter in this game. None. Purp boots not shiny? So what? Who cares? Who thinks that is truly important? Are you going to get banned for a week in WoW for not having the “right” gear? Are you going to be grounded? Is mommy not going to cook your macaroni for you? Oh, your “friends” aren’t going to let you play with them? Some friends they are. You’re not a soldier, you’re playing a computer game.

If you truly believe that farming for purpz while sitting in your underwear is akin to serving in the armed forces, I think you need to sign up to serve and get an attitude adjustment. We’ll set you straight.

Then I became a teacher, and the complete lack of consequences that kids do not have to face now seems to coincide with their utter lack of respect (both for themselves and others).

The most annoying other consequence about this is that, as a result, they assume that I do not respect them either; and not just in real life. Recently, in-game, I was helping my spouse’s alt complete the final step of the Drakuru quest line. I waited on the roof where a Horde Death Knight was also waiting (probably for the same reason that we were). My spouse began the event and promptly got aggro, but did not get her mind-controlled troll to attack Drakuru swiftly enough so she died. My gorriladin also died and I FD’d. The DK, however, started attacking when I feigned and I thought “How kind… he’s helping out.” He kept Drakuru’s attention on him long enough for my spouse to come back and rez to continue where we left off (all this time, Drakuru remained “red” to us). With the trolls being properly handled, we “killed” him, watched the Lich King event, and looted the skull. I went up to the Horde DK and /ty him.

And he spat at me. Not once… he virtually spammed the spittle at me. I couldn’t understand. He logged off… into his lvl 1 Alliance toon and said “WTF, why did you steal kill.” I was too shocked to reply, so I went “Excuse me?” He demanded why we stole the Drakuru kill for him and his group. This, despite the fact that we started the event and, as I had already experienced, it doesn’t matter who kills him everyone can loot the skull. He was frothing at the mouth and it was all I could do to placate him (I was taken by surprise).

And later he kept insisting that they can no longer try to finish the encounter because they cannot “loot” Drakuru. And it was all our fault.

It only occurred to me later (l’esprit d’escalier) that actually he had tried stealing our kill, hoping we can bring him down low enough for him to solo effectively… and thought that we did to him what he did to us. How does one deal with such things? Even if I had been on a PvP server (which we were not), and managed to exact retribution, would I have been able to clear our reputation (I know Greedy Goblin says nobody cares or notices, but there are so many instances I can name that shows that it isn’t always true)?

Awesome post. So exactly spot-on as to what I’d like to see.

I will say that even the immature leet speaking kids that organize my Arch10 PUGs try their best to be good to the folks in the run, in most cases.

And no, it’s not “Kids these days.” It’s parents. Kids are insulated from repercussions of their attitude by no tolerance to fighting in schools. They can run their mouth all day because even the teachers are afraid to discipline them for fear of lawsuits from enraged parents. It’s “never” the kids fault, because precious little Jimmy and Sally can’t possibly be at fault, right?

Sigh. Now I am all depressed.

Anyway, it’s Tuesday, so I get to Pug vault on my 80’s! Wheee!

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