Rudeness - WoW

[plonq]

Since I've been working almost exclusively on my mage character lately, I've noticed a difference in the way that folks operate on the two servers.  The people on Skywall seem to be more polite than the ones on Cenarius.  This probably has as much to do with the population difference between the servers as anything else.

Two things that I have noticed in particular are around group invites and guild charters. 

I hate it when somebody drops a group invite on me when I'm running in to engage an enemy.  What's wrong with paging me to ask if I'm working on the same quest, or better yet, asking if I'm interested in helping you at all with yours.  I don't mind helping people through quests - even ones that I've long since completed - if I'm asked. It's like people have developed an allergy to politeness, and I've become rather hard-nosed about rejecting all unsolicited group invites.

The same goes with guild charters.  I don't appreciate having one shoved into my face when I'm in the middle of a transaction at the Auction House.  Nor will I respond any more favourably when they say "plz" a couple of times after my initial rejection.  I'm sure that Duckw@ngs of D3ath (or whatever it was called) will be an uber-1337 guild if he ever gets enough signatories, but I am not interested.  See this?  It's my "not interested" face.  In all fairness to this kid, he's not the first person to shove a guild charter in my face like that, and I wouldn't have been interested in his guild even if he'd asked politely.  The last two guilds I was in with my warlock broke up - one of them with some measure of acrimony - and I'm not currently looking to be recruited by random guilds.  I'm going to shop around and find the guild that I want this time.

Comments

[obzedyon.livejournal.com]

I was searching through the "latest posts" feature of lj and stumbled across yours, and symphathise to a degree. It seems that no one can be bothered to be polite (or at least pretend. A few lines of pleasantries does wnders for me) anymore.

Actually, what drew me to this post was the way in which you mentioned WoW and yet had lovely grammar. It seems like Christmas has come early, really. I hope things go well with your warlock!

[plonq.livejournal.com]

I'm giving my warlock a rest and concentrating on my mage for now. I had been pushing to get him up to 60 so that I could join in some of the guild raids, but with first one guild and then another falling apart in rapid succession, it took away some of the urgency.

[anthony-lion.livejournal.com]

I don't play WoW, myself, but...

I sometimes play on PhantasyRPG.com and I ended up picking a guild and asking to join, in the hope that it would cut down on the offers to join some lame L337 guild or other...
(Not that it helped much.)

I have a website where I have a forum dedicated to vintage computing, and there using L337-speak is grounds for instant banning...
(I haven't had the opportunity to use that rule, yet, but I'm still hoping... )

[plonq.livejournal.com]

It's not even l337 speak any more though, but a form of lame chatspeak that has become popular lately.

r u ppl intrestid in a raid plz plz!!!!
cn u join my gild??? plz?????

On a side note, I don't understand the ppl who seem to have a pretty good grasp of grammar and spelling, but are incapable of typing the vowels in the word "people". I'm familiar with the concept of a vowel shift in language, but this appears to be more of a vowel suck. Vowels r just disappearing frm random wrds in chat. Sn thr wll b n vwls! OMG!

[atara.livejournal.com]

...don't you mean: MG!! (?)

[anthony-lion.livejournal.com]

Nahh...

That would mean they have good taste in cars...

[obzedyon.livejournal.com]

ha, I'm a terrible guild member. I wouldn't have joined one if my brother hadn't hijacked my character and joined for me. How long have you been playing?

[atara.livejournal.com]

I love guilds that work together, and where no one is an asshat. Unfortunately, those are hard to come by. :/

[plonq.livejournal.com]

My first guild worked well for awhile, but it fell apart when the army shipped our guild leader off to New Orleans to do cleanup work, and his guild officers proved to be somewhat ineffectual while he was gone.

[plonq.livejournal.com]

I found that I ultimately put much more into the guilds than I got out of them. I don't mind helping out guildmates, but some folks seem to see the guild as a source for free stuff. To their credit, my first guild took a hard stance against beggars. When a new guild member started up with, "Cn u give me sum gold plz?" they were usually given one warning, then booted if they did it again.

I have only been playing since early summer.

I had an odd gaming experience last night. I temporarily grouped up with a tauren druid. We chatted as we fought, and I told her that I was now playing a mage, because my primary was a warlock, and I was convinced that the mage spells are much cooler. She mentioned that her primary character was a mage, but she was thinking of bringing in a warlock because they are so much cooler, with better spells. Hmph. The grass is always greener...