Time for me to head out, after this pull.

[Erica]

Originally Posted by Yonkec [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Can everyone supporting the OPs opinion please follow up my post by giving me all of their character's names? I want to add you to my list of people who I choose not to group with.

The point here isn't that if you have a life then we hate you. It is when you KNOW you are going to have to leave soon, but say nothing. That is extremely rude considering how long it can take a replacement to get to the group sometimes. This isn't WoW where you disband and in 5 seconds a new person teleports into the group. Most of the RL stuff isn't a huge surprise that you had no idea was going to happen and now you have to instantly leave the group.

Some examples of a bad reason to leave without warning: Going to bed because you have work in the morning, going to the movie theater when you had planned it out hours in advance, eating food at home around your regular time or out of the house with friends/family when it was planned in advance, picking your significant other or child up from X (unless you were not supposed to, but had just found out you need to now), friend or family showing up at the time you had planned in advance, etc etc.

Those examples above can become good reasons to leave without warning: Family or friends come over without warning, or you didn't have to pick up your significant other/child from X but suddenly something happened and now you have to do it, eating at a non regular time, spontaneously your family or friends want you to go out to eat with them, work called and wants you to come in early and you have to go to bed now instead of in a few hours, etc etc.

See the difference? One is the person being inconsiderate, and one is "RL happens". If something comes up, just tell the group and apologize for leaving so suddenly. If the people get upset about a legitimate RL thing causing you to suddenly leave, then they are being unreasonable. Everyone agrees RL > Gaming.... well, most people :P

And if you think the above is unreasonable, then please add me to your list: Karmina