What's the point?

[FatMice]

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

In a word, drama.

Some people are adults and can deal with each other in a professional and friendly manner in order to take down big targets through jolly cooperation.

None of these people play EQ.

Raid guilds push themselves, and each other, to the limit of what is possible in this game. When you play at that level, people get stressed out and start to get a little cranky with each other. When people rub each other the wrong way and have to deal with each other lots (through guild chat and other social aspects of guilds), it creates drama.

Drama doesn't really matter, except it tends to get on other peoples' nerves. And since there are no adults in this game, people behave badly. They RMT on guildie's accounts. They talk shit about each other. The ragequit the guild and cause a ton of problems on the forums. This takes attention away from pixels.

Forming an alliance with another guild to get to the full zergforce is one way that guilds can deal with these social/non-pixel issues. If I really hate you, but you and I are in different guilds and have to go out of our ways to talk to each other, then we're less likely to get irritated with each other and distract our officers.

And then...

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

Hehe. I've said many times that I don't raid here. But the reason I don't raid is that I don't want to participate in the FTE-train grieffest.

I participate in the camp-money-loot sockfest. Doing a 16 hour sock doesn't bug me at all. That's what netflix, juggs, and fear respawns are for.

I know this in Rants'n'Flames, but just don't throw mud on people whom you really have no interaction with. It gives you and the people you don't know bad name. We all have jobs/obligations, families, and there are those who hold themselves to a professional standard. And guess what... people in professional settings also get upset. Hell, they might even yell at you and call you bad names. It might get so bad that you will get sued.

This is a community. The more people realize this and treat each other with respect without trying to shit on other people everything would be better. Let the competition remain in game in lieu of bold statements of disrespect.