Run out the white flag, boyos!

Edit: I couldn’t really think of anything to write about today.  Last night was raid night, but I was semi-distracted all night and don’t recall much that stands out as material for a posting.

I was distracted by having my raid Ventrillo running and also being on a Ventrillo server run by a few guys from my original EQ1 guild from years and years ago.  We were discussing MMO’s, guilds and how unfriendly they seem today in comparrison to how they were back in 99.  It is, in fact, the fairly unfriendly nature that has long since turned them away from MMO’s completely.

It got me to thinking and I remembered this post that I wrote several years back when I was first looking for a new guild in EQ.  I dug it out and reposted it for today.

It isn’t a commentary on my current guild in EQ2 which is why it isn’t listed as an EQ2 post… rather, it is a commentary collaboration of every guild experience I have had since that first guild in EQ so many years ago.

 

I think too many years of the behavior of MMO ’society’ is starting to take its toll on the population.  For too many years, visiting a message board has meant enduring scorching flame-fests.  For too many years, posting an idea or a legitimate question on a message board has meant you had better own asbestos underwear.  For too many years, guilds have suffered through the intentional guild hopper who only views a guild as a means to an end.  For too many years, gamers have been used and abused by one another and the conclusion was as inevitable as it was obvious…

There is a portion of the gaming population that is just comprised of the crapiest excuse for human beings on the planet… the type of person who shouldn’t be allowed to waste the planet’s oxygen.

They are out there… and they have turned the rest of us into overly paranoid, defensive gamers who are overwhelmed with a total lack of trust of others.

It is quite exhausting being in the role of the untested, untrusted, unknown.

Tells sent go ignored.  Offers to lend assistance are questioned or ignored.  Requests for help are circumspect.  Jokes are interpreted as rudeness.  Suggestions are viewed as arrogance.

The air is cordial and polite, but most definately not friendly and you are ALWAYS aware that you are the stranger.

Who can blame them though?  MMO’s are FULL of selfish people who are only about themselves and could care less about the good people they step on along their path to the top.  Even the best of people have their limits where they finally say, “Enough!” and trust no more.