drama on teh intarwebs!
People with ordinary lives, feel free to skip this dorky post.
I've been playing this "game" on the internet for the past few months at rpgamer.com's Q&A page. It's sort of a geekily amusing trivia-RPG battle hybrid, where I (and the other seventy-some contestants) have been answering questions while "fighting" whatever the Q&A guy throws at us. One aspect of this game has been communication and the forming of "guilds," which I've only ever just heard of before--this is, I guess, technically the first online RPG I've played. (Well, besides Kingdom of Loathing, but that game you could easily play alone.) Anyway, everyone's mad at my guild 'cause it's (allegedly) better than everyone else's, which sort of surprises me. We've all had the same options and same opportunities, but because I banded together with six other players who have different trivia knowledge and in-game "abilities," we're suddenly the target of at least some players' wrath.
On Tuesday, by sheer dumb luck, I landed the final blow on this "boss" guy we were fighting, and everyone who's been paying attention in the game knows that this means that the boss would "drop" an item for me to potentially use in the game, tragically called the Key to Victory, even though I'm positive it won't let me win the game--the Q&A guy has said the game is far from over. Unfortunately, a guild member and I--not knowing we defeated this boss yet--chose this very same day to announce our plans to retaliate against a different guild, which had managed to slay (the summon monster of) one of our guild members. We'd "announced" before that we'd protect (or at least retaliate against the destruction of) the property of our own guild, so we had to follow through, you know? Of course, the fact that my guild just landed this powerful kill sort of muddied the intention of our own declaration, and the guild we denounced responded (with the pink text in the middle of this page, where you can see people have been targeting me, but I'm not there; whee!) with some misinformed random propaganda (part of which even I don't understand and most of which I know isn't right--like, we have no warehouse, and poor Atma isn't responsible for many of our successful kills, so I hope people don't go after her... or Error either, of course, but he IS our MVP of the slayer variety), like, seriously, I started this? Great.
In the meantime, I happen to have the in-game ability to "hide" from everyone and stop playing the game indefinitely. So that's what I'm doing for now. I'm fully aware that this is a game, and at the moment, I'm sort of taking my ball (this so-called "Key to Victory") and going home. Yeah.
It's kind of dumb. I'd actually give the stupid Key away at this point for the chance to just keep playing the game like I have been. But once I appear from hiding, I'll just be targeted all over again, having my OTHER items ransacked or my ability to just play the freaking game hampered because everyone wants this damn Key. I'm sorry I had the bad luck to obtain the thing. I'm sorry people aren't enjoying the game 'cause they WANT the "success" of having this thing. 'Cause now I can't even PLAY the game because I hold the damn thing--and if I gave it away, I (and my guild) would probably still be residually targeted.
Anyway, I think this proves why I like console or handheld RPGs much better than online games with other people. At least when I play Final Fantasy X or whatever, other people aren't actively attacking me. It's just a game.
Anyway, THIS game is distracting me FAR TOO MUCH lately. I have a metric ass-ton of work to finish by the end of the day, and here I am typing to you in LiveJournal about this game. Ugh.
ETA, later that day: as of the last game posting, I am now a coward and an oppressive tyrant. 'Cause I... play the game, I guess. I'm awful.
I've been playing this "game" on the internet for the past few months at rpgamer.com's Q&A page. It's sort of a geekily amusing trivia-RPG battle hybrid, where I (and the other seventy-some contestants) have been answering questions while "fighting" whatever the Q&A guy throws at us. One aspect of this game has been communication and the forming of "guilds," which I've only ever just heard of before--this is, I guess, technically the first online RPG I've played. (Well, besides Kingdom of Loathing, but that game you could easily play alone.) Anyway, everyone's mad at my guild 'cause it's (allegedly) better than everyone else's, which sort of surprises me. We've all had the same options and same opportunities, but because I banded together with six other players who have different trivia knowledge and in-game "abilities," we're suddenly the target of at least some players' wrath.
On Tuesday, by sheer dumb luck, I landed the final blow on this "boss" guy we were fighting, and everyone who's been paying attention in the game knows that this means that the boss would "drop" an item for me to potentially use in the game, tragically called the Key to Victory, even though I'm positive it won't let me win the game--the Q&A guy has said the game is far from over. Unfortunately, a guild member and I--not knowing we defeated this boss yet--chose this very same day to announce our plans to retaliate against a different guild, which had managed to slay (the summon monster of) one of our guild members. We'd "announced" before that we'd protect (or at least retaliate against the destruction of) the property of our own guild, so we had to follow through, you know? Of course, the fact that my guild just landed this powerful kill sort of muddied the intention of our own declaration, and the guild we denounced responded (with the pink text in the middle of this page, where you can see people have been targeting me, but I'm not there; whee!) with some misinformed random propaganda (part of which even I don't understand and most of which I know isn't right--like, we have no warehouse, and poor Atma isn't responsible for many of our successful kills, so I hope people don't go after her... or Error either, of course, but he IS our MVP of the slayer variety), like, seriously, I started this? Great.
In the meantime, I happen to have the in-game ability to "hide" from everyone and stop playing the game indefinitely. So that's what I'm doing for now. I'm fully aware that this is a game, and at the moment, I'm sort of taking my ball (this so-called "Key to Victory") and going home. Yeah.
It's kind of dumb. I'd actually give the stupid Key away at this point for the chance to just keep playing the game like I have been. But once I appear from hiding, I'll just be targeted all over again, having my OTHER items ransacked or my ability to just play the freaking game hampered because everyone wants this damn Key. I'm sorry I had the bad luck to obtain the thing. I'm sorry people aren't enjoying the game 'cause they WANT the "success" of having this thing. 'Cause now I can't even PLAY the game because I hold the damn thing--and if I gave it away, I (and my guild) would probably still be residually targeted.
Anyway, I think this proves why I like console or handheld RPGs much better than online games with other people. At least when I play Final Fantasy X or whatever, other people aren't actively attacking me. It's just a game.
Anyway, THIS game is distracting me FAR TOO MUCH lately. I have a metric ass-ton of work to finish by the end of the day, and here I am typing to you in LiveJournal about this game. Ugh.
ETA, later that day: as of the last game posting, I am now a coward and an oppressive tyrant. 'Cause I... play the game, I guess. I'm awful.