It's Juat A Game
I have a hard time rapping my mind around those who live and breath MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games).
I play one myself on a daily basis called Rappelz. It's a free to play as I refuse to pay a monthly fee simply to keep playing a game I have already put out money to purchase from a store. I play a healer, what I call a hard to play class because I'm squishy (easy to kill) and can't do much on my own. I am however in high demand when I play in teams as its nice for others to be able to fight and not have to worry about dying most of the time. Even when not in a group I can use buffering spells to help boost other characters' stats for a given amount of time. Most of the time other players are nice to me. If I'm in town or in a field fighting and someone approaches me and asks for buffs with a please and thank you I'm more than happy to oblige. And even when I stand near a group of people in a town or I run by a person in the field and they haven't asked I still sometimes buff and heal then just to be nice.
What pisses me off is when someone approaches me and demands buffs and heals with no sign of a please or thank you in sight. Just because I chose to be a character with these abilities doesn't mean I have to use them when someone demands it. Would it kill a person to use manners? You may be looking at a computer generated character on your screen but behind that character is a real person. Imagine if you were out shopping and a representative from a charity approached you and demanded that you donate to their charity? Would you?
Or when I'm in a team/party with other players and they start taking on too many monsters and I have trouble keeping up, do you think the last thing I want to hear is that I'm doing a shitty job? The deal works both ways, I heal them and in return they keep me safe and ensure that they aren't moving too quickly that I can't keep up. It really ticks me off when at the end of a party, a person starts yelling at me because they feel I wasn't able to keep up when clearly they were in over their heads in the first place. That's why before I join a group I always ask what their plans are. If I don't like the plans or know right away they'll probably get into trouble, I just move on.
But I think what pushes my buttons the most is when I'm in a party and I have to leave because something in real life comes up and though I try to be polite and apologetic to the other players about it, someone still slam me for it and says I'm a asshole for leaving them hanging without a healer. Hello! Its just a game! So your character may or may not die, it happens. You loose experience and have to go back and start that level again, it happens. You miss out on an opportunity to finish a quest, it happens. Get a life! 5 years from now it may not even be around and then what? Who will remember whether your character made it to level 146 or 147? Who will remember whether you collected all 8 pieces of an armour set or whether you killed all 20 champion bosses on the continent? Who gives a flying rats ass!
It's Just A Game!
I play one myself on a daily basis called Rappelz. It's a free to play as I refuse to pay a monthly fee simply to keep playing a game I have already put out money to purchase from a store. I play a healer, what I call a hard to play class because I'm squishy (easy to kill) and can't do much on my own. I am however in high demand when I play in teams as its nice for others to be able to fight and not have to worry about dying most of the time. Even when not in a group I can use buffering spells to help boost other characters' stats for a given amount of time. Most of the time other players are nice to me. If I'm in town or in a field fighting and someone approaches me and asks for buffs with a please and thank you I'm more than happy to oblige. And even when I stand near a group of people in a town or I run by a person in the field and they haven't asked I still sometimes buff and heal then just to be nice.
What pisses me off is when someone approaches me and demands buffs and heals with no sign of a please or thank you in sight. Just because I chose to be a character with these abilities doesn't mean I have to use them when someone demands it. Would it kill a person to use manners? You may be looking at a computer generated character on your screen but behind that character is a real person. Imagine if you were out shopping and a representative from a charity approached you and demanded that you donate to their charity? Would you?
Or when I'm in a team/party with other players and they start taking on too many monsters and I have trouble keeping up, do you think the last thing I want to hear is that I'm doing a shitty job? The deal works both ways, I heal them and in return they keep me safe and ensure that they aren't moving too quickly that I can't keep up. It really ticks me off when at the end of a party, a person starts yelling at me because they feel I wasn't able to keep up when clearly they were in over their heads in the first place. That's why before I join a group I always ask what their plans are. If I don't like the plans or know right away they'll probably get into trouble, I just move on.
But I think what pushes my buttons the most is when I'm in a party and I have to leave because something in real life comes up and though I try to be polite and apologetic to the other players about it, someone still slam me for it and says I'm a asshole for leaving them hanging without a healer. Hello! Its just a game! So your character may or may not die, it happens. You loose experience and have to go back and start that level again, it happens. You miss out on an opportunity to finish a quest, it happens. Get a life! 5 years from now it may not even be around and then what? Who will remember whether your character made it to level 146 or 147? Who will remember whether you collected all 8 pieces of an armour set or whether you killed all 20 champion bosses on the continent? Who gives a flying rats ass!
It's Just A Game!