Rant: Two Face

[AParadiseLost]

Rant.

I have a terrible memory ~ and I am thankful for the 50 slots on the friend list. I recognize lots of names, and while I can’t remember if they stand out because they sell/buy from me ~ party with me ~ pk me ~ are just jerks ~ or are worthy conversationalists ~ the one thing that I can count on is . . . chances are when I run into them again, I think they are jerks.

Now, I have a few alts, and a few mains. While I might be a terribly slow leveler, it is not for lack of participating in the Henneath Alliance.

I run into a lot of people who I either recognize by their name, or because they will explain that they are so and so, and I recognize that name while I am on an unknown alt.

So where is the rant? The rant is that the majority of people that I recognize who have higher level characters are either jerks, or they condone the behaviour of other jerks because the noob alts are main friends.

Whether it come in the form of obnoxious shouts in Elderine, or sheer apathy in KQ’s, it never fails to amaze me no matter how often I run across it. Be it a leecher in a KQ “He is so and so ~ he can do whatever he wants,” or some obnoxious comments in Eld that gets some fuel from other friends on their main, it sickens me.

Either I remembered them incorrectly, or this is in fact how they operate, I hate slowly but surely coming across each person I recognize with the thought in the back of my head ~ “Yea ~ I think this guy is a jerk but I’m not sure” as opposed to what I used to think ~ “Hey, I recognize that guy.”

Now I know there is the block function, and that’s what I typically do if I’m not in a KQ. In KQ’s I used to point out leechers, but I got pretty sick of being the messenger that got killed. Lately, I’ve seen more messengers, and I chime in if they say something. While the majority of the KQ is quiet, IMHO because there are so few people at that level everyone knows each other, there is always more people who kill the messenger.

An example? Someone is straight shrooming in a KQ. Another party comments on it ~ the shroomer is in my party ~ the shroomer gets out and says he is not leeching. I concur with the original commenter ~ and boom, people start chiming in “Hey don’t you have so and so as a main?” Leecher: “Yea, why, oh I know you.” Peanut Gallery: “Hey let him do what he wants, it doesn’t affect you, stop complaining.” Or “He isn’t in your party so what do you care.” Leecher: “Fine, you think I’m leeching I will. *Quits my party and shrooms, beginning a conversation with the peanut gallery.*

Seriously?

If this was my friend, I still would say, stop leeching, or at least own up to leeching, and give a reason if you have one, like “Yea, I went to the bathroom, I’m back so squash it.”
~End Rant.

[saueracker]

I experience the same thing on many occasions. it is truly heart breaking. Sometimes i wish there was a play alone or with people mode. I know guild wars has it and it works great, but i love fiesta and sometimes im just not in the mood for the same ol' poo.

[kidwithcrayonz]

So where is the rant? The rant is that the majority of people that I recognize who have higher level characters are either jerks, or they condone the behaviour of other jerks because the noob alts are main friends.




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[UzumakiW]

I've pretty much always said something similar to this.

People are quick to verbally attack someone who is doing something wrong or dumb, but if it's a friend of their's, they'll either brush it off with a 'lol' or something like that. Most people in this game seem afraid of letting their friends know what they're doing is wrong, so they just ignore them, or just laugh at what their doing like it's no big deal.

[elisagiven]

Please dont generalize Mo...
I hate Leechers too and I'm one who will say "I will one day train your a.."
You know for sure that I stand up to these people and I do have high lvl mains or alts or w/e you know this from recent drama..don't you?
What bothers me most is that there are tons of people who do dislike the behavior of few but dont say or do anything because they are afraid...
Think about what you are afraid of, in your everyday life, the bigger guy, the bigger business, the bigger city...bigger yeah here its guilds who are bullies. Im not saying all big guilds bully but we all know the ones wh do are and who not to mess with and who not to speak out against.
Speak against one member and you may have hell to pay.
Its a fact in the game we do not have a system of law set up like IRL we are playing it by ear and by OS legal system at their discretion. How would it be if we could elect our own government? Would it be a popularity contest? Would it be failr and just would we have chaos? Would we have so many rightous people in jail and the criminal run free or would it be an ideal world?
*ponders*:rolleyes:

[palmfruits]

I guess I've never really experienced this. All of my high leveled friends play when I can't, so I can't really experience if they're 2-faced.

I'm also quite a slow leveler. It's great to go on an alt and see people I'm friends with on my main. Eh, but still... on my main I joined quite a few number of academies. While in the academies, the guildies were really nice. They'd offer to plevel me (but I always turned it down) or just randomly bbuff and dance with me. However, now that it's been a couple of months since I've been in the academy, whenever I pass by the few people I used to converse with who were in the guild, they don't pay attention to me.

This probably isn't the same thing you're talking about, but it's weird how people seem to change. The way someone comes across can change so drastically in a month or two. It can be sad that people act differently, but that's how some people are.