[Rant] Most annoying experiences with people online

I can't stand it when I take time out of my day to help a lowbie, give 'em a free run because they happened to ask when I had a bit of free time, then they continue to pester you for the next week for more free runs. That's horribly rude and extremely annoying. You don't want to act like a complete ass and tell them off for it, because they are probably too stupid to realize what they are doing, so you just stick them on ignore, then all their friends message you asking why you blocked him. I don't help out anybody except friends and guild/clanmates in games anymore because of that situation.

Today in WoW I was in a run, and some rogue threw a damn fit, first wanting to charge us 1G each to open a locked chest in a dungeon because we couldn't have opened it without her. Well...you know, there are such things as blacksmiths and skeleton keys, and she couldn't have gotten there without is in the first place. I said maybe we should charge her 1G each to get her to the damn chest. I won the item on a greed roll after she wanted to need it (blue gemstone, worth ~30g on AH, not soulbound, obvious greed roll there). Then she continued to pester me for it, wanted to know if she could cut it a cut I'd already said I didn't want. Then she wanted to buy it for 10g, which I said fuck you, because it's 20g higher on AH. Then she tried to give me some bullshit about how inflation made it 20-25g. So she basically admitted she was trying to shaft me right there. Well after dying multiple times (full wipes, sometimes just a couple members) because the tank and healer were both the worst I'd seen in ages, and after wiping 3 times on the first miniboss, I said "this is pathetic" and left. Armor costs money to repair and we obviously weren't going anywhere. Well I get back to the AH and find out the item is actually going for 40g. Then she pst's me with some sort of venomous hissy-fit remark, obviously still feeling entitled to that gemstone or something.

In this case I didn't have any problem telling her off.

The first time I ever got pissed off at an online gamer was way back with Starcraft. We started and he wanted a no-rush rule for the first 20 minutes. I told him no, he threw a fit and pleaded with me, so I just ignored him and said nothing. I did a standard zealot-rush on his base. He started spamming "hacker" in the chat window...ugh.

I don't get why people think the internet gives them license to act like an absolute asshole. There are such things as manners and social norms on the internet, even if there are far less than in RL.

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I had a similar experience like that in hellfire ramparts, which involved another pet peeve of mine. A boe blue dropped, and since I'm a dest lock, and it provided +spell crit, +int, and +dmg, I asked if I could need the item. No response. For like a minute. Just before the roll cooldown was up, I clicked need. Nobody had said ANYTHING at this point mind you, and I'd asked like 3 times about. All of the sudden the mage in my group throws an absolute TANTRUM about it. I told him that if he needed the item, he should have needed it, not greeded it. He just spammed me with a ton of "ninja looters" and blocked me. The next day he got a different trinket he liked better and spoke to me once more on a blood furance run. Volatile little kid. What really pisses me off is that it wasn't just the kid - everyone else in the group was grumbling about it.

About an hour later I checked the kid's character level - 58. The item required level 63 to use. This probably sounds really stupid and petty to anyone who hasn't played WoW, but that is definitely not a need. That's just kind of an unspoken rule. Like how I don't need greens because I can use the disenchant on it. Which brings me to another thing that really pisses me off about that rogue I talked about earlier - I don't throw a fit when nobody can use a boss blue and I get it for d/e, and they all roll on the shard, and I have to give it away. I just take it as part of game etiquette. I don't get mad and think I should charge for the d/e because if I couldn't do it, than nobody could d/e, and the item would be useless w/o me.

There's lots of really seemingly small things and if you haven't played WoW or any MMO's it probably seems pretty silly to get upset over such small things, and I'm not sure how to put in words just how obvious it is in these games that you just dont act like how we are describing.

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Generally age does equal higher maturity, but I hate when people use that as some sort of trump card. Since I'm nearly 21 now that issue doesn't come up so often, but I often say, I know a kid who's 14, and he's far more mature about his online personality than a 27 year old I know. Kid was taught good values, the 27 year old is spoiled something sick.

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Oh yes! And I hate getting in any discussions about class specialization, because it invariably ends up with people telling me that I should go affliction. I'm sorry, but I quite happen to enjoy the destruction tree, and whether or not the afflic tree really is better, I don't enjoy playing it, so I'm not going to. I play the game to have some amount of fun, and I don't need to be the absolute best to have fun. I've chosen the talents I have for a reason, and as a matter of fact, spent hundreds of gold in re-alignments to get them where they are.

Of course one way to shut them up fast is to just duel them, since dest locks rival the burst damage a mage does if their crit rate is high enough.

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I always laugh when people expect me to CC with a succubus. The spell lasts a grand total of like 10 seconds (if that, I'm not entire sure since I don't ever use my succ, I just know it was a total failure last time I tried) so I'm always having to switch away from DPS to monitor the status of whatever she's seducing. Only works on a select few mobs. At any rate they effectively lose an entire DPS member of their party because I'm too busy trying to keep something seduced. Then some dumbass keeps aoe'ing the entire area and blames me for not keeping enemy X under seduction. Ugh. Warlocks are NOT an effective means of crowd control, unless you are up against demons. Then we kickass . Banish & enslave.

I generally figure that whatever people have specced, that's what they know how to play best. Hell, I'll admit, affliction probably is the best spec to go, both for pve and pvp. I don't think it's any fun to play though, so I don't, so I don't tell people they should switch to something else (partly because I know very little about other classes, partly because it's their own damn choice!)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

This wasn't days later in my case. This was 2-3 times a day, immediately after I'd helped him. Admittingly, I probably pushed the issue, because I promised to help him get an axe, and I invited a guildmate to the group and he won the item in a need role, so I felt a bit guilty there. I ran him probably 5+ more times through SM arms, which is easy as piss for a then 65 warlock, although a bit costly to the armor, and mildly irritating. I put up with his shit for prolly 3 days before putting him on ignore.

IN addition to what you were saying, kanzaki, it's especially irritating when we have 4 out of 5 members, and people can't stand to wait 15-20min for to find a tank or healer, whichever we might need, and start leaving. Ugh. Even worse when the missing member is a DPS, which in WoW, are as easy to find as whores in a crack house.

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AV is a terribly designed battleground. Where horde always has to charge between the two bunkers and take massive damage from the arrows, allies can dodge right around them and head straight for our graveyard.

The 25-50% DPS loss is what I don't like. Mostly because when people have wanted me to do it, it's been with groups that have accidentally pulled another 1, sometimes 2 mobs, and still survived the encounter. We're damn good, don't need that kind of crowd control, especially with a mage, sometimes 2 in the group...

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

I think if I had to wait 15-20 minutes to start playing a game after I had already launched it then I'd just uninstall it right then.

You don't. You do realize that while waiting to find a 5th member, you aren't just floating around in limbo unable to do anything? Or that the first 15 or so levels are virtually solo-only? Hell I could solo the entire game, it's not like parties are required.

I was speaking idiomatically.

It seems to me that after several observations every PLEASANT gaming experience I've had has always been from someone NOT living in the United States. Like after a run or something and we are chatting about whatever, and we ask eachother where we are from, I find that about 80% of the time they don't live in the United States, or they moved here from another country.

Fuck the USA and their fucking shit manners.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?