What makes me mad…

I’m a roleplayer.

Through and through.

My roots run deep, and have changed over the years to make me a figurative tree of many leaves.  Each leaf, in this metaphorical tree that I am, is a significant memory I have from my experiences.

Some leaves date back – wayyyyy back – to my days on things like Habbo Hotel, or Red Moon, or Ultima Online (We’re talking 10+ years of online text based RP, to video games, etc.).  And the fresher ones are leaves representing my current love.  World of Warcraft.  I began playing World of Warcraft, (as my friends and I call it, WoW) about four or five years ago.  I enjoyed it immensely.  I still do!  But after a little time invested, other things caught my interests, and I eventually put it on a back burner.

A few years go by, and a friend (he was at the time, now he isn’t) recaptured my interests, and I became hooked again.  Now I’m here to stay.

Now, back to my leaf metaphor.  Some of the leaves are a bright, vibrant green.  Some an ashy, dying black… and some a light yellow, the touch of death, or the end upon them…  Each represents a time where my life was touched by someone, something, somewhere, somehow.

The green make me happy.

The black make me mad.

The yellow make me sad…

I’ve lost friends, I’ve lost allies, I’ve even lost people I’d have called family… But no matter what… what makes me the strongest is to just keep on trucking and pushing through.

So, to the point of today’s blog.

I HATE griefers.  (Reference: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=griefer)

Playing WoW, I encounter them all the time.

I’m tired of it.

I wrote Blizzard and the GM staff a nice letter.

Wanna see? =)

Here:

Hi, I’ll keep this as simple as I can…

I’m curious as to why, for instance, names of players, guilds, arena teams, pets, etc. cannot be monitored with a feature that requires a GM or Blizzard Employee to approve them.

I, each and every day, am faced with people who seem to be allowed their BLATANT disregard of the rules of the game, and the rules of an RP server/community.

Terms of service sections 9.a.iv – 9.a.xiii (found at: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/termsofuse.html) state the many rules that I can see broken every single day by players who, if it were up to me, would not be permitted play time.

However, as you (the reader of this email) and I both know, it is not up to me.  Nevertheless, as the ones in control, I wonder how much slack the game master staff gives to people who break these rules and regulations.

Section 10 of your EULA states the following:

“Duration of the “On-line” Component of the Game. This Game is an ‘on-line’ game that must be played over the Internet through the Service as provided by Blizzard. You understand and agree that the Service is provided by Blizzard at its discretion and may be terminated or otherwise discontinued by Blizzard pursuant to the Terms of Use.”

In the aforementioned point I stated of, “Terms of service sections 9.a.iv – 9.a.xiii state the many rules that I can see broken every single day by players who, if it were up to me, would not be permitted play time…” this means that any person violating said rules with, for instance, a name that is “comprised of partial or complete sentence” (9.a.ix) would be in direct violation of the EULA and should be banned, or deemed with a sufficient punishment decided by you, the game master staff.

Also, being a member of a roleplaying community, I am often beset by groups/individuals who seem to enjoy exploiting the, forgive the term, Greater Internet Dickwad Theory (http://www.penny-arcade.com/docs/internetdickwad.jpg).

These people, so it would seem, are violating various sections between 9.b.ii – 9.b.ix.

While these people continue to run rampant, and I am 100% aware that as game masters your job is quite difficult, you have much to deal with at once.  I, at a time, used to grow angry when I would see the tell-tale “We have a large number of petitions“, but then would realize, in time, they will get to me.  The world is not ending.  I can wait.  And I do.  Patiently.  But when I report issued that both A.) ruin my immersion, and B.) break the rules of the game, I become worried of what is bring done.

A specific set of examples:  There are two players in the game world on my main server of Moon Guard named Projectalice, and the other Carbohydrate.  Both names are in violation of the naming rules.  Especially for an RP server.  Additionally, the character Carbohydrate was a member of a guild, <BRB Bowflexing> which, while completely inane, was simply renamed as <Names guild> (I do not remember the player name it was given).  According to your rules regarding the Roleplaying Policy, (found here: http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=20458) they, all three (both characters and the guild) are in violation of the rules.

I don’t mean to sound like a tattletale, or be an annoyance, however, I implore you…  Try to see it from the perspective of an avid roleplayer who is simply trying to enjoy the game to it’s fullest potential.

I imagine at times, some of you may even be roleplayers yourself.  Which begs the question… does it bother you when you see people speaking in “chatspeak” or anything of the sort?

Does “hey u need 2 do this or cn i plz hav 2 gold?” not make your skin crawl?

I’m not asking you to break your rules and tell me what you will do to these people… just tell me I’m not the only one who feels this way about them.

Thank you in advance.

-Shayser J. Stormwhisper
of Cerca Trova, Moon Guard US.

I sent this last night.  Here’s hoping they feel the same way I do, or this helps a LITTLE.

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~ by villainsincorporated on February 22, 2009.