Posted by Enslaver on 8:18 AM

This is certainly something that years in the military will teach you, professionalism. On the server I predominantly play on, Skull Throne, there is a huge schism in the order player base. Instead of seeing oRVR as something that we all should collectively work on, it is seen as those we are competing with the Jones’s at every turn.

This really came up last night when we where as usual playing musical keeps. A new warband hops into the zone from KV and their leader instantly starts berating the other warbands for not going to KV to try and defend against the destruction horde, and ultimately helping him do his agenda. At this point in the conversation there was no respect and tact presented. As a team, I know this is hard to understand in an MMO but we are a team. As a team we should be working to a common goal. Having one group holding off the horde while the other tries to flip a zone under their nose is really the way to go, but this brings in another issue.

Ego's, and this game has it to say the least. There are people who for lack of a better term are egomaniacs who want to control everything and not let people have fun and go for a goal. Instead of sending a tell to the other warband leaders asking for help in KV, the above individual stayed in zone, got mad, then came to Reikland and had it out in region chat.

Now to the heart of this Professionalism, or respecting other players and groups. We all have our own agendas in games. Sometimes others have the same as you, and you group more and more with them, but others don't necessarily have the same agenda and they will focus on their own goals. Really though at the end of the day we are on the same side and we all want to invade the Inevitable city and to do that we need strong leadership who can at least stand in the same room together without berating each other.

R.E.S.P.C.T.

4 comments:

rpthatway said...

I love it.

Respect is critical. I have done several posts on the lacking respect in MMOs today where before it was commonplace, and even expected!

I remember the days when people would /bow and /salute to their fallen enemies. A mutual respect for one another. Now, it seems people cannot even be civil with those they fight beside!

I wonder if the lack of duels leads to a lack of respect... Organized battles, I believe, inspire people to be respectful and initiate a "code of conduct" of sorts.

Happy blogging, I enjoyed the post!

Enslaver said...

I think it goes deeper to be honest, a lot of people are die-hard MMO fans and have played since the days of MUD's and UO. We are the old guard per say. Now there is a new generation of people who where brought up on WOW and don't really take the time to understand and respect the enemy. As said in the file Layer Cake, "it is only the very foolish who don't know and respect their enemy", I think that this really holds true in any situation.

Thanks for the read.

shadowwar said...

I love that movie. I know that my guild has an official "PR" officer who basically does his best to keep everything civil between our guild and the others on the server. I think we even have an semi-official "stay off of /1 chat" policy in place. Everyone wanted region chat, and we got it, the bad with the good.

Enslaver said...

Region chat is like Barrens chat, except with more people acting like they are 12 years old and heard the F-bomb for the first time. You are right most people who have any civility stay out of it.

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