Warning: Language

[jakothewoods]

Let me first say that I play World of Warcraft.  Unashamedly.  So does my wife.  So there.

Anyway, so yesterday our heroes Freryn and Oghma were infiltrating Laughing Skull Ruins, in a daring attempt to rid the Mag'har tribe of a problem: recently a shaman named Zorbo had risen to prominence among the Bloodmaul ogres, and was leading them into

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[wdalphin]

Simple answer: The person was yougn and immature and not in control of their emotions. They have taken a video game and turned it into "serious business" because little else in their life is of worth or note.

You know, you could simply have reported her for profanity, and an admin would give her (I say "her", but it was no doubt some teenage boy) a warning or possible suspend her for it. Profanity isn't allowed, and even though there is a profanity filter in the game that you are advised to use if you don't like bad language, using bad language is still against the rules and punishable. They keep logs of everything, but the sooner you report it, the more likely they will be able to find her words in their logs and reprimand her for it.

[phoenixmedusa]

I have experienced some crap like this too. I am amazed at how immature some of the players in WOW are but for the most part I have good experiences. I even had these two players harras me in the Barrens one time so badly that I reported them...what were they doing running around me chanting "Stabuback is a fatty..fat fat fat" and they just kept following me harrasing me. They were calling my stabby who is a beautiful troll fat! bastards. Then they said they were going to report me because I told them to piss off.
Then I have great experiences like some random guy that I healed while he was about to die and we started talking and I followed him around for a bit healing him and he sent me 5 gold.
Hope to see you in game sometime!

Mmm, the delicious Blizzard Community.

[sapient6]

I can't say I miss them.

I think a lot of it comes from time invested in game. The longer you play WoW the less fun it is, and once it's a job it becomes far too easy to get overwrought over the simple byproducts of sharing the server with strangers.

Personally, I tried to be polite whenever I could, but once the name calling started it became my mission to push them over the edge. If it were my hunter there, rather than yours, then there would have been an explosion trap on the mob's spawn point and my pet put on Aggressive (pets tap mobs faster than humans because they "see" them before the engine starts drawing them).

Which really isn't the right response. You took the better route by far except for apparently failing to report Pryncess. As an aside, Pryncess is a violation of Blizzard's naming policy. I'd have reported that along with the wonderful string of profanity my own bad behavior would have elicited from him... but as I said, I'm a bad person.

Re: Mmm, the delicious Blizzard Community.

[jakothewoods]

Yea, I've read about your villian. :p Disassembling prostitute guinea pigs still goes down in my book as the creepiest.

As a note, I didn't report because it simply wasn't -that= big a deal, just sad to me to see how good manners can be so easily discarded in the face of protective anonymity.

A hordling is impugning my villainy

[sapient6]

When it comes to abusive behavior I recommend always reporting it, whether it's a big deal or not. If this guy was that rude because you tapped first then chances are he spends a lot of his time being abusive to anyone he feels like. If everyone reported him every time he did it then Blizzard would correct his behavior and Azeroth would be just a little bit more pleasant for everyone, and he'd be disabused of the notion that it's okay for him to act like that.

Reporting his name, which I'd also do, is griefing and doesn't help anyone.