Tallen
Fledgling Freddie
- Joined
- Mar 2, 2004
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Recent months have seen what I can only describe as a breakdown of all common decency in many players of the 2 realms i play on the cluster (Hib&Alb). Please note that 99.9% of the time i am simply an observer and as such this is not a whine about someone being rude to me directly.
The straw that prompted this was, however, an incident where a female player was threatened in a manner that would get the two players making the threats arrested in real-life.
They thought it was funny and may not have realised the gravity of their threats, but it is simply not-on! Online gaming should not be a breeding ground where people can exercise their ability to be abusive unchecked. This does not bode well at all as the impressionable young players seeing this go unpunished could in all probability think this is perfectly acceptable behaviour outside the confines of the game.
I have never in 4 years of play come across such widespread rudeness and general bad manners as I have over the last 3-4 months.
Encountered this more times than i can count and it is not limited to RvR.
Bickering in alliances, bickering in battlegroups, blatant slagging off of realm mates in battlegrounds, belittling comments over broadcast chat, threatening behaviour in RvR...the list really is a lot longer than this.
What the hell is wrong with people at the moment or has the community in Camelot always been heavily populated with such assholes but i've just never noticed it before?
The straw that prompted this was, however, an incident where a female player was threatened in a manner that would get the two players making the threats arrested in real-life.
They thought it was funny and may not have realised the gravity of their threats, but it is simply not-on! Online gaming should not be a breeding ground where people can exercise their ability to be abusive unchecked. This does not bode well at all as the impressionable young players seeing this go unpunished could in all probability think this is perfectly acceptable behaviour outside the confines of the game.
I have never in 4 years of play come across such widespread rudeness and general bad manners as I have over the last 3-4 months.
Encountered this more times than i can count and it is not limited to RvR.
Bickering in alliances, bickering in battlegroups, blatant slagging off of realm mates in battlegrounds, belittling comments over broadcast chat, threatening behaviour in RvR...the list really is a lot longer than this.
What the hell is wrong with people at the moment or has the community in Camelot always been heavily populated with such assholes but i've just never noticed it before?