It really gets worse day after day. Now you cant even be polite to someone without copping an earful of drivel. Whilst I'm tolerant of rude types (you get them in every game) and tend to avoid them and (of course) sometimes you have to grin and bear, but this time really took the cake in my opinion.
I was searching for axes / axe upgrades and found a seller, enquired about an axe which was out of my price range, I informed the seller "no thx" which I assumed would be the end of it (as is the usual practice). Instead, I get pm's back insulting me, calling me a fag etc because I wouldn't haggle, the guy promptly made my ignore list and I sit back and wonder what moron must be sitting somewhere in the world controling this toon and whether or not he understood anything about good business practice.
What is with the preponderance of these types to migrate to GW? I don't know about anyone else but I find a lot of the community to be quite stand offish or rude (or maybe just young? thought that is a generalisation). Those who genuinely like this game are usually helpful and it's disapointing there is no GM system to maintain the peace. I guess that is the trade off when playing a free game.
Just 2 gp.
what is with people >_>
psycore
Supervixen
During off-peak hours or when I'm in a less crowded district of Ascalon City, I sometimes turn local on to see if there are any new players asking honest questions can I can answer.
Quite often, I see players with waterfalls behind their ears wanting to sell their pre-searing armour for money. And just as often, I'll whisper to them informing them that armour is customised and cannot be worn by anyone else.
I can't count the number of times the recipient gets surly, ticked off and downright abusive back at me for giving them a basic piece of game info.
There was this one special guy. I call him special for reasons you'll see.
He responded with the usual 'LIAR'. But then he continued with something along the lines of:
'i challenge ur lie come to gate'
So fine, I heaved and internal sigh and headed over to see what his challenge was about. He dealt me the armour piece in question and insisted I put in 189g into trade. I don't know what for but I humoured him.
As always, I'm proven right and the item is customised to him. So I cancel the trade and ask if his visually impaired. Maybe he had a rare disease that rendered him blind to grey words, you never know.
He keeps on trading me the piece. And I keep refusing the trade. He then begins whispering 'SCARED' to me. Yes, yes I fear your mighty piece of used armour. So I tell him he's a waste of oxygen and leave to do my own thing.
I didn't notice at first but he'd run up next to me and began calling me a 'preverted as holebeatch' in local. I assume he was attempting to insult. Others standing around asked him what on earth was he talking about, and he was finally convinced armour is customised. He just didn't want to believe the 'noob jerk' who was telling that to him at the start.
Okay, so I wasn't on my main toon, merely a level 14 in gladiator armour dyed barbie pink. Still, that's rich coming from a level 7 (or was it 8?) fellow.
The best part was that he began spamming guild recruitment messages in local, extolling the helpful, friendly people in his guild.
People like that make me wonder why I even bother to try.
Quite often, I see players with waterfalls behind their ears wanting to sell their pre-searing armour for money. And just as often, I'll whisper to them informing them that armour is customised and cannot be worn by anyone else.
I can't count the number of times the recipient gets surly, ticked off and downright abusive back at me for giving them a basic piece of game info.
There was this one special guy. I call him special for reasons you'll see.
He responded with the usual 'LIAR'. But then he continued with something along the lines of:
'i challenge ur lie come to gate'
So fine, I heaved and internal sigh and headed over to see what his challenge was about. He dealt me the armour piece in question and insisted I put in 189g into trade. I don't know what for but I humoured him.
As always, I'm proven right and the item is customised to him. So I cancel the trade and ask if his visually impaired. Maybe he had a rare disease that rendered him blind to grey words, you never know.
He keeps on trading me the piece. And I keep refusing the trade. He then begins whispering 'SCARED' to me. Yes, yes I fear your mighty piece of used armour. So I tell him he's a waste of oxygen and leave to do my own thing.
I didn't notice at first but he'd run up next to me and began calling me a 'preverted as holebeatch' in local. I assume he was attempting to insult. Others standing around asked him what on earth was he talking about, and he was finally convinced armour is customised. He just didn't want to believe the 'noob jerk' who was telling that to him at the start.
Okay, so I wasn't on my main toon, merely a level 14 in gladiator armour dyed barbie pink. Still, that's rich coming from a level 7 (or was it 8?) fellow.
The best part was that he began spamming guild recruitment messages in local, extolling the helpful, friendly people in his guild.
People like that make me wonder why I even bother to try.
Gaele
Oh man just a few hours ago I ran into someone at Droknar's selling silver dye at 2k. 4 people, including me, told him the price was at 600 at the trader's and he went ballistic - coming back at us with I DUN GIVE A S!!!!! WUT U PPL THINK.
Not too long after he told me not to mess with Crips and that if I ever came to his neighborhood I wouldn't come alive.
Judging by his stupidity for even mentionning being a crip let alone assume that helps him win the argument, I'll take it he meant come OUT alive.
The funniest part is, HE put ME on his ignore list. I usually rumble with the offender for a while to see how long it takes for them to start babbling nonsense into their arguments, but I couldn't help but recide what he said to the whole district with him inside and spill my soup in laughter. Good greave, the people in this game.
Not too long after he told me not to mess with Crips and that if I ever came to his neighborhood I wouldn't come alive.
Judging by his stupidity for even mentionning being a crip let alone assume that helps him win the argument, I'll take it he meant come OUT alive.
The funniest part is, HE put ME on his ignore list. I usually rumble with the offender for a while to see how long it takes for them to start babbling nonsense into their arguments, but I couldn't help but recide what he said to the whole district with him inside and spill my soup in laughter. Good greave, the people in this game.
Ashley Twig
Some say that "Intelligence is constant and the population is growing".
If that works in real-life, why shouldn't it work in an online-game.
Check out eBay for e.g. DVDs. Somtimes the prices get higher than those you'd pay for shopping at amazon.
If that works in real-life, why shouldn't it work in an online-game.
Check out eBay for e.g. DVDs. Somtimes the prices get higher than those you'd pay for shopping at amazon.
Racthoh
It kills me when I see "minor unid runes for 1k!!!!" in the trade window, or even that one time "2x Iron for 25k". Dunno what was so special about that iron, but I know some superior runes aren't even worth 1k...
Sekkira
This picture explains everything 
Silmor
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I recall someone was spamming to get 1000g for silver dye in Ascalon City as well, pointed out the trader sold them for 600g. After the usual tirade, he finally checked the trader, and adjusted his price down. And started spamming to sell it for 650g. Some people just won't ever get it.
arnansnow
Listening to idiots sounds like it is really fun, but, unfortunately, I almost never pay attention to local/trade chat, so I don't get the fun of telling someone the truth and being called a noob.
Arothian
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Aniewiel
Wow, Sekkira, that picture is worth....2 words: Holy cow...! 
I don't know what it is with people and thinking that they can just behave any way they wish but it is symptomatic of online gaming. This is the same attitude and probably the same community that has been/is on Diablo 2: LoD.
Thank goodness we were given the ability to filter out various levels of chat and have the option to ignore idiots like the ones you all are talking about. As in everything, the squeaky wheels get the most notice. Most of the GW population are decent individuals.
I don't know what it is with people and thinking that they can just behave any way they wish but it is symptomatic of online gaming. This is the same attitude and probably the same community that has been/is on Diablo 2: LoD.
Thank goodness we were given the ability to filter out various levels of chat and have the option to ignore idiots like the ones you all are talking about. As in everything, the squeaky wheels get the most notice. Most of the GW population are decent individuals.
Sofonisba
So we all know about the prejudice against W/Mo's. (I didn't before I started reading this forum, but okay.)
This necro in pvp says right before the start of the match, "What is it with all the w/mos?" (We had two on our team.) "Worst character."
This is the sort of morale boost we need right before the match, right?
Anyway, I said, "Thanks, teammate."
We kicked butt, and I said, "Worst character."
He said, "Just stating a fact."
When he was laying there dead I should not have wasted my energy rezzing him, but I did. That must be why I am the worst character.
This necro in pvp says right before the start of the match, "What is it with all the w/mos?" (We had two on our team.) "Worst character."
This is the sort of morale boost we need right before the match, right?
Anyway, I said, "Thanks, teammate."
We kicked butt, and I said, "Worst character."
He said, "Just stating a fact."
When he was laying there dead I should not have wasted my energy rezzing him, but I did. That must be why I am the worst character.
Algren Cole
This is a problem caused by the game being far far far too easy. it encourages people that aren't generally interested in gaming to come along and be "UBER SUPERIOR"....See these people are interested in the attention...not the fun of the game. This happens in ALL games that are too easy. The most obvious is Counter Strike...6 years ago when it first came out it had a HUGE community of players that were looking to help eachother...learn new strats...and overall achieve a level of skill in a game for the FUN....then hacks came along and now it's a community filled with people looking for attention.
Make the game easy enough and the attention seekers will seek it out.
My biggest complaint from the very beginning of this game is that it was far far far too easy.
Make the game easy enough and the attention seekers will seek it out.
My biggest complaint from the very beginning of this game is that it was far far far too easy.
wabbit
Hmmm.
GODLY MAX DMG BOW!!!ONE!!!11! - 2000 GP
WTS SILVER DIY - 3000 GP
RUN TO LIONS ARCH one!111ONe -- Priceless
For everything else there's mastercard.
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WTS SILVER DIY - 3000 GP
RUN TO LIONS ARCH one!111ONe -- Priceless
For everything else there's mastercard.
Zuggy
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Anyway, I had a funny experience. One time I was selling an item and got PM'ed that the price was to high. I replied politely that it was to compensate for haggling, a buisness practice I learned from a guildie who has more platinum then he knows what to do with. So the jerk starts spamming my whisper channel, which I always keep open in-case a guildie needs my help. So, like any other disgruntled player, bam, ignore list.
2 weeks later I'm looking for a mission group and the same guy comes on the local chat with "wtf are you ignorin meh". I recounted the little story above and he has the balls to say "never done tat ----tard"
So I type in "nope, I just run around adding random people to my ignore list, here's your sign" (anyone who's seen Bill Engvall will get that)
stumpy
usually if someone is resorting to inappropriate language such as that in your picture ... (I'm sure all of the mature ones here know this already) ... it means he is either 12-15 hiding behind a computer throwing vulgar language at somone and has a social disorder, or doesn't have the vocabulary to actually hold an arguement ... I dont understand some people either ...
ex. somebody selling there customized armor ... person A ... decids to help them out like a noble and weathered guildwars gamer does ... Seller responds spamming words like "STFU you jerkazz dum fuk ... u dead ... how about i put a hole in yer head u betch ... " ... yeah ... does anyone at all see how that is an arguement? Its not ... it doesn't hold an opinion, it doesn't contradict a point ... it actually works against the person, but 'alot' of teens these days (pardon my stereotype here) actually aren't smart enough to realize this.
I enjoy alot of the intellectual arguements I get into over profession combos, and strategies with some random people ... but to those that lack it, and then follow you around spamming useless jargon, I cant help but wonder where you went wrong?
ex. somebody selling there customized armor ... person A ... decids to help them out like a noble and weathered guildwars gamer does ... Seller responds spamming words like "STFU you jerkazz dum fuk ... u dead ... how about i put a hole in yer head u betch ... " ... yeah ... does anyone at all see how that is an arguement? Its not ... it doesn't hold an opinion, it doesn't contradict a point ... it actually works against the person, but 'alot' of teens these days (pardon my stereotype here) actually aren't smart enough to realize this.
I enjoy alot of the intellectual arguements I get into over profession combos, and strategies with some random people ... but to those that lack it, and then follow you around spamming useless jargon, I cant help but wonder where you went wrong?
Anubis Set
There some honest players but unfortunately there's a whole lot of morons and idiots. I'm proud to be an honest player. Yesterday, I was looking to buy silver dye at Lion's Arch. It was very crowded at this district, so a lot of trading was going on. I guess it was The 4th of July special sale or something. Anyway, this guy offered to sale me the silver dye for 500g. I said "ok". I guess he was trading with someone else before me and had a lot in his mind. When I got to him, I offered 500g in the trade box. Instead of silver dye, he offered a max damage chaos axe. If I clicked on "accept", the transaction would have been made. I could've gotten a max damage chaos axe for 500g. Now that's a bargain wouldn't you say? But instead of taking advantage of his mistake, I informed him that he made a mistake and that I wanted silver dye. He thank me for not ripping him off and he switched the item to silver dye for 100g less because of my honesty. It wasn't really my lost since I have about 40K in my account thanks to good old superior vigor
thanks to good old superior vigor
eventhorizen
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I was searching for axes / axe upgrades and found a seller, enquired about an axe which was out of my price range, I informed the seller "no thx" which I assumed would be the end of it (as is the usual practice). Instead, I get pm's back insulting me, calling me a fag etc because I wouldn't haggle, the guy promptly made my ignore list and I sit back and wonder what moron must be sitting somewhere in the world controling this toon and whether or not he understood anything about good business practice.
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Most people accept it as a fact of live, and ignore it. You however feel the need to show your utmost superiority by posting this crap.
So what? Have a tissue. It happens, get over it.
Aniewiel
eventhorizen:
You must be really fun at a party. LOL! Why -can't- he come here and get it off his chest. Ostensibly, that's what these forums are for.
You must be really fun at a party. LOL! Why -can't- he come here and get it off his chest. Ostensibly, that's what these forums are for.
smitty-gw
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I hope you reported that person. They should be key banned. Then let his Daddy, the cop, help him repeal the ban.
mamluk
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You know whats worse? The people who come onto the forums to whine about it.
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Sekkira
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I hope you reported that person. They should be key banned. Then let his Daddy, the cop, help him repeal the ban.
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Nah, didn't even cross my mind. I thought it was hilarious when he started pming me, I was like "Wtf... O_o wow XD". Just the whole concept of someone actually getting to me online eludes me entirely and they're a good laugh.
Algren Cole
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You know whats worse? The people who come onto the forums to whine about it.
Most people accept it as a fact of live, and ignore it. You however feel the need to show your utmost superiority by posting this crap. So what? Have a tissue. It happens, get over it. |
Calimar
Psycore: you know what's sad? you got a discount for your honesty - mind you, you did well. But honesty shouldn't be a rare enough trait to be worthy of a reward.
That's what I find SAD.
Oh, and if it weren't that disgusting, the kid's language in the pic would've been funny. I'd have challenged him tho, get over here and shoot me - if you can find where I live, that is. Puah.
That's what I find SAD.
Oh, and if it weren't that disgusting, the kid's language in the pic would've been funny. I'd have challenged him tho, get over here and shoot me - if you can find where I live, that is. Puah.
Reiden Argrock
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haha, I think i've run into this guy before, boy was that fun
ZigZag Rollmeister
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This is a problem caused by the game being far far far too easy. it encourages people that aren't generally interested in gaming to come along and be "UBER SUPERIOR"....See these people are interested in the attention...not the fun of the game. This happens in ALL games that are too easy. The most obvious is Counter Strike...6 years ago when it first came out it had a HUGE community of players that were looking to help eachother...learn new strats...and overall achieve a level of skill in a game for the FUN....then hacks came along and now it's a community filled with people looking for attention.
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I nominate this statement for "Video Game Truth of the Year".
Aniewiel
The good news is that, if the game is, as you say, Algren, "too easy", those people will drop off very quickly. They will go on to find other "easy" games to abuse for a short while before heading off to the next game.
As far as I'm concerned, that's a good thing. It will leave the game to the developers and to those of us who actually play the game for *gasps* fun.
As far as I'm concerned, that's a good thing. It will leave the game to the developers and to those of us who actually play the game for *gasps* fun.
arnansnow
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The good news is that, if the game is, as you say, Algren, "too easy", those people will drop off very quickly. They will go on to find other "easy" games to abuse for a short while before heading off to the next game.
As far as I'm concerned, that's a good thing. It will leave the game to the developers and to those of us who actually play the game for *gasps* fun. |
Unfortunately, The people who drop off might still visit the forums and complain and make suggestions, and weaken the ideas of those who actually play.
Algren Cole
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The good news is that, if the game is, as you say, Algren, "too easy", those people will drop off very quickly. They will go on to find other "easy" games to abuse for a short while before heading off to the next game.
As far as I'm concerned, that's a good thing. It will leave the game to the developers and to those of us who actually play the game for *gasps* fun. |
the number of people that do things for the attention far outweighs the number of people that do things for the fun....there will be a constant flow of people simply looking for attention...attention is a great thing, in that it never get's old. If it's all they want, there is no reason to leave.
Aniewiel
*sighs* Don't depress me. I like to think that it will get better over time. Perhaps the denizens of the forums and the loudest shouters in game are the true minority.
It sort of reminds me of RL politics: There are noisy, annoying people on both sides of the spectrum and they are the ones you hear about -constantly-. The reality is, though, that most of us are just "average Joes" and don't listen to or believe most of their drivel.
I am decidedly a glass half full kind of person.
It sort of reminds me of RL politics: There are noisy, annoying people on both sides of the spectrum and they are the ones you hear about -constantly-. The reality is, though, that most of us are just "average Joes" and don't listen to or believe most of their drivel.
I am decidedly a glass half full kind of person.
Sekkira
Well the glass is only half full if it is filled to half way. It is only half empty if it is filled to the brim, then half of it is drunk/poured out/magically disappeared. I'm neither pessimistic or optimistic. I'm pedantic.
Numa Pompilius
If the glass is only half full
get another beer.
get another beer.
smitty-gw
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This is a problem caused by the game being far far far too easy. it encourages people that aren't generally interested in gaming to come along and be "UBER SUPERIOR"....See these people are interested in the attention...not the fun of the game. .
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Aniewiel
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Well the glass is only half full if it is filled to half way. It is only half empty if it is filled to the brim, then half of it is drunk/poured out/magically disappeared. I'm neither pessimistic or optimistic. I'm pedantic.
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Uh...ok.
Algren Cole
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Uber is the ultimate, there's nothing better, so to say "uber superior" is just redundant fluff.
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hence the quote's.....
Sekkira
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*adds some more fluff because that smiley doesn't cut it as a post*
Aniewiel
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*adds some more fluff because that smiley doesn't cut it as a post* |
smitty-gw
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hence the quote's.....
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Quotes, not quote's. Quote's implies the possessive.
Algren Cole
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Quotes, not quote's. Quote's implies the possesive.
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trolling is about the least impressive thing one can do.
Aniewiel
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Give the guy a break, Smitty.
Elythor
Here's my experience from last night. I was trying to sell my sigil in LA. I was asking for 48k (the trader was selling for 54k, so my price is ok). Some guy suddenly PMed me and offered me 50k even though I said 48k. Of course I jumped at the chance.
Open Trade window.
Put on Sigil.
Then he offered me 5p. (ie 5k gold)
At first I thought it was an honest mistake, so I informed him of the error. Then he kept insisting that it was 50k and not 5k which he offered. Simple enough, I just cancelled the trade window and told his sorry scammer @ss to get a life and stop scamming.
5min later while in a quest, he just kept whispering to me and harass me. Like "I'm coming over to your house." and other things like "I watch you everday through your window".
So this lucky guy became my first entry onto the ignore list. Some people just need a life don't you think?
Open Trade window.
Put on Sigil.
Then he offered me 5p. (ie 5k gold)
At first I thought it was an honest mistake, so I informed him of the error. Then he kept insisting that it was 50k and not 5k which he offered. Simple enough, I just cancelled the trade window and told his sorry scammer @ss to get a life and stop scamming.
5min later while in a quest, he just kept whispering to me and harass me. Like "I'm coming over to your house." and other things like "I watch you everday through your window".
So this lucky guy became my first entry onto the ignore list. Some people just need a life don't you think?