Post by Whiskey on Sept 4, 2009 17:01:41 GMT -5
True story. There I was in the middle of a T1 Warband ripping greenskins and melting dark elf faces. Well, I was mostly healing my stunty buns off. But I digress. While we're waiting for a BO to cap another RP waddles up (he happens to be the WB leader) to me and does the /toast emote. We're all having a good time so I /toast him back. *wham!* I get a blind guild invite from him.
Many thoughts race through my head. I never accept a blind guild invite. But I've had more fun in the last 30 minutes than in the last two days. I stopped playing WAR back in December because all my friends/guildies went back to WOTLK (No I don't blame em) leaving me nobody I knew to play with. So here's a chance to head off that particular problem again. I flash through all the funny things he's said in WB and decide what the slop. I'll give it a go. I join up, feeling just a little special that this fellow picked me for my (attempted) witty banter and my "For Helga!" macro.
Over the course of the next 40 minutes or so I watch him /toast every unguilded character who joins the carnage as we flip through zones. Anyone who toasts him back gets a guild invite. So much for feeling special lol. But I can live with an open recruitment guild so long as we're all having fun. Guild chat itself is strangely silent apart from a few greetings here and there and my trying to be friendly to the brand new folks. I mean newer than me that is. It seems only polite to welcome people after all. But I figure I'm just missing the chatting while I'm healing away.
We lock down T1 so the Warband has run it's course. The leader logs off and I drop group. Someone logs into the guild a few moments later and all sorts of people start greeting him as "My Lord XXX." Well, that's a little strange I suppose. By now My dog really needs to go outside and I have work calls to return. So I thank everyone for the guild invite and give a chatty goodbye. While noting their website and the requirement to go there and register.
Errands complete I go to the site and register. What's this? They don't allow any non-Roleplay communication in guildchat? "Ruhroh Raggy." They have a byzantine solcial heiarchy made up of squires, Knights, Lords, ladies, & racial houses. These positions have titles that must be used. They never use vent as it breaks immersiveness. (Did I just make up a word or slaughter a perfectly good one there?) Their forums are largely RP only. What have I gotten myself into?
How does my replying to an emote with an emote remotely qualify me for this sort of guild? How do you not mention to someone that "we're an intensive RP guild" before give them an invite?
I have no problem with RP folks mind you. I tend to get along with happy geeks whatever their persuasion. Sure, I might be a little uncomfortable talking to someone dressed up as a humanoid squirrel at a convention but I don't mind their quirky choice of lifestyle. If I were invited to a cocktail party by a casual aqquaintance I'd certainly expect some sort of warning that everyone else there will be dressed a anomorphic woodland creatures. My point is you have to warn folks about that sort of thing. If for no other reason than to make sure they don't bust out laughing and hurting anyones feelings.
Mind you, I admire the fact that they are sticking to a path that brings them joy. It must be harder for them to get new players than it would be for other guilds. But blind invites hardly seems the right way to go about it.
There were several guildies in the warband and none of them were RPing. They were funny, but in a meta game way. Nothing in their behavior prepared me for the rules heavy group they were when not playing with outsiders. To each their own.
So I logged back in, thanked them for the invite, chatted with the guild leader (whom I never referred to as "My Lord" which perhaps is the reason he was snooty to me) explained that I would only be a distraction to their fun and left the guild.
Now for the strange part (Yeah I know! It's just now going to get "strange") I actually feel bad for leaving so quickly. Bad for them (as I noticed lots and lots of us new folks had left already) and bad for myself. It was a good warband after all, and this game is all about having fun people to share the content with and laigh off all the shortcomings. But I just can't see myself typing in complete sentences and I'm certainly not going to address anyone as "My Lord" unless it's Ironically.
Lord Slurm does have a cool ring to it though...
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Many thoughts race through my head. I never accept a blind guild invite. But I've had more fun in the last 30 minutes than in the last two days. I stopped playing WAR back in December because all my friends/guildies went back to WOTLK (No I don't blame em) leaving me nobody I knew to play with. So here's a chance to head off that particular problem again. I flash through all the funny things he's said in WB and decide what the slop. I'll give it a go. I join up, feeling just a little special that this fellow picked me for my (attempted) witty banter and my "For Helga!" macro.
Over the course of the next 40 minutes or so I watch him /toast every unguilded character who joins the carnage as we flip through zones. Anyone who toasts him back gets a guild invite. So much for feeling special lol. But I can live with an open recruitment guild so long as we're all having fun. Guild chat itself is strangely silent apart from a few greetings here and there and my trying to be friendly to the brand new folks. I mean newer than me that is. It seems only polite to welcome people after all. But I figure I'm just missing the chatting while I'm healing away.
We lock down T1 so the Warband has run it's course. The leader logs off and I drop group. Someone logs into the guild a few moments later and all sorts of people start greeting him as "My Lord XXX." Well, that's a little strange I suppose. By now My dog really needs to go outside and I have work calls to return. So I thank everyone for the guild invite and give a chatty goodbye. While noting their website and the requirement to go there and register.
Errands complete I go to the site and register. What's this? They don't allow any non-Roleplay communication in guildchat? "Ruhroh Raggy." They have a byzantine solcial heiarchy made up of squires, Knights, Lords, ladies, & racial houses. These positions have titles that must be used. They never use vent as it breaks immersiveness. (Did I just make up a word or slaughter a perfectly good one there?) Their forums are largely RP only. What have I gotten myself into?
How does my replying to an emote with an emote remotely qualify me for this sort of guild? How do you not mention to someone that "we're an intensive RP guild" before give them an invite?
I have no problem with RP folks mind you. I tend to get along with happy geeks whatever their persuasion. Sure, I might be a little uncomfortable talking to someone dressed up as a humanoid squirrel at a convention but I don't mind their quirky choice of lifestyle. If I were invited to a cocktail party by a casual aqquaintance I'd certainly expect some sort of warning that everyone else there will be dressed a anomorphic woodland creatures. My point is you have to warn folks about that sort of thing. If for no other reason than to make sure they don't bust out laughing and hurting anyones feelings.
Mind you, I admire the fact that they are sticking to a path that brings them joy. It must be harder for them to get new players than it would be for other guilds. But blind invites hardly seems the right way to go about it.
There were several guildies in the warband and none of them were RPing. They were funny, but in a meta game way. Nothing in their behavior prepared me for the rules heavy group they were when not playing with outsiders. To each their own.
So I logged back in, thanked them for the invite, chatted with the guild leader (whom I never referred to as "My Lord" which perhaps is the reason he was snooty to me) explained that I would only be a distraction to their fun and left the guild.
Now for the strange part (Yeah I know! It's just now going to get "strange") I actually feel bad for leaving so quickly. Bad for them (as I noticed lots and lots of us new folks had left already) and bad for myself. It was a good warband after all, and this game is all about having fun people to share the content with and laigh off all the shortcomings. But I just can't see myself typing in complete sentences and I'm certainly not going to address anyone as "My Lord" unless it's Ironically.
Lord Slurm does have a cool ring to it though...
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
