Altitis

I’m currently still in low-playing-time mode, and whenever I actually squeeze some time to log on, I play on the shaman. Which I never got around to joining my current horde guild, initially because no officer was on when I PCTed her onto Doomhammer, and later because I didn’t really bother looking for anyone with /ginvite.

I do keep an eye on the guild forums from time to time, though, and to my surprise, I learn that the GM has left the guild and handed the key to one of the officers.

To everyone expecting a Foton-grade Drama retelling, you can stop reading right now, because I have no frigging clue what happened.

Thing is, when I got recruited there, it was on my then-main level 70 pallie, and the now-departed GM invited me with the full knowledge that I was a casual player and only available to join Kara as a replacement for an “early” leaver – early being 11pm server time in that case.

I obviously have no similar understanding with the new management, but from the tone of their introductory post (and what had been going on during the last times I was on), the guild appears to be trying to focus on raiding in order to forge an identity and cohesion.

Needless to say, a proper raiding guild has little room for a player like me. It is even possible that I have been let go from the roster since I last logged onto the paladin, which was already 2 or 3 weeks ago.

Since my good old 2007 buddy Steptoe appears to have vanished from the surface of the planet too, undoubtedly eaten up by a grue or at least by Realifitis, it’s probably time to start shopping around for a casual-friendly guild one of these days. There’s bound to be a fitting match out there. Somewhere.

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Another raider is getting all huffy about the use of the same models for arena and tiered sets. Arena gear deprives them of the recognition they deserve for their great accomplishments in the raiding space.

The following bears saying from time to time:

Dear fellow gamer,

You are playing a MMOG. Your accomplishments are something you do for your own sake, for your own enjoyment and for your own pleasure. And yes, sometimes it will garner you some recognition of other players.

You want to be admired for what you did? Log off. Go outside. Start changing the lives of people around you. Feed the hungry. Cure the sick. Tend to the lonely, the outcasts, the misfits. Exchange a helping hand where it is needed. Unify the theory of relativity and the quantic space. Invent a cheap and clean source of energy. Become a recognized adventurer. Help end conflicts, whether it is in your neighborhood or abroad. Create artwork which questions and soothes the mind. Become a figure of hope for people looking up to you, because you keep selflessly striving, on whatever social scale most fit to your means and talents, to better mankind or improve the fate of your peers, in small ways or big ways.

Respect and admiration is won in the real world. In the grand scheme of things, killing Illidan (or having 2600 arena ratings) means nothing at all. You changed nobody’s life. In the long run, you will just make yourself miserable because you are feeding your misplaced sense of entitlement by thinking otherwise.

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