WoW ranting: Pay no heed

[dragonoflife]

I bust ass for my guild. I make a concerted effort to advise people, share information, assist in questing and instances, and generally be a helpful resource to the people in my guild. I maintain the website, I write charters and policies, I set our progression goals and coordinate them. I'm, if not the heart of the guild, at least the brain.

And yet I get accused of never helping anyone, of doing nothing but looking down on people and telling them they're no good while being holier-than-thou. Never mind that I have absolute proof that I DID help him, way back in the day, but... does anyone have a word to say in my favor?

Why do I do this anyway?

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[elf-fu.livejournal.com]

Because the number one reason games like that work, is greed. Greed for the purplz, greed for the raid, greed for the next level and ubr gear.

You're competing with greed--and you can't win against that. You'll never be good enough, people want more, more, more, MOAR without having to give .

In the end? You could sign out of that main right now, never play him or her for six months --come back and probably find that half the people who knew you don't remember you and the other half will ask you for your shit.

This is the way of some guilds and games.

I said SOME, because I've known a few guilds that grew to know each other in real life, and things went the other way--the epic win way, not the fail way.

I've been guild leader for several different games--I can tell you that the one person that's not a moron who appreciates you for what you do, often makes all this shit worth dragging ass through.

[dragonoflife.livejournal.com]

Actually, in this case I think I was competing with epeen -- a guy who can't stand the fact that I can do a good job and know a lot of things about every class and, well, everything.

This particular guild actually started with us joining in for the sake of RL friends, and we've expanded our net really nicely; there's just one or two friend-of-friend people that drive me nuts, this guy being one of them.

I couldn't sign out, though, without them missing me; I'm the only guild tank and no one else has any guild maintenance powers. ^.^ But I know what you meant.

Luckily, most of the people ARE worth it.