UPDATE: I want to apologize to everyone in this thread. I have had some very long conversations with friends since this incident has happened. In the end, I realize that I am in the wrong. I should have never shouted my opinions about things I really don’t understand or participate in. I am truly sorry and I know that I have made a fool out of myself. I’ll leave this incident in my life as a hard lesson learned. I’m sorry.
So it finally happened. I was kicked out of a guild that I was an active member of for a very long time.
It started when I received a message in-game from a guildie who saw me on the forum and they asked me why I keep my profile private. I had a feeling that this conversation could end badly for one of us so I told him I’d rather not discuss it. He kept pressing me for answers so I finally just gave in and told him why.
In so many words I told him that I don’t like how people are bullied on the forum for not completing certain content and playing the game how we want to play. He started talking about my achievements and slightly joking about me and the way I play.
The next day he messages me again and starts getting kind of mean, he wanted to know if I wanted to run some mythic+ keystones. I told him that I don’t like doing mythic+ keystones because they are timed and the pressure is too much for me. So he started getting angry with me and started talking about how he’s so sick of the way that Blizzard caters to casual players who “don’t do anything in the game”. I stopped responding to him and wanted to put him on ignore but I was scared to because he was a guildie and I thought maybe he was just having a bad day.
So then it got real. He started talking about this in the guild discord. He wasn’t doing it in voice chat, as far as I know, since I don’t use their voice chat because it gives me anxiety but I do talk often in text channles in discord and in guild chat. Other guildies chimmed in and started making fun of the topic and players like myself. The guildie hadn’t said who he was reffering to until someone asked how people hide their armories. That’s when he told them that people aren’t really hiding their armories they are only hiding their forum profile. They wanted an example… and he gave them me as an example.
The next thing I knew they were going through my posting history on the forum and they were talking about how I shouldn’t talk about certain aspects of the game that I don’t participate in and they were making fun of me. They were posting screen shots of some of my forum history. I was horrified.
The next day I logged on and told the co-GM what happened and he told me that the GM and himself wanted to talk to me in discord. So, against my own good judgement, I said okay. I got in voice chat with them and was ridiculed for a good 10 mins before they started kicking my characters out of the guild.
I was in this guild for a very long time and I feel what they did to me was cruel. Players need to understand that we are all people behind the screens, we have real feelings too. It’s not okay to make people feel this way.
I still enjoy World of Warcraft but I will never join a guild again. I just feel that we need more ways to protect our character privacy.