I’ve been very outspoken on the forums for a while and it’s always the white knights that project.
If I could get brownie points for the random person I never met that I helped for 3 hours that whispered me asking for help with class and spec while I was busy with something else, I don’t care. When I got this stupid “trust level upgrade,” I don’t care. These social credit systems are dumb.
Nah, people just assume that because you call out bad practice, bad ideas, or hypocrisy, you must be guilty of something.
I have always been tolerant and polite in game but I’m not going to put on a smiley face on here when they’re spitting BS in my face and telling me it’s pie.
The top portion, that is tied to the bottom now, are not enforceable rules and they have not always been there. They were tooltip suggestions. They do not belong in the list. They are already creating an atmosphere of cannibalism due to entitlement where being denied group entry, or basic criticism, is seen as discriminatory or “harassment” and retribution follows.
Forced charitable actions are not “manners.” Stop blowing farts in my face and telling me it’s perfume.
No, those are not enforceable. Nobody said they were. They are suggestions about how to get along in an MMO. You can’t report anyone for it. You do not HAVE to do any of those things, ever.
The only thing that is enforceable is the same stuff that always has been - the stuff where you use your manners when talking to strangers.
Again, a suggestion is not forcing you to do anything. You can ignore every single other player you see and let the mobs eat them. You can use the game tools to kick any player the group does not want, for any reason. You can invite anyone you want, for any reason.
What you can’t do is send that player a string of profanity and slurs. That is it. You have no other obligation.
If you don’t understand that, then I see why you might be upset with it.
Read the upper portion of the list. Now, if you want to try to say that not doing any of the upper portion makes you an “indecent person,” you’re dishonest.
…Is your assumption that if the words do not flow freely from your mouth that capable people cannot come up with a reasonable assessment based on your comments? I know I can, and have.
Nobody’s doing that. You’re being asked to act within a set of guidelines while using someone’s property for recreation. Just like checking into a hotel or buying tickets to an event, you agree to act within the rules.
FFS, those were suggestions. No one is forcing you to go out of your way to help other players. They’re just saying it’d be nice if you did. It’s a suggestion.
Look. Majority of the problem surrounding this contract is that these items are being tied to the bottom and terms you must accept. You can say you interpret it differently but it’s there. And it’s already fostering vigilance based on hurt feelings for being ignored or denied. It has no business there.
There is no option to report someone for not helping you kill a mob. There is no option to report someone for declining your group request. There is no option to report someone for kicking you from a group.
None of those things have report options. None. Nobody is going to get in trouble for not stopping to help someone. Nobody is going to get in trouble for using the game features we have to control their groups.
The only thing they are going to get in trouble for is using a string of profanity at someone to tell them why they kicked them, etc.