It's A PvP Server
One of the fun aspects of playing World of Warcraft is the forums that Blizzard provides for its players. There is no cross-faction communication available in-game (save for the tiny number of work-arounds that have been used), so the forums are a way for nerds to talk shit or otherwise to the other faction. (There are also Ventrilo servers and IRC channels where players of each faction can communicate as well.)
One of the more fun aspects of the forum crawl is to discover e-drama that tends to crop up every so often. Last week was such a week.
First, for reference to those of you who are unaware of the most recent patch content that was unveiled, a primer.
Patch 1.9 came out a couple of weeks ago with promise of new 20- and 40-man raiding instances known as Ahn'Qiraj. The difference between these instances and others that were introduced, like, say, Blackwing Lair or Zul Gurub, is that there is something of a server-wide effort necessary to open the gates of Ahn'Qiraj.
Essentially the billions of evil bug-like creatures held within the gates of AQ are getting ready to pwn the inhabitants of Azeroth and patch 1.9 brought about something called the AQ War Effort. There is a bunch of gathering to be done: leather, ores, bandages, foodstuffs, and the like. People from all over the server are hunting these materials down in order to meet the massive turn-in requirements. There is also a huge story-arc that runs in parallel with this regarding killing powerful dragons in order to collect pieces of a sceptre to forge which will be ultimately used to open the gates.
This effort is equally divided among both factions. Ultimately, the world-event of opening the AQ gates will require cooperation between Horde and Alliance.
That being said, apparently in Silithus there was some unwritten peace treaty between Horde and Alliance in order to attempt to speed up the collection of war materiel or some other bullshit.
It was in Silithus that two members of Trinity were griefing the shit out of a few members of the Horde nub guild Shadowflame. This, of course, lent to a new message thread being started on the forums entitled "Trinity needs to handle their members," or something similar, where Shadowflame was bitching about these two guys camping them, killing them, and pwning them up for hours.
Ah, yes, the classic thread whining about being camped. These threads pop up every so often with the predictable response by everyone of, "It's a PvP server, nub. Cry more. lern2play. kthxbai." Ultimately the newb who posted the bitch thread gets ridiculed into silent submission.
Shadowflame, however, decided to take the drama to the next level. They said that they were being griefed while trying to summon high-level monsters in Silithus and that Trinity was impeding the forward progression of the AQ War Effort and the opening of the gates. Two things were immediately pointed out: 1) The AQ gates will open automatically. Taking part in the war effort can only accelerate the opening of the gates. 2) The activities that Shadowflame were taking part in had nothing at all to do with opening the AQ gates. But that which they pushed the most fervently was that there was a truce between Horde and Alliance in Silithus so that our server could open up AQ faster.
Sorry. It's a PvP server. Whatever truce a few guilds may have between each other is not going to be followed by everybody on the server. Some don't even give a shit about a truce. When you roll a PvP server, you're pretty much accepting your fate of getting the shit kicked out of you while you're leveling up your noob character. That's how things are on a PvP server.
If you wanted the option of turning off your PvP flag, you should have rolled an RP or PvE server. Then you could level and quest in peace.
So the thread escalated as many members of Trinity came to the defense of our guild-mates, told the Shadowflame fucks to cry more and to re-roll PvE, the fuckin' carebears, etc., etc.. Which only caused Shadowflame to whine louder.
No one has any sympathy for them. They threatened to put all of Trinity on KOS (kill on sight) status - essentially start a guild war with us. That's fine. Shadowflame hasn't even set foot in MC, whilst Trinity has MC through Domo on farm status.
In fact our guild leader has encouraged us to kill Shadowflame wherever we see them. He's gone so far as to go to their website and look at the guild events they've got planned so Trinity can go raid them.
Which is funny as shit.
PvP servers for the win, bitches.
One of the more fun aspects of the forum crawl is to discover e-drama that tends to crop up every so often. Last week was such a week.
First, for reference to those of you who are unaware of the most recent patch content that was unveiled, a primer.
Patch 1.9 came out a couple of weeks ago with promise of new 20- and 40-man raiding instances known as Ahn'Qiraj. The difference between these instances and others that were introduced, like, say, Blackwing Lair or Zul Gurub, is that there is something of a server-wide effort necessary to open the gates of Ahn'Qiraj.
Essentially the billions of evil bug-like creatures held within the gates of AQ are getting ready to pwn the inhabitants of Azeroth and patch 1.9 brought about something called the AQ War Effort. There is a bunch of gathering to be done: leather, ores, bandages, foodstuffs, and the like. People from all over the server are hunting these materials down in order to meet the massive turn-in requirements. There is also a huge story-arc that runs in parallel with this regarding killing powerful dragons in order to collect pieces of a sceptre to forge which will be ultimately used to open the gates.
This effort is equally divided among both factions. Ultimately, the world-event of opening the AQ gates will require cooperation between Horde and Alliance.
That being said, apparently in Silithus there was some unwritten peace treaty between Horde and Alliance in order to attempt to speed up the collection of war materiel or some other bullshit.
It was in Silithus that two members of Trinity were griefing the shit out of a few members of the Horde nub guild Shadowflame. This, of course, lent to a new message thread being started on the forums entitled "Trinity needs to handle their members," or something similar, where Shadowflame was bitching about these two guys camping them, killing them, and pwning them up for hours.
Ah, yes, the classic thread whining about being camped. These threads pop up every so often with the predictable response by everyone of, "It's a PvP server, nub. Cry more. lern2play. kthxbai." Ultimately the newb who posted the bitch thread gets ridiculed into silent submission.
Shadowflame, however, decided to take the drama to the next level. They said that they were being griefed while trying to summon high-level monsters in Silithus and that Trinity was impeding the forward progression of the AQ War Effort and the opening of the gates. Two things were immediately pointed out: 1) The AQ gates will open automatically. Taking part in the war effort can only accelerate the opening of the gates. 2) The activities that Shadowflame were taking part in had nothing at all to do with opening the AQ gates. But that which they pushed the most fervently was that there was a truce between Horde and Alliance in Silithus so that our server could open up AQ faster.
Sorry. It's a PvP server. Whatever truce a few guilds may have between each other is not going to be followed by everybody on the server. Some don't even give a shit about a truce. When you roll a PvP server, you're pretty much accepting your fate of getting the shit kicked out of you while you're leveling up your noob character. That's how things are on a PvP server.
If you wanted the option of turning off your PvP flag, you should have rolled an RP or PvE server. Then you could level and quest in peace.
So the thread escalated as many members of Trinity came to the defense of our guild-mates, told the Shadowflame fucks to cry more and to re-roll PvE, the fuckin' carebears, etc., etc.. Which only caused Shadowflame to whine louder.
No one has any sympathy for them. They threatened to put all of Trinity on KOS (kill on sight) status - essentially start a guild war with us. That's fine. Shadowflame hasn't even set foot in MC, whilst Trinity has MC through Domo on farm status.
In fact our guild leader has encouraged us to kill Shadowflame wherever we see them. He's gone so far as to go to their website and look at the guild events they've got planned so Trinity can go raid them.
Which is funny as shit.
PvP servers for the win, bitches.
posted by R @ 1/19/2006 08:50:00 AM
1 Comments:
At 4:36 PM,
Phelps said…
That's indeed exactly why I'm on a PvE server. Of course, I don't for one believe that ANYTHING with AQ is going to happen automatically. I think that Blizzard would find it HILARIOUS if there were like 3 or 4 servers that couldn't get thier shit together that didn't open it for like a year.
I'm even betting on it being one of the draws when they put new servers in. "Still has AQ on! And that crap we decided to do when we released Burning Sands!" (Which you know they will.)
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