I'm not sure how WOW works but are you stealing his kills or getting in his way? I know in other MMORPGs it's common to kick people who are being stupid and annoying, maybe you guys are fitting that description. He's not on 24/7, I'd just do well to avoid the other player.
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as for posting public information
i believe you can file charges on that.
though to be honest, the drama is one of the reasons why i'm glad i stopped playing MMORPG (EQ).
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Play on a different server.
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and granted i only played eq and not wow but....
i don't think it's a rule violation to kick you out of a raid if he doesn't want to play with you
however it IS normally a rule violation to make multiple characters in order to to talk to someone who put you on ignore
i would suggest find another raid. sure you might not like it. the one he's on might be the only one you want but.... you cannot force someone else to play with you if he doesn't want to.
sometimes you just have to accept that.
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Why are you giving personal information to people who you've never met in person?
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I have no idea what you are talking about, but it sounds a lot like M3C!! LOL!
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goduke
same reason people post their full names phone numbers and emails here
sometimes people have no understanding that "if you post it online, it's no longer private"
one forurm i went to, one guy X freaked out accusing another poster Y of being an admin and breaking rules of privacy for posting personal stuff about the guy.
Y wrote back to call him a dumba$$ and said that EVERYTHING he'd posted about X had come from X's own posts.
X had no idea until then that he'd posted so much of his own personal info that people could do that to him.
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KJT - maybe it's better that way.
if you get into online gaming like WOW or EQ it will try to suck your life dry.
and then you find yourself posting about how horrible people are for saying "Plz" and stuff like that.
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Other than reporting him to Blizzard, there's not really much else they can do other than tell you exactly what they've told you.
If this guy is being such a pain, you can always go to another server. Granted, it'll cost money; but if pvping in peace is really important to you, you just might have to do it.
Just leave this player alone, for awhile, and maybe he'll go away once he sees he can't ruffle y'all's feathers anymore.
And remember; it's just a game. Have fun. If you find you're not having fun; stop playing for awhile.
Sucks that this guy is being a pain over a game... but other than reporting him, you'd be stooping to his level by... more >>
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I have never played EQ or WoW. I do play Lineage 2 and NCSoft is pretty good at banning not only the toons but IP accts too. I have a total of 26 toons on 3 different servers. Yes, it can and has sucked the life out of me so I am on a mini vacation.
If you post personal things about yourself then they are no longer personal and anyone can use them to your disadvantage. Does WoW have forums where you can post your frustration. We have NCSoft techs/players that are monitors on the boards and any complaints they check into.
good luck.
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All you gamers are sick sad lonely people... nothing like the gentle, intelligent people found on M3C....
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Excuse me, OF?
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Are you in his clan or an alliance with his clan? if so, leave. For whatever reason, sounds like this clown is not going to stop annoying you. I dont play WoW, but have played PC MMORPG's since back in the days of Diablo.
I have played EQ2 since launch, and i have to tell you, WoW does attract more fools and "kids" than the EQ2 franchise. However, you are lucky that WoW is still large and popular enough it should be easy to switch clans. Good luck!
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Bearkat...LOL
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*sniff sniff* I'm not lonely. I have a life. I don't let the game consume me. I play to have fun. If I'm not having fun, I don't play.
You're right about the "kids" part, Raven. Good grief, some people get so sucked into the game and get so bent out of shape about the stupidst stuff. I just laugh and continue on my merry way.
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I hear you, bear. For a while now, I have only really had time to play on weekends. I still see nonsense in level and zone chat, but NOTHING like WoW. I tried that game twice and between the cartoony graphics and kids spewing leet speak I got bored fast.
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There there Bear *Patting Bear on the back* Don't let the big mean Old F bully you, he's just upset that he plays a card game that no one ever heard of with his family and losese to the gals. It'll be alright, you have friends here.
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*hugs bkk*
you're one of the lucky ones
i wasn't as lucky i think. i only dropped eq because my computer was stolen (this was back in 04). about once a year or so i'll still have a dream about being in the game.
these days i just play text-only games (MUDs). partly because it's free, and partly because ... eh. it's fun too.
and we don't get as many of the "plz plz plz" crowd, cos most of them wouldn't be caught dead playing a text-only game anyway *grin*
heck come on into my game "ancient anguish"
you'd like my guild name - "The Bear guild" >:-)
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Basher.. It take a "real" man to play EUCHRE with a bunch of Polack women..and you get to hold the cards in your hand and slam them down on the table when you make a "lone" hand...
Not just see some superhero dude flit across a lit computer monitor..
I pity you young 'uns,...
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hey my ranger is sexy!
i'll have to take another snapshot of her tho. hold on...
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I prefer a good game of Hand and Foot, OF. :-)
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http://img23.yfrog.com/img23/6210/evveandorlie.png
now THAT is one sexy ranger!
and her pet dog!
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My husband plays WoW and he told me that in situations like this /ignore is your best friend. He's run into people like this and honestly, it's best to report and ignore. Can you do that? He also said that if he's in a guild with you to report him to your GM and see if that will help or you can /gquit and go somewhere else.
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Bearkat... I've heard of the game and it is popular around here...
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Yup, Princi, there's that option as well.
You get the little immature players that, I don't know how they survive enough in the real world, are annoying little poo's... yes, the ignore button is your friend.
From what I'm understanding of the OP's post, just sounds like some random douchebag that somehow got ticked off at the players. That part isn't explained on how it all started. Doesn't sound like a guildie. Could be an ex guildie.
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BTW, while I don't personally play WoW, my hubby does, and he is not a sad and lonely person, quite the opposite. He just does it on his days off while I'm watching things on TV that he doesn't like. I too play video games and am not a sad lonely person. It's a nice break from the same old routine, volunteering, kids, errands, chores, PTA. This week alone I clocked in 40 volunteer hours with the schools and PTA, I don't think that's the definition of lonely.
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however it's best to stop making new alts to talk to him
cos it sounds like he has you on /ignore
as i said before i'm sure WOW has that rule... i know EQ and AA both have it, to in aa it's called "squelch".
in fact in AA you can see why individual players have gotten in trouble. just checked the "recent demotions" list and one guy was archkilled (aka banned) for 2 weeks for circumventing a squelch.
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Maybe, but I still think they should ignore him. If he's not outright threatening them, there is not much the game mod's will do. Is it annoying, sure, but like hubby said, it's best to ignore and move on.
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which reminds me....
anyone here watch "The Guild"?
it's all about people who play WOW
=)
sounds like a good time to watch "Do you want to date my avatar?" >;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNyg1ftMIU
gotta love felicia day. ;-) she's funny
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Like I said in my first comment; just ignore him and maybe he'll go away.
I've seen that video, Pepper... it's funny.
I can't count the many times I've been hit on, in game. And, I wonder how these people know I'm really a girl playing a girl. My bf plays a girl. Though, while a majority of my guild is full of girls (which is unusual), the few guys that are in there, have at least one or two alts that are girls. It's funny.
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actually a lot of guys play girls
some claim they get more freebies from other players. one man said he simply would rather stare at a girl's butt than a man's (he preferred the behind-the-character view).
i know of one kid who was in his early teens (maybe 15 at the latest) who was prolly horrified to find out his in-game wife was a man in his early 20s. especially after one of the guys who played the character (they shared the account sometimes) was talking suggestively to him.
i only know cos they were bragging about it later in regular life.
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"actually a lot of guys play girls"
I know, Pepper. The point I was making was how does the player who's hitting on me, know I'm a girl playing a girl. I could be a guy playing a girl. I'm not. :-) My bf plays girls. My ex bf (the one who got me into playing Wow, going on 5 years) plays girls.
A friend of mine likes to play the girls cuz he likes to undress them. Especially, the night elf girls. They dance like strippers, all they're missing is the pole.
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It's part of online gaming,if a certain host doesn't want you on his/her server then they can kick you,assuming WOW is like a Call of Duty server....
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train... if i'm not mistaken wow uses official game servers and not user-made servers
granted i know it's possible to run your own servers, but you can't get any GM assistance on it since it's against the rules.
One of the guys on my last ship said he use to run his own server.. and that he knew the GM commands better than the GMs did. He said he was on a legit server once, had to contact a GM for assistance, and then had to tell the GM what codes to type in.
The GM threatened to ban him over it, saying it revealed that my shipmate was breaking rules in running his own server. My shipmate called his bluff pretty much, pointing ... more >>
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A little different than that, trainwreck. thousands of folks play on one server. You have to be invited to a raid to go. Once invited, and I am assuming either right before the major kill, the fool is kicking people. Mean spirited and poor sportsmanship.
Much like in EQ2 in a PUG when loot is set to leader only and the leader kicks folks before distributing loot. Gets them a bad rep fast!
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Well, a player can't be kicked from the server by another player... Wintergrasp is a pvp zone, and players can be kicked from a battleground by other players but not the server; in Wow. When the "Battle for Wintergrasp" starts. Depending on what type of server the OP plays in... pvp, pve, rp, normal... so on and so forth.
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I never got in to WOW to boring and lagy way to many nerds on there that take the game to serious. I'll take COD over it any day. COD 4 days away WoooHooo.
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raven - depends on why he's kicking them too.
we only heard their side, but... he could always be kicking them for other reasons such as being annoying or playing badly.
or perhaps there is drama that the OP isn't telling us about that might be leading the other player to not want to deal with them anymore.
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Yup... there's always two sides to every story, Pepper.
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Same here Wally...I have a friend (who is a little geeky) that is going to Game Stop @ midnight on Monday to get his copy of MW2....
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I once stood in line till midnight to pick up halo 2 was the biggest waste of time. Never did it again the game sucked.
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I have only played the demo for Halo 1...not into science fiction type games/shows at all.
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I have a Nintendo wii also, so I cant wait for that new Mario game to come out oh and assassins creed 2 for the 360.
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now halo can be fun - at least the guys i worked with loved it but that was also because they'd run cat-5 through the workshop and had grabbed their own router so they could have 4 people playing at once.
not me tho, i'm rubbish at fps
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I can't stand, Halo.
OOooh, yes, Assassins Creed 2.
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I play WOW and you should put him on ignore and if that doesn't work switch to another server. I know that's easier said than done especially if you have a high level character and/or are in a guild and have made friends. It is true that ignore is your best friend.
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can you switch characters to other servers?
i know in EQ you can. i switched my main over once to join some friends
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You can, Pepper. Though, it depends on what server the OP is coming from. Like, if you're on a normal server, you can't move to a pvp or pve server. But, if you're on a pvp server, you can move to a normal server or another pvp server. And it costs money.
And, once you do it, you can't do it again for another month.
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My brother and nieces are into Guildwars and can sit a good part of the day playing the games. Me personally I like to play Battlefield every once in a while.
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ah i wouldn't know much bout that then. i never played pvp but it makes sense. cos if you could, then you could level up and switch over and beat the crap out of people who were leveling up the hard way.
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Yup. Trying to level on a pvp server is a nightmare. But, when you do eventually, finally get to 80... then it's your turn to be the pain that ganks the opposite faction players. :-)
I've played Guild Wars. It was fun for a little bit, but got boring. Pretty much like City of Heroes and City of Villians. Just got boring quick.
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I agree, Pepper. usually, these things involve drama on both sides, IMHO
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could be a friendship (or more) gone bad as far as we know.
had that happen myself. had a major (and permanent) falling out with a friend and he took it in game - anyone in his guild who was caught talking to me or one of my alts would be kicked from the guild and likewise ignored by the entire guild. actually he kinda did that in real life too
and although he was an a$$ - and a liar, cos he once gave a big speech on how he'd never act like that - what he did wasn't against the rules.
though in the long run he actually lost a lot of respect, maybe not outside his clique, but with others yes.
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I don't know anything about online gaming, but can't you just kill the guy messing with you? Or kick him off? Or get others to gang up with you against him?
Again, I know nothing about online games. I play Chinese Checkers on my system, but not online....
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I still don't understand why they went and logged into 4 different characters to ask this guy why he did what he did. It almost sounds like the person the poster is complaining about kicked them out or did something to upset them, they logged into 4 different characters to harass him about why he did it. Seriously, it sounds like they were harassing him, not the other way around. That is if I read it right. It sounds like the guy did the /ignore thing to them and now they won't leave him alone. It's a game guys, it's not real life, he kicked you out of a raid for whatever reason he kicked you out for, time to move on and leave him alone.
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Princi, you're right. Logging into four toons and 'griefing" the person who kicked them is ALWAYS an actionable offense. The griefer can be suspend, banned, etc depending on the games policies as well as the griefers history of offenses.
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mundo - not always. you have to be on a player-vs-player server to kill another character.
otherwise player-killing can be harassment.
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When you pvp, you can only kill the opposite faction players, not your own. The only time you can do damage to your faction players is if you dual them; but, you can't kill them. You just beat on them 'til they're close to dead. And, then you win.
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ah.
i was thinking PVP everquest style where it's only based on killing others.
as well as in AA, where SK (the society of killers) basically kill each other off too. in fact you can get stuck in SK if you try to player kill too many times.
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(11/06/2009) 
