Guild Wars 2

My apologies for neglecting to post my server. I’m currently situated on Fort Aspenwood. I’m not particularly interested at this time in spending the cash necessary to transfer servers. (EDIT: Actually, I’ve only got one character, and everything I care about fits in my bank. So I can do a transfer if I delete my one character.)

I’ve played MMOs since 1999, starting with Everquest, touched Ultima Online, did a little Dark Age of Camelot, but most of my time has been spent on either Everquest or World of Warcraft.

I love taking on challenges. I like a tough game. The challenge of a speed run calls out to me, and succeed or fail, I always plan to do better the next time. But the most fun I have is when I’m endeavoring to complete a challenge in a group. I love the challenge of raiding. I love the effort involved in coordinating different groups to achieve something.

I just hate it when that turns bad. When people start blaming each other, when the focus turns from “What can I do better” to “What they did wrong”. And then people start to argue and hurl obscenities at each other, forgetting that there’s another person on the other end of the screen.

I know I may seem completely naïve, having an attitude of “Can’t we all get along?” toward that kind of behavior. I just don’t believe that we should ever forget that there’s a person there we’re being hateful toward.

New-ish player here, looking for a place I can belong. I want to join a group of players that can joke and have fun and play around, and yet that still acknowledge that there are people on the other side of the screen. I want to find a group I can fit into that has fun, but doesn’t do it at the expense of others. A group that can win or lose against one another, and still be friends at the end of the day. A group who respects their enemies, and whose enemies count them as deserving of respect.

I know there’s little hope of finding such a group anywhere on the internet, where compassion is dead and anonymity allows people to be terrible to each other without consequence, but if such a group exists, I want to be part of it.