| Guild Member Problems |
[Apr. 2nd, 2009|08:34 am] |
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| | Milford, MA | ] |
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Last night I was on WoW (what a surprise there), and I had an issue that I wasn't quite sure how to handle.
I recruited this player, or should I perhaps say I was almost begged, to join the guild I belong to with my Horde characters on the Trollbane Realm. This player has been playing less than a month, and is proving to be really needy. She constantly begs for help with quests, and what's worse... these are in the starting area. These are the easy quests, designed to help teach you about your character. Now, I remember what it was like when I first started playing WoW, but of course I am a long time gamer... so it was a small learning curve.
This person is becoming like a spoiled child. Last night while I was on, she came on (her character name is Jaylen). After the problems that had happened the other night, which could be mostly attributed to newbie issues, I started to speak with her. I tried to get some basic information about who it was that has joined us. She is proving to be evasive, and somewhat disruptive. So, after we had spoken a bit through chat, most of my questions remained unanswered. When she was asked questions, I would have to ask 3-4 times, just to get a response of "wut". If I get that "wut" response one more time, I'm going to scream.
Anyway, she started her pattern again, she started by inviting people in the guild to party with her, it was refused by members, all who were on asked who she was in open guild chat... she gave no answer. She then tried to get me to party with her. I started going over proper game etiquette with her. While I was talking to her, one of the other players in the guild had asked if I had guild bank access. I told him yes, he then asked if he could have an item in the guild bank... I told him sure, it'll just be a few minutes so that I can get to him.
I got a message back that I was on this players ignore list... and then he quit the guild.
I feel that this may have been because of this new recruit, and her constantly going down the list trying to invite people to party with her. I told her again, that this was not acceptable behavior... and very bad form. She said that she didn't do it, then I confronted her with the chain of events, telling her how displeased I was with her behavior. I informed her that I had sent her an in-game mail message, asked her to make sure she read it first. It contained some basic ground rules about guild etiquette, basic rules of the guild, etc. I told her to make sure that she read this message (which is in 3 parts), and then we will go from there.
I tried to contact the now former guild member and I kept getting the "ignoring you" message. I wanted to try to get the player to come back. Jaylen had logged off, but this was to no avail... the former member was still ignoring me.
Well, I was online now alone (for the guild that is) for a bit, conversing with a couple of people I had partied with before, and who I had been in another guild with (we had all left that guild at the about the same time). and my friend Johnny Caplette came online with his Tauren Shaman named Prona. Since nobody was online for the guild, an he started with a hearty "HELLO JO JO", I spoke with him for a while. I told him I could go out to meet him, show him my character... and even invite him to join the guild, since the GM has now opened the guild to all game races, and not just to Blood Elves.
So, although his character is 27th, he had a quest to go into the Wailing Caverns instance. I had never actually gone in there, so I told him if he wanted the company, I'd go in with him. So we partied up and we went in. We go lost a couple of times, but eventually found our way around the place. We completed the instance, and he had now joined the guild. He's found that he really likes Taurens, better than any of the Alliance races (although he does still enjoy playing Draenei a bit), and is liking Shaman a lot, even better than the Priest class.
Well, after we had run around for a bit, I had a late night phone call from a friend on the West Coast, and that I was gonna head offline. So, I told Johnny welcome to the guild (his first), and enjoy.
I spoke on the phone for a bit, and then got ready for bed. Cece had fallen asleep on the couch, and she was sleeping peacefully... so I decided to let her sleep there.
I have to decide what to do with Jaylen. I may have to kick her out of the guild, but I am going to give it one last try. If she still refuses to play nice, then I will kick her out of the guild. I hope that it doesn't come to this, but it just might. |
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