I have always wondered why people do it. Is it an epeen thing? Because the way I see it boils down to "It's just a video game."
Let me break it down a little bit:
You are sitting in Dragon's Aery, Fafnir spawns, you lose the claim, a non-botting LS claimed it and you are mad. What do you do? Well to the normal Drama queens after failed attempts at MPKing with Darters you begin to talk in /say or /shout.
Now there is a maturity issue there. You are so E-butthurt for losing a NM that you try to distract the people who got it by trying to get to them in /say. Why? Is it because you are 40 years old still living with your mom and have nothing better to do with your life than to sit at your computer and waste your life trying to hurt someones feelings online?
So let me start it off by talking about another person. You will NEVER know these people in real life except in dire situations where they happen to live around you or you already have a pre-existing relationship with this person in real life. So instead of worrying so much about trying to fight/argue/offend someone who lives thousands of miles away and someone you may NEVER see in real life, why waste your time? Trust me, you may think you are big and bad, but really you are just some dude/dudette behind a keyboard safe in his/her room, who thinks they are cool because they can talk shit using their fingers.
This brings me to a point i will be sure to make a few times in this post: Sit and think before you get into E-drama, sit and think, in 10 years, will any of this stuff matter? Will you have an award for being the big man behind the keyboard who was big and bad BEHIND A KEYBOARD 10 years from now. 10 years from now when you have a family and a job, will any of it matter?
We are all the same, we are virtual pixelated characters on a screen and you are no better than anyone else. You want to go on KI and flame somebody because they dont use HQ Mahatma legs for their Black Mage. I bet that person you are flaming has a life, gets laid, goes out and enjoys himself. When he gets home he sits down and plays FFXI for a hobby, a recreation, not because it is the only life he has. Sure people who play for recreation walk around in Ares gear from Salvage and can balance their social/game life, but its the people who log in everyday at 7am and don't log off till 11pm that night that walk around in Ares gear thinking they are just all that on this virtual world.
Which leads me to items. These items have no money value (Except to RMT, unless its RAR/EX). So do not get all heated because JoeSchmoe outlotted you on an item that you wanted. Yeah, its only human to feel disappointed, but don't go off on drama and say "He only got this because he is cybering with the LS leader,blah blah blah"
Sit down and relax, and think again "It's just a video game". This is a virtual world, and these items are nothing but pixels on a screen. So why stress over it?
This brings me to online forums. Why? I go on Killing Ifrit sometimes for crafting, but i have noticed how people do nothing but flame eachother. Now for those people:
"Don't you have ANYTHING better to do with your life?"
These people will literally sit there for hours and just flame eachother. They stretch their online epeens. Let me say this again: You are behind a keyboard, safe in your room, you think your cool but seriously, before you go trying to flame people or get into E-DRAMA at all, take a look outside. It is a sunny day, people your age are out working with jobs, playing football on their lawns, hanging out with friends, and you would rather sit at your computer and try to hurt someones feeling and try to get the last word on a video game forum for a video game that won't be around for your whole lifetime? Go work out, go do a different hobby, go call up an old flame, spend time with your family, whatever, but don't waste your time trying to hurt someones feelings.
In conclusion and i want to leave this with people who are guilty of extreme E-DRAMA:
"Don't you have ANYTHING better to do with your life?"
Blog question: What is your stance on E-DRAMA?
(Picture Courtesy Of Scobill Of the Odin Server)
4 comments:
E-drama is epic.
Its only human to be disappointed or angry on game, but its how you handle it.
I guess the difference between most games and this is the fact that this is a living, online world, where people react to what you do and what you say. So, although you can be happy for other, actual, living people, you can also be angry.
It's that reason that makes FFXI what it is.
Fact: People are sore losers alot of times, people *want* to get under your skin sometimes.
FFXI has changed, people are much more childish and selfish than they used to be. Thus, E-Drama ensues. Find a group of FFXI friends that are adults.
(IE: The ones who either you or them can come home from a bad day at work, hop on for a couple of hours and even if you or they end up being abit short, you both can realize people have the right to be short sometimes, you just don't need to, "ZOMG this person suxxx they didn't do this for me cuz they had work.")
As with life, so with FFXI. Don't look for shit, realize being angry, sad, or goofy with happiness is normal, as long as it isn't nonstop and *if* you act short, apologize for it later.
If you and your friends can do that, you're golden, both in FFXI and in real life.
(I've yet to meet a single person who spent any amount of time with anyone and didn't get annoyed by them at least once.)
Oh, right, if the guy on Odin who let the E-Thug picture get posted reads this.. That's going up on a frame in my living room. Win, win and win. XD
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