Yeah, that's my error. I think the wall on the JP is how little of you get for doing things.
[PC Game] World of Warcraft: Catch All Thread
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Wait, what?
How does the scroll of res thing work?
Far, I plan to be on later if you need an invite.
Far, I plan to be on later if you need an invite.
The LGBT community was sick of dealing with crap on a regular basis, so they basically adopted Proudmoore as their server "safe haven". Add CRZ, and now all the idiots they were avoiding have an avenue to them again. They can still report the harassment (and probably do), but the reaction is never fast enough to actually prevent the harassment.
Man... it's shit like this, y'know? It won't keep me from playing a game, but it does just make me lose a little more faith in humanity every time.
Can you report people from other servers yet? You couldn't for the longest time. You get a player not found error.
I don't get what issues were there to be had? I don't know the pandaren next to me from Adam so I don't see how sexuality could even be something harassable, aside from the typical 16-24 year old language used universally on Internet gaming.
Right, but as soon as the average idiot knows that Proudmoore is the official adopted LGBT server, they can just harass everyone they see from Proudmoore.
I think that might be one of the ones they can't hotfix in, so the players are stuck using the general reporting system and just trying to remember the player name/server.
Which is why I see the cure as worse than the disease. Yay segregation?
To clarify: the disease is homophobia, the cure is culture siloing?
I am on currently and will be so for another hour-hour and a half. Then work. I tend to work late at the theatre, until at least 12:30 PST, if not later most nights. But it leaves most of my days free.
I dunno, I'm tempted to say that the cure is the wanton slaughter of all homophobes, or at least the ones who feel the need to attack members of the LGBT community; but that may just be because I'm getting really fed up with putting up with other people's bullshit prejudices.
Instead of rehashing this old argument about people creating their own safe haven where they can be with like minded people without fear of abuse, I'll just re-iterate.
It doesn't work. It just makes the abuse easier to target.
The red hair is a little silly. The reality is I have a gay brother, a bisexual sister, two gay cousins, a transexual cousin, MCed a gay wedding and have nearly a dozen gay friends so I'm no stranger to abuse, ostracism or discrimination and the folly of safe havens.
Well guys, it was a nice thread while it lasted.
Oh jeez, they're just disagreeing about something, it's not that big of a deal.
Anyways, my little final thought on CRZ. It's a buggy band-aid over the festering wound that Blizzard seems to not want to address and that is the need to merge the low-to-non-existent pop servers. It's smoke and mirrors giving the appearance of a high population server (without the benefits of such as thriving communities, big successful guids, an AH that isn't a barren wasteland). They don't want to actually merge the servers because of the headaches that would cause and, likely, because merging servers is what dying MMOs do and there's no way in hell they want to give off that vibe.
And completely off anything that's currently being discussed, my current WoW forum schadenfreude is reading the complaining about WoW Korean players getting better loot in their 25 man raids.
Now, that, we can agree on.
But not if it's gay silk cloth.
Dude... we cause riots over steak preparation. Sometimes the most innocuous looking disagreements can easily lead to thread locks. I'm glad to see that this one probably won't, however.
Yeah, I play on a relatively dead server (only one or two guild actively doing 25's, most are scaled down to 10's) and sometimes the price on old world mats is insane, if they're even up for sale at all (BC mats are almost impossible to find on the AH). Crafted items (equipment, mounts, etc) are always overpriced, especially epic level stuff (14k+ on a good day).