Why do people hate "kids" playing WoW?Follow

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Here's a few reasons why.

In my7 guild we ahve adults and teens. Now sometimes the adults will start saying adult jokes. So the teen will hear it and get upset. So he cries to the guild officer and tries to get them booted from the guild. And sometimes they do. First of all, they have no clue that if a person is annoying you then you can put that person on ignore.


USE THE FREAKING IGNORE BUTTON IF SOMEONE'S ANNOYING YOU!

Secondly, during the dailies I was fighting to get some ore when someone just shot past me and stole it. Usually if I see someone fighting near an ore I will ask them if they're trying to get tot he ore or not. It's called common courtesy. I curse really good at them and was very vulgar. But instead I got "Omg I'm going tu report u" crap. You steal my ore and I'm the villain here? Go ***** yourself *******. Sure, it's first come first serve, but if you'd do something like that in real life, you'd get your **** beaten by your parents if they had any sense of morality to tell them that stealing is wrong.

But then, considering that women get into fights over sales in a stpore maybe that shouldn't surprise me.

hai u wnt grp?

r u healz?

lol sry prowl wuz on

**** Rupture
**** x 30 mins hah we cleaver



omgz l2p lulz

whats shot selection?


10 mins into instance "oh sorry i haz 2 go, dinner time"
^
You knew 10 mins ago JERK!

Mostly, I think it is not about 'age' so much as 'state of mind.' It is a lot easier to say 'young' or 'kids' than to spell out "people who, regardless of their physical age, behave immaturely and degrade the game experience for the rest of us."

For the most part, that type of immaturity is centered around:
- being self-centered
- wanting others to do your work for you
- having no regard for the fact that this is a *shared* space (so could you please take your "**** <whatever>" jokes to general or a private channel and not force those of us who are trying to trade in trade chat to suffer it? <end rant>)
- always wanting to be the center of attention
- not wanting to inconvenince themselves for others (though others should always do so, for them)
- low-rent humor that most folks grow out of by the time they are old enough to legally buy alcohol
- not having the aptience/maturity to go slowly, pulling down an entire instance on their party instead. :)

You get the idea.

And realistically - those behaviors are things we tend to grow out of as we mature - therefore associating them with youth. I am sure anyone on this forum with an ex-husband or ex-wife can confirm that some people don't grow out of them no matter how old they get - and I can certainly confirm that there are several teenagers in my guild whom we are happy to have, while ther are several adults that are not allowed in. However, none of those things is as concise as referring to youth, or identifying someone as a kid.

OP - that you happen to be a kid doesn't, in fact, mean that they are talking about you - it's just that when they use the word 'kid' they don't mean the same thing you do when you use it (assuming, based on your post, that you mean 'persons of a specific age group'). They are referring to mental age, more or less. :) And in some cases, they don't realize it - and so you get lumped in anyway.

The guild that won't have you because of your age - isn't a guild worth being in. They are clearly not judging their players by the right criteria. Lovely group of folks I raid with on one of my servers - and the absolute best raids I have been on with them are led by a girl who is just about 1/3 my age (and I am not anywhere near retiring in the next 20 years!). She's our RL because she is competent - and if she were my age, that wouldnt change the evaluation criteria. (To the poster who commented on availability of people who are not old enough to control their own lives - no dice. Being under 18 does not automatically mean that mom and dad will interfere somehow - nor does being in your own apartment guarantee you will be reliable and present)

Hope you find folks who *think* and judge their friends and playmates by critiera that matter to you both. Start with "there is no reason for a stranger on the internet to be asking questions about my age or age group. Period!"

Nax

Edited, Nov 23rd 2008 9:25pm by TheNixie

1. Why the hell are you posting in a thread that's 2.5 years old?
2. What's wrong with blood elf paladins? Oh right, nothing.
3. There are plenty of adults out there who are poor spellers.

Is this some kind of record for necro-posting? This thread would have been on page 176.

Hehe I have started back up and been playing on my mage a bit. I might hit ya up on that offer. ;P

Edit: Oh damnit all, this is a necro post. -grumble-

Edited, Jul 4th 2011 1:35pm by Criminy

The other day someone was complaining that his server doesn't raid, and I replied with "you don't need a server, just nine other interested people. My guild's been together for years and even though we sometimes need to cancel raid nights because too many folks are working late or taking care of the kids we still get our raid on."

Suddenly the topic shifted from the quality of raiders on the server to me being too old to play video games. Damn kids, I was jumping on goombas before their mommas knew boys existed. Heck, I was jumping on goombas when some of their mommas were ALSO jumping on goombas. mmmmm, nerd chicks... what was I saying?

Hmm, yeah. I didn't think of that, slow day.

Really? What sort of nerd are you? I've never played a Mario game, and I know what a goomba is. Kids these days. Sheesh.

I never understood...why not lock/delete old threads if "necroing" is frowned upon. I've always been of the opinion that if the post is visible and replyable its open for discussion. Its like placing a piece of candy in the middle of a mall and saying "don't touch" without putting anything around it to prevent it.