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Its pretty much official now… I have cancelled my World of Warcraft subscription and in 8 more days… my character will be cryogenically (sp?) frozen…

Its sad, as the game and its people were all special and they will be missed but like X and ET before… it must come to an end. In fact I had got a bit fed up with it over 6 months ago, the expansion was the only thing that kept me playing. But a mix of friends and good guild members leaving and all the bickering that came out of it… just got fed up.

 Bit miffed… as I bought the guild website and put alot of time into where it might now become defunct.

Left with a bit of a hole… bored, its back to BF2… just waiting for Quake Wars to come out… might revive some of the ET glory days ^^

 It surprised me somewhat that I could spend more than 6 months on a game… when single players are lucky if they last a week with me before i complete thier content or get fed up of them (*cough* STALKER *cough*)

Just over a year! i spent playing world of warcraft… and then i realise that I should have had XFire running as it doesn’t show on my profile… ¬_¬ bugger

 Life is generally good, thats all im gonna tell ya ;)

So I play World of Warcraft and have no life… well.. a life.. and its a eSocial life i guess (or iSocial?)… anyway… today has been weekly maintenance day! No surprise there but, I play on a famously nicknamed server Lagdrassil.

This server is most famous for its tendency to be laggy for no apparent reason… even when its not reporting lag… it must be a feature!

Today was a prime example, hours after weekly maintenance was finished got home and logged on. Within seconds I was exposed to complaints about the server… bombarded by online-offline messages… that, was the first hint. Shortly after getting on, I joined up to a group to go into an instance (Black Morass to be exact, you know, end of the Karazhan attunement chain etc, whole load of fun for a Warrior but not for the poor sod playing the Mage).

So after struggling through what seemed like treacle… i managed to grab a lift down to Gadget. Going afk for 5 mins it takes to get there to relieve myself and stock up on water before the run, i come back to find myself still flapping stationary in mid air over Bloodhoof Village… I cry for help in vain; “Someone get me a ladder!” but sadly my fellow guild mates are suffering a similar fate. Stuck to the floor, unable to open mail, banks  or bags.

After various restarts, and stuttering attempt, it finally takes the group 2 hours, just to get into the instance. After that it went quite smoothly, well, we did two attempts but didn’t manage to complete it. (The Shaman respecced to resto and was under geared, and the Warlock had a power cut, and the Rogue had lag… apart from that we wiped on the 2nd (hardest) boss each time)

 Ah well… give it a few days and it will be back to normal… just in time for the next weekly maintenance!

I play a level 70 Tauren Warrior, in a small raiding guild called the Mournreavers. Great guild, brilliant people, great atmosphere, everything you want from a guild.

But, like I have seen quite a few times back when I played Guild Wars, and in the odd clan I have been in, you get round to the old Polictical slandering stage. Now this was going to be a big rant.. but I have calmed down somewhat.

I still have not worked out a way of mitigating such events, if I could, I would run the best guild around I think. As it is, I really don’t want the hassle, and I think my good mate J does a very good job at running the guild. Not soft, not harsh…but fair and doesn’t take shit.

I’m not even sure “Politics” is the right word, its more like “arse covering whinging and finger pointing”! Usually starts off with the boss (and its not usually his her its thier fault), but they have a talk, and would like to see a bit more activity. They might interrogate one or two of thier underlings to find out whats going wrong, maybe pushing something they want to happen, and this is where everyone looses sight of the fact that this is a game, and it starts getting all “Political”.

Then you get the whinging and stuff and thats where it all goes down hill… and if you aren’t careful.. everything falls apart. Especially if this is all said in game.

Whenever I get into such a situation, I call time out… i leave the game a post a message on the forums or through email… setting down how i feel, what I want etc. I also try and see if from someone elses point of view and overall, I get to read it, so I don’t say anything rash… 9/10… this calms the situation.

But just… how do you stop this? I guess you could write down a really strict policy and procedures… but you are already taking the fun out of the game with the rules… I guess this is a natural process that guilds go through and you find out who the loyal members are, from the ones that really are there for thier own benefit and not thinking of others.

…. I think the rant was better… made it hard to read with censoring turned on