Don't generalize people who just do LFR and mainly plays the game by themselves. I have done nothing but LFR and I don't see everyone as a robot or not real people and guess what, a lot of people feel this way. Kinda hard for robots or real people to say hi, ask for food buffs and argue with each other and call everyone noobs. Kinda hard for a robots and not real people to get upset at someone who needs on a green. The VERY fact that a person gets booted from a LFR shows that you are dealing with real people. In the end, no matter how much a person views this game as a single player game, they deal with real life people for as long as they are in the game.What you may not be grasping is that people do actually feel this way though. People play the "raid" game in LFR as a single player experience that is helped by 24 other robots in the raid. There very may well be 24 real life people sitting behind a monitor and keyboard that is in that digital world, but to the person who is single player minded and does everything in game solo, they are not real people.
What lengths? Clicking a player's name and clicking kick takes a few seconds. Some people care cause they don't want to play in their eyes with a jerk. They don't want to play with a player that takes advantage of others who roll greed cause it is the "right" thing to do. They certainly take advantage of me rolling greed, but I don't feel strongly enough to initiate a vote kick. I feel like it is a greedy move, but whatever.So why should you be upset with an ignorant player? Why should you care so much about the act of needing on such an insignificant thing such as a green that you have to go to lengths to boot them from raid?
It is the ACT of doing needing on something that has value and a green has a little value. It is the act to some that the person needing is taking advantage of others. To others don't really care if it is a green or not, but they felt cheated out of getting that roll cause they believe that in their mind they did the "right thing" be rolling greed and see someone rolling need. To you, you look at it as insignificant cause of the value of the item, but to a lot of people, it isn't about the value per say but the act itself.Me as a player, acknowledging that there are 24 other people there, CAN STILL SHRUG OFF THIS BEHAVIOR, because guess what, IT IS INSIGNIFICANT. It is petty behavior, that of a child who causes an uproar about silly, trivial things.
True, but it doesn't give you a green light to be a jerk. Would you be really ok with a person who needs a trinket they obviously don't need and isn't a enchanter over a player who is freshly a 90 who obviously needs it? Would you be ok with a person for the entire expansion ganks the same single player for almost hours on end on a pvp realm essentially making it almost impossible to do anything? It is within the rules of the game. You think it is ok if a person tricks another by selling a item "cheaply" on trade compared to AH, only to find out that the person who listed the item in AH is the same person as in trade? I believe there isn't a rule against that. Basically to you, it is ok to be a jerk in game as long as it is within the rules as long as that jerk is having fun at other peoples' expense right? Let me guess you are gonna say those people should grow up right? Do you advocate being a jerk IRL as long as it is not breaking the law? In the end, most of the avatars you see have people behind them and that peoples' actions within the game can affect them, why because we're human. There was a reason why there were black lists back in the day before LFD.This is not real life, no matter how much you want it to be. No matter how much you want to escape from real life, and pretend that a game is your new life.. Reality check: its not. Treat the game like a game. Treat it what it is, and dont let the actions of other random people on the internet affect you in such a way to destroy your fun for the night.
No, not that isn't how it is like. People who boot others for needing is like people getting upset that is it generally assumed everyone will walk for ice cream instead of run to it. That someone ran for ice cream, beat them to it, and took all the ice cream cause there isn't any rules against running. Those people got upset that the runner broke a unwritten rule. Is it those peoples' fault for having that unwritten rule in mind, yea, but then again it is kind of a unwritten rule in life to try not to be a jerk, how stupid of them to carry a such a rule into the game, every man for themselves right?Booting someone from an LFR raid for that action is like a little kid feeling upset that he only got one scoop of icecream instead of two.