Originally Posted by
Charge me Doctor
You can't know what someone else is thinking, so there is no point to be taken.
I haven't met a single person throughout my whole WoW experience that would pester me with calls for help, i'd say that you exaggerate, lie or got unlucky with some creeper and extrapolate this experience on everything else.
But anyways, asking a question this way (do you play socially? Or you play only for rewards?) is unfair, because there is two wrong implications:
if you play socially - you don't play for rewards
if you play for rewards - you don't play socially
And putting a question the way OP does (Have you tried playing WoW as a mini social adventure? Instead of playing it just for rewards?) is even worse, because it implies, that people who are about to answer it don't play socially and play only for rewards
Probably everyone had bad experience with other players, recent one from me:
Me and my wife met one healer paladin girl in the middle of gurubashi arena, we killed her to get our last trinket for quest, she started complaining.
After talking to her, she said that it's her last trinket, we agreed to help her with next chest, delivered that, and told her that we're doing DMF chest now.
Some time later she added us as friends, we casually chatted a bit about our progress with DMF chest.
Next day we've got pwned by some alliance PvP guild.
Next DMF we continued and there was that paladin girl standing on top of a chest spawn, i chatted her "hello"s, but she ignored me.
Naturally, we killed her since it's arena and we wanted last 2 or 3 trinkets.
She psyched into /w swearing and spilling bile all over the chat, saying something along the "didn't my boys gave you enough problems? you want more?" implying that well-known alliance pvp guild are in fact "her boys"
one chest later (we had to take our final trinket) this alliance guild arrives, but we were prepared and rallied everyone from our friendlists to our help (even 115 level druid came to help us), there was a massive fight and we simply overpowered them with bodies
that paladin-girl psyched even more, dropping "i'll pay them more and they'll make your life miserable and you'll quit wow", implying that these players weren't "her boys", but she just paid them ridiculous amount of gold (500k each) to help her secure chest (after talking to those "boys" i've figured out that the deal was about chest, but she wanted them to follow us everywhere and kill in the world, which they didn't agreed to, because it's stupid)
She still sits in our friendlist with a "crazy" tag, but after that joke of an event we never actually talked to each other, and she quit a pug raid as soon as we've joined it.
Bottom line is, we wanted to help out this girl, but she turned out to be crazy, i still feel that this story and experience is a reward for my actions