Originally Posted by
Tarawa
Being someone that raided in the past it was truly amazing to watch how these, so called raiders acted when the came into the LFR. They slam on people, like you say and then think that is going to make them want to strive to become a better player. Like shaming someones is simply going to make them want to better themselves and want to go into a higher difficulty of raid content. Maybe a few, but not the majority will bother and most of those see how these people are treating and interacting with others. To me, if the whole purpose is to try to enlarge the raiding base, which is what Blizzard was hoping for that positive effect, but it went south when many of the raiders decided to act worse than little children.
Sure there are a lot of people that do not give a crap what others are think of them and never will. But a person that is either coming back to the game either never raided before or another person is new to the game and they are see how these so called raiders at acting towards others. It makes them pause and wonder if they want to bother to take the next step, some do and some don't. If one is simply on the fence about raiding they are going to first look at people from how they conductive themselves, there skill level more than shown on a meter and how they interact with the environment.
As for myself I pay a lot of attention to those guild or people in guilds that are on my own realm when I am in the LFR. I like to see how they handle themselves and see if they are the bigger person and really want to help, than hurt the group of people that actually care for why they are there. If they immediately go into jerk mode, then I usually steer clear of interacting with both them and their guild, since after all they are a representative of the guild and if they are on the raid team well that says a lot about them as a whole.
I considered going back to raiding this expansion after taking a break from doing so in MoP, but between how I see people interacting both in the world and the LFR. I can't bring myself to the people where I want to even bother. I am foremost a people person and I very much enjoy interacting with others, but with every passing day I play in this game now. I mostly stay within the guilds that I am in or solo whatever content I can on my own. I have done few things through the group finder, but mainly those are apexis group dailies or the occasional world boss.
Yea, I get what you are saying. I do feel that as mind numbing of the experience of the LFR is, its just better than having to listen to 9 or more other people problems or what they can and cannot or won't do for the guild. The experience I had in Cata with raiding was far different than the one I had over BC and Wrath. The raiding guild I was in during Cata was pretty much doom from the start, the guild leader and few others were friends, so I stuck it out to the bitter end. We had a few that never did anything but show up on raid night, contributed nothing at all the rest of the week, but were always the first to have a problem or bitch and complain.
At the time, my two children were in grade school and were able to conductive themselves far better than these individuals ever could imagine doing. It got so bad by the end of Firelands that once Rag was downed, the group dissolved. I left the guild shortly after and hooked up with another friends guild during DS, but previous experience more than took its toll on me that I only filled in as need with that group during progression when needed. At the beginning of MoP I moved to another realm and decided I needed a very long break and I been on that break ever since.