World of Warcraft

In the two years I’ve been playing WoW, I’ve never joined a guild. I’ve had many, many invites, including direct invites without even being spoken to. For the record: I would never join a guild where I’m invited blind without so much as a “hi” in chat. I have respect for the guildies who contact me and invite me in a chat, but I loathe the idiots who just send a invite window.

Well, my friends are all in a particular Alliance guild, and I figured I ought to at least see what the guild thing is like from the inside. So I contacted one of my friends and asked to join. She immediately sent me an invite.

I really have nothing to offer a guild, as I only play once or twice a week, and right now I’m just speed leveling solo. And the guild has nothing to offer me that I couldn’t get from my friends without being officially in the guild.

But, it’s at least interesting to see what guild membership is like.

Last night it was annoying. I was questing in Un’Goro Crater, and the guild chat was like a bunch of silly 10 year olds. Now I’ve got no big problem with silliness, but geez, this just went on and on and on. It was so much that my chat window was full of the gibberish. Game info was being scrolled out of the window faster than I could read it.

One of my friends was online at the same time, and he and I mentioned the stupid guild chat. I asked him if there was a way to leave guild chat. He didn’t know, but he asked in guild chat. The answer he was given was “/gquit”. So he tried it (just before I was going to).

That’s not the command to leave guild chat, it’s the command to leave the guild. The guildies didn’t know if my friend (a male person with a female game character) fell for the joke or quit in frustration or anger. The guild chat then went on, in it’s juvenile style, about my friend quitting.

At first I was humored by the speculation, but it just kept on and on and on. So I decided to just quit out of the nonsense, too. I said my friend “had the right answer,” and typed /gquit, too.

My friend rejoined the guild an hour later, but I was already logged out and gone. I’ll probably rejoin the guild when my human priest reaches 65+ (56 right now) and can join guild groups doing instances. The guild has seemed more mature and less annoying in my previous game sessions, so I won’t hold one night of a big bunch of silliness against them. Besides, it wasn’t the silliness that annoyed me, it was the functional problem of having game info overwhelmed by chat nonsense.

Bullgrit
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