A while back during the Team Fortress 2 girl challenge, I spoke of a 14 yr. old girl that was in my kinship who seemed to be in the game for the social aspect. Another kin member set up a forum for our kinship and in order to drive activity on it, I asked everyone in kin-chat during an especially active time if they would please bookmark and register for the forum so we can co-ordinate events even out of game.
Well our forum admin and staunch Tolkeinite, said in jest "Make it mandatory!". I laughed but this girl went into a 10 minute diatribe about how she doesn't want to join a forum, or use voice chat (to hear strategy and calls for help), or participate in any content that takes too long to do (like instances), and she isn't some nerd with nothing better to do than talk about LotR or what they want to do in game while out of game. She doesn't have time to dedicate to this game because it isn't even hers, it's her dad's game. She's tired of getting in trouble for being on too long. She then proceeded to call our forum admin a loser on several occasions. I told her to cut it. That was the end of the scene...
A couple days of deliberation and her being offline I decided to demote her from Officer to Kinswoman. Two days later, she sent me a letter saying that she 'logged on and saw she wasn't an Officer anymore, what happened?'. I told her her behavior the other night was rude and unbecoming of an Officer. As such she should be setting an example for the rest of the members as to how to conduct themselves. Sure I've seen other Officers take jabs at each other but never outright calling someone a loser because of their interests. I explained if she doesn't have time to do anything that calls for a couple hours, and doesn't want to take a leadership role in the kinship, "Why do you want to be an Officer?".
A day later she responded in a letter with, "I don't know cause it's fun to invite people." Not the answer, someone who really wants to be an officer would give. Mind you she only invited ONE person to the kinship, so even that answer was a crock. If she would have given me a real answer or said that she was willing to apologize to the forum admin, or even admit that she wanted to be an Officer because her friends in the kin were Officers and she wasn't; THAT would have even been understandable. Anyway, I sent a letter to all kin members that the Officers were to send me three reasons explaining why they should keep their positions as Officer. I've gotten responses from 3 of them in 2 days. I wondered why I hadn't heard anything from the girl, I checked the roster, and saw that she quit the kinship. She apparently went and started her own kinship...
Think about that...
A kinship that has...
- No high-level assistance. She's lv. 35 out of 60.
- No leader that is looking to put in the time to help others out through the things they need like... instances.
- No leader that knows how to play their class based on if they are soloing or working within a party dynamic.
- A leader that CAN'T turn voice chat on so they can hear they are needed to save a party member who is in trouble.
- A kinship who's leader who spends more time being ported to places where enemies are 25 levels higher than her than questing to get to the places she wants to be at.
Just some interesting stuff (to me) going on. ..
Left 4 Dead is getting DLC (DownLoadable Content) soon! I hope there is a new campaign at least in addition to the other 2 versus maps. I can't wait!
We finally arrive at the point of this blog, the Chousen! With the New Year beginning, and resolutions being flung about left and right, I have figured out what this week's Chosen is...
Chousen: This week's mission is to do a one shot illustration/comic of yourself and how you spent New Year's Day. Any point in time is acceptable.
Deadline: The Deadline is Saturday, January 3rd @ midnight.
Choice of Medium: Choice of Medium is at the artist's discretion.
The Chousen has be issued... Go!
-Darrick
