Yesterday, Blizzard Watch writer Dan O’Halloran recounted — unfavorably — dispiriting tales about looking-for-raid scenarios in World of Warcraft that end in vote-kicking — not for abuse or AFKing but for simply being the lowest-performing damage character.
“Tichondrius, for example, has an enrage timer and if you don’t kill him in a certain amount of time, he goes HAM on the raid, everyone dies and you have to start that encounter over. Twice that has happened in my LFR raids on him and both times someone in the raid has immediately called to kick the low performing DPS players arguing that we need better performing replacements to down the boss.”
Maybe I’m too nice for my own good, but I’m with Dan: I would never dream of booting someone in order to replace him with someone with better damage meter performance. Sure, I want to win, but not more than I don’t want to be a giant jerk to my groupmates. I’ve seen enough bullying for one lifetime; I don’t want my valuable leisure time filled with it too.
Would you? What provokes you to votekick and kick MMO group members?
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