Thanks for pointing it out in a clear way.

I don’t think the pixels matter except in a game way, and if the way he got them was legitimate to the game, then your the one in the wrong to complain about that.

However, the way he was talking to people, he treated them as less than human. Obviously treating other people as less than human is not on. Clearly you can’t chuck him out of the game, so you realise the game developers let people like this on. Then you realise all mmorpgs let people like this on.

Anyway, you did treat them seperately at the start but in the comments your starting to mix his misstreatment with what he actually did.

Personally I think his approach wasn’t legitimate, but given that they handed him the vault keys, if he’d been polite and perhaps just spammed chat about how awesome he was, I’d even cheer him a bit because talking yourself up isn’t treating others as less than human. But when he’s a rude scumbag – well, he’s lost one person who would have cheered him on his exploits. So he’s a loser after all.

Frankly I wonder if he can’t imagine himself as being awesome – they only way he can make himself bigger is by trying to make others smaller than him. Sad twit.

About the DK-thing, I am not a big fan of them either. It’s the 55 free levels that would make me consider rolling an alt on your server. I am not rolling another level 1 character in WoW, ever again. Perhaps a worgen or goblin, but not one of the current races.

I’ve spent far too many PuGs with DK tanks, and Luke going “Death Knights… I -hate- them”

Actually, this was more a reaction to you calling the people that leave DF because they can’t take the heat. The heat here was an idiot who ruined peoples’ guilds because he felt like it, a griefer without a proper agenda. That’s what I mean – I am defending the ones that left because they had been griefed. That could have happened in any game, including WoW.

For me it’s the exertion of power in any form, the social manipulation I see in players that sometimes disturbs me about these games – I guess this is more prominent on non-RP servers.
I’ve always talked about the “outsider’s hierarchy” (nerds, women, religion) , and how the model of normative social structures they are not part of get construed and warped when these social groups try to find their own framework for interaction.
The MMO constructed society is one of these, and it can be brutal.
I don’t agree with the “You’re weak for leaving”, and I worry that the people who are more apt to engineer these situations and exploit the players who are there to play the game without greater schemes are also the loudest and most tone-setting in the way the community is built.

I could write a whole essay on fascist structures and MMOs.

His response to people is harsh, without doubt, but it’s his victims that are really to blame here. When you make it THAT easy to get robbed, you are asking for it (notice he targets mass-recruiting clans specifically)