{"id":2049,"date":"2011-05-18T22:44:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/2011\/05\/why-i-almost-quit-wow\/"},"modified":"2017-06-26T14:30:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T18:30:39","slug":"why-i-almost-quit-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/2011\/05\/why-i-almost-quit-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I almost Quit WoW."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, this happened back in BC times. \u00a0I had only been playing for like 3 or 4 months now &amp; was still getting used to the game.<\/p>\n<p>I was in my second guild because our first guild seemed to be gone once school\/College started up. \u00a0I was basically left out in that guild anyways &amp; that\u2019s another story within itself.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I was leveling up my Hunter Anusia on Trollbane &amp; I was in this great guild at that time. \u00a0The Guild Leader &amp; Officers seemed like the greatest people in the world (more on that guild story later on).<\/p>\n<p>I was in Goldshire &amp; doing some of the quests around there since Anusia was only in her teens.<\/p>\n<p>I had encountered a Gnome who was dueling everyone around &amp; since I don\u2019t like to duel I kept denying his requests. \u00a0He requested this 50 times &amp; I\u2019m not kidding about that. \u00a0I ran into the Goldshire Inn &amp; he still kept on requesting to Duel me. \u00a0He was annoying other players by now &amp; I told the other players to please report him. \u00a0I had this guy on Ignore by now.<\/p>\n<p>I got my Hunter out of Goldshire &amp; went to Westfall since that Gnome wasn\u2019t high enough to go there yet I knew I\u2019d be a bit safer.<\/p>\n<p>Next thing I know is this guy is whispering me on ALL his Alt\u2019s Obscene &amp; rude things. \u00a0Stuff about my Mom (Who is Dead &amp; I said back to him \u201cOk, so your gonna do that to a bunch of Ashes! \u00a0Ewww, your gross!\u201d) &amp; then he repeated to Harass me in whispers from all of his Alt\u2019s. \u00a0I reported &amp; ignored each &amp; every name they brought on &amp; I was also informing my Guild Leader &amp; the only Officer on at that moment. \u00a0Bird was the Guild Leader &amp; Valmortal or Valmortel I forget how he spelled his name were the only guys on besides me &amp; I left them know what all was going on with this guy who wouldn\u2019t stop this. \u00a0They both tried to help me out &amp; he started to proceed to do the same to them, so they reported him as well, if I remember correctly.<\/p>\n<p>I then Logged off of my Hunter &amp; emailed Blizzard from my personal email to notify them of the person, each name &amp; what all they had said to me to get me to report them like this &amp; how I felt about this whole situation. \u00a0I told them that if nothing was done, I was done with the game itself because I can NOT handle that stress nor should I have to.<\/p>\n<p>This had all happened right after a Patch had gone out because I remember I had read the entire ToS just a few days prior to all this happening so I knew I had good rights to report him to begin with because I actually remembered the part about players harassing other players part &amp; this guy had really gone above &amp; beyond CRAZY for this to happen. \u00a0I also didn\u2019t want anyone else to have to deal with this person doing this to them either.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I had gotten an email back from Blizzard stating that the situation will be dealt with &amp; that this will not be taken lightly however they can not say anything more on this matter, which I understood completely.<\/p>\n<p>Bird from Trollbane, you were a good Guild Leader &amp; I want you to know this. \u00a0You really didn\u2019t do anything wrong from what all I could see except stand up to Val. \u00a0&#8220;Avenging Angels&#8221; was a Great Guild &amp; I had lots of fun in there &amp; I wouldn\u2019t have some of the friends I have now, like Jadepearl, if it wasn\u2019t for you &amp; AA. \u00a0=)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, this happened back in BC times. \u00a0I had only been playing for like 3 or 4 months now &amp; was still getting used to the game. I was in my second guild because our first guild seemed to be gone once school\/College started up. \u00a0I was basically left out in that guild anyways &amp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/2011\/05\/why-i-almost-quit-wow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why I almost Quit WoW.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[250,34,40],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-of-warcraft","tag-imported-from-tumblr","tag-stormi","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}