Dancer Archive
Thread: So this is common practice....
ladylovelorn wrote:I guess i feel like calling her pathetic, self-loathing, soul sucking ect is far worse than auto buffing....
If you are unable to see the humor in my post, you need an attitude check. It was chock full of sarcasm, humor and I even put a big fat smiley at the end. The difference between me and her is that I'm poking fun at her in a humorous manner. There's nothing funny about what she (and others like her) are doing to the entertainment professions.
Message Edited by picklesSW on 07-19-2004 08:07 AM
ladylovelorn wrote:
I guess i feel like calling her pathetic, self-loathing, soul sucking ect is far worse than auto buffing....You may not like her technique but that doesn't give you the right to be quite so degrading (IMHO)
but this is just one of the many examples why i left the profession and rarely even bother to read these boards.
Obviously the two sides are never going to agree on this issue. Either you are ok with auto dancers or you are not. Since the current rules don't forbid it-it seems like the best thing to is just deal with it within yourself. Write an angry letter to the developers and vow to never become that what you despise. whatever-Just keep it constructive. Don't lower yourself so much as to resort to malicious immature name calling. (Even if maybe to you it seems sarcastic and harmless.) Its just not healthy for anyone.
I hate coming to these boards and seeing the same bickering time and time again. It's a real drag and it makes me question whether this is really a community or just a place for self righetous know -it -alls to bully people around.
*rolls eyes*
Let me get a stepstool for you... I know it's gotta be hard, getting down off that high horse you're on.
As to this issue: it blows. SOE needs to train their CSR's better on who is deserving of these badges, and who is not. Obviously, she is not.
Translation: That screenshot was of her.
ladylovelorn wrote:
ya'll can flame me as much as you want I'm not scared of your one stars
pickless -i believe isaid "Even if maybe to you it seems sarcastic and harmless" so maybe you need to re-read my post.
Frankly people don't like playing online games because other people are always trying to bully them into playing a certain way.
If you have a problem with game mechanics take it up with the management....but please leave the players alone.
I don't think it is overly self righteous to expect my fellow board members to be polite instead of the endless biting sacrasm that I am met with time and time again on these boards.
You have no idea if that person reads the boards or not. You know nothing about them or the things they care about.
Listen up, sweet cheeks. We dancers ARE the alternative playstyle. We don't blow things up 24/7, we're not obsessed with being the biggest and the baddest, having the best armor, the best weapons, etc. So don't lecture us about bullying people into playing a certain way. We'd just like to see these people playing AT ALL. Whether you care to admit it or not, AFK buffbots are a detriment to our profession... they are CERTAINLY not a credit. These players make a conscious decision to run a buffbot. They choose to not play. Do I have a problem with that? Heck, yes.
ladylovelorn wrote:
I'm not saying you shouldn't have a problem with that.
I'm just saying whether you have a problem with the system or not - it is a problem with the system- not the players.
How other people play their game is not up to you to decide.
You areAWARDED the freedom to comment so why waste it on beingunconstuctive
Well, I would have to agree with your premise. However, I think the premise has faulty logic. You believe that playing afk is playing. I don't. So, fundamentally, I do not consider an afk buffbot a valid gameplay style because it is not gameplay. I consider it a soulless demon who is sucking the life out of my profession.
Back before buffbots made an appearance anda dancer wasbuffing for free in the same Cantina I was in, I didn't like it. In fact, it kinda pissed me off, but I kept it in and never made one post about it because that was their choice while they were playing. I thought they were a detriment to those out there that were trying to make a living. But, again, they can do whatever they want. They were actually playing and probably had valid reasons for doing what they were doing, whether it was altruism or whatever. It was up to me, as a fellow player to make people want my buffs and to compete or find my niche in a Cantina elsewhere that needed my services. Believe it or not, there used to be a time on my server where there was a mild form of "pricewars." There were plenty of dancers going around to buff people. Sometimes I could get away with charging 10K a buff, sometimes I lowered my price to 3K depending on how many people were there and what the competition was, and what planet I was on. It was healthy, it was good.
I cannot compete against a free buffbot who is up 23/7. One free buffbot playing 23/7 in a Cantina makes the rest of us obsolete. There is no competition here. All it is, is someone who willingly knows that they are detriment to our profession and doesn't give a rat's ass what they are doing to us. It's a selfish mindset. And, anyone who is that gosh darned selfish deserves the wrath that they get.
I'm a little tired of players hiding behind that rhetoric as an excuse to behave in a fashion that ruins the gameplay of others. I will not stand by and condone such behavior simply because the mechanics of the game allow it, rather I will hold my fellow players to the high standards that I hold myself to, that of playing the game my way, so long as it does not negatively impact the gameplay of others. I hold the player accountable, first and foremost, and always will. Just because you can do a thing, does not mean you should.
I stand by the meaning of what I said, and I also stand by the humor in which I conveyed it. If you're going to come here and defend buffbots, you're going to have few friends and a lot of arguments.
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