Perhaps everyone should take the OP's advice. Pause for a second and take a deep breath.
Geesh.. The clan/pubber arguments began before many of the posters were a twinkle in their mother's eye.
I use the term "clan" loosely. It is not so much the clans that claim to be God's gift to gaming and the reason for a game's longevity. It is generally a select few members of those clans that play competitively. News flash! Not all clans are about competitive play. Not all competitive players are good. Nor do all pubbers stink. (and visa versa).
Almost everyone began their online gaming experience as a noob and on a public server. (Granted their are a few lucky individuals that were born with Nostromo's permanently attached to their hands and GOA's of their respective clans, but for the sake of arguement, we'll ignore them). Let us not forget from whence we came. Can you imagine buying RO and being forced to play only on an competitive clan server that had an elitist attitude as you learned the game? How long do you think the majority of new players would play before putting RO on the shelf? A week? A day? Public servers, noobs and public players are the rea$on there is enough intere$t and player number$ to support competitive play. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Rhetorically speaking, if public servers and pubbers are beneath you and aren't your thing, then by all means play competitively and leave the public server players alone. Why go slumming? They don't know what fun is. I don't imagine they'd miss you much. I'm certain they wouldn't miss the ego or the attitude.
I've done both in my gaming tenure. I've enjoyed meeting new players in the pubs, I've enjoyed making lasting relationships in a clan and I've enjoyed the competition in the matches. I've never enjoyed the sophomoric arrogant chest beating of some. Though that is not what the OP was about, I think its what many here find dis-tasteful and what can give any organization a less than stellar sheen.
Your mileage may vary....
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Geesh.. The clan/pubber arguments began before many of the posters were a twinkle in their mother's eye.
I use the term "clan" loosely. It is not so much the clans that claim to be God's gift to gaming and the reason for a game's longevity. It is generally a select few members of those clans that play competitively. News flash! Not all clans are about competitive play. Not all competitive players are good. Nor do all pubbers stink. (and visa versa).
Almost everyone began their online gaming experience as a noob and on a public server. (Granted their are a few lucky individuals that were born with Nostromo's permanently attached to their hands and GOA's of their respective clans, but for the sake of arguement, we'll ignore them). Let us not forget from whence we came. Can you imagine buying RO and being forced to play only on an competitive clan server that had an elitist attitude as you learned the game? How long do you think the majority of new players would play before putting RO on the shelf? A week? A day? Public servers, noobs and public players are the rea$on there is enough intere$t and player number$ to support competitive play. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Rhetorically speaking, if public servers and pubbers are beneath you and aren't your thing, then by all means play competitively and leave the public server players alone. Why go slumming? They don't know what fun is. I don't imagine they'd miss you much. I'm certain they wouldn't miss the ego or the attitude.
I've done both in my gaming tenure. I've enjoyed meeting new players in the pubs, I've enjoyed making lasting relationships in a clan and I've enjoyed the competition in the matches. I've never enjoyed the sophomoric arrogant chest beating of some. Though that is not what the OP was about, I think its what many here find dis-tasteful and what can give any organization a less than stellar sheen.
Your mileage may vary....
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