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Monday, August 3, 2009 @ 5:17 PM On Respect for Game Masters Hello, I got the feeling that this may be a rather long post, so if you are willing to read through the whole thing, then I strongly suggest you make yourself comfortable on your seat there. Or if you're on the floor - ah never mind. I am vaguely aware I am meant to be revising for my tests tomorrow, but I feel that this is something I got to say, and I also feel particularly lazy to revise now. Actually I feel lazy all the time. Haha! Ah. :P Well, the issue I wish to address today is probably something that many of you should be familiar with. For those who are not, let me cite an example. *Ahem* **DISCLAIMER** The following is a dramatized version and is not real. Any character(s) featured are a product of my imagination. Any resemblance to any persons is entirely coincidental and not intended. Please do not flame me, I am not saying anything wrong. I am not using vulgar words nor am I resorting to personal attacks on anybody. THE BELOW SITUATION IS FAKE. I THOUGHT OF IT. INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS, BUT FAKE NONETHELESS. No, that character isn't me. -_- If there are any GMs reading this, PLEASE, I am not criticising you. I understand your primary role in the game is to keep it peaceful, not to activate 2xs. Read the title, thanks (: (BTW, if there are any GMs reading this, HELLO!~ :D) Anyway, *AHEM*. She glanced nervously at the analogue clock at her table. The clock face read 2pm and 1 second. 2 seconds. 3 seconds... Why hasn't 2x EXP started yet? She wondered anxiously. Come on come on, I got to level NOW. I cannot wait. If that dumb 2x EXP does not start now I cannot level by today! Start! Come on, come on. It's already 44 seconds past 2pm. WHAT is the GM doing?! Her eyes were fixated on the bottom right of the game screen. On it were shown the exp she got from each monster she killed. You have gained experience points (+330) You have gained experience points (+330) You have gained experience points (+330) Drats, she thought. Why hasn't that number changed to 660?! She felt like screaming. Here she was, waiting anxiously. This is wasting time, she thought. Please don't waste my time; hurry activate the 2x! It's already 4 minutes past. Hurry! She glanced at the clock. Is my clock slow? Maybe the battery is dead. I should go look at the clock outside, in the living room. She made her way out, muttering under her breath. Hurry! She wanted to scream. The clock read 7 minutes past 2pm. Why. Hasn't. It. Started?! She sat down on the chair again, eyes riveted to the bottom right of the screen. Anxious and angry, she typed out a message. A message that would, within seconds, convey exactly what she thought about the delay in 2x EXP to the whole Maple world. She was done. Her mouse hovered over the "OK" button, while she checked her message again. Without hesitation, she clicked "OK". The message was displayed in every player's chatbox. "Hurry up give us 2x lar! Waste our time nia. GM stop sleeping or count money!" Now, my immediate reaction to this was, in order of thought: What? There's 2x now? Uh, oops. Oh. This person is so rude. Tsk. *Time lapses* Ah, 2x is cancelled. Oh well. I'm not planning to go GS anyway. The above scenario is based on true events. Now, I do not know what was going in the person's real life, BUT I have seen messages like this before. I shall not post any screenshots of such messages here, even if the names ARE censored, because I still wish to live to a ripe old age. And another point to note is that many of those who mega-phone these sort of messages criticising the Game Masters (GMs) are not 1st jobbers. Many are not beginners, many are not 2nd jobbers; they are 3rd and 4th job Maplers, who are considered "higher-level" by many. Some are even really high level, above level 180 or so. I shall not mention any names here, but if you do wish to know, you can come find me (: If you're one of those people who have mega-phoned such messages before, please do not find me. Thank you! When I saw messages like this, my first reaction would be: (It's probably a 8 year old spoiled brat.) AND I don't think GMs activate 2x. Someone kindly correct me nicely if I am wrong. Well, even if I am wrong and they DO activate 2x EXPs, it is not particularly nice to scold them like this. Okay now I am really going to get killed, but I am going to say this nonetheless. It does not reflect well on you. Fine, so what even if they do activate 2x, what gives you the right to scold them like this?! How would you like it if you weren't sleeping or counting money, but actually trying to fulfill The Whiny Mapler's every moan and groan? What gives you the right to wrongly accuse them? Playing the game is a privilege, not a right. Bear that in mind before you scold GMs. Being able to play the game does not give you any privileges. In fact, playing the game is a privilege in itself. It is not a human right to play computer games and whine. (Playing computer games and whining are, yes, hobbies and interests) Recently, one such megaphone by a really really high level *AHEM. I think you all here should know what I mean by really really high level* got me thinking. In this particular person's megaphone (let us call this person X), X complained WITHOUT proper capitalisation (oh the horror!) about the GM's lack of ability to activate 2x EXP. Now, before anyone starts scolding me for being unfair and only stating one side, let me say that this was mega-phoned about 10 minutes after the designated time slot of 2x starting, then maybe we can try to understand why the person was so angry and upset. But what shocked me most was the person's total disregard of respect for GMs. Ok, fine, maybe I was exaggerating when I said that, but I felt so. And this is not just some level 1 who has just started playing and does not really know what is going on, but this is a really really high level complaining to the whole world about the GM's inability to activate 2x on time. I expected better of you, tsk. I always looked up to people like X as veteran "role models" who respect others, and whom are deserving of our respect, what with the experience in the game and all that. Now that I see you for who you really are, I am not so sure anymore. You may not know me, but I know who you are, and I will not forget what you said that day. What was equally appalling was that there were others who echoed this opinion. I am not saying that those who complain about GMs are in the wrong, I am just saying, at least give them some RESPECT in PUBLIC. Maybe you could have said "GM, kindly activate 2x please. Thank you." instead of putting it across so bluntly. It all boils down to a matter of personal choice. How you wish to bring your message across is up to you, but kindly bear in mind that GMs are humans too. They are not self-answer-generating machines, but they are real humans who can see what you have callously typed, and who do have feelings as well. They are people just like you and me, who deserve respect. I applaud them for their decision to be GMs, knowing that they have to put up with a minority of players, who are otherwise The Whiny Maplers. It is always difficult to please everybody. So, please, show respect to GMs, if you wish to deserve respect as well. Thanks! Don't flame me D: ~Rock[: Labels: My 10 Mesos' Worth  |
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