VincentX3 said:
Just another reason for me not to ever play WoW.
Way to addictive probably and over 90% of everyone is probably just another jerk.
Actually no, every community has it's asshats and good guilds (IE guilds that care about their members) would have found a way to work around this because, as was mentioned earlier on in the thread, actual decent guilds can raid with minimal vent interaction.(well, important interaction anyway; dicking around during trash is another story) For a player that is hearing impaired, not being able to listen in on vent is a handicap but it's not going to be a raid killer as mods like DBM are quite capable of giving out critical boss fight warnings.
I played for almost 5 years and granted in that time I ran across many a raging douche, but the larger WoW community in the game are generally a rather nice bunch of people. What seems to have happened in this instance is a case of poor handling of the situation by both sides. Most guilds have "drama" policies when it comes to guild relations; meaning if you've got an issue with something, in this case no hearing no hearing no raiding, you need to take it up with an officer in private. From the given post I'm left to assume that it devolved into quite the flame-fest in guild chat; insults were exchanged, long repressed feelings about the state of the guild made known, various creative uses of swearing, any number of things really. The end result was his removal from the guild, an avenue that probably shows lack of leadership skills on part of the guild master. That doesn't take away blame from the g-kick-ee though because out right fighting isn't the proper avenue either, however, we can already see he was already under some severe emotional stress and as we all know when in a rage we don't always think rationally.
My heart goes out to the guy, it's a case of two otherwise rational people losing their wits ;due to an already emotionally charged situation which resulted in the end of a four year relationship. I would hope one of them decides to be the bigger man and apologize though that can be hard when one party has decided to utterly ignore the other.