What's with the Early Pull Brigade?

[Souljacker]

Then again this is largely the reason why I don't hunt. The rage over something so trivial that has been a part of MMO's since forever. Never in my life had I heard it called being self centered or sociopathy. ummm lol how? I'm with my friends and were having fun. Why am I to be little miss server obligation to everyone but my friends? Its just nothing like I ever heard of.

The effort:reward ratio is skewed, and it feeds sociopathic behavior by design. People who want to play as gods can do so as evidenced by "Servers organizing themselves". A handful of people are controlling how things play out, and the rest either follows as sheep, or is shunned from the community (ala the linkshell on balmung with their name and shame forum). It's really a horrible environment that encourages the worst in people.

[Aylis]

"Servers organizing themselves".

Bringing back bad memories. Hearing this reminded me of a similar time in my old game Eq in its early days. Where the top server guilds formed an alliance of sorts to "dish out" the open world raid targets in a rotation system. Sadly the same principals presided. You either played by their rules or were shunned by the server. In all fairness it worked for a while until inter-guild drama started. Finger pointed and name calling occured. The rotations were going out simply because as guilds out grew the content. They never removed their name from the rotation. At the time of the break up this guild server alliance wound up causing more server drama then the combined efforts of individual players that were just trying to have fun and play in peace could ever do.