How do you guys deal with online drama?

[Ventus]

Recently I seem to have had a stroke of bad luck with falling into situations where, one way or another, myself and another friend of mine online get in a misunderstanding that leads to a heated conversation:

For example:

1) I was talking to a friend of mine about doing ifrit and I ask him "do you know the fight pretty well?" and he responds "what does 'pretty fight' mean?" and I explain that's not what I said and try to walk him through it. I joked around and said stuff like "are you on drugs lol? that's not what I said"

Well...somehow he got incredibly pissed at me, thought I was being annoying, and started cussing me out...=( (At this point I was wondering if there was a language barrier I wasn't aware of...had plenty of conversations just fine with him before).

2) In a LS (only 8 people in it) and the leader says "hey come do hamlet we are all here cmon!" and I explained I wasn't doing that atm. Well she starts getting mad saying it's a strict event LS and I apologize for inconvenience and retire the LS saying it's not what I meant to sign up for.

I /tell the LS leader again apologizing about the misunderstanding and she proceeds to act snide and cuss at me about being a flake out and such. Her frustration is understandable but she continued to be bitter after I apologized multiple times and remained calm...



For those of you who have read this far I just got to ask: how do you deal with this stuff?

I had NO intentions of pissing these people off and I really enjoyed talking to them and being friends, but through some stupid situation they've socially exiled me.

I feel like a complete ass but at the same time I don't feel like I did something to deserve these sort of conflicts..

TlDr; I've been getting in conflicts with people lately and I don't want to lose them as friends...what do I do?

[Fear]

TlDr; I've been getting in conflicts with people lately and I don't want to lose them as friends...what do I do?

Try to change the subject, if they continue to rage on ignore them for a little bit and try talking again, if you don't feed them fuel they won't burn.

[Answa]

Blacklist.

[carlosx]

i take a beer, sit and let they blow...

it works

[Denmo]

It's difficult for us to give advice since we weren't there. But generally, do what you've already been doing. You just seem to be dealing with really belligerent players lately.

[Jynx]

Sit back and laugh.

People who take the game so seriously need to relax. I love when people make "Serious event shells" and get upset when someone is online and decides that he doesn't feel like doing something and just wants to do his own thing.

Serious business!

[carlosx]

first. you are not obligated to do anything w/ anyone ...

also you dont have to give any king of Scuses... just get a new LS new friends and keep playing bro this game is not a wolrd of 8people soo you can meet 2,000 more on your same sever soo enjoy

[Fear]

Online gaming, its srs bis

[Skinwalker]

Get a gun and find out where they live!

Heh seriously, try to avoid the very sensitive emo nerd rage ppl and look that you find those ppl that knows how to talk to each other and that can deal with some criticize as well.

[Pyretta_Blaze]

I apologize if I am in the wrong or there was a misunderstanding. Attempt to right the wrong whether real or perceived.

After that, move on... If they cannot get over something like that then you were probably not as close as you thought.

I have been disappointed a few times that people I considered real friends turned out not to consider the same of me.