thought of this after i posted, so i’ll go again:
as someone who’s lead staff teams or been apart of just about all of them, i regret to inform you that all of that time, dedication, patience, and mental wherewithal actually had to be completely taken out of my little pockets. the amount of times i would be telling people that you can’t use a “sexy hatsume miku skin” just to have the ******* n word screamed at me by a stranger on teamspeak? or, i’d host an event and a group of people come strictly to trash it and **** with me and i have no upper staff willing to assist me. for the love of the game?
yes, i will fully believe that like “staff you” and “player you” can be different vibes, but know that when you have a bold colored tag of any variety it instills a sense of importance or hierarchy to the average player, especially the new ones. HOWEVER, i think anyone who’s done more than a summer on a team and really made it a part-time job will tell you that it can be a lot of work from you for little return.
so when you’re having players lash out at you knowing you’re an “employee” and might be expected to eat it, criticizing your work needlessly to bait a negative reaction, and so on. it gets bonks, and it’s the fact that staff members for LoTC are all VOLUNTEERS. /godmode isn’t worth it for me to get accosted by hordes of children and FULL GROWN, OLDER THAN ME, ADULTS over metagaming.
frfr - i don’t get the hype about this situation. wolfy-d felt one way, werewolf reacted another, but it wasn’t anything truly malicious or evil?
i mean, i literally exist to picks fights on the forums of lord of the craft. i was just trying to instill something he could take from this experience as he is, but a child.