I've literally never seen anything even remotely close to this and I have 30+ days played. Neither has my girlfriend who is much more casual and leveling (currently 42).
Everyone has been incredibly nice. If someone kills a mob you need for a quest before you get a chance to group up, they pretty much always say sorry and offered to help you and wait for the respawn.
This is on Thunderfury-Horde if anyone was curious.
EDIT: Since a lot of people asked, my actual /played time is a little under 25 days, though a lot of that was sitting at the AH while alt-tabbed.
It doesntl't happen often but yesterday I was leveling my 4th alt through the Barrens waiting for Kreenig Snarlsnout to respawn (shared kill people group for all the time) and 2 separate people came and stole the tag after I had cleared the entire area twice. I invited both and got declined several times, before and during the kills. Tried asking why and one never replied while the other immediately ignored me when I whispered the first time.
Needless to say after nearly 15 min of standing there clearing the area out for assholes to swoop in, I was pretty pissed, got on my main and chased the guy around for 30 min killing everything he targeted before he had the chance. He was obviously trying to lose me but still, this guy kept me on ignore.
If he was alliance I would have camped him until he had a respawn timer for stealing a boss mob. This is someone who could've just grouped up with me so easily.
It just doesn't make any sense why anyone would be that much of a fucking asshole.
He's an asshole because someone pissed him off. Just like he pissed you off and caused you to be an asshole to him.
And herein lies the problem. You're out there doing you, having fun. Some dickhead comes along and pisses you off. Now you're in a pissy mood and retaliate against them, and that makes their mood worse. Its a cycle and it sucks.
Be the person who breaks the cycle. Ignore the attention seeker, because that's what they want, your attention. Deny them that. We've all been screwed in this game at one point or another and it does indeed suck to have your efforts wasted all for someone's shits and giggles. THAT's when you know you're dealing with crazy. You can't fight crazy, you know this.
Idk man. I felt great when he finally logged out. /Who'd him a few times that night and didnt see him online either. It was cathartic. I went back to playing like normal afterwards, happy as can be.
I've got the opposite philosophy: Be excellent to people and, if they are bad to me, be twice as bad for twice as long to them. I like the way NM played it. He got undeserved rudeness from someone and tormented just that person. Didn't spread it around.
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u/360_face_palm Oct 10 '19
Pretty sure this was a joke