The players of WOW

I have long wish for a way to recognize the people who have been so great to me in WoW.  People like to say it is just a game which could offer some WOW gold to its players, but it is a game where we interact with one another a lot and the ramifications of that can extend well past the time you log off. It matters how you treat people, even online. When we say "It's just a game" we are often trying to excuse taking out our RL frustrations out on strangers, I think. We are trying to excuse being a jerk from the safety of our PCs. But there really isn't any excuse for treating other human beings badly, is there? A kind or funny or generous act in WoW can get a person through a really bad day in RL. It does matter how we interact in the game. I'd love to be able to reward those who make the game --and life in general --better for others.

 

The proper way to recognize the folks that have been great to you is to turn around and do the same to someone else. Pay it forward, in other words. In fact, do double the "good deeds" you've been the recipient of!  If/when you think of doing so.  I'm a newbie in the RIFT game and I recently joined my first guild. After my first night with them joking around and stuff in gchat, I found that one of my new guildmates had sent me 25 platinum, a nicely substantial amount of WOW gold in that game, especially for a newb.  I can't tell you how many times I've done similar things in WoW and other games (this is an anon place so I'm not outing myself, thankfully lol).  It was really cool when someone did that back for me, it made me feel really good.

 

In the very large thread concerning the sub loss on the WoW forums, one of my posts contains the suggestion for a system that you can up vote helpful and nice players. No negative votes allowed due to the fact it could be abused. I really didn't think of a reward, but I would suggest that once you reach a certain threshold of up votes your name changes from the normal colors we see for friends and guildies and just random people, to a more purplish color as a reward, or those rewarded like WOW gold which would be given the chance to have a last name for their character that is displayed. Using "only" upvotes and suggesting that it you can't abuse it is false as well. You just get people to click it.

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