by XJ9 » Fri Mar 25, 2016 2:20 am
First of all, "Elitist" has been divorced from its original meaning and it's now a buzzword. Much like "toxic" which once was used to describe players with such bad attitudes it negatively influenced other people who would then act the same, like a cancer spreading. Now "Toxic" is basically "I don't like this." I mean I've seen GAME MECHANICS referred to as "Toxic", fucking really?
You can't really gauge elitism based on limited interactions, nor can you take the words of many claiming someone is elitist. Since it seems from 11 years ago, Elitists were those people at the top who would actively seek to destroy guilds that dared come close to them and sought to keep the rabble so far below them. Now it seems if you're in a strong guild and don't suck off your party when they do something right you're an elitist. On retail WoW I got called an elitist because I noticed my group was failing a boss mechanic (There's a worm in Shadowmoon Burial Grounds Dungeon that sucks you into them but you avoid it by being max range and running away during the channel) offered a suggestion "Maybe sit at max range and see if that helps you not get eaten?"
Or look at the Kazzak thread floating about, I pointed out a guild was 22nd and when I did that I meant it as "You're contesting two of the strongest guilds on the server who want the kill, good luck with that." People instead read it as "You're not even a good guild go somewhere else baddie because you're not good enough for Kazzak."
It just seems these days you can't have any indication of being better than someone, even with a positive attitude without being called an elitist because their ego got damaged because you were different than them.
I notice you mentioned guilds, I'm willing to wager Deja Vu is amongst that term. You'll also hear far more about our negatives than our positives. I myself have done countless runs of instances I don't need to help people out, I've ran lowbie groups through BFD/RFK/SFK/RFC/WC/SM on my 60 simply because they were spamming world for an hour for a tank and I didn't want their group disbanding after an hour of trying. I've had random level 12 rogues PM me in Orgrimmar asking for level builds and I will give them paragraphs of information on leveling and why that option is best. Or the about 15 times I've been in Barrens and asked to do the poison quest for a rogue. Will you ever hear about those? Probably not. Yet if I said in World Chat "You're a fucking retard." you'll hear about that for about a week about how "elitist" I am.
I'd almost compare it to when celebrities get busted doing things, any normal person does it nobody cares. Celebrity X does it? It's all over the internet in 30 minutes.
Basically, people are swift to notice the negatives of the bigger guilds without the positives so they perceive them as elitist.
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