Topic says it all really.

Ok so heres the story... I come from an RP realm (let the flames begin) joining a guild that centres itself around RP doesn't care if you have epics, doesn't care what level you are. Just so long if you abide by the server rules, and enjoy storytelling etc, that sorta thing, you are welcomed with open arms. (that doesnt mean we all wear robes and try to do impressions of Gandalf)

On Moonglade our guild is somewhat respected for its RP, and being a guild officer, i have to deal with a lot of requests from people to join.

A few months ago i was in STV using the neutral action house, and i recieved a whisper from someone "please cn you help me with some quests" usually i'd just tell people i'm busy, or ignore them, but he actually made the effort to spell the word "please" instead of "plz" or the ever confusing "pl0x"

So off i went, with a lvl 34 Human Warrior, and helped this fella out with a few of his red quests.. We chatted a little whilst we played, and it came to my attention that this wasn't a very old player, as he kept on having to go "becuase dad neds 2 chek the emall" he also clearly had no idea how to play, kept on pointing at random objects and saying "coooooooooool!!", and by the state of his outfit, it looked like he hit mach 2 and collided with a Dorthy Perkins store.

Anyhoo.. After a few quests, i really had to go, he was a very polite kid unlike most that play, and actually said "thank you very much" instead of "thx" but then he started asking if he could join my guild.. Now i don't wanna sound big headed, but that sort of player isn't suited for an RP guild.. Atleast not the one i'm in.. Its like a fury spec warrior wearing all green items, asking to be main tank in an MC run.. Its just a big no no.

So not to hurt his feelings, i just told him we were full at the moment, he didn't mind, and bounced off into the sunset, again thanking me.

Over the course of the next few weeks, i would recieve messages from him, just random stuff of his progress, the occasional "ding! lvl 50 :D" he wasn't one of these annoying people that you help once, and then they seem to think you're some sort of xp vendor for the remainder of there leveling process.

A few days ago i was in SW checking the AH, and some people were flaming some poor guy in the trade channel about selling an item for a high price... Afteri while i realised it was this kid that i helped out so long ago.. I didn't want to get involved and just let the flaming die down, but these idiots on the AH were just being really nasty to the poor kid, sure i know they probably didn't know his age, but still, you should be aware of that when playing games like this.

Anyway, a few hours later, i get a message from this kid "i got kicked from my guild :(" i tried to cheer him up, but it wasn't happening.. And to be honest i couldnt be arsed trying, and i was tired and logged off.

So yesterday i log on, and say my usual hellos to everyone, and go to the mailbox.. When i get there, i see this kid sitting next to the mailbox, no guild tag, people bouncing around him having fun.. And theres him, all alone, no-one paying attention to a "noob".. Now i know human race facial expressions never change, but as far as avatars go, this one looked really depressed.

So i message him asking if hes cool, and he tells me hes thinking about quitting, becuase he gets bullied alot at school, and his ex guild mates all said really horrible things to him, and that he knew some of the kids in reality, becuase they go to his school, and are beggining to bully him in school about how he plays WoW etc. We all remember how it was.. I remember i used to get bullied in school for not having any toys, or having an old version of a toy.. Imagine it now, you get bullied about it at home AND school too.

Now this kid had got himself to lvl 62 under his own steam, where as the kids that were giving him a hard time, were all about level 20 and spent the majority of there time in Goldshire asking people to raid Crossroads.

So what did i do? I took the kid shopping is what i did... Bought him his epic (ground) mount, a load of nice armour off AH, which i made sure was well colour co-ordinated AND gave him very nice stats for his level. Bought him 2 very nice rare axes (fotgotten the name) and got a guild mate to put +15 agility on each one.

I also bought him a host of accessories, fun stuff, like a mana wyrm, somedeviate delights, an Orb of deception.. yunno.. all the "coooooool" stuff.

Then i invited him to an outing to Goldshire with 6 other guild friends, to casually walk past these bullies who kicked him from the guild. I then RPed the role that he was a great warrior, and saved me from some horrific fight etc etc blah blah.. The bullies then started to flame him in general chat about "noob" things hes done, so i told them hes one of the best PVPers i have ever met, and he won his epic mount from a bet, by defeating the most powerful PVP player on our realm (whoever that is.... sorry! hehe).

After a while, these kids started to change there attitude, and actually began to beg for him to rejoin there guild.. But i told him not to.. Instead, i helped him make his own guild, i bought his tabard, helped him with his spelling etc. And also helped him recruit enough members to get his charter registered.

Fast forward to today, and i get a mail from this kid.. Except its not the kid, its his Dad, thanking me.. He said i quote

"Dear Falcore

I want to thank you for helping my son in this game, he's been so excited for days about the new things you bought him, hes also been having a tough time in school latley, and we agreed we would get him this game as an escape, although latley its turned into nothing more than another source of bullying and abuse.

Thanks to you the little chaps smiling again.

Once again, lots of thanks!"

Now all of this cost me a total of 1600g-ish. Money that i was saving for my epic flying mount... But i tell ya, putting a smile on a bullied kids face like that is worth more than every epic in the game.

Moral of the story? Helping makes you feel happy, flaming just makes you an *!*@*#%.


Update 1

I never thought this post would become so popular, i honestly thought it would just become a huge flame war... It warms my heart to know there are still so many nice gamers out there.

Whether it be a game or not, this kind of kindness (everyones, not mine) is really lacking in this world, and to see so many smiling, and happy people, all gathered in one post really brings back my faith in humanity. You should all give yourselves a huge pat on the back for all being such ace people.

The replies i have ad in this post, i admit has made my "epeen" grow tremendously, and it would for any person, but if an "epeen" is a smile.. Then yes, my smile is bigger than ever before.. You have all made me a very happy person over the last few days, and it makes me happy that i'm making you happy, and that just makes me even more happy.

Update 2

I am sitting here in shock right now....

Someone today (about 2 hours ago) messaged me ingame, and asked me to meet him in Ironforge.. I actually thought it was a person who was asking to join the guild yesterday, to went to meet him... Well, you can imagine my surprise when he shoved 5999g into my trade window and said "you deserve it"

For now i shall keep this player anonymous, becuase i'm not sure if he wants his name stamped all over the forums, but if that person wishes to be known for his incredibly kind deed, please speak up.

Words simply can not express how kind that action was, you have made my day, and you have also put a breath of fresh air into the game for me, as i can now get to work on my Netherdrake.

Thank you thank you thank you... I'm in shock.

Falcore.
嗯，故事是这样的……我来自一个RP服务器（想喷就来吧），参加了一个以RP为中心的工会，我们不在乎你是否有紫装，也不在意你的级别，只要你遵守服务器的规则，喜欢讲故事，你就会受到欢迎（这不代表我们都穿法袍装成Gandalf的模样）。

　　在Moonglade服务器，我们的工会因为RP氛围而受到尊敬，作为一个工会官员，我要处理很多想加入的人的申请。

　　几个月以前，我正在藏宝海湾的拍卖行前看东西时收到了这样一条密语：“请帮我做一些任务好吗？”对于这样的请求，我通常都会告诉他们我很忙，或者干脆不理，但看到他把请拼写为"please"而不是"plz"或者更令人迷惑的"pl0x"，我去帮他了，一个34级的小战士。帮他做了几个红色的任务，我们一边聊天一边玩，我发现他不是一个岁数很大的玩家，因为他总是要afk因为“他的父亲要查收邮件。”而且他很明显是个小白，总是指着很普通的东西说：“coooooooooool!!”

　　做了一些任务后，我必须要走了。这个礼貌的孩子并没有像一般人那样说：“thx”，而是说：“thank you very much。”然后他问我是否可以加入我的工会。我并不想装成个老鸟，但他这样的玩家并不是很合适加入一个rp工会，至少不是我所在的。这个要求就像是一个穿着一身绿装的狂暴战士要求在MC里做MT一样……但为了不伤害他的感情，我告诉他我们现在满员，他并不在意，再次向我致谢后走了。

　　在接下来的几周里，我时常收到他的密语，无非是一些他升级的状况，例如：“ding! Lvl 50 :D”。他不是那种一但你帮助了他一次以后就不停向你求助的讨厌家伙。

　　几天前我正在暴风城浏览拍卖物品，注意到几个人在交易频道里喷一个可怜的家伙，因为他的卖价比较高。我意识到那个可怜的家伙就是我曾经帮助的那个孩子。因为我不想卷进去，就没有理。但这些傻瓜对那个可怜的孩子很粗暴无理，是的，我知道他们并不了解那个孩子多大，但在玩这样一个游戏时，你应该知道这些。几小时后，这个孩子发了一条密语给我：“我被工会踢了。”我试着帮他振作起来，但没用。说实话我也不想再试了，我很累，就下线了。

　　昨天我上线后，像往常一样跟大家打了招呼就直奔邮箱，但当我到的时候，我看到那个孩子坐在邮箱旁，他的名字下面没有工会注释。人们在他身边跑来跑去，享受着这个游戏…而他孤单的坐在一旁，每人注意到这样一个“noob”..我知道人类模型的面部表情从来不会变化，但在当时，我确实从他的表情上看出来他很沮丧。我问他怎么样，他回答说他想退出这个游戏，应为他在学校里经常被人欺负，而他的几个同学也是在他前工会里的成员，当他们知道这个孩子也在玩这个游戏时，又开始嘲笑欺负他并把他从开除了。这使我想起我小时候在学校因为没有玩具，或者只有老版的玩具而被欺负的情景。

　　现在这个孩子在被其他的孩子们欺负的时用自己的力量升到了62级，而那些孩子还是20级左右，每天花费大量时间在闪金镇组人去raid十字路口。

 

　　那么我做了什么呢？我带他去买东西……我给他买了60级的史诗坐骑，又从拍卖行买了很多很好的装备，我尽量使这些装备既在颜色上很搭配同时又有很好的属性。我还给他买了两把蓝色的斧子，并让一个会友给每一把斧子付了+15敏捷的魔。我还给他买了很多小玩意儿，魔法龙小宠物，美味风蛇，欺诈珠宝等，你知道的，就是那些很“coooooool”的东西。

　　然后我邀请他和我以及其他6个会友到闪金镇散步，当我们很悠闲的在那些把他从工会里踢出的傻瓜旁边走过时，我很RP地说那个孩子是个好战士，再一次可怕的战斗中救了我的性命等等……那些欺负人的家伙听到后就开始在综合频道里开始喷那个孩子。我对他们说那个孩子是我见过最好的pvp玩家，他在一次关于他是否能击败我们服务器最强的pvp选手的赌博里赢得了他的史诗坐骑。（不管他是谁，很抱歉！呵呵）

　　过了一会，那些孩子开始改变他们的态度，事实上他们开始请求他重新加入工会…但我跟他说不要那样做。我帮助他建立了他自己的工会，给他买了战袍，帮助他拼写等等，我还帮他找到了足够的会员使工会能够注册并运行起来。

　　今天，我收到了那个孩子的信…但写信人不是那个孩子，是他的父亲。他在信中写道：

　　所有这些大概花了我1600g左右，这些钱是我存着准备买史诗飞行坐骑的……但是，我跟你说，使微笑重新回到一个孩子的脸上比这游戏里所有的紫装都重要。

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更新1：

我从没料到这个帖子能变得这么火，说实话我还以为会被喷呢……知道还有这么多热心的玩家使我感到很温暖。

不管这是否是个游戏，这种友好（大家的，并不是指我个人）是这个世界所缺的，看到这么多微笑，幸福的人们在这个帖子里出现真的唤回了我对人性的信赖。

更新2：

我还没有从震惊中回过神来…
今天有人在游戏中密我要我和他在铁炉堡见面，我还以为是昨天申请要加入我工会的那个人…

嗯，你可以想象我是多么的震惊当他打开交易窗口并输入5999g并说：“这是你应得的。”

因为我不知道他是否愿意把名字暴露在这里，所以我暂时保密。但如果有人想知道这个好人是谁就请说出来。

语言无法表达我的感受，谢谢 谢谢 谢谢。

Falcore

如果这类事情能发生在cwow并得到正面报道，相信tbc也不会这么难产了吧。