Drama Mamas Lisa Poisso and Robin Torres are experienced gamers and real-life mamas — and just as we don’t want our precious babies to be the ones kicking and wailing on the floor of the checkout lane next to the candy, neither do we want you to become known as That Guy on your realm.

Things don’t have to be serious to potentially cause drama.

Dear Drama Mamas,

I have a in-game pet peeve that I could use some advice in working through. In short, it’s being called by my class in randoms. For me, it’s like nails on chalkboard, being called «Hunter, trap square» or «Priest, on adds». Now, I’ve been playing since BC launched, so you’d think I’d have a tougher skin when it comes to something seemingly so small, but I really don’t. I used to have a lot more tolerance, but I really think upon reflection that people just used to use names more often on my server in pugs. From my perspective, when you call someone by their class, you’re relegating them to being an object, an npc that you’re directing what to do and where to go. Excuse me, but I’m a person who chose their toon’s name with care when I created them literally years ago for most of them. If I can take the time to type in the first four letter of your name in party chat, can’t you do the same? I’m okay with using roles (tank/heals/dps), since those are groups of people who are doing the same job in the group. That’s not derogatory.Continue reading Drama Mamas: NamecallingFiled under: Analysis / Opinion, Drama MamasDrama Mamas: Namecalling originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments

Drama Mamas Lisa Poisso and Robin Torres are experienced gamers and real-life mamas — and just as we don’t want our precious babies to be the ones kicking and wailing on the floor of the checkout lane next to the candy, neither do we want you to become known as That Guy on your realm.

Things don’t have to be serious to potentially cause drama.

Dear Drama Mamas,

I have a in-game pet peeve that I could use some advice in working through. In short, it’s being called by my class in randoms. For me, it’s like nails on chalkboard, being called «Hunter, trap square» or «Priest, on adds». Now, I’ve been playing since BC launched, so you’d think I’d have a tougher skin when it comes to something seemingly so small, but I really don’t. I used to have a lot more tolerance, but I really think upon reflection that people just used to use names more often on my server in pugs. From my perspective, when you call someone by their class, you’re relegating them to being an object, an npc that you’re directing what to do and where to go. Excuse me, but I’m a person who chose their toon’s name with care when I created them literally years ago for most of them. If I can take the time to type in the first four letter of your name in party chat, can’t you do the same? I’m okay with using roles (tank/heals/dps), since those are groups of people who are doing the same job in the group. That’s not derogatory.Continue reading Drama Mamas: NamecallingFiled under: Analysis / Opinion, Drama MamasDrama Mamas: Namecalling originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments