Comment by aries.frog on Bj Archmage - Chapter 68

For the general reader, since your account is gone...

Some people don't like their power being challenged. Crappy parents, bad bosses, volunteer groups, and yep, gaming guilds and alliances. They want to be top dog, ruler of the heap, best of the best without necessarily working at it, large and in charge, and they don't LIKE it when they're challenged.

Others want power, and get pis*** at those who 'get in their way' of achieving it.

In a game I play, a member of our alliance sabotaged us from within, joined the guild that were our biggest rival, and then bounced to another server when the game ran an event that lets you do that. But when cross-server events come up, she still targets and attacks us, and so do members of her new guild.

I don't know what her thought process was, but it started after she was told the Alliance Leader would not give her either of the Vice Leader, the Head Minister, or the Secretarial position in the alliance, since they were all filled with people who are quite good at their jobs. (These are positions created by the game template.) 

Now, want to go to or create another alliance or guild where you can get the position and power you want that you can't in the current guild? That's fine, some people need that to grow. But being a complete two-faced bi*** about it? Not fine.

(For the record, I have no official position in the guild; I went back to college once my kids were older and barely had time to play the game, much less hold any position. But of the people on the current roster who still play regularly, there's only four others that have been there longer than me, out of 35.)