How I See It - Newbies
My problem with this is simple and obvious: people who have been playing for a month or two think that they know everything about the game, their level 20's are proof that they have done a thing or two. They use that simple fact to degrade new comers, and for what purpose? To lead them away from the game? Personally, I think it is depressing and makes you want to only play with other newbies, and you learn much less that way.
I don't understand why these experienced people don't just help them out. It would make them well liked, respected and looked up to. Do they think that they are making them work harder? Or does it just make them feel better about themselves?
In all honesty, I enjoy playing with those who encourage me to do better. In the beginning I remember those who helped me out and taught me the ropes, and those are the people that I respect: the people on my friends list. And then there always had to be those who were of no help to me and left me in the dark, insulted: those who are on my ignore list.
There is of course the fact that they were all new at a time as well. How did they feel? Seriously, it is simple to help them out, and feel great about it afterwards.
Someone in particular helped me out and he was my first friend, and now he is my best friend that I don't know personally. He talks to me just to see how it's going. Every newbie needs a tutor. Unless they look everything up online, or study the manuscripts. If someone looking out for you, it just makes it so much better.
Now there are far too many people who were not kind to me as a newbie. Those who only watched me being confused and laughed.
I must say, one time when I helped out a newbie, he ended up asking me for gold weeks later. To this day he would still be mooching off of me if I didn't put him on my ignore list.
There is something that newbies could improve on too. They may be new, but they know enough to realize that mooching is not the way to do things. The whole point of Guild Wars is skill, and there is no skill in mooching. You must earn your gold, and earn your experience. I don't see how it can be much fun that way anyway, when you are gaining off of someone else's profits. It is kind of the same how some newbies like to get someone to run them places. It is okay to have a runner sometimes I suppose, but there are some people out there that got to the end of the game at level 10 simply by following someone else, and doing nothing. Now what is the point in that? Is not the game wasted that way? Those are newbies who cannot wait to be the cool experienced ones and pick on the new comers that they so recently were themselves.
But that just comes down to how great Guild Wars is once again, when someone won't stop bugging you about things that you really can't afford to help with, you can always add them to the ignore list and never have to deal with them again.
On the other side, it is much better to have many more people on your friends list than on your ignore list. Those are the people you will be talking to, questing with, and helping out throughout a lot of the game. Probably the tutors you so thoroughly enjoyed spending time with as a newbie.
I love helping the new people out. They ask me questions that I have narrowed down the answers to very well by now. It makes me feel good to be able to help them the way I always wanted when I was at their level. It's simple for anyone to help someone when they haven't gotten far in the game. And yet not everyone does; and there will always be those who will simply call them "newbies" and leave them in the dark.
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