Are People getting ruder and ruder?

[Captain Del]

My guild and I caught up in an incident right yesterday.

It was right after we did our Victory Shark Fleet, and we were dancing out on the beach of the French Island, having a small conversation and gathering friends for a game of Hide and Seek Tag, minding our own. Of course, this one guild keep coming up to us (one by one, so it seems they have a pattern down by now) and calling us names, saying bad stuff about us, challenging us to SvS, stuff like that. We, naturally, ignore them, but yet they persist. So, I go with my reflex: kill them with kindness. I attempt to start a conversation with them, and they seem like nice people when you get to know them. Everything is all and well, aye?

Wrong. Not even 10 seconds in to our game, one of our guildies shouts out in crew chat that he was being chased around/harrassed by that same guild. So, Del transforms in to Papa Grizzly mode and goes to help our dear guildmate.

I confront the guild, who, naturally, deny that they were doing anything wrong, after my guildmate had told them repeatedly to stop bothering him. I ask one of them to bring me their Guildmaster so I can have a chat with him, but lo and behold, the guy I'm talking to is the Guildmaster. What a way to set an example for your guild, eh?

So, I start telling the guy and their guild off (because once I warm up, I might as well be tearing down islands one by one,) about how rude and immature it was to do such a thing. And what is their GM's response?

"Let's go War Sloop 1 on 1." Yeah.

Now, I was tempted to whip out the VS and send the mate to Davy Jones's Locker, but I was trying to stay away from their level as far as possible. And really, who needs a virtual competition to decide whose the better person. Pu-lease.

In the end, my guild and I reported all of them, and headed off to another server and go do the invasion. Now, I know some of you would disagree how I handled things. That I shouldn't have gone out of my way to teach those mates a lesson in R-E-S-P-E-C-T. But no. I had to do what was right, and stand up for my mates. I'll be darned if I ever let somebody walk over my guild like their simply garbage. It's one thing to stand up for yourself, but it's another thing to stand up for the people you care about.

P.S. Ask my guild and I. Whenever somebody calls us noobs, we respond, "We're noobs and we're proud!"