Making My Way To The Summoning Stone

Dear Lazy PUG Member:

Hey, how’s it going?

Wait, don’t answer that! I really don’t care to know the details of how shitty your life is, or how undergeared or overgeared you are, or how many 80s you have. What I really mean to say is:

Hey, welcome to the party!

Here we are, together, as virtual strangers – sharing a dungeon adventure together, and maybe starting down the road towards a more long-term friendship. Also, if you’re into it, maybe we’re even progressing towards a raiding relationship or a guildmate relationship if it all works out well.

I go into every party with a focus on the good – or at least, the entertaining.

You Entertain Me, But Not In A Good Way

And you, Lazy PUGger, I find sadly entertaining, in a twisted way.

Right from the start of the grouping when you ask for a summon to the instance (before anyone’s even at the stone), through to the killing and looting of the last mob and reading your gear-related whines or woots … you entertain me.

For a limited time only! Just as long as *I* need *you*.

Do you wonder, dear Lazy PUGger, why it’s so difficult to find a quality group? (I know you do, I hear you complain about it when you finally DO find a decent group – as you punish the wrong players with your gripes)

Could it be that you consider your time more important than those of your party-mates?

Like those ninja AFK’s after a wipe that last just long enough for you to get resurrected by those who ran back?

Or almost any of the AFK’s that are sudden, unexplained and of an indetermined length.

How about when you put yourself on auto-follow of someone else without being polite and asking if it’s okay first?

Sure, there are exceptions where these things above cannot be avoided, but I’m not talking about a level of laziness that “cannot be avoided” here. I’m talking about a level of laziness that saves your time, but wastes the time of others.

Thanks For The Run But Sorry, I Don’t Need You Anymore

Passive Aggressive behavior rules the roost Online and In-Game.

Pre-Outlands Tankadin

Many people will take a Passive stance during a PUG group with one or two lazy members, simply because it’s too much of a pain and time drain to kick the lazy members and replace them with new people. The Passive approach has the non-lazy members live their way through the encounter, but the result is generally the same:

The party breaks up immediately afterwards, and there is NO chance of chain-running of instances with this group.

Or even better, if the non-lazy members are all from the same guild, they remove the lazies and replace ‘em for the next run in their chain runs.

Lazy PUGger – is this the reason you don’t build a strong Friends list? People you put on your list never seem to have time to run with you a second time anyway?

Lazy? Or Inexperienced?

We’re all lazy, I’ll give you that. At times, we all lean on our party mates, and at times it’s completely unavoidable or even beneficial. And sometimes it’s not laziness either… it’s inexperience – if you’re new to the Dungeon Scene, maybe you’ve never thought about the “team play” aspect of dungeon runs.

But the LazyPUGger traits that I used to Tweet about (before my @WoWGrrl account was suspended for whatever undetermined reason) in the #badpug context are something else entirely. These LazyPUGgers are hoping for as free of a ride as possible, but don’t really see how they’re sabotaging themselves from getting it. And they defend their behavior

I think I’m going to move my #badpug stuff over from Twitter to YouTube in a VLog format.

I can’t wait to hear the variety of responses from players who range from extremely lazy to extremely independent, because I know that both camps are very vocal about their reasonings and beliefs.

It shall be interesting, and I hope all of you PUGgers and PUGger-wannabees will follow along!

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