Hi. I think we’re all familiar with a situation when in a chat, people search for group mates for going to a dungeons. And today we’re often see situation when this people say that they are forming group where some items will be reserved. Moreover, many people think that reserving items actually should say something bad about person which make the group, others think that its not and reserving items are fine. In this post I’ll try to give some argument about how we’re really should concern such situations.
I’ll not go far from now, and say from the very beginning, on my opinion reserving item is immoral kind of action. But what I mean when say it’s immoral? All game characters have some person behind them. I mean a real people, who play on this characters. In normal society we are treat each other like equal and free persons, and by equality we understand equality in rights also. Every gamer has this basic rights in a game too, together with specific game kind of rights, which presupposed by game rules. One of this right of equal players is a right on fair roll for items, that they are really need. For example, if we killed the boss into Maraudon, and the ring dropped, all player which actually need the ring (it improves their character, other items may be necessary for the profession, etc.) have a right on take part in a roll on this ring, and no one should deprive them of this right. If somebody take this ring without roll, cause he need it more than others, doing so, he violates basic rights of other players on fair roll, and cause of that we can say, that he make some immoral action. Like in real life, we don’t want to have deal with unfair and immoral persons, also true of the game. But what does a person reserving an item do if not a similar action?
So, here is the argument:
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If someone reserve some item for himself in a situation, when the other players too need it, then he violates basic right of other players for fair roll.
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When someone violates basic rights of equal persons, which actually players are, he make immoral action.
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Then, if someone reserve some item for himself in a situation, when the other players too need it, then he make immoral action.
Several last remarks about my position. First, I talk about the case of random party groups, distribution of items in guilds is not of my concern, such cases need separate discussion. Second, when I talked in a chat about this problem, I met with two main objections to my position. One objection I think is really weak, and goes like this “people always reserve items in game, so I don’t see a problem here”. In answering on it I can say only that this fact, that some players always do some action, don’t make this action is a moral one. The second objection was more interesting, according to it when you reserve some item, you are actually make a kind of arrangement and if so, you can reserve item cause this arrangement was free willed by all participants. But I don’t think that it is correct line of thought. When you are make arrangement, you want make fair arrangement, if you rational person at all, and I not deny that arrangement about item reserving is an arrangement, I’m claim that it’s not a fair arrangement. I give a brief example: when a poor woman need money for food and then she met a man, who have a money, and he make an arrangement with her that he’ll give the money, but she should be make love with him, it’s kinda free-willed arrangement, but most of us I guess don’t think that this kind of arrangement is a fair one, cause in this arrangement a man actually take away woman basic right for self-respect and should be considered actually as immoral person, although he gave the money. The same right in the situation of reserving item, some player would needed to go in dungeon for quest, exp, or by another reason and maybe the only party can take this dungeon is a party in which items are reserved, so he make an arrangement with group leader cause he in need. But again, this arrangement would not be a fair kind of arrangement.
Now, I think that all can see that reserving items not a good thing. Such complex questions, which concern game morality should be discussed on this forum also. And if you want say something, objection or agreement, do it, I’m open for conversation here. And of course feel free to use this argument, if you agree with it in a game when you want to condemn items reservations.
… this is not a smart move unless you start to farm others that others class need of course., so at the end i have no problem with that.