Sophus,
First off, I'm sorry about your fiancee. I don't know what I would do if I lost my wife.
The thing about everyone's issue with Kramer though has nothing to do with him leaving. Its about HOW he left...both times. Being the leader of the reformed Wasp LS, I know how alot of people in that LS really feels about Kramer and his actions. Everyone was sad with him leaving, but they were all understanding about it. We all believed that he made Wasp with the best intentions. It wasn't until AFTER he came back, that the LS really started to hate what he has become. Kramer asked me once if he would be allowed back into the new LS that was made after he quit. I put up a poll on our LS forums.
Yes - 3
No - 29
And those are from people who thought of him as a great leader. Now, with him selling off all his gil and account, he's pretty much been /blisted by everyone ex-Wasp member in the reformed LS. Cause he made a TON of gil off of the LS through Dynamis. Alot of them truly feel used by him. If I remember right there was a thread a while back that Kramer was involved in about him and what he should do with his gil. I thought about posting but never really got around to it. So, Kramer is now giving out all of his gil to random people?
Why not give it to Thinman, Josue, Eldicant, Denzel or Mossy? All Plds who HELPED him tank Dynamis mobs.
Why not give some of it to Femwhispers, Beuwolf, Casey, Mattation, or Ssjtommo. All Whm's who cured him when he was tanking Dynamis mobs.
Why not give some of it to Kakashin, Barchiel, Madmardigan, Michealino, Epic, Drean or Shadowlink. All melee's who killed those mobs.
Or Moline, Crabant, Fattucus, Elsewhere, Eyecandy, or Dra for nuking and sleeping those mobs.
Or how about Mohit? A guy who died so much in Dynamis for Kramer that he deleveled from capped 75 all the way to mid-73. Cause without him there is no way in hell that Kramer or Wasp would have won a single Dynamis.
What makes it even worse is he joined up with a LS such as Zenmetsu, a LS widely hated and goes against everything he tried to instill during Wasp.
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If it really is a game, what right do we have to get mad at him for it? Either it is a game, or it isn't.
Yes, this is "just a game". However there are real life people behind the screen. Just cause you can't see them doesn't mean someones actions won't hurt someone else's feelings. People can still get upset because of actions from people whom you had at one point in time considered a friend. I think it was Mohit who had posted on a different thread about morals. Some people stick too them no matter what the situation is. Some people abandon them when there is nothing that they want from someone else. I think this is what the deal with Kramer is. He's "quitting" again, so he doesn't need anything from anyone here. So naturally he's sticking to a "No holds barred" approach to things on this game and to the people who react to his posts. That approach, in many ways, is how Omfg's approach to FFXI is. And its because of this literal 180 degree turn around that has some of his closest friends upset about.
So I think this is were Barchiel's point of view is coming from. He just acts on it in a different, albiet funnier, way.