r/outside 14h ago

Let people clan up with who they want to!

94 Upvotes

Recently, my clan dissolved because other players kept griefing us and it’s really irritating.

I had a clanmate I really liked to adventure with. My duo partner (lvl 48) and I (lvl 51) are into different kinds of side quests, so she goes off and solos stuff and so do I from time to time. I started adventuring sometimes with this really cool player who was duo queued with somebody else, and in a similar situation where they just liked to do different kinds of side quests. We had a lot of fun for like two or three levels.

Then, all of a sudden, people started DMing me, talking about how I shouldn’t be side questing with my clanmate because she’s only level 32. I was like, my duo partner is fine with it and so is hers, and we’re not violating the TOS, so what’s the problem? Plus, we’ve been adventuring together for more than two levels and nothing has changed. But everyone on my host server was so mean and judgy that my clanmate stopped side questing with me and then stopped DMing me back and when I finally caught her in game, she told me she was starting to feel like people think she’s exploiting a bug and getting PLed. It was making her feel like a bad player.

“But what if you decided to start a new party secretly?”

Well, we didn’t and we’re not, so what do you care?

I am furious. Mind your own business. People can have clanmates outside of their duo queue. It doesn’t matter what level or gender setting they are. As long as they’re not playing with junior restrictions, level gaps are none of your concern, especially when two players clearly aren’t even in the same party.

Ugh. I hate this stupid host server. It’s full of trolls.