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I concur. If you are that bored in the game that the only way to stay entertained is to terrorize newbs, well I think it's time to find a new game.
KT
I concur. If you are that bored in the game that the only way to stay entertained is to terrorize newbs, well I think it's time to find a new game.
KT
I remember spending days in the EC tunnel in EQ. I would offer to buy equipment and then when they would walk in front of me I would sidestep at the last second. Instead of them opening a trade with the item to sell, they would drop the item (before drop confirmation was put it). well i would be staring at the ground, pick the item up, then send a tell asking if he still wanted to trade and why is was taking so long. They would get pretty angry.
You know... I actually think you guys are over-reacting. Grief is funny, even when it happens to me. I've only been griefed once where it was a minor annoyance, which was easily fixed with just doing another trade-run (Silkroad Online), and I got him back hard. I still do. (Look out for player: "DSE" on the Neptune server. He's a plain looking European mage with no guild that murder's traders and then his thief buddies take the drop).
They're just games.
I've probably got one of the worst griefer (I didn't even know they had a name) stories, and mine too involved Diablo 2. Ours was actually a team of 3, 2 of us that actually enjoyed D2 and 1 that simply was good at loading bots. We scrapped together a quick 5 minute clan page, and started flooding all the bnet channels with messages of free high level items for joining our guild. We had an application form where you had to list all your accounts that you had. We also said we'd soon be adding forums to the page, and that you would need to pre-register a forum account/password. Needless to say, a lot of the times, the forum password was the same password to D2 accounts. I think by the time our scheme had gotten caught onto and others were emulating it, we had nearly 8 accounts full of mules holding all the items we had horded from our dirty trick. We didn't even keep the accounts, just stripped them of their value and then changed the password back. I can remember getting messages from the people on new accounts or friends' accounts pleading to leave their things alone. Still feel really bad for having done that. I remember I used to tell the story a few years ago, and end it with saying I'd be going to hell for that. Probably a fair assessment.
And for what it's worth, a few months later, I felt so bad about it, that I went into random games, and emptied the accounts of all their worth. Of course, then my friends hated me.
And for what it's worth, a few months later, I felt so bad about it, that I went into random games, and emptied the accounts of all their worth. Of course, then my friends hated me.
Aikouka
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Not really griefing since he had to attack for you to even kill him. He should've suspected that a level 9 pet wouldn't just be standing in the road for awhile for no reason ... especially if you don't see a shadowmelded night elf near it (which you still wouldn't be in the road anyway
). One thing I've never understood about most griefers is that I'm quite sure they'd care if their action was done to them yet they still do it anyway. It's complete hypocrisy to do something to someone that you yourself wouldn't like done to you. That's why I don't gank people in WoW (unless they piss me off, but then it's not ganking
).Hahah. Taught them not to use the same passwords for their account. But yea, reminds me of a Paypal scam.
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There is a difference between general, annoying griefing, and being a malicious asshole. There have been instances of both related in this thread.
KT
Anonymous gaming is the main cause of this.What do the griefers , scammers care about some random nobody on the net when the only possiblility of backlash is a ban from that server.No one cares and no one is held accountable for their actions.
The only way to stop it is to require real names addresses and phone numbers of the people playing.
If gaming was no longer anonymous,the tards would suddenly dissapear.
The only way to stop it is to require real names addresses and phone numbers of the people playing.
If gaming was no longer anonymous,the tards would suddenly dissapear.
Great idea, then I can have every jackass teenager I kill in a TF2 match calling me at 4 am and showing up at my condo. Sounds great! I'll pass.
Then you could have them arrested for harassment in the real world.Making more of the undesirables go away.Would be even more satisfying in real life to see them get what they deserve.
I love griefing. I guess it all started the first time I flew a loaded APC into a mountain in Starseige: Tribes. Battlefield 1942 was a great game for that.
* Invite a teammate into your jeep/helicopter/bomber/whatever, then crash it. Best if you manage to bail out safely before the crash.
* TKing but acting innocent in chat when people retaliate. As someone else posted, often the innocent victim will be picked on by those who weren't paying attention to my antics. I've gotten innocents kicked from servers before by using this trick.
* Landmines in front of the planes on your own team's carrier deck, Coral Sea map.
* Drive important boats off the map / to the middle of nowhere.
Edit: This link seemed appropriate for this thread:
True Griefing Tales
Battlefield 1942 was a great game for that.* Invite a teammate into your jeep/helicopter/bomber/whatever, then crash it. Best if you manage to bail out safely before the crash.
* TKing but acting innocent in chat when people retaliate. As someone else posted, often the innocent victim will be picked on by those who weren't paying attention to my antics. I've gotten innocents kicked from servers before by using this trick.
* Landmines in front of the planes on your own team's carrier deck, Coral Sea map.
* Drive important boats off the map / to the middle of nowhere.
Edit: This link seemed appropriate for this thread:
True Griefing Tales
I used to play lineage 2 which is the true griefers game. When you die you lose 4% xp and the game is a friggin grind so it can be a real pain in the ass. I didnt grief when I played for the first 2 years but then boredom succumbed and I started botting high level players just to kill other people.
Probably the best griefing was finding out the alternate characters of people in your clan. So you would be on their teamspeak, login to your pk'er and go find their characters and kill them. So they would go crazy on teamspeak screaming OMG WHO IS THIS ASSHOLE WTF WTF then round up a posse to go hunt the pk'er. At that time you would logoff and wait until he logged back in his alternate again and come pk him again to which more hilarity ensued.
Probably the best griefing was finding out the alternate characters of people in your clan. So you would be on their teamspeak, login to your pk'er and go find their characters and kill them. So they would go crazy on teamspeak screaming OMG WHO IS THIS ASSHOLE WTF WTF then round up a posse to go hunt the pk'er. At that time you would logoff and wait until he logged back in his alternate again and come pk him again to which more hilarity ensued.
Originally posted by: Capitalizt
Team Fortress 2 griefing
http://video.google.com/videop...&type=search&plindex=1
http://video.google.com/videop...&type=search&plindex=0
lol, terrible, but hilarious. the teleporters that lead directly in front of enemy SGs is classic.
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I've never understood the Halo PC bashing. I barely made it half-way through the campaign, but the MP was a tonne of fun in my opinion. /shrug
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Well I could make a console gamer joke here, but I'll refrain.
As I said, Halo PC MP was very fun.
KT
Originally posted by: Capitalizt
Team Fortress 2 griefing
http://video.google.com/videop...&type=search&plindex=1
http://video.google.com/videop...&type=search&plindex=0
OMFG Hilarious.
I forgot one other thing I would do; in WOW a few years back was challenge new players, or uninformed pve'ers to a duel as the zeppelin would show up. I'd then use my priest and MC them off the zeppelin. I don't know why, but I found great pleasure in that.
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