Dabbart wrote:And yet they are having fun... I used to love Griefing. In all sorts of games. I'm sure that I would still get a kick out of it, and even think about organizing debolster invasions of low level tiers to snipe anyone RvR flagged from SCs. But I don't, cause A, I don't have a large enough group of like-minded people; B, would prefer to just fight.
The thing is you admit you love griefing, and later on you try to attract the readers sympathy with things like "who wouldn't smile when you crush some lowbies" or sth like that making it sound as the typical ocasional chance encounter.
Don't twist things. You have already shown you are brave enough to admit it. Don't back from your statement. Afaik griefing is not bumping into some undergeared lowbies and smiling a little after you finish them. Griefing is purposely and repeatedly harassing people who cannot fight back. You quoted the lack of an organized group of likeminded people as one of the reasons you aren't griefing. And I'll tell you more. As someone else has pointed out in this same post, griefing is not equivalent to ganking. In this game you go in a group because you have better chances. Heck you can even select lowbies and easy targets because renown is easier this way. Griefing is focusing another individual and getting a kick out of their frustration and failure to deal with your attacks.
Please don't talk about this is a pvp game. I have known a lot of really competitive people in this game, skilled and well-geared players who were absolutely ruthless in the pursuit of their goals. Only their goals somehow never included premeditated and organized expeditions in order to make helpless people feel the whole dimension of their helplessness. If easy targets came their way, they reaped renown and went on their way in search of some meaningful, challenging fight.
About the Columbine comparison: A game is not real life. If you kill someone in a game you dont actually kill that person.OK. There is a big difference in the consequences of your acts. But the motivation, the reason why you behave like you do, the things you get a kick from, those have the same origin in both games and real life. The way someone behaves in a game tells a lot about their personality or lack thereof, their unconscious needs, their moral constrictions, etc.
The fact that you say you enjoy griefing says a lot about you.
One is negative, but that is your own problem and you'll have to learn how to first acknowledge it and then how to deal with it.
The other one is positive: you have the courage to admit something that some of us (maybe only a few of us) utterly despise and outright pity. You might go on about how you are not alone in this, most players feel the same etc. It doesn't matter if you are the exception or the rule. Pathetic will always be pathetic, and in my book scrub is not the worst thing to be in this game. Griefer is, because it reflects something far more pitiable in real life than a mere lack of psychokinetic skills.
I only wish you hadn't tried to explain/justify/minimize your statement. It detracts a lot from the courage of it.
If I don't answer to any replies to my post don't infer from that that I have no arguments to offer. It will just be that even though I write in the second person I'm not actually addressing the guy I quote but only expressing my view for those who can understand it. I'm not interested in bandying angry replies and I don't realistically expect people who enjoy griefing to understand any argument based on honor and empathy.
