Griefers, and the nerds who rage at them.

[Enigmers]

Those guys who blocked the exits in TF2 and made the teams take some sort of pop quiz to get out = hilarious. I'd be pretty miffed if I was in that game, though.

I think I saw that on youtube.

I like the greifings in which someone pretends to be someone else and mic-spams, like "Ralph" in TF2, as long as they're original and funny. A friend of mine was playing GTA4 and someone was acting like a retard (literally, like a "special" person) and said "You're such a black person" and "my mommy says I'm special."

It doesn't really take very much to make me laugh, as you can see.

 

[szaleniec1000]

I don't know about you, but some of the most fun I've ever had in a game was trying to play through Streets of Rage with three friends - every time we'd end up beating on each other rather than the AI. Griefing is simply the evolution of that.

Heh. That's my experience of Streets of Rage multiplayer too. We always ended up fighting each other as much as the enemies, especially when the Giant Area Effect Club of Doom (I think it was supposed to be a length of lead pipe or something) came into play and invariably hacked down the player fighting the enemy group as well as the enemies themselves.

 

[Hey Joe]

I don't mind a bit of griefing as long as it has some sort of point or intelligence behind the actions. Pikka Bird mentioned those guys in TF2 who blocked the exits and made people take pop quizzes to get out.

Undoutedly annoying, but quite hilarious at the same time.

On the other side of the scale, there's this http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/multimedia/2006/06/71052 which I think is a great example of how to usenegative behaviour to affect a positive outcome.

Although some wil say using a game to make a serious political statement is just the most stupid idea of all time, but I tend to think the people who play this sort of game (the hyper-realistic war sim) sometimes do not take in the full consequences of the actions they are repeating for 'fun', and sometimes this sobering perspective is needed.

Which brings up a very interesting and posibly derailing thought, are games the place for political activism or is protesting in-game totally innapropraite?

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

Go onto a WoW RP server. You'll know griefers full well after going there.

 

[BiscuitWheels]

Go onto a WoW RP server. You'll know griefers full well after going there.

I haven't had too many problems on Kirin Tor, but most of the RP has died off there.

 

[Avatar Roku]

Before Big team slayer closed in Halo 3 me and some friends played entire games using only our plasma pistols and shooting only teammates. We never killed anybody so when somebody did kill us we booted them for it.

Annoying I would bet, but at least we didn't do it in ranked matches and haven't done it since BTS was closed.

That, sir, is hilarious.

 

[fluffylandmine]

For those who mentioned the TF 2 guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPoKaoJu0m4 You're welcome.

I think griefing like that can add to an experience(some of their victims even started laughing with them).

I think just blaring anything into an open mike(or people of similar deeds), should be punished.

 

[Zac_Dai]

I've griefed and been griefed (though not been grieved by it).

Having said that there is griefing and then there is EVE-Online.

 

[Aiden Rebirth]

I really hate know-it-all 13 year olds on xbox live. oh and when ever i play with girls i hate all the pervs out there.

 

[CompanionCube]

I can toleratre griefing to a point, because I know behind that computer screen there is someone laughing there ass of. But when there is an annoying kid on,I love the mute button so much. I don't care if 8 year olds play, as long as they don't talk, I'm fine.

 

[Toastngravy]

I tend to find it quite amusing when people do things like those that have been said. While yes at times it can get tiresome, but until that point it's fine with me. You can grief all you want as long as you know where to draw the line. That and depending on what you are playing, accept that you can get in trouble for doing it.

 

[cheftacular]

Okay I got another one. I found Diablo II in my old PC games shelf, and decided to fire it up to see if anyone was still on. They were! I opened my old file for hacking is (because if you've played Diablo you've hacked it) and made a 'Sword of Epic Demises' whose tooltip said it gave you amazing powers. It actually made all your stats 1 and disabled all your abilities, and made it impossible to unequip the thing. Then I added it to my character, and told the highest level guy i could find, who was 11 levels higher than me, if he wanted it. Of course he said sure, took it, equipped it and asked to duel. I agreed, let him hit me a few times for no damage, then killed him in one hit. Then he started using CAPS in the chat and screaming about how I was such a cheater and how the game was broken, to which everyone replied 'What's your point' or words to that effect. Hilarious!

 

[ChickaYeah]

Uhh watch that post button mmkay?

posting to many threads is bad mmkkayyyyy, it gets you on probation or baned mmmkayyyyyyy, dont overpost mmkayy

and to answer the post, anyone who sings on xbox live should be punished- also people who are obv to young to play the game shouting in the mike

I always give those kids hell. Like "doesn't your mommy know you're too young to play this?" and "How bad did beg your parents to get this game for you?" or "You really should be outside playing pretend little girl" (even if it's a boy, cuz it usually is)

Yeah, they probably deserve to be harassed because they're not the same age as you. Personally, though, I like to take shots at the elderly. They don't game too much, so usually I just have to find them in real life and push them down the stairs. Good times, man, good times.

 

[cheftacular]

Uhh watch that post button mmkay?

posting to many threads is bad mmkkayyyyy, it gets you on probation or baned mmmkayyyyyyy, dont overpost mmkayy

and to answer the post, anyone who sings on xbox live should be punished- also people who are obv to young to play the game shouting in the mike

I always give those kids hell. Like "doesn't your mommy know you're too young to play this?" and "How bad did beg your parents to get this game for you?" or "You really should be outside playing pretend little girl" (even if it's a boy, cuz it usually is)

Yeah, they probably deserve to be harassed because they're not the same age as you. Personally, though, I like to take shots at the elderly. They don't game too much, so usually I just have to find them in real life and push them down the stairs. Good times, man, good times.

That's called assault, not griefing.

 

[Edible Cyanide]

I remember playing TF2 on 2FORT (and its always 2fort) and this little shit kept shouting into the microphone that "we were cheating" and "we had hacks" everytime he was killed, so our whole team of 16 guys decided we'd had enough so what we did was we all ganged up on him through the whole round until he started crying... it was awesome. then with him gone, about 5 of us became engineers and set up a all our sentries in the enemy's intel room. good times, good times...

 

[xitel]

I normally just local mute them or find a new server temporarily. TF2 being one of the only games I play online, I actually know the admins of the server I tend to frequent, so if someone is mic spamming or hacking I can message one of them and they get banned within a minute.

 

[NekoAnastasia]

I'm a Ragnarok Online GM, so the number of people who do annoying things is astronomical. The way people PM me drives me nuts, I wish they'd just come out with the question, instead of spamming this over like five lines:

"hi GM"
"hi GM"
"GM?"
"GM can I ask"

It's like, just say hi, and ask the damn question. You don't need to call me GM, I know I am, I don't need reminding. If one person does this, it's fine, but when you have 7 people all doing it at once... argh.

It doesn't even say GM in my character name. If someone calls me by my rank, I'll call them by theirs, it's just friggin' rude. Then you get all the people who think they've been mistakenly banned or something, so they go to the forum to calmly post and get the issue sorted out. These posts are usually titled "F*** THE ENTIRE GM TEAM" and go on to threaten us and all our mothers, and don't even bother giving us their in-game name so we could find out why they were banned in the first place.

Or, I'll announce I'm going to do an event, and will announce the start in a minute, and I get a hundred PMs asking me if it's started. Or I'm doing Hide and Seek, and get another hundred asking me where I am. What?

I think GMing on any MMO is enough to make you cry.

 

[Suda 51.5]

Playing CS:S and having a little kid saying "Im the best surfer and greatest player in the world" with mindless curses in between all on his mic. The best part is no one in the game stopped him. His dad comes in tells him to shut his "potty mouth", more mindless cursing from the kid and then a THUD.
player "X" disconnected. priceless moment

 

[Trivun]

When I first got Halo for the PC (a few years back, this was) I liked to pretend on multiplayer to be a Bungie server administrator so that people wouldn't swear at me or piss me off. Worked a few times but I got into some really good arguments too. Funny though .