Have you ever griefed? Now's the time to apologize (or not)

[ProtoChimp]

Hi. My name is ProtoChimp and I sincerely apologize to all mass effect 3 players online. For a long time, I would just play one round, then run into a corner and hide just get credits. I received so many hate filled messages, some funny some not, people on their mics telling me I was a douche, people actually plugging in their mics just to tell me I'm a douche... but the worse one was when I got a message telling me how to improve my greifing. I put down the controller, looked at my hands and said to myself "what kind of monster have I become?!" I guess it was karma that what I bought with all those credits were really shitty items I didn't need.

So, have you ever griefed? Are you sorry?

Capcha: OPEN SEASON

 

[ProtoChimp]

C'mon, I have a hard time believing no one here has never griefed, not even once.

 

[dimensional]

I dont grief at least not intentionally sometimes in SC I keep being pitted against the same people in ranked matches who are clearly no match for me and I mercilessly put them down again and again but I wouldnt call this griefing just bad luck. Hell its good to have an easy match up once in a while.

 

[JWRosser]

I think that people who send messages like "omgg ur so gay" or whatever are just as bad as the trolls themselves. I get annoyed and people who leech, or grief, or troll, but I've never sent a message like that, occasionally I will send a sarcastic one like "good game" but that's it.

The worst I've really done is go onto Call of Duty and put my sensitivity to highest and spin around in circles shooting. The most fun is with a rocket launcher or a riot shield. But that isn't really causing harm to anyone else except a mild annoyance and perhaps a very slightly lower score.

 

[tippy2k2]

No, I do not and I have zero tolerance for people who do.

I would constantly fuck up the griefers in Call of Duty (Glitching out of the map while on my team? I'll kill you myself. Using the "Riot Shield XP boost"? I will purposefully walk in the line of fire so you get a team-kill). If you are on my team and are griefing, I will do everything I can to fuck you over for it.

 

[Nexxis]

I don't grief because I don't wanna be griefed. The closest I ever got to griefing is in minecraft when I'm playing around with friends. Like, if they get killed, picking up all of their stuff and holding it hostage. Well, not really.I'd keep it away from them for, like, 3 minutes and tease them before giving it back.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Well... Maybe a little in TF2. 2Fort + sniper in other fort + dead ringer spy = many lols for BreakfastMan. I should be sorry for pissing the other guy off, but it was too funny any apology I could give would be totally insincere. XD

 

[anonymity88]

C'mon, I have a hard time believing no one here has never griefed, not even once.

There are some clans on JK2 who absolutely depsised me. But with the whole honour code the community forced into the game it was far too easy to upset people. I regret nothing.

 

[loc978]

I don't play online games often anymore. Don't like the people much since the proliferation of it in the early 2000s. Never griefed or leeched... can't really understand how people could find such a thing fun. Seems like you would only do that if you disliked the core game mechanics...

 

[Mr. GameBrain]

I don't think it counts as griefing but anytime I play a co-op game with my best friend I tend to just dick around randomly when he wants to achieve something.
(Don't worry, he finds it hilarious! XD)

In Borderlands I ran around punching people as the beserker, and kept challenging him to duel (even though he was like, 30 level higher than me and could kill me in a shot or two).

In Minecraft, I decided to run off while we was building, strip all my items off, and run into the wilderness at night. Needless to say I didn't last long.

In Little Big Planet 2, I kept trying to kill him. Trying to deliberately pull or push him to his death, even if it meant killing myself as well! XD

(I'd grappling hook him while he was grappling hooking stuff, then trying to pull him off into spike and electric pits)

Also it was fun placing stickers everywhere, at random times. Taking the time to stick them at oddly specific angles and places.

Man. We do some stupid stuff! XD

EDIT: Crouching in weird places, and jumping around during cutscenes in Halo 3 were our favourite activities for a whole week! XD

 

[Erttheking]

Only against people that really really deserved it.

 

[Pebblig]

Griefing is hilarious (Captcha: In stiches), but when it's happening to you it often sucks.

It is dependent upon which game you're playing...because in something like "Minecraft", you're potentially ruining someone's creation that they have spent hours on, while in FPSs, you're only really pissing someone off for a few matches =p

Therefore, my dickishness is reserved for multiplayer shooters...such as singling out a single player or being a "noob" with a certain playstyle/weapon/vehicle. The way I figure it is that if you were a decent player it wouldn't affect you too much =p

 

[Esotera]

I used to do multiple accounts on Travian and made a fake alliance of about 9 villages, where 6 where me, two were my friends, and the other was some random guy. We ended up declaring war on another nearby alliance, then got banned, trolled the mods, and left the random guy in utter disbelief that he had to handle it all on his own.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

I'm not apologizing for it. I do it to friends, and they do it in reply, all in fun. We even have rules about it. 1) That if there is maintained loot, no loot is to be destroyed. 2) Griefing must be reversible, even if it takes a long ass time. 3) You cannot grief the same person back-to-back, but two simultaneous griefs may be performed. 4)If you grief, you cannot complain when someone griefs you, you can only rate it. Terraria is still one of my favorite ways to grief. Like building a barely escapable well that they have to try and swim out of. Doubly fun if I have the mermaid shell, and I stay at the bottom to collect all their lost coinage. Ha ha ha!

 

[Popadoo]

Sorry for trapping you in the corner, several CoD players. You kinda' deserved it for all the things you said about my mum.

 

[NeutralDrow]

The closest I've ever come to it was terrifying some poor Horde newbie in WoW, who'd somehow gotten his PvP flag turned on. I was twice his level and had no interest in killing him, but I admit I couldn't resist throwing a Hunter's Mark on him just to make him run in a panic, and I got a good laugh out of it.

I'd apologize, but he ran straight into a Blood Elf paladin twice my level and sicced her on me, so I just accepted my resultant death as my just desserts. I always prefer making other players' lives easier, instead.

 

[ElPatron]

but the worse one was when I got a message telling me how to improve my greifing

Should have taken that chance, man.

 

[Zhukov]

I dappled in griefing on a couple of Minecraft servers.

Do I apologize? Not one bit.

Why not? Because I griefed in style, damnit.

My personal favourite was placing TNT under someone's house, then connecting it to a button inside the house. Next to the button I would place a a sign saying, "Do not step on this." Of the seven times I did that, five of the people pressed the button.

One time I filled a guy's stone house with lava. His reaction when he opened the door was priceless.

My bread and butter techniques were to trap people's tunnels with a TNT pitfall that would drop them in lava or bury them in sand. Also, good times were had with diverting rail carts.

 

[saintdane05]

Remember that spreadsheet that we all contributed to once? And there was that guy who only posted hentai? And wouldn't stop?

That was me. I'm not going to apologize, though.

 

[-Samurai-]

C'mon, I have a hard time believing no one here has never griefed, not even once.

There are some clans on JK2 who absolutely depsised me. But with the whole honour code the community forced into the game it was far too easy to upset people. I regret nothing.

Bow before your duels!

OT:

There's no such thing as griefing. There's being immature, and not being immature. Ruin the game all you want, but my time is more valuable than you are, and I'll be damned if I let you waste it for your own enjoyment.