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

[Mylinkay Asdara]

I'm sure I have caused people grief unintentionally when my fiancé hands me a controller and says "play this match I gotta go do something" be it go to the bathroom or take a phone call when it's a game I've never bloody played and I have no clue what-so-ever as to what I am supposed to be doing. I'm not sure I would apologize for that - maybe he should though lol

 

[Deviluk]

Never griefed, never felt the need/want to.

I feel it's too reminiscent of bullying, in that you make another person's day miserable just so you can get your jollies off. It's unproductive, petty and... really? What's the point? 5 minutes of hilarity while that person spends an x-amount of time frustrated and upset? Yeahno, do the math. On a grander scale, it just makes you a bad person.

My thoughts precisely. Although my brothers friend, who I found out when I was away was always being mean to him, you know, passive aggressive bullying and put-downs. So when I got back I supported him to go to his Minecraft land and do some...radical restructuring.

It is bad but can also be used for good.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

I don't make others do all the work. Not meant to be insulting its just something I don't do.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

The only time I have ever done anything like this is when I used to play Search and Destroy on CoD.

If I was the last person left, I always panicked when I realised everyone on my team was wathing me... so I would just pretend I was lost and didn't know where to go... I'd have people going mental trying to tell me where to go! It was hilarious...! I'd do things like fall off of walkways, and get everyone pissed off, then just blame it on having no right thumb, and that it was really hard playing with only fingers on my right hand... I would also lose the match by shooting around the bomb layer if I saw him... or 'forgetting' to hold the 'lay-bomb' button at the objective...

Is this trolling or greifing?

 

[Unsilenced]

I grief all the time in mincecraft. It's so much fun.

One time, I blew up a guys house about a minute before he signed on.
Seeing a minecrafter react to hours of worked being destroyed is priceless.

I hate people like you.

Have some originality when you grief. Instead of just destroying their house, replace it with a giant golden phallus, or painstakingly fill the area in so there's absolutely no trace that anything was ever there.


It's the personal effort that makes for good griefing.


The way I see it, good trolling or griefing is the result not just of being an asshole, but being an asshole in ways that are beyond comprehension. Don't just be a douchebag; be a surrealist douchebag. Make your victim question your sanity, as well as their own.

This is the way of the lulz.

 

[Aeonknight]

Hmm don't know if blowing up enemy pilots before they can get off the runway in BF3 is "griefing". I know it's not the nicest thing to do, but if maintaining air superiority so me and my copilot can continue butchering enemy tanks/choppers... fair game to me.

 

[namhorFnodroG]

Oh man, this brings back memories... Old school TF2... It was hilarous to glitch under the map with a few friends, teletrap people in stairs and go Civilian, and just being an ass in general <3 It's a bit sad that they have patched most of the glitches, but it's still always fun to confuse F2P's every once in a while or ubertrap people in spawn with a friend nowadays. ^-^


EDIT: Also, I REGRET NOTHING!

 

[SlaveNumber23]

A little bit in Minecraft to this douchebag I know, it was some awesome well executed stuff such as digging a hole in the roof of his house and leading creepers into it, until I had maybe 4 or 5 inside his house. Then he went into his house and


I actually don't mind griefers in Minecraft, it adds another level of challenge trying to fight them, I can enjoy it, as long as I'm not working on a large project, which I usually stick to doing in singleplayer or on my own server where there aren't any griefers.

 

[ArianaUO321]

APB Reloaded, I grief all the time in that when not doing missions. Either I'm in a dump truck driving around ramming every single player I see and (hopefully) killing them in the process, or I'm driving something else around, just trying to screw people up.

I suppose I should apologize to people for it but... I'm not sorry. Its just too damn fun.

 

[GameChanger]

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.

I can beat that.

I made a copy of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYY2oYHXasE
Because i saw the video.

When I realized how may eggs the thing was making i thought what to do with them. The my friend was making a castle so I made giant tower pretty far away looking looking innocent, but he didn't realized that the top of the tower was setup to launch eggs in a perfect arch from a few dispensers into his courtyard. I filled his castle with chickens so many times and he just didn't get where they were coming from. Eventually I used the fathers to make a hail of arrows launched at him. He figured out then.

Took forever to set up.

The best way to grief on Minecraft is to set up an annoyance machine that fires off at the most random intervals so that it will be hard to find. Or fill his house with Obsidian Portals, the noise always bugged me. It's not actually destructive or anything, but seeing the other guy get mad and destroy random parts of his house, frustratingly digging everywhere is priceless.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Unless occasional rage quitting counts (fuck my fucking short temper) then no, I hate it when people screw around in games. Team killers piss me off and I'd often respond by killing them even if it lost me points (and sometimes I'd be the one to then get turned on), campers piss me off, etc.

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.

Ok that actually is pretty funny.

 

[JSoup]

About the only think I can think of is my habit of clicking yes on the little 'kick this guy from group' prompts in WoW without reading them. I'm pure DPS, I don't know or care about anything but being pointed to my next target. Rest of the group thinks you're being a jackass and needs to go away? Fine by me.

Captcha: rob an attitude

 

[Dogstile]

I was playing World of Tanks.

I had a nice view round a corner and was sniping enemy tanks (knowing they had a very big gun and slow reload) and backing up out of sight until the enemy fired again and it was safe to snipe.

A smaller tank on my side drove up, ignored me and stole my sniping spot by parking right in front of me.

I drove right up behind him so he could not reverse when the enemy had reloaded and then used his corpse as cover for the rest of the battle...

I love WOT. Every time somebody ends up screaming at me to "scout dude! You're in a low tier tank!" I just type in broken English back to them. Then I proceed to go around to the other side of the map and attack from there.

People in that game get annoyed over so much.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

Gears of War 2 Guardian. We would never kill the leader, had games go for hours on end until our opponents quit and we just had bots. I'm not sorry.

 

[theblindedhunter]

I don't think I've ever actually griefed, but the attitude I take on when I get mad in a game might be similar. If I'm pissed enough, I will gladly use the cheapest of tactics to get back at people, usually because they did the very same. Or I'll simply single out an opposing sniper or something, and end them as many times as it takes for them to give up.
I'm a pretty gentle soul though, and have never, and would never, ruin people's games just for the lulz. Not my thing.

 

[SirPlindington]

I have revenge griefed on a Minecraft server. A friend (and I use the term loosely) Broke into my underground storage, stole all my iron and diamonds, flooded it (The basement was under a lake), went into my house, broke a ton of blocks, and left tons of signs all over the place saying "Hi Nick!" (Nicholas being my name, not "Sir Hrargle-Frargle Loirk-Branso Tattyfoo "Danger" Smith Jones Plindington the 982nd" as my profile may have led you to believe). In response, I went over to his house when he wasn't on and built a massive cobblestone shell over it, 5 layers deep. Much rage was had over it, but he gave me back my iron in the end and I helped him demolish the cobblestone. Good times.

 

[trollax]

I grief Minecraft servers but the best Minecraft griefers are Team Avolition.I have to hand it to them they are the best and they even play quake with notch so they win.

 

[manic_depressive13]

I don't believe I have but I've been accused of it a few times by some assholes on HoN who clearly lacked any awareness of how incompetent they were. I swear people in that game will blame anything and everything for their death except themselves. So while I didn't actively set out to cause them grief I'm glad I did because they were cunts.

I don't hold anything against actual griefers even though I've met my fair share. As far as I'm concerned if someone chooses to hang around and get upset over a game when they have the option of simply closing it, they deserve to have their day ruined.

 

[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...

I'll use LoL as an example. I'll be playing with my friends and some jackass on the other team will be taunting them while doing marginally well. I roll up there gank them, get the easy kill and shut that business down.

It's fun to see that ego deflate as you pound them into the ground.

I'm not intimately familiar with the mechanics of MOBA games in general, but that really doesn't seem like griefing to me.

*puts on old man glasses*
Back in my day, you had to perform an act of ganking repeatedly (generally to the same person and doing nothing else in between, essentially corpse/spawn camping) to be considered a griefer.