Poll: Gaming Trolls
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It can be good for a laugh, depending on the circumstances, but if you do it at the wrong time...it can get really annoying really fast.
I've even partaken in trolling several times, but I always stopped after a short time because it gets old to both the troll and the trolled and becomes expected behavior. You have to do the unexpected to be successful.
I've even partaken in trolling several times, but I always stopped after a short time because it gets old to both the troll and the trolled and becomes expected behavior. You have to do the unexpected to be successful.
Trolling's always fun, unless you're the one being trolled. In which case it's a nuisance. Of course, if you're a good sport about it and don't stand around whining about how unfair it is, it's tolerable.
Is that the trolling these days? I haven't played multiplayer games for a while now (one with a lot of people, not just 2-4 or something) but it doesn't seem that impressive to me.
Back in the days of the first massive Counter-Strike servers (Internet grew enough to make them accessible to a lot of people) me and friend formed a clan. So the six of us joined this server with around twenty people but it turned out we couldn't play together. So we joined different teams (obviously) and played to the best of our abilities to survive till the end, once it was only us remaining, we just trolled the entire server by dancing around the bomb site, play fetch with weapons and generally not killing the other team. Everyone was mad and a few even quit because of it. Gee, I didn't know 5 minutes was too ling to wait for another round.
Ad then, I remember the days of good old Diablo 2, when the Lagamancer was a viable and extremely evil build - name a necromancer and invest in all summoning spells, enter a server on a high difficulty where people will go after cows or something else challenging, rise your horde and teleport to them "Guys, can you give me a TP?" - the extreme lag caused by suddenly 50-60 new things arriving in the area, meant that everybody was most likely dead by the end of it. "But I just wanted to help you guys".
Diablo 2 again, it was easy to convince noobs that they can do by pressing Alt+Ctrl+F4.
Same game, a friend of mine was boasting about his character which was edited. Paladin, I believe, the character with charge and he was fond of it. So I just slightly edited a Necromancer - only skipped the levelling, nothing else, and offered a duel. So, my friend charges me, convinced that I'm dead (he was doing something in the order of 20K minimum damage and my character had ~1000) but Iron Maiden (curse - he returns damage to him when he attacks. Amplified) and Bone Prison (has to attack it to escape) taught him humility.
Back in the days of the first massive Counter-Strike servers (Internet grew enough to make them accessible to a lot of people) me and friend formed a clan. So the six of us joined this server with around twenty people but it turned out we couldn't play together. So we joined different teams (obviously) and played to the best of our abilities to survive till the end, once it was only us remaining, we just trolled the entire server by dancing around the bomb site, play fetch with weapons and generally not killing the other team. Everyone was mad and a few even quit because of it. Gee, I didn't know 5 minutes was too ling to wait for another round.
Ad then, I remember the days of good old Diablo 2, when the Lagamancer was a viable and extremely evil build - name a necromancer and invest in all summoning spells, enter a server on a high difficulty where people will go after cows or something else challenging, rise your horde and teleport to them "Guys, can you give me a TP?" - the extreme lag caused by suddenly 50-60 new things arriving in the area, meant that everybody was most likely dead by the end of it. "But I just wanted to help you guys".
Diablo 2 again, it was easy to convince noobs that they can do by pressing Alt+Ctrl+F4.
Same game, a friend of mine was boasting about his character which was edited. Paladin, I believe, the character with charge and he was fond of it. So I just slightly edited a Necromancer - only skipped the levelling, nothing else, and offered a duel. So, my friend charges me, convinced that I'm dead (he was doing something in the order of 20K minimum damage and my character had ~1000) but Iron Maiden (curse - he returns damage to him when he attacks. Amplified) and Bone Prison (has to attack it to escape) taught him humility.
I can handle trolling, to an extend. Hell, I've played enough Halo and CoD games to think it's safe to say I know the dark side of online gaming. I usually respond to trolling with trolling of my own. Given that I am in a good, laid-back and not too serious mood that is. I usually go flip a table when some jackass on my team keeps shooting me while I'm desperately trying to put my last sniper rifle bullet to good use. Raging included of course.
Personally, I don't see there being much of a difference if you're the one actually on the receiving end of it.Bema Jinn said:
I'm definitely on the side of "trolls can die in a car fire." If I'm playing a game, I want to play the game. If I want to do something "for the lulz" I do it when I'm sure everyone involved is also in it for the same thing.. otherwise it's just being a dick.
The example given in the OP isn't that good. It'd be funny the first couple times, but then it'd just get annoying and pointless, because you're killing your own team.
no not really
actually I was playing Age of empires online with some random guy and out of nowhere he's like
"are you a girl?"
"uhhh....yeah? how did you know?"
"you sound like a girl, your sentence structure.." or somthing like that...
so aparently I was too polite and typing to well to be a guy
actually I was playing Age of empires online with some random guy and out of nowhere he's like
"are you a girl?"
"uhhh....yeah? how did you know?"
"you sound like a girl, your sentence structure.." or somthing like that...
so aparently I was too polite and typing to well to be a guy
Man falls down a manhole and dies = hilarious
I get a papercut = tragedy
Same applies here, as long as im not on the receiving end I can enjoy it, if I do lurch into the situation I just use the handy report and block system that is common in most games now a days.
I get a papercut = tragedy
Same applies here, as long as im not on the receiving end I can enjoy it, if I do lurch into the situation I just use the handy report and block system that is common in most games now a days.
Trolling can be funny. But if it's happening all the time it gets real old real fast. But we can all use a good laugh every now and again.
How about asking the people you're playing with or, if you're on the PC, just starting a lobby of your own for that purpose? I've found that's usually a pretty good way to see if others are of the same mind as myself.mikey7339 said:
Of course, you could say that an unaware person being targetted is the major part of the fun.. but that, as I said, is a pretty dickish thing to do. It's pretty safe to assume that if someone has logged on to play, I don't know, Battlefield they are probably logging in to play Battlefield not logging in to be the target of a prank that wastes their time.
Also, I fail to see how wanting to play the game you paid for in the way the game is meant to be played makes you a sheep.