I thought the point of the game was to score more points and win against the other team. That's play within the structure of the game. Your goal is to win and you work towards that goal. When you start blowing up your own team in order to ruin their game and thus ruin their fun for your own pleasure entirely outside the game rules then you're griefing.Kahunaburger said:What if you're playing a game like MW2 where the point of the game is ruining the fun of others?Twilight_guy said:Trolling games is called griefing and no I don't. In fact, I avoid those who do. If you've abandoned the point of the game in order to instead try and ruin the fun of others then obviously you need a new hobby.
Oh, yeah, I don't team kill or stuff like that. But really, if IW didn't want us messing with people on the other team, why include noobtubes, 1887s, claymores, g18s, and so on?Twilight_guy said:I thought the point of the game was to score more points and win against the other team. That's play within the structure of the game. Your goal is to win and you work towards that goal. When you start blowing up your own team in order to ruin their game and thus ruin their fun for your own pleasure entirely outside the game rules then you're griefing.Kahunaburger said:What if you're playing a game like MW2 where the point of the game is ruining the fun of others?Twilight_guy said:Trolling games is called griefing and no I don't. In fact, I avoid those who do. If you've abandoned the point of the game in order to instead try and ruin the fun of others then obviously you need a new hobby.
Look up the Escapist issue on greifing sometime, it has some interesting stories.
That is BRILLIANT. I hate it when people take things too seriously, and that's why I love trolls and trolling. It's no fun when everyone's all hardcore and forgetting that in the end, it actually is just a game.Generic Gamer said:That's not actualy 'trolling', that's 'griefing' and it's hilarious.
My mates and I did it in Black Ops, my friend was playing 'sticks and stones' and another player was smack talking before the match about how we were all doomed and how good he was with the tomahawk. He was from somewhere in the southern US.
My friend made it his mission to kill him exclusively all through the match, every tomahawk was thrown at this guy, every bolt fired at him and every ballistic knife discharged in his direction and every time he died we'd all yell:
He quit after one match, every time he tried to talk smack he'd sprout an axe handle and have to respawn amid the noise of 5 jeering drunken students screaming 'tomahawk'. He sent us a rude PM after the match deriding our skills...we sent him one back.My housemates and I said:TAH-MAH-HAAAAAAAAAAAK!!!!!!!!!!
Guess what our one said?