We Need Toxic Players, According to Orcs Must Die Developer

[kasperbbs]

Maybe you need them because they pay you money, but i don't want to deal with them, but i have to admit that it's pretty satisfying to defeat them and watch them squirm until they start talking about skull****ing my mother, then it gets weird.

 

[beastro]

I'd be willing to bet he was a Sullon Zek fan if he played Everquest.

Griefers (since when did Toxic Player become the norm???) are a vital part of gaming community, everyone needs their scum of their earth, love to hate em type, but they're predators and need a good population of sheep to feed on which means keeping them low in number.

Sadly the supply more than fills the demand.

Are you serious? Assholes are never good for anything. They're a turn off to new players.

They promote intense passion, rivalry and fighting. Uniting others into crushing them.

Rallos Zek would have been nothing without it's PK population and with it it gained a feeling of the Wild West with players enforcing their own social order.

 

[Keith K]

Okie....dokie....

Have fun moderating those forums, Toxic Avenger.

 

[trytoguess]

Hmm, so looking at the followup the Orcs Must Die folks posted it seems that everyone is actually in agreement. The devs simply used a word in an improper way and now there's a minor bruhaha. In short nothing to see here, move along.

 

[Sayuma]

Yeah, sounds like rationalization to me... um, developer, you are aware that you're in an abusive relationship, right?

Shh Shh. Just let it happen.

 

[Riotguards]

generally when i go to play my games i like my games to either have toxic as a story element or gameplay (i.e. shooting / driving over people who scream at me) why should i put up with uncivil behaviour because someone's pacifier wasn't sugar coated