Biznatchy
15-02-04, 05:24
Griefers VS Carebears Episode The Ongoing saga
This war has gone on for many years. It is still being fought to this day. Every since the first game that called it self a RPG put in the ability for players to interact with each other these two camps have done battle. Each side thinks it has the right to certain things and the truth is always somewhere down the middle.
It started in MUDS, I guess. The first time people started abusing the game mechanics to just piss in someone’s post toastsies. Simple text based internet dungeons run on small machines allowed people to play roles of medieval fantasy. There were always a few sad people that wanted to play the roll of mass murder or lunatic killers. They ran around killing what ever they could for the simple enjoyment of knowing someone else had to reap the rewards of dying in what ever game system they were playing. Then came MMPORPG’s. This brought in a hole new wave of griefers from different game types demanding the right to kill who ever and what ever they wished. All the time defending their actions with saying its just a game … whatever we all know the rhetoric of these players its gets old about the 4th or 5th game you see the same type of people saying the same thing.
Then there are the Carebears. These are a strange lot themselves. They profess that these game are to be played as RPG’s and PVP should be in the strict RP role of the game. That people should attempt to limit PVP to people of equal levels and speak of honor and respect for other gamers. These gamers want to just come in and explore the game produce items in what ever market system and mostly just like to be social and have light hearted fun. They also know that forming a brute squad to go after the griefer that just ganked them is just playing into the hands of the griefer so most of this battle has been fought on the various boards of each game system.
The ones caught in the Middle, the game devs. Each game attempts to keep both sides happy but to no avail it comes down to the same battle. Each game fails to be able to control the gankers and still have a PVP system that is close to useful. Im starting to wonder if there will be a game that can have PVP in an RPG setting and not have this war being wage
This war has gone on for many years. It is still being fought to this day. Every since the first game that called it self a RPG put in the ability for players to interact with each other these two camps have done battle. Each side thinks it has the right to certain things and the truth is always somewhere down the middle.
It started in MUDS, I guess. The first time people started abusing the game mechanics to just piss in someone’s post toastsies. Simple text based internet dungeons run on small machines allowed people to play roles of medieval fantasy. There were always a few sad people that wanted to play the roll of mass murder or lunatic killers. They ran around killing what ever they could for the simple enjoyment of knowing someone else had to reap the rewards of dying in what ever game system they were playing. Then came MMPORPG’s. This brought in a hole new wave of griefers from different game types demanding the right to kill who ever and what ever they wished. All the time defending their actions with saying its just a game … whatever we all know the rhetoric of these players its gets old about the 4th or 5th game you see the same type of people saying the same thing.
Then there are the Carebears. These are a strange lot themselves. They profess that these game are to be played as RPG’s and PVP should be in the strict RP role of the game. That people should attempt to limit PVP to people of equal levels and speak of honor and respect for other gamers. These gamers want to just come in and explore the game produce items in what ever market system and mostly just like to be social and have light hearted fun. They also know that forming a brute squad to go after the griefer that just ganked them is just playing into the hands of the griefer so most of this battle has been fought on the various boards of each game system.
The ones caught in the Middle, the game devs. Each game attempts to keep both sides happy but to no avail it comes down to the same battle. Each game fails to be able to control the gankers and still have a PVP system that is close to useful. Im starting to wonder if there will be a game that can have PVP in an RPG setting and not have this war being wage