Do any of you do that?
I used to mess around and tease people to see if I could stir them up just for fun... and it was fun, but I quit it a couple of years ago. Now I just like to play, nothing else.

I remember that it was quite funny at one time though, especially because tonight when I was playing TF2, someone on my team (red) took something badly and started being a baby. I kept silent during the whole thing, not even typing, just playing the game and listening to it. But jeez, it was hilarious listening to him get stirred up over the most inane taunts... The funny thing was that half the time the other people weren't even being mean, they were trying to be friendly and he'd take it the wrong way and it'd just get funnier and funnier. Even though he made us loose because he was being such a dick it was worth it.


I'm not a mean person, but this guy cracked me up the way he overreacted. lol!
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So, any experiences with this? Being an arsehole? Being teased and over reacting in an embarrassing way? Or just witness it like I did?

I'm actually much nicer online then I am in real life. Mostly because when I'm joking or playing around it comes off completely douchebagish online. When I played MMOs in the day I used to be the nicest guy in the world. Like WAY back in the days of the first edition of Runescape...Ah, that crappy crappy game. I had an account called Noobhelper where I ran around helping out people who were unfamiliar with the game. I quit when people started being VERY greedy or thinking that I OWED them help. I was still nice and helpful, but I didn't go particularly out of my way.

Same as when I used to play Gunz. Ah me and my free games(can't afford no WoW). But that's me and I like being nice. I get more joy out of people enjoying me rather then ostracizing myself.

So, I'm screwing around way back on the Battlefield: Bad Company demo, and I end up on the numerical superiority at the fist defence. There's two of them and three of us. Two of us are living it up strategic style at the enemy base. I'm in a bad mood and decide to be a general hindrence to my new team, the chosen method being staying near the crates and preventing the enemy from releiving us of the burden of their inevitable and considerable tax.

Naturaly, conflict develops when someone notices my greifing.

He calls me out on it, with the logical response, "Y'all a bunch of pussies, don't know how to play this shitty game."

His late singular buddy decides that our great leader has overstepped the bounds of his command. Responding with a sarcastic comment that I could barely understand. The commander takes offence to the use of a word beginning with 'N'.
The word was 'Nigga'.

I watch in awe, and forced silence, as it devolves into a singing contest.

A debate ensues with me as the subject, our great leader suggests that I stop my insipid hiding on a rooftop and machinegunning every visitor, with his knife.

In the resulting firefight, I displayed an unforgivable level of bullying, killing our team leader repeatedly (ensuring that he be unable to punish me further for my crimes), while ensuring our tax risk remain firmly in place. From the now four strong enemy. My rapping comrade in mutiny is somewhere in the area, commenting occasionaly on the ensuing chaos.

It all comes to a head when we have a tank showdown. That is, he jumps into the tank, I stand in front of it.

He loses sight of me at the other end of the alley.
My comrade, sick of my endless buffonery, gives away my location to the nearest degree.

Upon locating me, the keen eyes of a true leader take aim, and plant a shell about seven metres in front of me, and ten to the side. At this point he leaves in disgust.

...I've been waiting to get that of my chest. I feel like a new man.


Seriously though, I'm pretty lucky, that's probably the closest I've come to arsehattery (giving or receiving) in a game in years. Next to messing with friends, but that's all understood.
I'm totally grateful for it though, especially hearing some of the 'horror' stories that so many people seem to have in such substantial supply.

When playing Vendetta Online I usually do trading. But after being griefed by one of the game's more infamous PKer/griefer pirates I decided to work on my PvP. With my skills getting better by the day I'm very tempted to become a pirate myself, though I won't go so far as planting mines on the station's launch docks and shooting newbies repeatedly as they try to launch... :)

I avoided online gaming for years because of the stuff you guys are talking about. I used to play Quake 2 online, but after that I got pretty fed up with random stupid players. Nearly ten years later I decided to give a few free online MMORPGs a shot, but that only proved to me that YES, stupid people are still on the internet. Probably EVEN MORE now than there were in 1997.

These days people always say "It BETTER have online play" before they'll buy a game. But I think they underestimate the fun of playing games with their friends locally. That's how I got by for so long.

It took a game as brilliant as Team Fortress 2 to drag me back into online play. And I seem to be doing fine in it. I still do run across plenty of jerks online (specifically, some people try to recreate the pranks in this video ). The nice thing is that now I have enough friends playing with me to make them regret it. And the people who won't shut up or insist on constantly playing "Banana Phone" through the voice chat are easy to mute.

Ozone, your story reminds me of this video .

I agree with Hawk for the most part. I actually do love multiplayer games, but I hate the players.

I've never griefed anybody before, and I don't intend to. Acting like an ass won't make my game any better, and only hurts the enjoyment of others, as it does with me. I hate it when I'm playing a game, having fun, when a couple of idiots start jerking around and playing at being prigs. It spreads, and soon besides the childish insults, we also get players abusing the way the game is meant to be played.

So I tend to just play with my friends, and especially over LAN when I can. At least I know them and we have fun together.

But, sometimes, one good deed can lead to another. I played a round of Open Arena a couple months ago against one of the toughest, and yet most polite, players I've ever encountered, and had a blast, even though I frequently lost 10-to-1. And this player's good attitude about everything spread to the others playing and we had a grand old time.

Good sportsmanship and a little politeness go a long way to making multiplayer gaming fun.

Sometimes I do act like a prat, but only when I think the person I'm irritating deserves it. If it starts bothering other players, I'll stop. Sometimes it can turn into a sort of 'acting like a bastard' pissing contest, but I haven't lost yet.

My brother though, is the king of this sort of thing. I remember this one time he spent an entire Battlefield match trying to blow up a tank with his pistol.

Yeah, Griefing isn't good. -_-
-I'll watch Hawk's vid when I get home! :)

I think I mainly used to stir people up sometimes when I played that silly Gunbound game... But that was usually with provocation. When someone was being a dick, that'd make me want to change their attitude. ...and be a dick right back. Which was fun when I got more skilful. But there were too many young players in the end and it's not very interesting to even talk to them.

One thing I did for a while though as make a female character called "fire cow", gave her cool armour and stuff and pretend to be really niave and dumb. People would try and tease me about the name and I'd pretend that it was meant to be "fire crow" and I'd misspelled it. I'd act as if I was really hurt etc. I'd play badly for a while and complain about them being mean to me...
Then I'd just stop talking and beat the pants off them.

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Battlefield 2 is a game where you get dicks on your own team. The buggers who, if they don't get the vehicle they want will jump in front of it as its going and punish you for running them over. They'll hog all the best vehicles or cry if they can't get them.
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Politeness in games is good. That's my thing. I like helping my team :)
That's why that guy's behaviour was so startling. In a game like TF2 you have to work as a team to win. If not, the other guys will... Like last night, I was on a team of morons... Instead of capping Red's points these idiots just hung around the spawn and built sentries, leaving 3 guys alone to do all the work... So I switched teams. We all went as spys for fun and demolished them.

Only game I ever seriously played online was Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, and its expansions. It's a RTS. So it's always you vs them from minute 1. And it's never mistaken for a women's game so there's no men pretending to be hot chicks etc or any of that bull. I log on to kill or be killed.

Ofc there are team games but I hate team games. I don't have a team mentality. Once the game starts I go berserk and want to kill as many as possible, even if that causes me to lose the war. Usually that mentality serves me well in 1v1, but in Team Game and Free For All I usually lose even though the stats board at the end often shows me as the one with the most enemy kills...

ozoneocean
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Battlefield 2 is a game where you get dicks on your own team. The buggers who, if they don't get the vehicle they want will jump in front of it as its going and punish you for running them over. They'll hog all the best vehicles or cry if they can't get them.
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I remember wishing killing my team mates wasn't bad. I used to play that game a LOT. And after a while I got seriously tired of the idiots on my team so I went off and started sniping. My own Team mates. Most of them actually just stood there trying to take aim at me... They were yelling at me too, of course. The other team didn't know what the heck I was doing. It was all fun and games until some bastard in a vehicle stole all my fun >_>