It refers to a player whose only objective in the game is to cause grief, and who cannot thus be deterred by penalties related to in-game goals, because they have no in-game goals other than to cause grief (see Summoner's post about PK motives).
A form of cyber-bullying.Activities one player considers griefing may be understood by another to be part of normal gameplay.
It is often a form of emergent gameplay, the creative use of a game in ways unexpected by the game designer's original intent. In several games, e.g. first-person shooters, game glitches or physics quirks can become viable strategies, or even spawn their own game types. I think we have lots and lots of those in LII, although in each update they try to stop them.
An act of griefing involves the following three types of actions to be considered grief play:
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The South Park Episode 1008, titled "Make Love Not War", is an excellent parody of the issue based on WoW.
Note: Next week there will be a blog post examining the possible motives and solutions of the issue.
2 comments:
Well..
..no.
I dont play L2 just to harass other ppl.
Sometimes I log in my red TH to do that.
Some other times I play the market.
Most of the time I socialise or grind.
Yes, some times I like teasing the whole server.
It's not that bad, relax.
You see, griefers are safisticated people that have their own group of collective people. Most of the time they do what they do to improve the community, which because some good games can easily be destroyed by retarded people.
Griefers can't piss eachother off, its unpossible, unless it is a newfag or some sort of loser who tries to fit in, they immediately find themselves shut out or they get trolled so hard they might as well kill themselves.
However what was said about griefers also being people who abuse games in unintended ways are glitchers, because even I don't glitch. It is pretty low to cheat, but griefing people is far from that, though any normal stupid insecure person can consider griefing anything.
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