Griefing griefers out of the game can’t be a bad thing, right? There are other examples, too.

Les- elwed said it: is griefing objectively bad? Or could it be good in the service of some higher good?

I don’t block Javascript from SEB.

Edit: This time I see it (right after submission for 15 minutes), but it wasn’t there earlier. Odd.

It’s still there on my screen. It uses Ajax so if you’re blocking that then it won’t show up.

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Comments sure age fast. Also, what happened to the edit comment function?

You make it sound like griefing is always a bad thing.

Annoying people, that’s what they get out of it Zilch. At least for some of them. There’s a whole subculture on the Internet known as the Griefers who live only to ruin other people’s fun in online games. They win when you rage quit.

I’ve mentioned this before, but I still don’t get cheaters in online games. It’s not like they get paid or laid for winning, so what’s the kick? They’re like little kids who knock over the chessboard and yell, “I win!”: they didn’t win, and they just annoy everyone.

I love their “Short answer”to supporting LAN and dedicated servers. Of course if they really wanted to give a short answer, they’d have just said “No. It makes it too hard to copy and paste port it between PCs and consoles. Next!”

While it’s wonderful that they’ve gotten away from the absolutely draconian DRM of the first game, I’m still kind of iffy about buying the second one myself. Not because of the multiplayer, but because the single player in the first one was boring beyond belief.

It could pretty much be summed up as “You’ve had an interesting five minutes. Now backtrack through the area for an hour trying to find an object you couldn’t pick up the first time you came through here.”. Then you repeat it indefinitely.

It was almost like going to work. If I worked for FedEx and they hired Ayn Rand to scream at me all day long.