[poll] Grievers- Interesting creatures?

[BlackMesaSouth]

I've been thinking I would like to meet one of these people. So I could get in their head and see waht makes them tick I mean think about it.

Hackers- The main draw of a MP game is the challenge and joy of defeating your fellow man. They completly remove this for themselves. Hey have high scores, but no one respects them others only despise them. In order to hack they most go through some sort of complicated process and is probably easier to gain skill legitimatley. Joy from ruining others fun?

Exploiters- Apparently instead of playing the game they spend their time looking at things and thinking "How can I mess this up?" Many of them do these things and throughly enjoy it laughing all the way. The ones that really get me are the ones that hinder their own team (Not that I condone cheating to win.) Also they must spend their free time on youtube ooking for ways to exploit maps. Once again, joy from ruining others fun?

Mic spammers- This group has two types I call organic and synthetic. First the organics mash the mic button and yell random and obscene things. Why? What good does this do you? How does this enrich the game? Second the synthetics. Now I'm far from a computre expert but heres is how I figure it. First off they have to search the internet or create their sounds or audio loops which can take a fair amount of time. Then they either have these little tidbits of audio stored on their computer and they are either minimizing the game running these things and restoring the game and hitting that button again, Or they have them bound to keys so they can have them at hand whenever they feel the need to annoy. That seems like alot of time and work for what?

Dirty sprayers- To start the process they have to go out and seek out these images some of which one should never even be looking for. Then they have to go through a series of programs working on these and working so that actually work in game which I hear can be quite a hassle. And the question rises again. Why? What do they get from this?

Obscene name- Did they really think they could get away with it? These ones might as well have a tag that says 'I have the mind of a 5 yr old I like fart jokes and think the names of genitalia are still funny.'

That is it. Sorry if I rambled and none of this makes sense. These questions have really been buging me ever since I started online gaming.

 

[Monkeybits]

I do not care what makes them tick or to meet them. I drop the banhammer. Case closed for Monkey.

 

[BlackMesaSouth]

Who dare disturb MonekyBits and his mighty Banhammer? Thou shall pay!!!

(I should probably just go to bed.)

 

[project113]

Well hackers and exploiters are just people who want to win and are not as interested in being skillful. Think of them like the people who set a single player game to easy and turn on god mode anyway. I don't think for the most part they are trying to cause you grief, rather they just want to avoid losing. Hackers are the more nefarious of the two as they actually go out there running 3rd party programs and ducking the vac. Exploiters are like casual hackers who watch a lot of youtube and are just looking for a quick edge.

Mic spammers sprayers and names are just looking for some attention. The point of a game is to have fun which is all well and good when you first get a game, but after a while the same old song and dance can get a little boring and people need to keep themselves entertained, and if that involves messing with the environment to see you respond then that's what they'll do.

And then there are some people who are naturally hateful, probably not hugged as a child, who aren't happy no matter what happens and they just want you to be as miserable as them. But thats a small percentage of the people you would call greifers.

 

[Carmine]

I ditto monkeybits, they aint messin up anyone's fun in eGO servers as long as we are around...

 

[Glitch]

I get into their heads... when I'm recording a demo for submission. >:-D

 

[RobInactive]

Hackers i think its a challenge for them, the kind of "i do it because i can" attitude. I think the idea is to boast with others and make themselves feared because they are considered very good at coding and i think they get thrills from that.

explioters i think in some games its a thin line. Such as in starcraft, what would of been considered exploits perhaps to an outsider, is now a regulary used tactic in pro gaming, such as the pylon block, mineral jump and muta micro with an overlord/lava in the group. What i am saying is that some people have the attitude of "its in the game so ill use it, your free to use it too" which works with games like starcraft because it deosnt break gameplay, but in this it clearly does.

mic spammers i think are just petty bullyies really,. its the whole getting enjoyment out of others miserey, that kinda thing, also i think stress releif as well, as i used to do it on cs1.6 when i was about 6 which i asamed of now, but it was either because i was annoyed or i was reliveing stress funnyly enough. I'm much more mature know and i would never be so childish these days.

sprays i think again is the bully actiosn of getting response from people, either that or they are so perverted they want that kind of materail everywhere.

and obscene names is either meant to be funny or just trying to get attention.

To be honest in all cases its a kick from us, like it has been said bring out the hammer dont try and epathise i guess

 

[MrQ]

All in all these people intentionally or not are willing to go outta their way to cause trouble, mayhem, perversion, and idiocy. Do we need to understand them more? Drop that banhammer monkey...and HARD!!

 

[Moose]

I gotta agree with Monkey, and not just because I'm a suck-up. j/k I don't care what their intentions ore motivations might be; you mess around on my server, you deal with me.

 

[Anders]

I get what you are talking about BlackMesa. I also wonder about these things, and why do they make people hate them?

 

[Noravic]

These guys think they're special and that they can outsmart the rest. Or they've been having a bad day.