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Noob bullying will always be a part of MMOs. Always. If the game is a PVE kinda game, noob bullying will take place with the non-stop ksing of noobs. When I was playing MU, I used to go to Devias when I was still a level 50ish nooby Dark Knight. There was a worm spot that gave me solid xp and had a pretty good spawn rate. However, one time this guy with wings (at least lvl 180) came there and spent the full ten minutes I tolerated him killing all my creeps. And then when I decided to make a move, he zapped me with a bolt of lightning and I died. I was annoyed because I personally would have preferred it if he had just killed me at the beginning. In PVP games most people like to kill and be dicks by other guarding the other player's corpse, or just standing outside of town spamming spells so that if any fool actually walks out he will be killed before he can even say "This Is SPARTA!"
The thing that confuses me is, why is it that these bullies never seem to outgrow this? I play basketball, and I'm decent at it. I'm not the best neither am I the worst. However, occasionally I get a chance to play with people that are really bad. I don't really see the joy out of it. Yes, occasionally I can break someone's ankles, but it's not that big a deal if the guy isn't even in a proper defensive stance. It's much more fun when the guy is about your level or slightly better than you. But somehow noob bulliers never seem to get tired. They can stand there for as long as an hour just being dicks. I onced afked when a guy started going on what I call a "town watch" and came back an hour later only to see the same guy down there town watching. And no, he wasn't afking. At least when I got back.
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