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The bullying of noobs

Category: Default Game: Default Posted on Aug 21, 2009 9:18 am


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.

comments ( 15 )

Xesolor
Post Time : Sep 09,2009 3:00 pm

Letting emotions getting the better of them because of games ...... phhhht, ridiculous behaviour.

 

Some just can't distinguish the difference between "newb" and "noob", there's a subtle but important difference, newbs might annoy you unintentionally because they haven't gotten around the "rules" yet, but noobs deliberately annoys you just for the heck of it.

Arcmoon
Post Time : Sep 03,2009 2:44 pm

Hey some people just don't have the time to actually be skilled i guess.No most people like that just don't have any actual strength so  when they get the chance to become a bully they take it.

Schweizersabel
Post Time : Aug 26,2009 3:19 am

Hey, thats life. You get to be stronger so that you can repay the bullies that did the favor. Nobody gives a crap about whiners. You watch nobody's back other than your own right? However, repetitive noob-killing is simply disgraceful, especially when you find sheer enjoyment about it. Its a bigger challenge to face people that are on equal footing on you or the noobs who have ascended to your level. You got gears and you got game, so why not get it on with someone your own size?

jowawe
Post Time : Aug 24,2009 5:37 pm

are u sure

thlee replied at 9:22 pm Aug 24,2009
I like the Paul profile pic. Very badass. Personally a Kazuya guy myself, but still, respect.
KuramaShuichi
Post Time : Aug 24,2009 4:21 am

Well I hate pk, but I dont even like pvp lol.I think some people enjoy though. I think people who dont like these kind of annoyance should avoid pk servers :). But if there was no server like that in the game, I would probably just quit :o.

Alibasan
Post Time : Aug 24,2009 1:27 am

I don't like killing noobs. Maybe at the begining it's quite fun, but later it's just getting bored and you don't feel right about others.

I PK only when i have to, like gaining Honor in WoW or when my friends need help (in other games ofc xD).

The one who PK noobs generaly have problems in their real life. I know my friend who also liked to PK noobs and his life was a little bit f*****. This just show how weak they are actually.

doogie
Post Time : Aug 23,2009 11:18 pm

 I do see this a lot myself. I am not one cause I gain no enjoyment out of it but I will say some times it is annoying but we are the ones who asked for it in the first place. Lets be real for a second. We all sat down and was like, "I wish I could player kill anyone anytime!" Well bam thats what we get for even thinking it. So I say you can not make it go away in games. You can control it but when you cant like elve said, "You just have to believe that for every PK there is a PKK." 

As well as I agree with most people here it is sad people just want to beat up on noob players but think about it this way. Maybe those who can not kill their own levels or fight on par with any others above them are just to damn bad at the game so they beat up on their true levels. I hope that helped you out a bit but keep up the good writing. I really enjoyed this as it goes on 24/7 in the game world no matter what game it is.

Vincent__Valentine
Post Time : Aug 23,2009 8:04 pm

I'll pk when I get bored, but games like RF Online it's just rediculous! YOu can get PKed by other people a billion times and even get PKed by your own race...wtf?! I hate it so much, esecially in Ether. Accretia are so slow!!

Ottoha
Post Time : Aug 23,2009 12:29 pm

I like to pk... but theres a differecen in pking and beeing an ass... killing noobs for me is lame... u want to pk? go kill someone same lvl as u or higher... or ur the noob cause u cant handle it... and i dont think its fun to kill wweaker players.. wheres the challenge... reskilling, looting... all that sucks... when i pk, i only pk for the status (red name on ultima) but i still like to help others and hunt along with friends...

for me , those nk (noob killers) are a bunch of spoiled kids... make games rated 18+ and ull see this kind of atittude basically desappear for ever in gaming world (of course there is some morons that continues to be ****s when they pass 18, but most of them grow)...

nice article

frogman302
Post Time : Aug 23,2009 9:50 am

 I've thought about this, and basically any time you give people a way to look nicer, be stronger, or whatever else, people will use it as an excuse to rub it in other's faces.

The anonymity of the internet makes it that much easier.

But just because it happens, doesn't make it right.  Just because someone has spent money, or has more levels, it doesn't make them better.  Might does not make right.

And, if everyone in a game believes in "might makes right" and "whoever is strongest is best by that fact", it would eventually destroy the game.

Why?

Because the ones who get preyed on all the time will quit(except for a few who will evolve into ****s just like they're taught by the PKs).  And because no one will work together, the communities will fail, and that will cause others to quit.  And then all you're left with is hardcore ****s who want nothing more than to nail you to a wall.  And no one wants to be around these people.  Especially the other hardcore ****s, who won't like each other because they're just as strong as them and not an easy kill.

So the next time you think "might makes right", remember, that if everyone thought that, there wouldn't be anyone left to play with except for other ****s like yourself.  And the funny thing is, the hardcore ****s hate other people like them even more than anyone else :D

yia
Post Time : Aug 23,2009 6:45 am

well atleast we know that lvl 180 guy has a life hehe (its a joke if ppl dont get it)

Cyferlaw
Post Time : Aug 23,2009 4:32 am

I loled @ This is Sparta! :D That would be decent for me to call when someone killed noobs at town gate and says that. You never understand them because you never become them, so just beat it when you saw them, theres always alot of this people in pk server.

thlee replied at 7:24 am Aug 23,2009
Yea I wrote it down because my friends were playing Street Fighter 4 as I was writing this and one guy yelled that out as he Shin Goku Satsued my other pal.
elve
Post Time : Aug 22,2009 4:25 pm

You just have to believe that for every PK there is a PKK. :)

ZzTieuLongXIIzZ
Post Time : Aug 22,2009 3:45 pm

lolz every1 have to be a nub at some point :)

jeffdaking
Post Time : Aug 22,2009 2:54 pm

Killing noobs is perfectly fine. It isn't uncommon in Real Life that those who have more power/money mistreat those who have less. If you whine about being killed by a higher leveled player, you're a noob. It's something you have to tolerate. For me it's always fun to be a high level and have all the cool powers that weaker people want. The reason why the higher players annoy and kill the lower players is because they probably want you to quit before you get stronger (and are able to challenge them), or they are having fun in the game. Killing other players, especially weaker ones is extremely fun, when you are the killer. I know the pain of being killed by higher leveled players. It sucks. That's why I try so hard to get to their level and rape them in the face.