10-11-2007, 09:53 PM
Bolty touched on this one day but I keep wondering about it because I don't get it. Why do people get pleasure from denying other folks pleasure?
Today I was on my prot warrior wrangling aether rays. An alliance MS warrior kept killing them as I was capturing them. Why was that fun for him? He was PvP flagged but had 2 stealhed rogues running with him. I don't get where the fun of someone attacking him and getting rogue ganked would have been fun either. This isn't an anti-PvP thing. I do arena's I play BG's I even flag when questing sometimes just because. It's the old bully mentality. I don't get it. I can not wrap my head around why it's fun to push another kid down just because you are bigger/older. I don't get why in a video game you get pleasure just from denying it to someone else. I enjoy getting my virtual money. Why did that asshat alliance enjoy preventing me from getting it?
I'll never understand it. And daily quests have several easy ways to grief other players (stand on the simon nodes on a mount so people can't click on them. Land your epic flyer on someone eating/drinking and fly up so the flak hits them. Kill their rays while they are roping them, bring adds to the escorts, etc). I still won't understand answers you give me. I get way more pleasure from knowing that I've given someone else pleasure. I don't get any from knowing that I denied it from someone in a childish way.
Yes I understand competition. I enjoyed playing football. And I played to win. And me winning prevented another player from winning so I denied them pleasure. But I wouldn't have enjoyed winning if my team mates were all using stick-em or had clubs so they could break other players legs. I don't enjoy winning by going outside the rules or by simply causing people grief. Even one game where I had 4 sacks, the 3rd and 4th just weren't as fun because I knew the guy blocking me just sucked way too bad. Maybe I'm the one who isn't normal. Maybe it's because I'm too self centered (I generally compete against myself not others, swimming and track were my main sports and while you do compete against other I was happier when I swam my fastest time, not when I won a race).
Oh well it was just something that came to mind because of being griefed doing the wrangling daily.
Today I was on my prot warrior wrangling aether rays. An alliance MS warrior kept killing them as I was capturing them. Why was that fun for him? He was PvP flagged but had 2 stealhed rogues running with him. I don't get where the fun of someone attacking him and getting rogue ganked would have been fun either. This isn't an anti-PvP thing. I do arena's I play BG's I even flag when questing sometimes just because. It's the old bully mentality. I don't get it. I can not wrap my head around why it's fun to push another kid down just because you are bigger/older. I don't get why in a video game you get pleasure just from denying it to someone else. I enjoy getting my virtual money. Why did that asshat alliance enjoy preventing me from getting it?
I'll never understand it. And daily quests have several easy ways to grief other players (stand on the simon nodes on a mount so people can't click on them. Land your epic flyer on someone eating/drinking and fly up so the flak hits them. Kill their rays while they are roping them, bring adds to the escorts, etc). I still won't understand answers you give me. I get way more pleasure from knowing that I've given someone else pleasure. I don't get any from knowing that I denied it from someone in a childish way.
Yes I understand competition. I enjoyed playing football. And I played to win. And me winning prevented another player from winning so I denied them pleasure. But I wouldn't have enjoyed winning if my team mates were all using stick-em or had clubs so they could break other players legs. I don't enjoy winning by going outside the rules or by simply causing people grief. Even one game where I had 4 sacks, the 3rd and 4th just weren't as fun because I knew the guy blocking me just sucked way too bad. Maybe I'm the one who isn't normal. Maybe it's because I'm too self centered (I generally compete against myself not others, swimming and track were my main sports and while you do compete against other I was happier when I swam my fastest time, not when I won a race).
Oh well it was just something that came to mind because of being griefed doing the wrangling daily.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.