Why is griefing fun?

[Taelas]

How can you say gankers "ruined" PvP servers?

Because what what happens mostly on PvP servers isn't PvP -- it's griefing, ganking.

I rolled on Bloodscalp the day it went active. I spent a little bit of time on Magtheridon prior to that, since Bloodscalp was not a launch server (it went live in December, I think.) Ganking was prevalent throughout Hillsbrad during the time I spent on Magtheridon, and it was prevalent on Bloodscalp as well.

Ganking was there from the start. How the hell can you say it ruined anything when it was there to begin with?

Simple. PvP is skill. Ganking is not.

It's obvious when you engage in fair world PvP that ganking is but a perversion of it.

Again, it's part of your mindset: to you, ganking is bad and must be purged so that all PvP that exists is all organized and "fair". That is the definition of a carebear; someone who objects to PvP. Ganking is PvP whether you like it or not.

The problem lies with gankers. Players who enjoy ganking have ruined PvP servers for those who want to engage in fair world PvP whenever the opportunity arises, but who do not enjoy getting steamrolled by ?? level players every five minutes. (And yes... I have been ganked by four different level ?? players four times in a row when I ran back to my corpse. I'd run back, heal up, pull a mob, then get attacked before I make my first hit. Four different players, four times in a row.)

You can keep repeating that because ganking exists, anyone who rolls on a PvP server implicitly agrees to ganking, but that doesn't make it true.

The abused becomes the abuser, so the cycle continues.