Why the experience nerf

[Occhidiangela]

You just want to sit quitely in your corner, doing your stuff without being bothered, perfectly accomodated with the political situation as is. You'll regret your immobilism when you're mobilized to go fight and die in some strange land, a mere expendable soldier imposing the tyranny of the mighty multinational companies.

Equating legit play to conservatism is a bizarre leap of logic. Or are only conservatives people who wish for people to be courteous to one another in public interaciton, to have consideration for others? Many a liberal feels the same way about having consideration for others. Or do they? Is it not the liberal voice that wishes to blame society and not the criminal when the punks mug people in our fair cities? I wonder.

Your analogy is the most outrageous line of nonsense I have seen in a while, and is a perfect parallel to some of the nonsensical tirades against "PK's as potential murderers" that get spouted on dii.net, bnet, and elsewhere. A griefer is just an arsehole acting out without the fear of sanction. If that is effective stress relief for some folks, so be it, Blizzard allows for that in their Realm, by design.

The issue of griefplay is the issue of a person to person interaction that is protected by the internet's anonymity. Harassing other players can never be construed, on a person to person level, as anything other than antisocial behaviour similar to bullying. The fact that folks can get away with it, or indeed that Blizzard's rule system obviously endorses and supports such interaction, in no way mitigates the antisocial nature of grief play in an on line game.