Why the experience nerf

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Here is a different one:
C'mon its not really ruining the game.  Really all a PK does is inconvience you for about 2 minutes.  The PK joins game, hostiles, you TP to town.  Or you can just leave, find new game, or create new game.

Now since you seem to be the well adjusted individual how much does it cost you to give this obviously deficient person some fun?  I mean when you come right down to it the PKer is unbalanced so maybee this is their only way to get enjoyment out of the game, what cost is it to you to allow them to have some, and shouldn't you be the bigger of the two and just turn the other cheek?

Um, no. I don't consider people having fun at my expense a sacrifice I'm willing to or should have to make. Bad behavior is not something to be rewarded or else it will continue.

As far as leaving goes, that's easier said than done. One time I had been saving up money to gamble. I was trying to go for an even number of gold, I forget how much as this was awhile ago, and was doing Blood Run games to accumulate that last bit of cash. Well, here enters Mr. PK and as we all know Blood Run games are easy targets because you just have to take the Frigid Highlands waypoint to harass people.

Needless to say, I lost over 400k to a PK who very greedily helped himself to my hard earned gold (noting that this was back when things sold for 25k max). I absolutely hate the way Blizzard rewards PKs like that.

Next example was in a cow game. A sorc became disgusted with me for ignoring his/her spam, set up a couple Hydras, TPed to town and hostiled. I'll admit to some naivety, but this was not a tactic I'd seen used before and wasn't expecting it. Needless to say, I died and the sorc got some hardy laughs. It was furthermore humiliating that I had to party with said sorc to even get back to my body due to not being able to take TPs.

Besides, with this logic you're basically excusing everything.

Oh, and bravo, Nicodemus, I agree with everything you said. PKs are essentially no different than bullies and people bully in part due to low self-esteem. I wish I could say their actions don't annoy me, but at least there's some solace in knowing that psychologically they are not a whole person.

Frankly, I wish games had a "No Hostility" option and/or functioned the same as channels whereas the game creator could kick/ban people from the game.