07-11-2003, 06:23 PM
Quote:The personal choice of playing on a Bnet server has now cost me the reality that I could be killed at any given moment for no particular reason?
Absolutely. The only rules you can expect to be followed in public bnet games are anything the game allows. (And sometimes not even that -- third party programs.) To say PKing is "cheating," I can't agree with. Blizzard built it in; PKs take advantage of it. People who play public games must be aware that, at any given moment, they *may* be hostiled and attacked. That's the reality Blizzard created.
Does it suck? You bet. If you ask me, there *should* be a Hostile On/Off button at game creation. But Blizz prefers to allow grief play. Those of us who want safe games must find communities that can provide that.
Myself, I bid Good riddance! to public games a long time ago. PKing aside, it's just chuck-full of idiots. I still don't see why people are drawn to them. I'd stay away even if Blizz allowed disabling of player hostility. :p
[o: *LEMMING* :o]