I Gaslit an AI Game Companion Until She Lost Her Mind

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When you discourage cheating, that's authoritarian behavior, setting yourself up for haves lording over have-nots. Whoever can game the rules more effectively gets to be endlessly cruel to everyone else. Minimaxxers rule your server, and nobody has any fun.

When you discourage griefing, then even people following the rules can get in trouble for being dicks to other people. And people who refuse to follow the rules won't get in trouble as long as they're getting along with everyone else.

If someone is causing you grief, you stop playing with them. That's how it works in Kindergarten, that's how it should work in video games. It makes no sense to restrict everyone, purely to allow griefers to play with you.

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BitCraft lays out its combat and territory philosophy and its plan to stay ‘resilient to griefing’
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Quand j'y pense, quand je regarde ce que #Musk et #Doge sont en train de faire aux #États-Unis je me sens comme quand je vois un super beau serveur de #Minecraft en train de se faire détruire par des utilisateurs malicieux, ou comme on appelle ça dans le jargon du jeu: #Griefing
How Star Citizen Aims To Beat "Griefing" & Allow for Piracy

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I don't know, maybe it's just me. But I find something enraging about the sight of this man giggling about spending four months ruining the gaming time of people who couldn't fight back.

So, a poll then. Griefing* in online games: OK, or not?

*Define griefing how you like. For me, anything where the point is to ruin the experience of other players who cannot effectively fight back without gaining you anything significant, especially where the people you're disrupting need to pass what you're doing to progress. So this is griefing, but eg. camping a gate in null-sec in Eve would not be, because you'd get loot out of it and because you expect pirates behind every gate in null sec.

https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1825986159518036328

(With apologies for hellsite link)

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Griefing is fine. You chose to play the game.
0%
Griefing is the preserve of assholes
100%
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