Nostalgia
I got to thinking the other day, and I really miss the good old days of online gaming. Sure there are a ton of great games out now, but none of them really offer the freedom to be a real bastard to people like the classics did. So many fond memories of hate tells and nerd rage that just wouldn't be possible to achieve today.
Gone are the days of opening a portal in Britania to have unsuspecting "noobs" walk through, only to be greeted by an energy vortex in an inescapable room. No more poisoning loaves of bread and leaving them in town for people to eat. No more trapping chest boxes and leaving them in the bank. No more body blocking someone into a corner then going AFK for hours or days on end. No more dropping people helplessly from buildings, directly into a pack of boss monsters. All of that is in the past.
And it wasn't just in MMOs, some of my greatest griefing memories were in FPS games. Sitting in a tank at the end of the runway, blasting any friendly plane that tried to take off. Or piloting said plane, letting my team mates hop in for a ride, then nose diving straight into the ground. Lobbing sticky grenades on to teammates who were climbing into the vehicle I wanted. Blinding teammates with a flashbang, then lighting them on fire so they didn't know who did it, only to watch the server devolve into a team killing massacre. Sadly, it seems the days of having fun at your teammates expense are coming to an end.
I wish I would have thought to save all of the screenshots and videos I had over the years. I could have probably filled an entire drive with the tales of griefing hilarity. I guess the only thing I can hope for is another game where I can torture my teammates as much as I used to.
Yes, I am that bastard team killer you hate. I am the griefer who rezes you, just to watch you die to the low level mobs beside you. I am that asshole, and I love every minute of it! Well, at least I used to 