CNET reporter looks for griefers, victims

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"dbeckeratcnet" <david.becker@cnet.com> wrote in message
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> Hi--I'm a reporter for CNET working on a feature about griefers in
> online games. Would like to talk with a few folks who like to mess
> with other players or have been messed with themselves. Please respond
> to david.beckerNOSPAM@cnet.com (take out the NOSPAM).
>

Sorry to busy playing Everquest 2 :-)

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"dbeckeratcnet" wrote
> Hi--I'm a reporter for CNET working on a feature about griefers in
> online games. Would like to talk with a few folks who like to mess
> with other players or have been messed with themselves. Please respond
> to david.beckerNOSPAM@cnet.com (take out the NOSPAM).
>
> Thanks,
> db

Are we going to run a book on how many days it takes for a news report to
surface on how MMOG's cause kids to blow their head off with shotguns,
babies to be neglected and civilisation as we know it to be brought to the
verge of catastrophe?

Reporters?

*spit*

At least they prove there is a lower form of life than lawyers.

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david.becker@cnet.com (dbeckeratcnet) wrote in
news:4f4b5ddb.0411221351.192726ca@posting.google.com:

> Hi--I'm a reporter for CNET working on a feature about griefers in
> online games. Would like to talk with a few folks who like to mess
> with other players or have been messed with themselves. Please
> respond to david.beckerNOSPAM@cnet.com (take out the NOSPAM).
>
> Thanks,
> db

OMG, just got griefed from outside the CoH Network!

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"TJ" wrote

> What about Mimes and clowns? are they lower than reporters or higher than
> lawyers? lol

Not sure about clowns, but I thought is was commonly held as fact that mimes
were not considered as a form of life - period.

: -)

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Tim Smith wrote:
> In article <cntusb$s5q$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>, Rastus wrote:
>
>>Reporters?
>>
>>*spit*
>>
>>At least they prove there is a lower form of life than lawyers.
>
>
> Thus speaks the pornographer...


*lurker pops out of hiding again*

Well, pornographers have a code of ethics that they must adhere to.

*lurker returns to hiding*

--
The Astute Andrew
Just a kid seeking enlightenment.

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"mike allegretto" <rallegre@stny.rr.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:21:15 -0000, "Cheddar" <whatnoemail@me.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"dbeckeratcnet" <david.becker@cnet.com> wrote in message
>>news:4f4b5ddb.0411221351.192726ca@posting.google.com...
>>> Hi--I'm a reporter for CNET working on a feature about griefers in
>>> online games. Would like to talk with a few folks who like to mess
>>> with other players or have been messed with themselves. Please respond
>>> to david.beckerNOSPAM@cnet.com (take out the NOSPAM).
>>>
>>
>>Sorry to busy playing Everquest 2 :-)
>>
>
> hi cheddar! this is latorto. i know we haven't played together but i
> remember seeing you on the oggok server.
>

Sorry m8, I dont have the nick cheddar (someone else grabbed it) :-(

My fighter (lvl9) is called Caleb and can usually be found kicking ass in
the peat bogs :-)

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On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:40:01 -0500, "Max" <nospam@notvalid.com> wrote:

>It's not just players, it's CSR's (Sony Online Entertainment customer
>support). The last example of CSR griefing is once in SWG we organized a
>group of about 30 players for a rally. Before we even began, we started
>getting system messages to disband. In seconds they teleported us to a
>remote location off on a distant planet, and froze us. We were suspended for
>disrupting normal gameplay. Some players are still frozen and it's been over
>a week. What's funny is there are 20 or 30 merchants in that same location
>who spam away from keyboard 24/7 and the CSR's never touch them. But we
>group up for a few minutes for a rally and we get suspended, some cases
>banned, and teleported away instantly.

Nevermind the clearly stated rules against organizing mass rallies and
the consequences you received being spelled out clearly as well. Not
saying the rules are right, but the CSR was doing exactly what it was
his job to do. I'd hardly call 30 people a mass rally, true, but I
don't have the policy of how many people they consider that. If the
rally was a protest, those have a tendency of growing...

--
Dark Tyger

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http://www.actsofgord.com/index.html
"Door's to your left" -Gord
(I have no association with this site. Just thought it was funny as hell)

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In article <iek7q0pf618e2na0dhccnb9ahltimesfid@4ax.com>, Dark Tyger wrote:
> his job to do. I'd hardly call 30 people a mass rally, true, but I
> don't have the policy of how many people they consider that. If the

Besides, if they wanted to play a game where 30 people can get together,
they should be playing an MMORPG. :-)

--
--Tim Smith

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"Dark Tyger" <darktiger@somewhere.net> wrote in message
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| On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:13:00 GMT, Tim Smith
| <reply_in_group@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
|
| >In article <iek7q0pf618e2na0dhccnb9ahltimesfid@4ax.com>, Dark Tyger
wrote:
| >> his job to do. I'd hardly call 30 people a mass rally, true, but I
| >> don't have the policy of how many people they consider that. If the
| >
| >Besides, if they wanted to play a game where 30 people can get together,
| >they should be playing an MMORPG. :-)
|
| Heh.
|
| Seriously, though, I don't think it was so much that they were
| gathering, but it was the fact that they were gathering expressly for
| a "rally". The last big "rally" gathering was causing server issues
| and led to the notorious issue of GMs teleporting people into space,
| presumably to alleviate the load on the machine handling the area they
| were gathered in.

Oh yeah, that is competent "customer service".

The big problem with massive business mergers is that it is harder and
harder to punish the worst sections of that company by consumer refusal of
purchase.

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dbeckeratcnet wrote:
> Hi--I'm a reporter for CNET working on a feature about griefers in
> online games. Would like to talk with a few folks who like to mess
> with other players or have been messed with themselves. Please respond
> to david.beckerNOSPAM@cnet.com (take out the NOSPAM).
>
> Thanks,
> db
There are multitudes of people who qualify as griefers, jerks, trolls.
Go to http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/ click on
forums/galaxies/anyserverorgalaxie and read the comments or do a search.
It's doubtful you will find griefers here, imho.

I posted the question in the forum for my server:
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg [...] .id=181087