@theblackbellamy said in I'm the one that sinks you on sight, even if you have no loot. AMA:
When i get a particularly bad-sink... i go out and try to find a few LFG sessions that seem like they were intent on having a good time, and i ruin those sessions.
...i'd like to be able to get vengeance on the origianal offending ship, but i can't. They're too strong, too good...
I just paid money to be filled with a sense of helplessness & injustice?Lol it's funny that you made a Joker reference at the end. Reading through, I was thinking "this guy's a clown".
As "aggrieved" as you may feel after being sunk, Rare has said time and again that griefing is intra-crew, not inter-crew (save for obvious instances of actual harassment).
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Maybe you're wrong and maybe you're right, but.. even though i respect your right to act like a jerk, do you agree with the sociopathic tendencies of the original OP, or are you here advocating for a completely different palette of warped morality?
There can be the way the game makers describe intent for the game to be experienced, but only each player can determine what range of emotions they will feel as they experience gameplay, and those emotions are valid whether they align with the gamemaker's original intent or not. The game can't declare "You're supposed to think this part is fun!" and succeed in convincing a product consumer base to believe it if they're not feeling it, that's not how consumers work.
But philosophically we seem to be discussing whether one flavor of schaudenfreude is more valid than others. If someone openly has intent to ruin the gaming experience of others, does it matter what their motive is, or whether they use skillful gameplay to achieve said antagonization? Is infiltrating a crew and playing it cool so as not to get caught and brigged just as skillful a form of subversion as chase and sink?
Maybe people play the game to their strengths, and the players who thought it would only be chase and sink are mad that players not as good at tactical elements have adapted other effective techniques they didn't expect.