Why are people like this??

I must admit , this type of thing happened to me when my old origin server was new and the game had more people on it. Now playing on my destination server last night it happened again and now I tend to look over my shoulder all the time , so I have changed my play style a little , which isn't too bad.

I'm glad GW2 has the Phantasy Star Portable , PSZ , PSP2 , PSP2I AND PSO2 system. Getting your own personal drops and exp is a far better system. You wouldn't even imagine all the stress I had on PSU people getting that random mega weapon at the boss caused so many arguments.

Cheers,

BadOrb.

The only real voice of reason on these forums. Stop giving yourselves so many headaches and just go to Guild Wars. It's way better than this piece of junk could ever HOPE to be even if everything was done right from the beginning.

And why...WHY oh WHY...are you here reading these forums? It sounds like it's such an unpleasant experience for you....

My main gripe about ninja looters pertains to craftables nodes, which are certainly subject to this problem. To those of you in this very thread who admit to this behavior...I personally believe that your bad gamer karma is responsible for this game having to go FTP. It's ALL YOUR FAULT! WHY MUST YOU DRAG US DOWN WITH YOU?!

*cries*

The fact this still happens proves that this is a community issue. Yes there are ways to kelp prevent this problem but the easiest one is just for players to stop complaining and calling for a fix and learn how to prevent it. Dont give the ppl who grab the objective while you fight an opening and this will stop.

Learn the game ppl before you start calling for a fix that just cant happen

1) it's not a race...your making it a race because of your personal choice in time constraints. I don't control your schedule...you do.
2) I want to do it fast too...but i respect other people in the game. that's the difference. so..yes, your acting like a douche. no hate there, just a simple statement of fact. note i didn't say you ARE one, your just acting like one. I have faith that you can change
3) I will always accept group invite in BH, cause like you I prefer to not stand there for an extra 15m waiting for 6 silly boxes. which means we probably agree on this point....

Bio needs to reduce the refresh timer on those, period. but since were stuck here atm, what we need to ALL do (not just this gentleman above, of whom i respect, in spite of his temporary duchebaggeries) Is we need to group up, work together, respect others, and hit the boxes first!

Well said.

some quest items do not allow you to use an item while in combat, though most do

The biggest issue I see is that they have decreased the spawn time of the mobs but appear to have left all the clickables at the original timer. Use to you would go in kill mob get X item. Now you kill mobs 2 or 3 times before X item is ready. So now you have 60 people in BH who have killed said mobs and are all running around trying to get the X item. I personally never knowingly take a item from someone. I tend to wait or help them finish off the mobs to see if they are at the X part yet or not. Most folks dont though, they assume since you didnt get the X first then you must not be on the stage and they take it.

If they lowered the respawns of X to = mobs around it then you wouldnt have this issue.

Those of you who say this is a 'game design' issue and not a 'people' issue are out of your minds.

"Why are people like this??"

ManiacalShen hit the nail on the head some pages back ...this behavior is 'sociopathic' ("a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience") and you can find it prevalent online - especially in online gaming - because there are no real and permanent consequences to keep these people in check.

LotRO solved this issue five or six years ago with a system that allowed multiple players to harvest the same quest node simultaneously. It was revolutionary back in beta and I have no idea why every other MMO ever since hasn't done the same thing.