Attacking republic in Open World is griefing?

Yeah and open pvp is actually pretty mild on this game. These people wouldn't have lasted five seconds on one of DAOC's pvp servers, where anyone can attack anyone else literally anywhere in the game world. lulz

PVP servers are supposed to be hardcore not carebear.

This is hilarious. How could anyone possibly defend them getting in a warning for ganking? Pretty sure I read this somewhere "griefing does not constitute anything that can be resolved through pvp" in the rulebook. Rep should have been better and killed them and handled the boss. You guys wouldn't have lasted for two seconds on Valon Zek. Pathetic

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UO was completely open world PVP and you would lose everything on your character when you died..every game after UO was "carebear" with the exception of Shadowbane but it sucked for other reasons...the difference in UO was 9 times out of 10 the fight was evenly matched so you had to have BALLS to try and be a greifer...unlike modern MMOs were that "style" <--(whatever) can be played with no consequences.

That would be called GREIFING and you get banned or punishment for it.

Never played that one but I heard about it often. Sounds pretty much like the DAOC pvp servers. I just didn't care for the ancient graphic style on that game.

Actually, there is no way that he received a warning for doing this. PvP servers specifically state that situations that can be resolved via PvP are not considered griefing. Can't kill a World Boss because the opposite faction is killing you? There is a PvP solution to your problem!

It was fun and I miss it...this game has a lot of issues that promote or allow true grief play IE if you get Rez camped you have no out... its not like you can choose to do anything other than respawn at the med center and if you have a bunch of high levels chain killing you what's your recourse? Log off or keep letting them kill you over and over?? Very bad mechanic in open world PVP.