Normally I think someone in my game is “grefing” when they do obviously stupid plays etc.
But watching overwatch cases of an IO teleporting teammates to the enemy fountain, now THATS grefing, and then maybe my teammates isn’t really grefing as much as I think haha
This is called semantic drift.
Word becomes misused too often, then overused so much that it loses its original meaning.
Griefing originally meant something obviously malicius towards your own team in gaming, as in destroying allied buildings, blocking allied paths, killing allies players with the intention to make them suffer and lose.
Then it became the FOMO buzzword and all of a sudden doing something game losing (like, accidentally pressing a BKB while farming) all of a sudden became «griefing», and now nobody even know what griefing is.
Yes, I suck at the game. I constantly do stupid stuff like dying out of position and saving enemies by using spells that can make it hard for my teammates to kill enemies (something like clock’s cogs).
I never grief my team, I’m just bad at the game.
Very well put. There’s actually so many people, even in my friend group, who call someone a griefer just because they go an unconventional item build or don’t play the way they’re “supposed to”. I try to point it out and explain this but the meaning doesn’t always arrive :D
That’s so true. Often when I start an overwatch case, I always say to myself “Being bad at the game, is not grefing”. And some cases is just bad plays or overextension and that not guilty.
But then we have some that plays pretty well in the first marker. And iam like, making a stupid play is not grefing… Aaand by the second marker, they drop all their items and destroys them… Okay buddy, that’s grefing aswell.