Everquest Legends

Kirun said:

Huh? The term "ninja looting" basically starts/gets popular in online gaming with EverQuest. Are you sure you played EQ? Or is your nostalgia just clouding your memory to the point you can't remember all the horrible shit people did to each other in that game?

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Did you read what I said? There were toxic elements, but those toxic elements were not "fuck anyone who has more than I do", they were competition for content and of course stuff like trains and ninja looting are part of that. The whole gaming culture of envy wasnt prominent back then.

yerm said:

Did you read what I said? There were toxic elements, but those toxic elements were not "fuck anyone who has more than I do", they were competition for content and of course stuff like trains and ninja looting are part of that. The whole gaming culture of envy wasnt prominent back then.

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If that's the logic you're going to use for training and ninja looting being "competition", then these examples would all be considered "relative status concerns" - even "current gaming culture". Researchers have found that many people are willing to sacrifice their own gains if it means reducing someone else's advantage - this happened ALL the fucking time on servers where the raiding game was highly competitive. That's far closer to envy or spite than ordinary "competition".

You can revisionist history this all you want, but you're either not remembering how things went back then or are just flat out letting nostalgia cloud your judgement. There's a reason so much of EQ is referred to as "soft PvP", because many people did things to others just as a "fuck you" - doubly so because the game was able to be played relatively "anonymous". Which, again, is far closer to envy or spite than competition.