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Here you are just having a good time with your friends on your favorite online game. Everyone in your party is pulling their weight and gaining lots of items and gold. [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]...wait, [[Oh Crap|what's that sound]]? You suddenly hear a high level spell being used and before you can turn around and blink, [[Team Killer|you and your friends are dead]]. Who used the spell? [[Troll|The giggling player within your own party]] as he [[Ninja Looting|runs around looting your dropped items and runs away.]]

You just met another form of a [[Troll]] for online games, the Griefer.

You just met another form of a [[Troll]] for online games, the [[Griefer]].

The Griefer is the most known term for this type of player. The act of griefing dates as far back as the days of old arcades in your local pizzeria. Methods of griefing included but were not limited to reaching over and pressing buttons on games people were playing, turning off the game while it was in use, ~~attack~~ players in games where friendly-fire exists, physically distracting them (such as covering their eyes or tickling them), or tilting a pinball machine. But these early griefers were much more contained as they ~~could not at all~~ grief people on the other side of the world, oh no, they were limited to Arcade games. Plus, you knew who they really were, and they were within range of your [[Hurricane Kick|foot]] or your [[Talk to the Fist|hand]]. When ~~Online~~ gaming became the norm, Griefers [[GIFT|jumped all over it]].

The Griefer is the most known term for this type of player. The act of griefing dates as far back as the days of old arcades in your local pizzeria. Methods of griefing included but were not limited to reaching over and pressing buttons on games people were playing, turning off the game while it was in use, attacking players in games where friendly-fire exists, physically distracting them (such as covering their eyes or tickling them), or tilting a pinball machine. But these early griefers were much more contained as they couldn't grief people on the other side of the world, oh no, they were limited to Arcade games. Plus, you knew who they really were, and they were within range of your [[Hurricane Kick|foot]] or your [[Talk to the Fist|hand]]. When online gaming became the norm, Griefers [[GIFT|jumped all over it]].

Griefers are also known for ruining games of sports.