S*** You get PMed after PKing in the New Map

Before the thread topic itself, a mild rant about why I decided to make this thread, skip down if you don't care and just want to laugh at stupid PK responses:

Remember back when people used to PK constantly around quest spots and PK actually mattered and brought guilds together yr the common goal of leveling together and helping each other out as a team?

Me neither, because I'm actually a relatively young Harshlands player and for me this is just a story the older users like to tell me so they can feel more elite than me.


But lately I'm finding those are just mere fairy tales and that no, when you PK people at or around quest spots, repeatedly or no, all you get is mass amounts of QQ and a general attitude of "I'm telling mom!!" We finally HAVE quest spots again and I see nothing of what the old timers told me PK was "truly about."

It's rather disappointing really, given that we all signed up for a PVP server, ticketing each other is a good way to help kill our community, and after PKing for a good two hours upon daily quest reset, I had a total of four people actively try to fight back, while many more, equally geared or better geared than me, actively chose to run away and not even try. I realize that not everyone is a PK type of player and, believe it or not, if I am PMed by someone and feel truly convinced they simply don't enjoy PK, I will leave them be. Sadly though, after today I found it was far more players who actively search for PK themselves, but would rather resort to threats of reporting when the PK isn't on their own terms.


In other words, I found a staggering amount of players who acted like children and threatened to report me for PK even though these very same people will often jump me in PK (not complaining or claiming I never gank, merely stating that shows a sign of willingness to PK) after gathering all the buffs, players and resources needed to have the PK on their terms. That's exactly the reason myself and my guildies have been PKing on the new map: because we're sick of seeing this failure phobia where anytime ANYONE threatens to show you you're mortal and potentially kill you, omg better threaten to ticket him and hide under the bed. Catching you there at the quest spots was SUPPOSED to be a way to discourage that attitude and teach people dying in a video game isn't the end of the world, instead it's just given birth to a staggering amount of childish threats.


In short...

You know who you are. You cannot be in an active RPK faction with TW lands on the map, PK solely when it suits you (AKA when you can win) and then cry bloody murder when someone jumps you under circumstances you don't agree with. And no, this isn't directed at any one guild, but at various people from various guilds who all cried just as much. I'm going to continue PKing daily not to be a ****, but at this point? Out of principle, because I'm sick of watching an entire SERVER be so childish and whiny when things don't go their way. If you don't enjoy PK whatsoever? Try talking to me or any Dark member involved, cause it's surprisingly easy to tell who legit means it and who are the ones who would gladly stab you in the back two seconds later. (Like the multitude of you who purposefully returned to our current PK spots with low HP while trying to shoot mobs you did or didn't need, all while screaming about screenshots, instead of....yknow, going around us)

....But if you're PMing me out of spite, rage, or two seconds after you realized you and your crew that were so ready to PK a minute ago just got outgunned? Yeah, it's gonna be obvious your intentions are less than sincere and then you're only gonna get PKed harder. And no, I'm not saying Dark is the most badass thing ever and will never be outgunned; I welcome those moments. Lately though, all I'm seeing is an attitude of "they reminded me it's possible for me to fail, better get them banned," which is disgustingly pathetic.



But yes, I simply felt the need to make a spectacle of this both because it saddens me to see a PVP server have such an attitude about it, and because as someone who's been getting threats of being reported for over a year now and actually BOTHERED to inquire about PK harassment and quest blocking rules instead of just feign knowledge of them, I know I can get away with it. Perhaps announcing "look I'm still here" and basically saying "come at me bro" will make people realize the PWI ticket system is not actually your personal army and exists for -legitimate- harassment complaints only.






On that note, to the topic at hand, here's some goodies me and my guildies got PMed today:

"I will skull**** you when you go to bed tonight"
"My brother works for PWI"
"****ing stop right now! I work for PWI" (last two should be glad I myself don't ticket liberally cuz wtf yeah)
"You're fighting ____? Oh I'm not in that faction anymore" (as the person clearly has the faction name over head)
"Mi no want PK mi pies full"
"You better get outta here, there's talk amongst three other factions of reporting and ticketing any Dark in this area for ToS breach!"



But yeah, I legit intend to start screenie'ing some of these and posting them here (with names edited out of course) cause wtf this is ridiculous. Perhaps being able to see how ridiculous some of these excuses look from the other side will help people lighten up. b:surrender


If anyone else has some nice post-PK threats they'd like to share, please do share. Just remember no naming and shaming.