When Online Gaming Relationships Go Bad

Commenter WittyUserName thought he found a lasting online gaming friend in Battlefield: Bad Company 2, until the griefing started. Read about his gaming relationship gone sour in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. I just kicked a longtime friend off my friend’s list. There was this guy I played Bad Company 2 with a lot and we had a lot of fun. He was one of the nicer people on my friend’s list and things were cool. I went a long time without the game and picked it up again recently.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); I got introduced to his gaming buddies and we played on and off for a while. Then one time I got added to w69 slot ทาง เข้า a game on the opposing team. Things got weird. After a while, one other person in the party chat ended up on my team and followed me around as a medic. Okay, I thought. Nice to have a little support. At some point, said friend and his friends found me and took me down. It happens. Then I get revived….only to get knifed. Dammit. Then I got revived again. And knifed. And revived. And knifed. And revived. And knifed. What the hell? At first, I thought it was because Nelson Bay was so dark that the medic was hiding in the rubble and reviving me without them seeing him. I wrote it off as nothing. Eventually, I ended up playing against them again in another set of games and I yono all app was taking them apart like last time. Only we were on Arica Harbor this time. And that guy showed up as a medic again. I started to suspect something was up as I was Recon and the enemy team was waiting for me. He made no move to attack. I got killed. And then revived. And then killed. And then revived. There was no way they missed that medic this time. It was happening on purpose. I was so pissed that I screamed a choice obscenity into a private message and kicked him off my friend’s list. I got no reply to that. That was last Wednesday. Last weekend, I tried talking to him yono all app to maybe patch things up and got nothing but silence. My question – Did I overreact? This was clearly griefing, but still…I’m not sure. About Speak-Up on Kotaku: Our readers have a lot to say, and sometimes what they have to say has nothing to do with the stories we run. That’s why we have that little forum on Kotaku called Speak-Up. That’s the place to post anecdotes, photos, game tips and hints, and anything you want to share with Kotaku at large. Every weekday we’ll pull one of the best Speak-Up posts we can find and highlight it here.