Defenders of online righteousness in games towards newbies and advanced players alike.

It was cold outside while thick rain drops kept ticking on my window. The smell of freshly baked pizza from the pizzeria across the street was almost overwhelming and noises from outside the room of someone playing the violin could be heard in the distance. I remember it so well,…

A typical friday evening after a hard day of labor whit nowhere else to go I decided to play another online videogame. Yet again some clan was busy humiliating a newbie like they had done many times. It appeared someone had built himself a nice home and it just got looted. After that the raiders were just rubbing it in and teasing, what turned out to be a little boy, about his loss. Of course it wasn’t the first time such a thing happened. So many of us fall prey to these kind of individuals just for being unskilled or too young to understand. Victims to virtual game bullies who humiliating their targets without anything to gain but the pure sadistic satisfaction of making another player suffering. This to be measured in rage or cry.

The poor kid started online voice chat begging for what was left of his base to be spared while his hardship and tears could clearly be heard in his voice. Needless to say it made things only worse. First he was called lots of names like being a noob and forced to sing a song through voice chat in order for his base to be spared. Later when they were ‘displeased’ the base was demolished to the ground within seconds. Nothing but a few ruin stones stood up.

And there he was, like some godly knight in golden armor, his sword scattering in the wind while it came down to those who did wrong towards the kid. His face expression intensely, determined and yet calm while slaying those who ruined the base one by one. Shortly after it turned out in chat he located their base as well, burned it to the ground and gave their stuff away to the poorly treated kid. His final words: ‘who’s the noob now?’. And just like that he was gone.

- Anonymous