Prizegrabbing Etiquette

How do you guys think about the fact many people either took 1 spot and considered it as theirs and others snatching prizes at other people's spots.

As I only managed to witness the "final event" twice, I both times took a spot near the armor guys (the 2 on the right).
Once I was grabbing a couple of prizes when someone came standing next to me grabbing them to. I considered it rude as there were still other spots. Also, I wasn't all that greedy. Some people actually do take an other spot, even when it has less prizes. So I saw someone standing not that far away from me at a singleprizedrop spot and I thought, lets be nice and give him my spot, as it was obvious he didn't want to steal someone's spot.
I saw quite a lot flaming about this, other people got very angry when others went standing next to them.

And for all the people going to say "its just a game" "lol, lame" etc, I think you should have some manners ingame too. I guess you dont like PUGS staying AFK making it hard for your group to get through a mission e.d.

There were no claimed "spots", it was a free for all present grabbing contest. Anyone who felt they owned a spot simply because they were the first one there and thought other's should stay away and find a different spot is wrong.

It is indeed a game, and Anet did not put a special button that said "These pixels are mine, find your own pixels", so I assume they wanted everyone to participate by making it a challenge to get prizes rather than a few people collecting everything by camping a spawn point and being nasty to the people running around playing the game.

it was fair enough... they have th eright to it just as much as you...
Tom

Only for that I am glad it's over. All those children screaming at each other that the spot is theirs. When someone comes to stand next to me, I move away. It is not that hard. Those people come stand next to you, because they think that you are more lucky than they are, so trying to steal your spot is like stealing you luck.
Glad that the prices don't drop anymore. It brings up the worst in people.

The problem about selfinflicted rules is, no one might know them. During the event all i did was speed loot the presents under the influence of Sugar. I got many flames for this as people thought standing at a certain spots make it theirs.
Sad truth is... nope. It's not yours, only because in your book of rules there is a paragraph stating that it is yours. And that's not rude either. The official rules for the game were, grab it as fast as you can.

Hm, I did see this comming, but it's quite like what I hear about WoW campers I guess.
I just think it would be decent to get your own place, there were enough spots available, and not just to go stand where someone else stands.
I don't say the first one to come there owns the spot, but I think you can imagine how that guy/girl feels if other people go grab the presents at "your" spot.

There were no official rules imho amity, I just think people should make their own ettiquete.
It's not forbidden to go AFK in a group making it very hard for the group to do a mission, but it gives you a free ride.

I'd have to agree with it bringing out the worst in people. It's a shame these events (which are supposed to be having some fun and an enjoyable time) are rapidly destroyed by immature brats who ALWAYS turn up and start swearing/shouting/making otherwise idiotic comments and behaving poorly... they must have really popular real life birthdays or something, not!

This time round I had Local Chat disabled for all of the duration of the Emperor events. Unfortunately that doesn't stop the chat popups from the morons being visible...

I felt bad about taking presents other people were going for. So I'm glad the presents dont drop any more. That being said, camping at "your" spot doesnt make the presents any more your property than a person who happens to be running by.

Finders Keepers + First Come First Serve.

Honestly, 'camping' one spawn point kinda felt cheap and almost exploitish. Surely that's not what the Devs intended us to do there, although I'm sure also that they saw it coming. That part of the ending ceremony was supposed to be a joyous "drink and be merry" kinda thing, not a "this is my spot, go stand over there - no no no! that was my prize! quit ganking!" kinda thing.

Of course we humans always know how to turn a good thing sour. Regardless, I was one of those campers, and because I kinda felt I was exploiting in a sense, I had no problem if someone got to that prize that just spawned at my feet before I even knew it was there. Big freakin deal. I say, more power to them... kudos!

I did Ctrl+Shift+H when I was picking the presents, so if anyone was screaming at me, then I didn't hear it

Well, I would have liked random drops a lot more but GW is just too laggy atm to get your prizes then.
Also the celestial stuff dropped at predefined places, some even quite near the sorcerers and so it wasnt very hard to win.

I had plenty of fun making people ragequit their spawns. Gg.

I dont see how anyone could feel that any spawn is there's or that they have some sort of 'right' to it more so than anyone else. That kind of attitude and selfishness I only perceive as a natural reaction to the fact that they can't pick any of the presents up.

I came almost every 2 hours for the festival prizes ~ I think I gathered about ~350 to 400 over the course of the day.

Good fun.

Well, YunSooJin, not everyone can get to the event that many times. That's another reason to get a safe spot for getting presents.

But lots of people did act friendly and sticked to an other spot when they saw someone camping at an other spot. And they respected eachother, and as I liked that, I gave away "my spot" (or should i say: the spot i was sitting at) so someone else could grab a nice amount of prizes.

Again I say, it's just like the thing about leavers and people being AFK in missions, at Aspen, at AB etc. Just try to be nice and respect eachother, also in simple things like this.
And no I'm not in for flaming people who get at "your spot"....

I thought forcing people away from you by getting close to them and beating them to all nearby prizes, thereby increasing the size of 'your' area was the only fun part of that game.

Similarly, I thought the only fun part of the 15 minute collection game was following grasps around and grabbing people's stuff when they dropped it to avoid getting killed and capping for myself. The game was childishly easy, gotta do something to spice it up.

Why do people actually like upsetting/making angy other people in GW? Is it something they can't do IRL enough, do they really have to annoy others in a game? >.>

Trouble with that kind of selfish camping (and let's call it for what it is, selfish) is that it saps the fun out of it for others who tried to play fair i.e. run around and grab. I had some fun running around and grabbing some prizes, but then noticed more and more people standing in one place and grabbing them the second they spawned... after a few minutes of standing around watching the farming there were two choices: join the spawn campers, or go do something else. I went off to do something more interesting...

I hope for any future drop/gather events Anet adds some real randomisation

Well I guess some people did it to piss others off. I viewed it as a player vs. player prize competition.

I agree with that Xenrath. I started running first too but it became too obvious that they weren't random so it wasn't very logical to keep running.

And yes, randomisation would have helped a lot.

@Greedy: ok, thats true. But as they didn't spwn randomly (only the time and amounts did) there wasnt much more competition then who laggs less/who clicks his mouse button first.

I dont understand what there is to be respectful about.

The presents appear on the ground, and everyone makes a mad dash for it. So what?

How is taking a present from the ground disrespectful to anyone else?


People attempt to complicate simple fun events like this with more made up BS. I enjoyed the event by getting as many presents I could. If someone was typing expletives at me I simply got to the present while they were typing their little hearts out.

I was not "unfriendly". I did not yell at people to get away from where I was grabbing prizes, I did not tell people to "plz go away". I don't see why I have to be friendly and sacrifice my own self enjoyment to please some other random person I couldn't give squat about. So you could say I was neutral. There is no way to be particularly malicious in a game like this, since the only thing that determines your relative success is how fast you click on that present.

There is nothing about this event that can make you disrespectful unless you start calling names. Don't bring in "niceness" and "respect" because all anyone wanted in here was to get as many prizes as they could. Not to let other people have them. If you ever felt that way it was your prerogative - not anyone elses.