Chapter 4
We’re reaching the ending stages of my analysis. I know it’s a bummer for you, my dear readers, but don’t worry, there is still much to be done for me.
Now then, time for the last group of people I have laid my eyes on the past years. Greek players are most similar to Lithuanian ones. They show the most typical alpha male behavior ever, and they are the toughest players to satisfy. Some even consider it an impossible task, and therefore don’t even try it. I can’t blame them, I have tried so myself and gave up on it as well. The opinions of Greek players individually conflict a lot with each other. Which is awkward, since regular people would not find something negative if they find it positive, but it seems this is possible with Greeks. For example, when I was busy configuring the latest server I have been on, I started researching opinions. It seemed that all Greek players necessarily did not want custom armors, but they did require the epic armor set. Implementing the epic armor set would require ignoring their first wish, and not implementing epic armor sets would require ignoring their second wish. Eventually, due to serious problems with in game balance, we have decided not to implement them, causing a large rage on the forums which I have deleted as soon as I was aware of it. Knowing Greek players are impossible to satisfy, the inevitable question appeared: “What the hell should we do with this?”. After a debate, we quickly realized that the only answer to this question was also the most obvious one as well: “Nothing”. The best thing to do is to simply ignore all the moaning you get on the forums, MSN, emails and TeamSpeak.
Greeks are also known for their most annoying alpha male behavior, just like the Lithuanians, only in this case, everyone is the alpha male. For Greeks, it’s highly required for them to have a large advantage such as overpowered armor sets (note: epic armor set), or a considerable larger force than the enemy players. It is considered both ‘pro’ and ‘pwnage’ if you state the obvious by killing a single player with a party consisting of at least 5 players (a full 9 player party makes it it look better though). And, of course, when you have been killed by such an overwhelming party, the reactions you may expect range from
“axoaxooaxoaxoxoaoaxoaxaaxaxoa”
to the most annoying
“lolololol, you is noob”.
But it doesn’t stop there, one of my staffmembers even heard:
“hhauahuauhau, you are is a slow!”
This also concludes the Greek morals.
The dedication of Greeks is mediocre, but most annoying. Greeks often seek help with administrators and game masters regardless of what their problem is. Whenever something goes wrong that has barely or no consequences, they often ask an administrator or a game master to fix it and they often even try to gain an item from it as well. They are all about gear and weapons since they lack the skills to gain the advantage from a class by playing it well. In fact, they let the endless hunt for gear take part of their real life. Lots of Greeks can be found back in large groups at internet cafes. They let the game integrate this much in their life that they even express their in game feelings at real people. For example, I once received an email from two Greek parents. Their son had run away from home and I was asked if I knew of his whereabouts or his motives. I had to send them an email back explaining that their son lost gear to a friend and that they both got into a fight, etc etc, the usual drama. They weren’t glad about it, of course, but luckily they were understanding enough not to blame it on me.
Greeks also lack the intelligence to make sense (not surprising after my previous paragraph). Sure, this is an easy target to throw words at, but I wouldn’t have done so if it weren’t this extreme. For example, one of my favorite players got caught in a discussion with a Greek player once. The Greek was incapable of identifying his own immaturities and started throwing out everything he got, immediately exposing his emotional instability. The regular player stated that he was acting like, I quote,
“a raging monkey flinging his own feces throughout the room”.
This brilliant comparison was not taken positively by the Greek player, nor did he learn from it, as he immediately replied with:
“[nickname], I hope ur family die from counser”.
Not only doesn’t this come close to something as argument, it also indicates what kind of person he was dealing with. It was then pretty obvious that this Greek player had not learned from the situation and kept on insulting everybody with the most immature things for the most immature reason, which was none.
So we now know that they are impossible to satisfy, that they are emotionally instable, and that they have impulsive urges to show this to everyone. That already is enough reason not to like these players, however, there is more. Somewhere in the middle of this story I dropped the alpha male part to explain their emotional disorders in detail, now I will explain their aggressive behaviors as alpha male.
Greeks are not capable of ventilating their dislikes in normal ways, it always has to include violence. If that wasn’t enough, they also ventilate their boredom and enthusiasm through the same way. A Greek player once explained me how
” [nickname] wakes up next to his dad and think ‘hum, let’s buy Counter Strike so I can own people!’. “.
The quote up here shows how much he was capable of determining what kind of player he encountered. Sure, it was a suggestive way to call it, but when you closely look at his text, you read that he understood how this alpha male behavior is running through the Greece gaming community.
This concludes the last chapter. It’s pretty obvious that soon there will be a comment made by someone that finds it necesary to prove how right my analysis was.
~ End of Chapter 4
