griefer
(online gaming) One who griefs: a player who plays a game primarily to reduce other players’ enjoyment of it.
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(online gaming) One who griefs: a player who plays a game primarily to reduce other players’ enjoyment of it.
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- grief83%
To deliberately ruin another player's experience — blocking their build, stealing resources, sabotaging objectives. A "griefer" is hated in every gaming community.
- grief73%
Verb in gaming: to deliberately ruin a teammate's game. Different from the noun (mourning); separate etymology in the gaming context.
- Griefing70%
Deliberately ruining other players' experience in an online game — destroying their builds in Minecraft, blocking lanes in League, stealing kills, sabotaging objectives. Distinct from inting in that griefing is broader (any antisocial play) and inting is specifically about feeding kills. Bannable in most games. Twitch chat uses 'griefing' loosely for any teammate who acts in bad faith.
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(online gaming, slang) One who ganks in gameplay.
- carebear67%
(slang, derogatory, video games) A player who is against griefers; one who dislikes, or tries to prevent, trouble (often PvP related) in the game world.