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Comment by NetOpWibby

4 years ago

Fascinating that there are people out there with disposable income for the sole purpose of griefing someone’s project/product.

I think it can be cheaper to initiate these types of attacks than to defend against them. Just pissing someone off with an extra $20 to spend can give you a bad day

  • Offense in cheaper than defense even in non internet related situations, hence societies with high levels of trust between its members are able to advance more quickly due to not needing to waste so many resources on defense.

    • Low trust societies have their advantages. They are less likely to develop into dictatorships because factions don't trusts other factions enough to give them too much power.

I don't know about gp's particulars, but over the years I'm pretty sure I've seen competitors do this on strategic dates to impact the userbase game perception.

If it's an online game, people might do it to boot other people out of the game, especially enemy groups. Kind of as a joke.

Or so I've heard