What's the point of AFK'ing | Forums

[untchable704]

I understand people do it to level up but why cheat on the best part of the game?

Sure my 108 gear character can be pretty OP. And in spurts I can honestly say it is fun demolishing people with lower characters and maybe lower skill, but after a while it gets boring. The fun was grinding my player up. Now I think I spend roughly 30% of my time playing with my max gear character and the rest of the time rotating to try new characters and level them up.

Are people lives really so miserable that they think it's fun to cheat at a game to gain an unearned adavantage to easily beat people playing legitimately? Like that is the best thing you can think to do with your time? If you gave me every character right now at 108 gear I would probably get bored and quit the game within a week honestly.

[J_Hamm]

There are alot of sad people with security issues in the gaming world.

[lucasnrachel]

Half won't know any combos , the timing will be horrible . The range you learn from bots and the slap on wrist that they "might " get from mom because the report function just won't be enough proof I can already see it. The thread they created said you had to have proof , so you saying I need to take a video of them running in circles?!?! As if me reporting them shouldn't take care of it with their 0 caps and 0 kills isn't enough for multiple games.

[TCTF_SWAT]

I just call it lazy. I'm a lazy person. But that......well......that's I can't do that. It'd be too boring. When I farm in games I'm still playing. Not leaving the controller in active mode while I go do something else.

[Gothic_Mando]

The funny thing is, every mature adult knows that, despite the awesome rewards, the fun is actually more in the journey than the destination, but it seems we almost instinctively forget that while we're obsessively grinding.

But totally agreed, those AFKers take it a step too far. When they do their thing in public games, they dont consider the impact it has on their teammates. Selfish bu**ers.

[Aarpian]

I sympathise with them when even if you wanted to pay, you still have to level up a new character to prestige 3 before you can start getting purple gear.
The whole time levelling up that character will involve you getting the **** kicked out of you unless you buy gear that will be soon be defunct.

[Gray360UK]

I guess if you believe your character is only good when fully geared (108) then you're not going to want to play it properly before that.
Now the forums are full of posts about 108 gear and the difference it makes, and many people seem to believe they can't beat 108 gear people unless they have 108 too.
That could be a motivation for bypassing the grind and just getting to the effective / viable level.
Then again, a lot of people are just lazy.
A lot of people are just greedy.
Free XP and Steel while they sleep / work is going to appeal to these people.
A lot of other people just want to win / beat other players.
Getting a 108 character that can win without the effort is going to appeal to them.
Should add, a lot of people I have seen AFK farming are already 108 geared Rep 6+, so for them I guess it's literally just Steel farming.

This whole thing does explain why sometimes the 108 geared enemies on the other team don't actually appear to know how to play their character

[yofisu]

I understand people do it to level up but why cheat on the best part of the game?

Sure my 108 gear character can be pretty OP. And in spurts I can honestly say it is fun demolishing people with lower characters and maybe lower skill, but after a while it gets boring. The fun was grinding my player up. Now I think I spend roughly 30% of my time playing with my max gear character and the rest of the time rotating to try new characters and level them up.

Are people lives really so miserable that they think it's fun to cheat at a game to gain an unearned adavantage to easily beat people playing legitimately? Like that is the best thing you can think to do with your time? If you gave me every character right now at 108 gear I would probably get bored and quit the game within a week honestly.

I'm with you. I don't understand the value people find in AFK. You eventually get better gear but the fun is in the progression or having something you earned while having fun and being outnumbered... team up on me, throw me off cliffs and down pits it only makes me better I'll be glad to do the same to you if you give me the chance... BTW.. if you see me standing back not jumping in with a team mate it's not a matter of "honor" it's a pragmatic decision so that you don't revenge too quickly while my team mate has the advantage- as soon as you start to take advantage I'll bop in and try to break you down so he can escape, recover or the mate can get in for the execution and health gain- don't think I'm doing you a favor -I'm very much not doing you a favor and there is no honor in watching a team mate killed. If you want a perception of honor don't go to war.

[guffffff]

throw me off cliffs and down pits it only makes me better

I agree with everything said except getting thrown off a cliff doesnt make me better just annoyed

[Prophit618]

The part that really doesn't make sense to me is why they don't just turn matchmaking off. You get the same experience with a public team vs bots or a bot team vs bots, and the matches will actually go quicker if there's no pesky other players trying to win it, dragging it on. More bang for your buck, less annoying other people, and you drop the chances of getting reprisal for it down to 0.
I could care less about the practice of AFKing your way to 108 gear so long as you don't hurt other people with it. Heck to some extent I support it, as I can't wait for 100+ gear to be the norm so that matchmaking can stop putting my 108 toons against guys with white gear.
Just do it sensibly, and stop ruining other peoples' good times.