So my friend was in a dungeon group this morning. BoE green bracers drop. +33 healing. Amazing bracers.
Group decides to all roll greed on them. My friend won (warlock). He then gets a message from the healer that he actually needs them and tells warlock to give them back to the healer. Warlock says “for 120g I’ll give them up”. Group decided to kick warlock and spread his name is general chat with ninja looting accusations.
Friend couldn’t find a group for hours afterward because of this.
Why in the world would the group “decide” to all greed? The whole point is: if they’re actually an upgrade and usable by the character roll Need, otherwise always greed or pass.
I mean, group decides their own rules but generally and objectively that’s the most rational way to handle it.
It’s impossible to ninja something on a greed roll.
That being said, if the priest for whatever reason realized they should have needed for an upgrade, I would have taken the initial greed rolls as evidence your friend was willing to let the item go to someone who needed it.
I think the nice thing to do would be hand it over to someone who needed but rolled wrong, but I certainly wouldn’t hold it against them for not doing so post roll, as the fault lies on the priest for not needing, and to hold others accountable for your mistakes is just wrong.
You use the word “Rational” but I don’t think you know what it means.
Your statement relies on people being trustworthy in an anonymous online game 100% of the time. If you were being rational you would acknowledge that this it not going to happen.
In order to mitigate the instances of people being untrustworthy the proposed mechanism is to have everyone roll “need” on a BoE item that is of high value. This removes the potential of having someone intentionally abuse the group trust dynamics and ninja a high value item for greedy purposes.
Not acknowledging the reality of the situation or acknowledging the legitimate mitigation the “everyone roll need” provides is 100% irrational.
After the priest woke up or tabbed back into the game or whatever to see what he’d done, should have offered to trade something for the BOE he lost. I have offered random greens for greens many times and had no problems, sometimes I even say “x for x for my rogue alt” or something. That said the winner of a greed roll can do whatever they want with it, even if it’s extortion.
Sounds like the absent minded priest was just salty he had no awareness when it dropped and cried to the server that your friend needed a healer upgrade, too bad your friend didn’t have a screenshot (I assume) but it’ll blow over in a day or 2.
Ok well let me explain why it doesn’t. The post you linked is people rolling need on greens for gold. This one was the group agreeing to roll greed and then the problem came up. Two completely separate issues.