I mean, consent is a word with a meaning. It’s not always used in the context it’s used nowadays. It shows up 6 time in the Blizzard EULA. I’d thus say it leaked into WoW a while ago.
Anyway, knowing someone joined a PvP realm is the only consent you’ll need to PvP / PK / Gank (or whichever term people can come up with) someone.
I mean, come on, are we really going there? One is what could be considered a fair game but dick move in a game, well within the games limit. The other is beating someone in real life which will probably cause scars (physical or mental).
While I understand what you’re getting at, I think you know what I am getting at as well. Consenting to rules for a EULA, is much different than consent to be ganked on a server where ganking is expected, or even encouraged.
You’d have a point, if it were not for the fact that I take my time on purpose. I’m not one of those race to 60 types. My main sits at 31 presently, with a hand full of alts. There are specific areas you go to if you ‘want’, or want to expect ganks…such as hillsbrad foothills. A quick kill doesn’t bother me half as much as the rare but expected encounters of corpse camping…which I might add, increase in frequency during the weekend.
No, it isn’t cyberbullying, unless the perpetrator deliberately targets the same person day-in-day-out in order to make that person miserable.
It is, however, petty. And pointless.
5% of the time it’s an attempt to trigger a real large-scale battle.
95% of the time it’s motivated by a kind of mean spiritedness. And they’ll defend it with statements like, “What does it matter? It’s only a game.” But how we behave towards each other ALWAYS matters.