In the MMO shooter Destiny a bad habit has spread. If you want to annoy a player properly, you kick him from the group just before the kill of a raid boss.
It is the most hated behavior in Destiny and completely unnecessary: a player gets kicked from the group right before the decisive kill of a raid boss, leaving him empty-handed. The other players gain nothing from it – the kicked player feels humiliated and powerless.
This is a known bad habit in some games – but there are mechanisms in place to prevent this from working in combat, providing protection against being treated this way. Destiny does not have such protection. It is therefore possible to kick someone milliseconds before a kill and rob them of their well-deserved reward.
It is especially frustrating when this happens during a raid boss that has just issued a “challenge.” If you fail to achieve the kill, you may have to wait a month until you get the opportunity to secure the bonus loot from a challenge.
A boy is kicked from the group before the kill and is also teased
Currently, a particularly extreme case is making the rounds in the German community. A group did this to a boy and even uploaded the video to YouTube, where they mock the boy as he gets angry and upset.
The group chuckles and makes jokes while the boy walks away humiliated.
(Small warning: In the video, there is a level of language that we do not necessarily endorse here)
This video was then linked as a kind of “advertisement” on the channel of the German Destiny YouTubers Ziro.Tv. They did not find this funny at all and labeled the behavior as “antisocial” on social media.
The Ziro.Tv community then stormed the comment section of the video and let their grievances run wild.
What the group found immensely funny is, for many others, behavior for which there are no kind words. And we want to refrain from those unkind words here. Anyone who has accidentally listened to German gangsta rap knows the vocabulary involving the male offspring of prostitutes and such.
In part, the group’s plan worked: the advertisement has succeeded. The video now has over 19,000 views – but also over 3,300 thumbs down and a lot of really angry comments.
The player who was kicked from the Oryx group has been offered to redo the Oryx kill – they will also help him with any other challenge.
A similar topic came up earlier, where a young player was treated even worse:
Destiny: 11-year-old becomes victim of cruel shareplay trolling, learns a lesson for life
