Okay, reading that title probably makes people think my son, Jay, is avenging my death. Even if it’s just a death in a game. Well, I guess that’s half right, it was in a game, but I didn’t die, I was kicked from a server we were playing on together.
I suppose a little background is needed here to clarify what happened, and also to help non-gamers to understand what happened. We were playing a mini game in Minecraft on the PS4 where the idea is to break blocks out from under other players to make them fall and die in the lava below. The last person standing wins the round and the first person with 3 wins, wins the game. There’s also the ability to kick players who are disrupting the game play or are cheating in some way.
For example, some players will remove blocks in such a way as to make themselves a little island that can’t be reached by the other players. And so what happens then is a stalemate where they can’t kill other players, and others can’t kill them. There is a mechanism built into the game where after a period of time they’ll be able to use snowballs to break the blocks instead of shovels, so they can be killed from a distance.
The problem with this is that it disrupts the flow of the game, which is normally fast paced and ends quickly, and the surviving players just stand around doing nothing until they get the snowballs. Meanwhile the players who have already died and are waiting for the next round have nothing to do but stare at unmoving players.
When this happens I have no problem with kicking the player that isolated himself, because it’s ruining the game for everyone and doesn’t give them any real advantage either since the isolated player is killed in the majority of cases anyway.
To get a player kicked there needs to be 3 votes for them to be kicked, and once 3 others have voted they are disconnected from the server and can’t join again. I believe the makers have released an update that changes this system, because it was being abused by juvenile players who kicked people for no reason, but I’m not sure how it works now.
Which brings us back to what happened to Jay and I. We had just joined a server and started playing by trying to drop other players into the lava. In other words doing exactly what you’re supposed to do in the game. But, in less than 10 seconds (No that is not an exaggeration) I had been kicked from the server.
Annoying as it was that I was kicked for no reason, Jay made it better by telling me he was going to get revenge on the other players (yes he really used the word revenge). And believe it or not he did, he won the next 3 games by winning 9 rounds and only getting dropped into the lava a few times. He really is quite good at that game and watching him is very exciting in itself, and he would have played the same whether I was kicked or not. But it does feel good knowing that Jay loves me enough to get revenge on those who hurt me.
Now, I need to sit down and write a list of people who have wronged me in the past and set a 7 year old on them.
Hahaha…lucky that I am not in your games!