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CMV: Camping in video games is OK

I think that camping in (shooter) games is perfectly OK. For some reason it’s considered to be an unholy sin to lay in wait for another player. I think it’s absurd for a few reasons;

1) gameplay balances almost everything out. There are trade offs for most elements of games. If you pick a long range weapon you’re not going to have rapid fire. If you pick a strong character you might move more slowly. etc. These calculated trade offs are incorporated into the fabric of the game. 

Likewise there is a cost/benefit with camping. Perhaps you get fewer absolute kills but a better K/D ratio, which brings me to the next point 

2) Different games have different tactics. Camping may be appropriate for certain games/certain conditions. For example, having 2 of 3 locations in Domination. The effective tactic is to hunker down and hold the 2 locations (ie “Camp”). Let the opposing team come to you, get killed, and you maintain advantage by maintaining position. It’s akin to having a large lead in football and running the ball....it’s situational. Under those conditions the way you play likely (should) change. 

3) which relates to a larger point....your job is to frustrate/surprise your opponent. Why in goodness name “should” you run out to meet your opponent on a “fair” battleground? If they want/expect a battle in open field, you fight them in the trees, if they want to battle on horseback, you run them into a marsh, and so on. “Come fight me where I expect in the way I expect” doesn’t hold much weight with me. 

(Perhaps that last point undermines the notion that camping is considered wrong in video games. Perhaps the vocal minority complaining about it are simply expressing their frustration at being outwitted).

Edit: apologies for delay...came in Monday to see lots of (smart) replicas. Thanks!!!
gpt
This strikes me as a similar argument that you sometimes get with pick-up sports, and it all centers on how competitive everyone is treating the game.

There is a very much informal code of conduct regarding behavior/etiquette in any game you play.  If you play a pick-up basketball game and are boxing people out, throwing double  teams at people, and calling touch fouls, you're not technically doing anything wrong but you're also not going to make any friends.  All of those strategies/techniques are things that are regularly employed in competitive versions of the same game.

Camping is very much in the same vein.  It can certainly be an effective strategy, but it is also a profoundly unfun strategy to play against, particularly if you're an inexperienced player and don't know the strategies to combat it.  So if you're in a casual queue and looking to screw around with some friends, it can suck to go up against someone who is being super competitive.  But if you're in a competitive queue, then by all means use any strategy that is within the scope of the rules.