Is Camping a Legitimate Strategy?

This question has often risen in shooting games.

There’s no doubt about it–in most shooters nowadays someone will be found camping, and it’s common. It gets a lot of rage going around, and many people disagree with it.

Camping is best described in my view as picking a spot, and utilizing it to hinder the enemy team.

Of course, this inspires a helluva lot of negativity toward the camped team.

So in this image the camper is referred to as a noob, But is he really? After all, he’s simply just picked a spot and stayed in it. It doesn’t make him any less prone to being shot at now, does it? So he doesn’t logically, in game terms, have any advantage over you, save for the element of surprise and maybe some cover or a pre-aimed shot.

In element, if camping was bad wouldn’t it have been banned by the rules of war? Wouldn’t in real life it be considered a war-crime?

Sure, I agree with the notion that people being camped have it hard with regards to the advantage. But that’s because that person has gone out of their way to set up that advantage, no?

If all is fair in love and war, and you are complaining about the advantage in a war game, well, need I say more?

I’ll be honest, your average sniper in real life spends days waiting in the spot with a pair of binoculars staring down a scope and waiting. That’s sniping. Which in itself is camping. By putting sniper rifles into a game, you are condoning sniping and encouraging it to be used. So why be so butt-hurt about the fact someone is playing their “class” realistically? In my opinion, any first person shooter with sniper rifles in with this logic is completely void of having its players even assume camping is an illegitimate tact.

Ever since the dawn of man and his violence, I am sure camping has existed. Be it the primitive caveman waiting with a rock to throw at a deer. Down to the archers of middle aged times awaiting to ambush their foes on a road, or even sniping today. Camping in real life has always happened. You can’t argue with that.

My question is, if you have been killed by a camper who’s in a good spot, why keep going to that spot when you know he won’t move from it?

Or instead of whining, why have you not decided to use the fact that this guys is not moving, to your teams advantage? This guy below does, and he even TROLLS them. Kudos Speedyw03.