Did an mmorpg game ever make you cry irl?

Supernerd

I don't mean crying because your parents made you log off early one night or because you didn't get an item you wanted.

Sometimes, I gain a deep deep emotional attachment to my favorite mmorpg.



I remember when Earth and Beyond shut down for good i cried for an hour or two,



I remember when I lost my Rookie pvp title in Anarchy Online due to lag I cried.



I remember when my sister would pick up the phone when i played EQ and i would get knocked offline and come back dead .

My eyes would get all watery.



I remember in Asherons Call my guild leader kicked me out of the guild I cried for a long time.



I remember crying a 'lil in Wow when i got banned for a while for "griefing' and they made me change my name due to some strange violation of rules.



i remember quitting Lineage 2 more than once because players wouldn't let me get my name back to white and i would loose my items.i almost cried once,but never did actually have tears.



I remember in Silkroad I got teary eyes when i tried to get my sword to +7 and it broke.



i remember crying in Maplestory on one of the quests i couldn't finish and everyone else seemed like they could do it and i just kept falling to the bottom and starting over.



i remember crying in Eve when it was newl i lost my first cruiser due to exploit by another guy,



I remember crying in planetside open beta when my side spent about 3hours trying to take one tower over to hack and we never could.



I remembwr breaking one of my swg disks in half when it was a new game.My wookie couldn't wear any armor except wookie hand wraps/wookie hood and couldn't beat anyone in pvp,I almost cried.



I remember loosing my Overlord pvp title in eq 2 due to exploits by others and i got really mad and almost cried,



I don't really cry too much anymore,

but was just wondering if any of you have ever cried because of what happened to you in game?

Would you like to share your story?

WaterVsAnch

Wow, sounds like you need to get a life if you get that attached.

Flyte27

Yeah when I played Ultima Online and EQ I would get really made when I died because I lost a lot of time due to equipment loss or experience lost. 

When I first started playing World of Warcraft there wasn't much in the way of high end content and I joined the only guild on the server that was doing things like Strat/Scholo/BRD at the time.  They I left the guild because of a misunderstanding and they wouldn't let me back in.  I was really mad for a while after that.

Anyway the guy is right this kind of stuff is more likely to happen is you spend too much time in game and try to do very time consuming activities in the game.

flakes

Well first off....man you're using a lot of tissues on tears  ... Anyway nope never cried..did get heartpoundings like mad in eve online with pvp.And after big losses i got mad , then silent and then started laughing out loud since a game could 'get' to me like that.Those games are the best.Also why i like eve online so much , in pvp it really makes you feel like your life's on a string.

hammerdinh

Nope .. I've never cried over any MMO game before, I stay pretty detached from them. Well ... I stay pretty detached from everything.

Greslore

Hmm.. Well, ummm.  Errr.



I can't say that I have cried about any MMORPG before, or any game for that matter.  Do forgive my bluntness, but you may wish to reconsider investing such a heavy part of yourself into games.   If you are genuinely crying over these things, then I suggest taking a break for a year or two and find meaning outside of the digital world. 

Karnage69

My first guild in WoW, we had a great guild leader with his head on straight, going to college, a wife, a kid, and really starting to show promise of a great addition to the populous. Roughly 8 months after WoW had launched, he was in a car accident and died on impact.

I cried.

Along with many others.

God rest, Ryan.

flood950

Definitely never cried, I have worse things to deal with in my non-gaming life



But, I have gotten so upset I could see red before.  This is always because of other people in the game though, rather than the game itself. 



While I have been very happy after something in a game, nothing near as mad as I have been at specific people.  During my WoW Guild Leader days I cant even explain how just out of my mind PO'd I got with someone one evening. 



I think thats when I decided I would back down from the GL job and just be a peon....  a game itself wont get that much emotion out of me but some human interactions sure will.

DruNk_DwArF2

Well when i was much younger when i nearly lost my corpse on EQ1 i shed a few tears,and also in UO i cried once or twice so you are not alone!

flood950

Originally posted by Karnage69


My first guild in WoW, we had a great guild leader with his head on straight, going to college, a wife, a kid, and really starting to show promise of a great addition to the populous. Roughly 8 months after WoW had launched, he was in a car accident and died on impact.
I cried.
Along with many others.
God rest, Ryan.

Sorry to hear about that.  Your post is similar to mine (where I was furious) in that its more about the human interaction than something in the game itself.  You can definitely get to know these people you play with pretty dang well, even if you have never met them.

montin

Hmmm, I hate to say this but you do realise they are just games? I kind of get the feeling you have very little else in your life to create those feelings. I cried when my grandmother died. I cried when my cat was killed. I cried with laugher at the odd very funny movie I've watch. I never cried because of a game!

Sramota

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Originally posted by montin
Hmmm, I hate to say this but you do realise they are just games? I kind of get the feeling you have very little else in your life to create those feelings. I cried when my grandmother died. I cried when my cat was killed. I cried with laugher at the odd very funny movie I've watch. I never cried because of a game!

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So there's something wrong with passion?
I didn't cry over my grandmother. Nor would I cry for any death,
yet I can cry out of passion for many things.

You don't have any reason to go and try to belittle others just because you don't understand them.

baff

Lassie movies make me cry.

MMo's haven't so far.

CaesarsGhost

I cried when I resubbed my WoW account for the 3rd time with my tabletop group and they STILL wouldn't party with me till I was 60 dispite what they said previously.

Cherise

In-game losses have been annoying but never that upsetting to me.



But I do recall a time that I did get just slightly teary-eyed if only briefly.  I had been gaming on the same old clunker of a computer for several years.  I had been playing EQ2 for about a year and had always played with all the settings turned way down.  I finally had been able to get a  new rig and went running out into Antonica.  I turned around and for the first time saw Qeynos in the distance.  I stood there looking at everything around me and saw everything the way it was meant to be seen.  It was just so pretty I couldn't help a little tearing up.

montin

Originally posted by Sramota


 

Originally posted by montin

Hmmm, I hate to say this but you do realise they are just games? I kind of get the feeling you have very little else in your life to create those feelings. I cried when my grandmother died. I cried when my cat was killed. I cried with laugher at the odd very funny movie I've watch. I never cried because of a game!

So there's something wrong with passion?

I didn't cry over my grandmother. Nor would I cry for any death,

yet I can cry out of passion for many things.

You don't have any reason to go and try to belittle others just because you don't understand them.

I'm sorry if you feel I was belittling anybody, I truely wasn't. And I accept your point about passion though really the forum topic wasn't about passion. Sure I get passionate about games. Hell I even quit games because of the passion. I was really just trying to point out that there is more to life than games. And that for me, I've never found a situation in a game enough to cause me to cry. Maybe thats because I understand life enough to know that games mean very little compaired to real life. And yes, I was being belittling there!

BigBlackWook

Lets see... how to say this without getting perma banned...

*coughs*homosexuals!*coughs*

well... i tried...

Greslore

Originally posted by flood950

Definitely never cried, I have worse things to deal with in my non-gaming life



But, I have gotten so upset I could see red before.  This is always because of other people in the game though, rather than the game itself. 



While I have been very happy after something in a game, nothing near as mad as I have been at specific people.  During my WoW Guild Leader days I cant even explain how just out of my mind PO'd I got with someone one evening. 



I think thats when I decided I would back down from the GL job and just be a peon....  a game itself wont get that much emotion out of me but some human interactions sure will.

Ugh.  Ya, not sure if I would be a GL ever again.  I started a guild the day WoW went live.  After a year, we got to know each very well.  But I had to play babysitter too much of the time.  It really sucked because we had a few long distance couples, so each person would tell me their version of whatever fight they had with the other.  I didn't want to be rude and say I DONT CARE, so I listened on.  Then a guildie developed a crush on another guildie, and somehow I got dragged in the middle of that mess.  "He doesnt want to group with me tonight - what should I do?"  I felt like saying "I dont know, stop trying to use WoW as a dating service and help me do this instance?"  But I was nice and listened on. 



And then the REAL drama started.  Raids.  Everyone wanted to do the 40 person raids.  NO ONE wanted to help organize.  I was honest with everyone and said I have no desire to organize these big things by myself, so lets form a "Raid Committee".  And no one stepped up.  Then more people whined to me - "I want to raid - we need to raid - blah blah blah".  Again, no one wanted to step and help organize. 



It got to the point where I wasn't playing the game at all.  Just handling "issues" constantly.  I'd log in and have to sit in Ogrimmar for an hour because of all the tells I'd get.  I finally said screw it, and took a long break.   Joined another server and became a simple guild "member".  And you know, I still saw many guilds being ripped apart because of this raiding crap. 

flood950

Originally posted by Greslore

It got to the point where I wasn't playing the game at all.  Just handling "issues" constantly.  I'd log in and have to sit in Ogrimmar for an hour because of all the tells I'd get.  I finally said screw it, and took a long break.   Joined another server and became a simple guild "member".  And you know, I still saw many guilds being ripped apart because of this raiding crap. 

Yes, I know exactly what you experienced.  I am glad to hear that my old guild is still up and going...and doing well it looks like...but man...I wouldnt ever want to be back in that situation again.  Managing raid spots in a large guild can get extremely difficult...no way to make everyone happy all of the time no matter how hard you try.

Soraellion

Does crying of laughter count?

I once played CoH with a friend and we went into an instance with some real retards who kept dieing every 5 seconds, we just rushed in and yell "pull!", low and behold someone pulled without noticing he's the only there... stuff like that, almost had a stroke from that.

 

project8six

the only time i ever "cried"(watery eyes ) was in ff8 when squall finally got with rinoa when they were coming back down to the planet on the ragnarok. man that guy works slow, but i was stoked for him as she floated down into his lap.  during that song and everything it was pretty emotional.



edit* sex change

Meon

id cried because of laughter multiple times. LOL at idiots

JimmyLegs

No, but alot of them just make me really really pissed off from some events (ie artards, really BS attacks, and very random asshattery actions of other players). Pretty much all community based things make me angry.... I hate people so much .

defenestrate

I almost cried once. It was when my guild of 2 years in World of Warcraft broke up because people were constanly being assholes because week after week we would wipe on Twin Emps. People started taking sides and finally everyone said the big "F*ck You!" and quit. I had alot of great friends in that guild now everyones off playing different games or tranferred servers.



Almost cried mind you.

Karnage69

Originally posted by Soraellion


Does crying of laughter count?
I once played CoH with a friend and we went into an instance with some real retards who kept dieing every 5 seconds, we just rushed in and yell "pull!", low and behold someone pulled without noticing he's the only there... stuff like that, almost had a stroke from that.
 

 

Haha! That's a good one! The other day I was playing WoW and I (Warlock) died on a rough pull in Arcatraz. I released my corpse and started flying back. The priest in the group kept yelling over vent because he couldn't find my corpse. I just kept it going , yelling at him, calling him names because my 'corpse' was right in front of him and he just couldn't see it. I eventually zoned in and ran to him after he logged in and out to fix his 'issue'. He kept yelling over vent because he still couldn't see my corpse and yet I was right next to him by then and still talking over vent. The other party members just couldn't handle it anymore and they busted up laughing. Needless to say the priest felt stupid and logged out . Left us without a healer . Oh well

Focker

Yeah, I cried when I played Ultima Online.  I logged in right after AOS patch, walked outside my house,  god attacked by a wongbat, noticed lil hit points appearing on top of my head, %'s on my armor and weapons.  I walked back into my lil house.  Logged out, cried.  Never played again.