I think anyones whos ever been guilded in WoW has experienced some sort of MMORPG drama. Collectivly, however, I would say the SWG CU/NGE changes would be the greatest, Torrential
I completely agree with Czzarre SWG/CU has been by far the biggest drama fest since EQ developers left Sony and formed Mythic Ent(Dark Age of Camelot). That runs a close second.
My first share of MMO drama was in Everquest for the ps2...I was the leader of one of the biggest guilds on the server, and after our rise to prominence on the server, two guys decided that I was "power hungry" (as if being a guild leader confers any power) and took about half of the guild with them to start their own, they didn't tell me that they had any issues, they just up and left one day while I was gone. When I logged on, all i had was a few messages from confused guild members who didn't know what was going on or why some of our guild leaders had left. See, I was the "guild master" along with these two other guys, and while I was the founder of the guild and the visionary behind all of the guild activities, these guys took care of a lot of the recruiting, so they had guild master privelages.
My second was in the lovely world of SWG, not the CU or NGE though, it was mostly just drama from a guild leader who had decided to do "drills" in case of rebel attacks...he expected us to drop whatever we were doing and come to our bases located on Tatooine...We were the biggest imperial guild on the server and held more bases than any other guild, so we had a lot to protect, but to expect people on Dathomir to drop whatever they were doing for a DRILL was just a little bit ridiculous. I was happy to send hundreds of thousands of credits to him for new bases and what not, but to waste an hour getting to where I was going, and then going back after finding a good place to farm or whatever I was doing, was complete crap.
My third was in WoW, where my lifelong quest to find a good raiding guild was just...well...completely futile...every guild I joined seemed to have leadership issues...I wasn't a part of the leadership in any of these guilds mind you, I just had a bad habbit of getting into guilds right when they were on the verge of collapse...well eventually I transfered servers and it only got worse from there...Meh, I don't even want to get into how bad that got...but eventually we had a guild master steal half the mats for a sulfuras and a bunch of elementium from us, that was fun.
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
A whole city was being hijacked by ONE thief on her mount before the city gate. No two-bit mouthy prissy city dweller who was equal or higher in combat skill would've went out to kill her (and mount her head on a pike -- a nice perk in the game!). So I asked if anyone was going to get her fat butt from blocking the only entrance/exit, as us lowly characters didn't have flying mounts to bypass the thief. Those who were chitty chatty on the city chat stopped and told me to "shutup". Then proceeded to tell me every excuse known that they were too good to knock out someone who was lower in combat skills than them. This continued for a whole RL day, until a city guard finally got around to killing her off.
Ever since I've been turned off of PvP. When players who could knock out a baddie that was hurting the city itself (these same types with city noble titles they supposely got for city loyalty even), and wouldn't be bothered but chit chat for hours, it was the final straw.
For weeks later the city earned the nickname of COWARD. They'd careless.
Has been a pretty entertaining read so far. I haven't been involved in much MMO drama (unfortunately?) so I'll just have to live vicariously through these stories
Ha, that tweety rant sort of jogged my memory about something. It's not a big deal but it was kind of funny. On a blue server in EQ 1 there was a guild, not the top guild on the server but one of the biggest. They had developed something of a reputation as assholes. You know, ninja looters, incompetent in groups, rude, frequently using the play nice policy to mess with people and horn in on camps that other people were using, often starting trouble and then calling guides/GMs to settle the whiney disputes that THEY instigated, stuff like that. I'm sure there were some nice people in that guild but there were enough rotten apples that they got that sort of reputation.
So then one day someone told me to try something. He told me to type /who all asshole. Huh? Ok. So I did and it brought up a list of everyone in that particular guild who was online. He he he. I guess one of the GMs got fed up with all their bullsh-t and set that up to vent a little. It seemed pretty funny to me at the time because from my personal experience with people from that guild I felt that their crappy reputation was well deserved. And it couldn't have been an accident of the search funtion looking for the closest match for "asshole" because the guilds name didn't even start with an "A".
to the EvE story. I never heard about this one before, but well, this is putting everything I've ever heard about video games in perspective...
Kind of scary and fascinating at the same time - and a reason I stick to games that give me 10 minute debuffs when I die. I guess I would get serious anger management problems if I had lost 16k RL money to my own geekness...
to the EvE story. I never heard about this one before, but well, this is putting everything I've ever heard about video games in perspective... Kind of scary and fascinating at the same time - and a reason I stick to games that give me 10 minute debuffs when I die. I guess I would get serious anger management problems if I had lost 16k RL money to my own geekness... Meridion
It was the value of the objects if sold on eBay -- especially the incident last year when a dev gave the largest faction in Eve 20 very special and expensive blueprints. That could've caused some serious imbalance, as some of the blueprints were for some very rare and powerful ships and gear.
Devs really shouldn't be playing on teams. The potential of abuse magnifies.
When Mystera was banned from EQ back in the day for writing a piece of fan fiction that was a bit controversial. The actually banned the author for life from EQ for posting a story up about their dark elf character on the games forums over on IGN vault network boards in a forum disignated for fan fiction. There was even a warning to readers not to read the story because of its content. The person wasn't banned from IGN, but some holy rolling church person found the story offensive and complained to SOE and Smedley and Mystera was banned. Took about a month and many petitions and in game sit ins before Mystera was finally allowed to roam the world of Norrath again.
I remember that one! I read the story too. Was pretty good hehe. Had some gruesome torture scenes in it I think.
Remember the EQ Guide that got pissed at a guild, and "banished" them to someplace (forgot where) where they suffered an unending death loop? hahahaha! Wish I could find a link to that again.
He bound them to Veeshan Peak which was at the time the hardest encounter in all EQ. But he didn't just summon a bind members of the guild, he also did the same to random people for no reason for the better part of a day or two.
In War - Victory. In Peace - Vigilance. In Death - Sacrifice.
Speaking of legends... EQ PvP servers were constant smack, both in ooc and on forums, but real server wide drama? well... Lets not forget Fansy. http://www.notaddicted.com/fansythefamous.php He made me just laugh
That is by far some of the funniest stuff I have ever read. Thanks, I laughed so hard my sides hurt.
UNATCOII: Yea i kinda guessed that (the value if sold on ebay), still, it's like a gazillion hours of gametime and effort popping in front of your eyes *lol*... Seriously, you have to be a hard boiled basxxrd to cope with THIS. I mean suure, you join EvE knowing that everything you own is at stake every single moment you play...
...still, this is no longer on the level of rational thinking, at least it wouldn't be for me. Shows me one more time HOW different and scaringly painful this game can be. *hops back to carebear-land*
EVE has the best drama. Titans getting stolen, stolen pos passwords, spies on enemies vent, etc... Though very minor compared to other happenings in EVE, the time I got to see the effectiveness of spies is when my Alliance got wardec'd by a mercenary corp. We just recently had one of their previous members join us who still had access to their vent, so when that merc corp came down to face us we were hearing everything they said / every command their FC gave... that 'fight' was pretty one sided.
Or how Goons have destroyed some of their enemies' morale by getting access to their forums and posting all their intel / rants for all of EVE to see.
The one I remember was when they announced Ultima Online was being split into Trammel and Felucca. People were raising hell on the uo.stratics messageboards. People were quiting left and right. After the split many people left and the game felt empty. I don't think they ever recovered the lost subscription numbers they had before the split.
Don't be terrorized! You're more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder! More people die every year from prescription drugs than terrorism LOL!
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I completely agree with Czzarre SWG/CU has been by far the biggest drama fest since EQ developers left Sony and formed Mythic Ent(Dark Age of Camelot). That runs a close second.
in Eve day without goons/ra/bob drama is lost day indeed
My first share of MMO drama was in Everquest for the ps2...I was the leader of one of the biggest guilds on the server, and after our rise to prominence on the server, two guys decided that I was "power hungry" (as if being a guild leader confers any power) and took about half of the guild with them to start their own, they didn't tell me that they had any issues, they just up and left one day while I was gone. When I logged on, all i had was a few messages from confused guild members who didn't know what was going on or why some of our guild leaders had left. See, I was the "guild master" along with these two other guys, and while I was the founder of the guild and the visionary behind all of the guild activities, these guys took care of a lot of the recruiting, so they had guild master privelages.
My second was in the lovely world of SWG, not the CU or NGE though, it was mostly just drama from a guild leader who had decided to do "drills" in case of rebel attacks...he expected us to drop whatever we were doing and come to our bases located on Tatooine...We were the biggest imperial guild on the server and held more bases than any other guild, so we had a lot to protect, but to expect people on Dathomir to drop whatever they were doing for a DRILL was just a little bit ridiculous. I was happy to send hundreds of thousands of credits to him for new bases and what not, but to waste an hour getting to where I was going, and then going back after finding a good place to farm or whatever I was doing, was complete crap.
My third was in WoW, where my lifelong quest to find a good raiding guild was just...well...completely futile...every guild I joined seemed to have leadership issues...I wasn't a part of the leadership in any of these guilds mind you, I just had a bad habbit of getting into guilds right when they were on the verge of collapse...well eventually I transfered servers and it only got worse from there...Meh, I don't even want to get into how bad that got...but eventually we had a guild master steal half the mats for a sulfuras and a bunch of elementium from us, that was fun.
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
Not on a MMO but a MUD.
A whole city was being hijacked by ONE thief on her mount before the city gate. No two-bit mouthy prissy city dweller who was equal or higher in combat skill would've went out to kill her (and mount her head on a pike -- a nice perk in the game!). So I asked if anyone was going to get her fat butt from blocking the only entrance/exit, as us lowly characters didn't have flying mounts to bypass the thief. Those who were chitty chatty on the city chat stopped and told me to "shutup". Then proceeded to tell me every excuse known that they were too good to knock out someone who was lower in combat skills than them. This continued for a whole RL day, until a city guard finally got around to killing her off.
Ever since I've been turned off of PvP. When players who could knock out a baddie that was hurting the city itself (these same types with city noble titles they supposely got for city loyalty even), and wouldn't be bothered but chit chat for hours, it was the final straw.
For weeks later the city earned the nickname of COWARD. They'd careless.
.:| Kevyne@Shandris - Armory |:. - When WoW was #1 - .:| I AM A HOLY PALADIN - Guild Theme |:.
Great thread guys
Has been a pretty entertaining read so far. I haven't been involved in much MMO drama (unfortunately?) so I'll just have to live vicariously through these stories
Post #12 has the winner by far in terms of ingame story driven drama. I dont even play EVE and i heard about that as well as loved reading about it
Ha, that tweety rant sort of jogged my memory about something. It's not a big deal but it was kind of funny. On a blue server in EQ 1 there was a guild, not the top guild on the server but one of the biggest. They had developed something of a reputation as assholes. You know, ninja looters, incompetent in groups, rude, frequently using the play nice policy to mess with people and horn in on camps that other people were using, often starting trouble and then calling guides/GMs to settle the whiney disputes that THEY instigated, stuff like that. I'm sure there were some nice people in that guild but there were enough rotten apples that they got that sort of reputation.
So then one day someone told me to try something. He told me to type /who all asshole. Huh? Ok. So I did and it brought up a list of everyone in that particular guild who was online. He he he. I guess one of the GMs got fed up with all their bullsh-t and set that up to vent a little. It seemed pretty funny to me at the time because from my personal experience with people from that guild I felt that their crappy reputation was well deserved. And it couldn't have been an accident of the search funtion looking for the closest match for "asshole" because the guilds name didn't even start with an "A".
Kind of scary and fascinating at the same time - and a reason I stick to games that give me 10 minute debuffs when I die. I guess I would get serious anger management problems if I had lost 16k RL money to my own geekness...
Meridion
It was the value of the objects if sold on eBay -- especially the incident last year when a dev gave the largest faction in Eve 20 very special and expensive blueprints. That could've caused some serious imbalance, as some of the blueprints were for some very rare and powerful ships and gear.
Devs really shouldn't be playing on teams. The potential of abuse magnifies.
.:| Kevyne@Shandris - Armory |:. - When WoW was #1 - .:| I AM A HOLY PALADIN - Guild Theme |:.
Remember the EQ Guide that got pissed at a guild, and "banished" them to someplace (forgot where) where they suffered an unending death loop? hahahaha! Wish I could find a link to that again.
He bound them to Veeshan Peak which was at the time the hardest encounter in all EQ. But he didn't just summon a bind members of the guild, he also did the same to random people for no reason for the better part of a day or two.
In War - Victory.
In Peace - Vigilance.
In Death - Sacrifice.
That is by far some of the funniest stuff I have ever read. Thanks, I laughed so hard my sides hurt.
UNATCOII: Yea i kinda guessed that (the value if sold on ebay), still, it's like a gazillion hours of gametime and effort popping in front of your eyes *lol*... Seriously, you have to be a hard boiled basxxrd to cope with THIS. I mean suure, you join EvE knowing that everything you own is at stake every single moment you play...
...still, this is no longer on the level of rational thinking, at least it wouldn't be for me. Shows me one more time HOW different and scaringly painful this game can be. *hops back to carebear-land*
*g*
Meridion
EVE has the best drama. Titans getting stolen, stolen pos passwords, spies on enemies vent, etc... Though very minor compared to other happenings in EVE, the time I got to see the effectiveness of spies is when my Alliance got wardec'd by a mercenary corp. We just recently had one of their previous members join us who still had access to their vent, so when that merc corp came down to face us we were hearing everything they said / every command their FC gave... that 'fight' was pretty one sided.
Or how Goons have destroyed some of their enemies' morale by getting access to their forums and posting all their intel / rants for all of EVE to see.
The one I remember was when they announced Ultima Online was being split into Trammel and Felucca. People were raising hell on the uo.stratics messageboards. People were quiting left and right. After the split many people left and the game felt empty. I don't think they ever recovered the lost subscription numbers they had before the split.
Don't be terrorized! You're more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder! More people die every year from prescription drugs than terrorism LOL!