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TheSwizzler
May 13, 2005

LETTIN THE CAT OUTTA THE BAG
Yeah the only mmo I could stick with for any length of time was STO and that was only because the local pubs get absolutely insanely enraged by the mildest trolling

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rox
Sep 7, 2016

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

the most fun i had in wow and the only real memory i have of playing it was using the flute to make roleplayers dance uncontrollably and having people threaten to murder me irl over it through /tell

lol

rox
Sep 7, 2016

i lost too much of my life to world of warcraft

The Wicked ZOGA
Jan 27, 2022
Probation
Can't post for 4 days!
Roleplayers are freaks for sure

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
mmos arent fun anymore because they are massive timesinks and the fun social interactions are slowly being removed so that they are single player games with occasional group content now

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"
Gotta wake up at 5:30 to be ready for server reset on Great Lakes I’m tryina nab a fruit basket
- middle school me, prioritizing

rox
Sep 7, 2016

the most enjoyment i get out of wow these days is looking at tld's av

The Wicked ZOGA
Jan 27, 2022
Probation
Can't post for 4 days!
Maybe I shouldn't be hard on roleplayers because I paid $10 to be on an internet forum but the ones who get really enraged or horny about it are freaks. gently caress it you know what I mean

Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
killing a pixie in uo while in a party which causes the party to lose karma which causes someone to lose their lord title who then starts raging in all caps over it because that was a long boring grind of killing poo poo over and over to achieve and it could be undone in seconds by killing the wrong monster lol

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014

haha what posted:

the most enjoyment i get out of wow these days is looking at tld's av

tld pretended to be a brazilian who didnt speak english to avoid getting kicked out of his guild for trolling them during a raid lol

The Wicked ZOGA
Jan 27, 2022
Probation
Can't post for 4 days!

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

killing a pixie in uo while in a party which causes the party to lose karma which causes someone to lose their lord title who then starts raging in all caps over it because that was a long boring grind of killing poo poo over and over to achieve and it could be undone in seconds by killing the wrong monster lol

That does sound like bullshit tbf

Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

the most fun i had in wow and the only real memory i have of playing it was using the flute to make roleplayers dance uncontrollably and having people threaten to murder me irl over it through /tell

This just a constant source of joy in all MMOs turns out

Like every single one of my Star Trek Online stories in the Griefing thread ended with "then I dropped a discoball on someone trying to do sex RP and they threatened to murder my family and called me a slur while dancing"

Tenkaris
Feb 10, 2006

I would really prefer if you would be quiet.
I hated the game but worked hard and got into a really good guild that I enjoyed, so I stuck with it way longer than I would have otherwise.

Legion they added so much stuff for all your alts to do but also uncapped power gain so you felt terrible for not just grinding your main instead. Really robbed me of enjoying most of it lol

Edit: the train toy in wow that specifically has a train destroyer toy that cancels it out because people hated being forced to choochoo

haha what posted:

i lost too much of my life to world of warcraft

Yep :(

rox
Sep 7, 2016

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

tld pretended to be a brazilian who didnt speak english to avoid getting kicked out of his guild for trolling them during a raid lol

lmao

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN
Stories from old MMOs sound like the most tortuous poo poo ever, I'm glad that socialization has been cut down in games so that's no longer possible and now I just idly tap buttons on my phone for chances at anime girl jpgs

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

killing a pixie in uo while in a party which causes the party to lose karma which causes someone to lose their lord title who then starts raging in all caps over it because that was a long boring grind of killing poo poo over and over to achieve and it could be undone in seconds by killing the wrong monster lol

Dread lady was so much more fun

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
the uo end game was hanging out at the bank in the most garish outfit possible and idling there all day

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
lol

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

the uo end game was hanging out at the bank in the most garish outfit possible and idling there all day

Changing characters so I can take more escort missions to lead the escorts out of town and steal their non-dyeable sandal colors and go to guarded towns to port folks to green acres or jail

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
lol moongate roulette ftw

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"
I really loved after they made starting items bind to you and included starting reagents, so I could go right back to literal highway robbery with a little social engineering of regs off newbs since they’ll never really use them to that capacity

Leraika
Jun 14, 2015

Luckily, I *did* save your old avatar. Fucked around and found out indeed.

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

the uo end game was hanging out at the bank in the most garish outfit possible and idling there all day

that's also the ffxiv endgame

Woolwich Bagnet
Apr 27, 2003



I discovered a dupe bug pretty early in to UO (before t2a) so my bank was full of nothing but stacks of 65k gold.

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
duping got so bad in uo and so much gold has flooded into the game now that no one could fit it into their banks anymore so they added platinum as a new currency with a single piece of platinum being worth 1 billion gold

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Woolwich Bagnet posted:

I discovered a dupe bug pretty early in to UO (before t2a) so my bank was full of nothing but stacks of 65k gold.

I just liked having the things you weren’t supposed to have.

And convincing folks to trade me those things by lying about the rarity or importance of sandals I took from escorts.

In retrospect way too much of my UO experience was sandals and almost all of it cosmetic items.

I see UORares is still there, goodbye my afternoon

Edit:

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

duping got so bad in uo and so much gold has flooded into the game now that no one could fit it into their banks anymore so they added platinum as a new currency with a single piece of platinum being worth 1 billion gold

Lol they made a trillion billion dollar bill

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Leraika posted:

that's also the ffxiv endgame

There is someone on my FFXIV world who is always just lying on the ground dead a few steps away from a primary teleport hub. They're wearing cash-shop gear. This has been going on for months. I have no idea if they're actually playing the game when I'm not online and somehow just always going back to "dead at the teleport hub" by the time I log in, but I'm kind of impressed at this point

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

Antivehicular posted:

There is someone on my FFXIV world who is always just lying on the ground dead a few steps away from a primary teleport hub. They're wearing cash-shop gear. This has been going on for months. I have no idea if they're actually playing the game when I'm not online and somehow just always going back to "dead at the teleport hub" by the time I log in, but I'm kind of impressed at this point

mostly likely thing is they don't actually play the game much between patches but use it as irc to chat with their buddies so they don't unsub and just stay logged in as a joke

Woolwich Bagnet
Apr 27, 2003



Grassy Knowles posted:

I just liked having the things you weren’t supposed to have.

And convincing folks to trade me those things by lying about the rarity or importance of sandals I took from escorts.

In retrospect way too much of my UO experience was sandals and almost all of it cosmetic items.

I see UORares is still there, goodbye my afternoon

Edit:

Lol they made a trillion billion dollar bill

Yeah I spent a ton of time rare hunting as well. Also being red and luring people in to attacking me for free kills.

Had a custom colored katana that a GM gave me that was no drop.

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь
My only good memory of an mmo is stealing 20 grand from my star wars galaxies guild and buying a swoop bike with it. Good poo poo

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

cheetah7071 posted:

mostly likely thing is they don't actually play the game much between patches but use it as irc to chat with their buddies so they don't unsub and just stay logged in as a joke

Yeah, I know it has to be this, but dang, dude, Discord doesn't cost $15 a month. You can't even do any of the dipshit emotes these people seem to love if you're dead!

Kagaya Homoraisan
Aug 28, 2019

You say, run away
Instead, you get scared
For the way that I feel
Drops out into all this disorder
if you have a house you cant unsub basically ever because even if auto demolish is suspended the timer still ticks down so if they turn it back on your poo poo can get rocked really quickly

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Kagaya Homoraisan posted:

if you have a house you cant unsub basically ever because even if auto demolish is suspended the timer still ticks down so if they turn it back on your poo poo can get rocked really quickly

Now that’s some Ultima Online energy

Ibram Gaunt
Jul 22, 2009

was watching a streamer play one of those spinning plate games about surfing the deep web and congrats to guy mann for the career change.

Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007
crazy lawsuit rereg guy has to be catching up to seraph by now

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008


these are my favorite wow videos and I'm still thinking about bonks and dings and "There's a maniac on the loose!" when I'm owning noobs in games to this day

Ibram Gaunt
Jul 22, 2009

Babe Magnet posted:

these are my favorite wow videos and I'm still thinking about bonks and dings and "There's a maniac on the loose!" when I'm owning noobs in games to this day

it owns and I used to love watching him stream since there'd always be people asking wtf is with the audio (since for those who aren't familiar they arent added in editing he replaced like every soundfile in wow with other poo poo) and he'd just say this is how wow always sounded. cracked me up everytime

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored

Oxxidation posted:

crazy lawsuit rereg guy has to be catching up to seraph by now

He’s doing 2-3 a day now. The guy is a diagnosed schizophrenic and I wonder if Jeff has considered trying to reach out to folks taking care of him.

Frank Frank fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Apr 7, 2023

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012
who was the goon who got access to a mmo goon guild bank, then blew the entire bank trying to gamble?

Frank Frank posted:

He’s doing 2-3 a day now. The guy is a diagnosed schizophrenic and I wonder if Jeff has considered trying to reach out to folks taking care of him.

that's extremely unlikely as you're involving yourself more with a crazy person if anything I would assume he's trying to find some way to permanently block them from the website or something

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TheSwizzler
May 13, 2005

LETTIN THE CAT OUTTA THE BAG

pentyne posted:

who was the goon who got access to a mmo goon guild bank, then blew the entire bank trying to gamble?

this could describe so many situations both online and at least once irl

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