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PuttyKnife
Jan 2, 2006

Despair brings the puttyknife down.
Over the years, i've been trying to collect weird oral history stuff from MMOs.

One item of fascination to me is, "The Most Important Event in Raiding History" which saw McQuaid take on a guild that had glitched an unfinished raid to complete it and then got banned. The email exchange is super fascinating and the reason it is called, "The Most Important Event in Raiding History" is because the outcome would pave the way for super strict ToS.

I had grabbed this off of Elitist Jerks before they replaced their UI.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/eam0z21sufcn37a/The%20most%20important%20event%20in%20raiding%20history%20-%20full%20-ui%20.pdf?dl=0

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PuttyKnife
Jan 2, 2006

Despair brings the puttyknife down.

30.5 Days posted:

Man, is there anywhere left to see the blog posts brad posted about that event & the reaction? I can't imagine posting "just kidding we banned them for doing poo poo you all do all the time" went over well.

Some of it you can find on Archive.org. The video game history foundation might also have some material but I don’t know if they’ve really dug into mmos quite yet.

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