7 biggest dick moves in the history of gaming

[Slargos]

Can't resist sharing this for anyone who'd perchance miss it.

Fucking. Awesome. 

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-biggest-dick-moves-in-history-online-gaming/

[Viking]

And here I thought this was a Languish EU3 MP thread.

[Grey Fox]

Bah, All the non-eve related could have been bested by other Eve events.

Funny List tho, I didn't remember the WoW plague & didn't know that Garriot was killed in Ultima.

[Caliga]

 

I thought the Blood Plague thing in WoW was more of a genuine glitch where if you were infected, but survived the battle and hearthed back before it wore off, it infected everyone (PC and NPC both) around you.  I was infected with it back then and I don't remember hearing people were doing it to grief others on the server.

Also, another sort-of related note: When that kid Ezra Chatterton who played WoW died of cancer, someone made an announcement on the WoW forums to that effect and people flooded it with comments like "LOL JUST ASK FOR A REZ N00B".

[grumbler]

The UO one was the one I enjoyed the most.  The EVE bank scam was probably the biggest dick move, though, since the guy just did it to be a dick.  It would have been more impressive if he had been scamming people smarter than your average EVE player, though.

The second life dick move doesn't sound very dickish or very funny, but maybe it is dickish and funny in context.  I don't get Second Life at all.

[MadBurgerMaker]

I'm pretty sure Karttoon did more damage to Goonfleet when he got trolled out (complete with wall of text goodbyes, etc) than #7, which was a long time ago.  Dude took or insurancefrauded several hundred billion isk worth of stuff (there was a pile of dead dreads on an undock) after messing up and at least partially causing the loss of all the sov in Delve/Period Basis/That other one next to Delve.  Then he went and got banned and can't use any of it.  Dumbass.

I also wonder exactly how much, isk wise, was lost when Haargoth did his smash and grab, then shut BoB down.  The guy stole an entire cap fleet from BNC, and what he did resulted in the destruction of like 500 POS.

The EVE Bank thing was pretty amazing though.  I can't believe there were so many people who were willing to just give their money away because he started a corp and called it a bank.  Then again, people still get nailed by recruitment scams, despite the "Joining Goonwaffe" page specifically saying that if you're paying isk to join, you're getting scammed.  In large red letters.

[garbon]

The second life dick move doesn't sound very dickish or very funny, but maybe it is dickish and funny in context.  I don't get Second Life at all.

I don't either. I don't get how people make money. Why would you want to pay for anything in Second Life?

[Ideologue]

I thought the Blood Plague thing in WoW was more of a genuine glitch where if you were infected, but survived the battle and hearthed back before it wore off, it infected everyone (PC and NPC both) around you.  I was infected with it back then and I don't remember hearing people were doing it to grief others on the server.

Also, another sort-of related note: When that kid Ezra Chatterton who played WoW died of cancer, someone made an announcement on the WoW forums to that effect and people flooded it with comments like "LOL JUST ASK FOR A REZ N00B".

I laughed.  Am I a monster?  If so, how did I become this way?

Proving that the only reason the Internet still exists is because it's not possible to kill other people through computer screens, most people familiar with WoW culture sort of shrugged, and said, "Yeah, they sort of had it coming." The targets were holding their funeral on a PvP (Player-versus-Player) server. The victims could have mourned their friend somewhere besides the middle of the battle field, but instead, they mourned a real tragedy to demand special treatment. This was the closest the Internet gets to real war after all, and you don't see soldiers mourning their dead in the middle of the battle field.

Meh, fuck WoW, but they were asking for it.

As for the Eve bank dude, I'm semi-sure that actually would be unlawful.  Even if (obviously) real-life banking/stealing laws wouldn't apply, I'd have to imagine that contract, bailment, or estoppel presumably would.

[Drakken]

They forgot GoonSquad screwing BoB in the ass and dissolving the whole Alliance, and SOE pulling the NGE that killed Star Wars: Galaxies.

[Razgovory]

The second life dick move doesn't sound very dickish or very funny, but maybe it is dickish and funny in context.  I don't get Second Life at all.

I don't either. I don't get how people make money. Why would you want to pay for anything in Second Life?

Does anyone get "Second Life".  I only vaguely know what it is.

[CountDeMoney]

It's the little things in EVE that are funnier than the big productions, like Goon planting containers in the shape of swastikas at the gates going into the Russian-controlled space.  Like little Nazi constellations for all to see.

[MadBurgerMaker]

It's the little things in EVE that are funnier than the big productions, like Goon planting containers in the shape of swastikas at the gates going into the Russian-controlled space.  Like little Nazi constellations for all to see.

CCP gets fairly mad about Nazi stuff though.  The dudes who were putting the POS mods into swastika shapes during the invasion of evoke's (a German alliance) space got at least temp banned.  Also Hitler jokes and Nazi comments in local were good for anywhere from 24hr to 30 day gags, depending on how often you did it, and what local was like at the time (they were also handing out forum bans).  I don't remember what they put, but some guys were temp-banned for certain station names as well. 

Of course, evoke was petitioning it every time they saw it, so the GMs were all over that shit.  Things like the Russian gate cans, the 70km dong memorial around Shrike's first titan loss, etc, last a little longer.  The Russians don't always seem to really care about that shit, even if they aren't some of the ~1,200 that are in the alliance with us.  They'll petition it if it gives them an advantage, of course, but generally not just for being there.    The gigantic space cock actually stayed there until they changed the way cans worked (needing to be opened and such every so often).

[Threviel]

SOE pulling the NGE that killed Star Wars: Galaxies.

Explain that in english please.

[Grey Fox]

SOE pulling the NGE that killed Star Wars: Galaxies.

Explain that in english please.

SOE : Sony Online Entertainment
NGE : New Game Enhancement

It was a SWG update that fucked up everything.

[Caliga]

I laughed.  Am I a monster?  If so, how did I become this way?

I have to admit I thought it was pretty funny too.   But I'd never post something like that myself.  Anyway, there are multiple memorials to the little dude in WoW now.  None of them are killable either.