Can't resist sharing this for anyone who'd perchance miss it.
Fucking. Awesome. :lmfao:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-biggest-dick-moves-in-history-online-gaming/
And here I thought this was a Languish EU3 MP thread.
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.
:hmm:
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". :rolleyes:
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.
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.
Quote from: grumbler on June 27, 2011, 06:23:15 PM
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?
Quote from: Caliga on June 27, 2011, 06:12:39 PM
:hmm:
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". :rolleyes:
I laughed. Am I a monster? If so, how did I become this way? :weep:
QuoteProving 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.
They forgot GoonSquad screwing BoB in the ass and dissolving the whole Alliance, and SOE pulling the NGE that killed Star Wars: Galaxies.
Quote from: garbon on June 27, 2011, 07:23:07 PM
Quote from: grumbler on June 27, 2011, 06:23:15 PM
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.
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.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 27, 2011, 11:25:11 PM
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).
Quote from: Drakken on June 27, 2011, 10:29:51 PM
SOE pulling the NGE that killed Star Wars: Galaxies.
Explain that in english please.
Quote from: Threviel on June 28, 2011, 06:34:25 AM
Quote from: Drakken on June 27, 2011, 10:29:51 PM
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.
Quote from: Ideologue on June 27, 2011, 10:26:18 PM
I laughed. Am I a monster? If so, how did I become this way? :weep:
I have to admit I thought it was pretty funny too. :blush: 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. :sleep:
It's pretty fucking crass, but it has a certain flair to it. Killing the wake was hilarious, though.
Those guys were just asking for trouble... I always wondered if that whole thing was staged, like Leeroy Jenkins. :hmm:
Yet more reasons not to play mmorpgs.
Man Sony throwing a tantrum because their players were going to kill their beloved invincible boss?
For a company made famous for their hatred of their own players in EQ that really is incredible even for them. Should have been #1 since it was a dick move by a MMORPG company for no other reason than pettyness.
As for the WoW funeral that was pretty sick but having a Alliance-Horde combined funeral on a PVP server was just asking for the sick fucks to come out. How do you even have an Alliance-Horde event in game anyway? I guess the two organizers were on Skype or something.
Quote from: Drakken on June 27, 2011, 10:29:51 PM
They forgot GoonSquad screwing BoB in the ass and dissolving the whole Alliance, and SOE pulling the NGE that killed Star Wars: Galaxies.
And rightly so. There was nothing memorable about SWG.
As for GoonSquad screwing BoB and whatever...huh?
Quote from: Tyr on June 28, 2011, 07:48:47 AM
Yet more reasons not to play mmorpgs.
MMORPGs are great so long as you do not let the game distract you from the important business of getting to experience the worst humanity has to offer.
Quote from: Valmy on June 28, 2011, 08:22:51 AM
Quote from: Drakken on June 27, 2011, 10:29:51 PM
They forgot GoonSquad screwing BoB in the ass and dissolving the whole Alliance, and SOE pulling the NGE that killed Star Wars: Galaxies.
And rightly so. There was nothing memorable about SWG.
As for GoonSquad screwing BoB and whatever...huh?
EvE event. IIRC GoonSquad got hold of passwords & disbanded the BoB alliance.
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 28, 2011, 08:45:34 AM
EvE event. IIRC GoonSquad got hold of passwords & disbanded the BoB alliance.
If this event is so hilarious and so great that they should not be forgotten surely it is more interesting than hacking a few accounts. That happens about 2 million times a day on WoW.
Was it at a particularly hilarious time or something?
Quote from: Valmy on June 28, 2011, 08:47:10 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 28, 2011, 08:45:34 AM
EvE event. IIRC GoonSquad got hold of passwords & disbanded the BoB alliance.
If this event is so hilarious and so great that they should not be forgotten surely it is more interesting than hacking a few accounts. That happens about 2 million times a day on WoW.
Was it at a particularly hilarious time or something?
EvE is different from WoW.
WoW guild being disbanded only affects those players. A EvE Alliance disbanding resets the balance of power.
Here's an article about the situation : http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/64347
Quote from: Valmy on June 28, 2011, 08:22:04 AM
Man Sony throwing a tantrum because their players were going to kill their beloved invincible boss?
For a company made famous for their hatred of their own players in EQ that really is incredible even for them. Should have been #1 since it was a dick move by a MMORPG company for no other reason than pettyness.
Heh, I remember that. The players came back and killed it again.
Quote from: Maximus on June 28, 2011, 08:56:16 AM
Heh, I remember that. The players came back and killed it again.
Good for them. I hope they sent Sony screenshots.
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 28, 2011, 08:51:28 AM
EvE is different from WoW.
WoW guild being disbanded only affects those players. A EvE Alliance disbanding resets the balance of power.
Here's an article about the situation : http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/64347
Ok reading that made me nostalgic for the old team PVP servers on EQ. They were so poorly designed you could really fuck people over...and people did get fucked over...over and over and over and over again and the ruthlessness and whinyness got pretty ridiculous.
This article affirms my decisiion to stay away not just from MMorpgs but online games with random strangers in general. I hated 16 year old boys when i was 16, and hate them more now that I'm not.
The only time I ventured into online gaming was very early on with Diablo. And that was a nightmare. And I gave it up for good.
Mind, my experience wasn't much different shortly after I joined Languish and played a game of Diplomacy with some of you guys (Can't remember now who was in it) and I was the first person gang-banged out of the game. ;)
But, and I'm ranting now, I now, this also affirms one of my other things. When computers were invented, or at least computer gaming, in the mid to late 80s I was totally excited because the novel thing was I could play games without involving other human people. Why you'd want to now play against other humans, when you clearly don't need to anymore, is beyond me.
Quote from: Josephus on June 28, 2011, 12:55:09 PM
Why you'd want to now play against other humans, when you clearly don't need to anymore, is beyond me.
:wacko:
"Why have sex with another person when you can just masturbate?"
Quote from: Habbaku on June 28, 2011, 01:20:07 PM
"Why have sex with another person when you can just masturbate?"
Exactly. You understand.
There is no AI yet invented that can challenge you like other players can.
Never underestimate Sony's ability to screw players; I cite community events in MxO as an example.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 28, 2011, 05:49:11 PM
There is no AI yet invented that can challenge you like other players can.
Agreed. But I'd rather play alone than with a group of strangers. I will play online ,in a closed game, with people I know from time to time. I loved playing Rise of Nations with some friends back in the day.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 28, 2011, 05:49:11 PM
There is no AI yet invented that can challenge you like other players can.
AIs typically outsmart me. :(
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 28, 2011, 05:49:11 PM
There is no AI yet invented that can challenge you like other players can.
Which is good. I don't want to lose, I want a fun challenge.
:hmm: OTOH when you beat other players, it's extremely satisfying. Probably the most fun I've had with WoW in years was when I was doing heavy PvP with my blood elf mage.
Quote from: Caliga on June 29, 2011, 07:34:11 AM
:hmm: OTOH when you beat other players, it's extremely satisfying. Probably the most fun I've had with WoW in years was when I was doing heavy PvP with my blood elf mage.
I was actually fairly decent as a tactician in Combat Mission. I genuinely surprised people using things like reverse slope.
I like to TK my entire team in any online shooter. Best one I did was in Call of Duty, when I shot my team's snipers in the head and attempted to motivate them to attack. My nick in the game? Lavrenti Beria.
Quote from: Ed Anger on June 29, 2011, 10:31:39 AM
I like to TK my entire team in any online shooter. Best one I did was in Call of Duty, when I shot my team's snipers in the head and attempted to motivate them to attack. My nick in the game? Lavrenti Beria.
That's funny but probably lost on them.
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 29, 2011, 10:49:41 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on June 29, 2011, 10:31:39 AM
I like to TK my entire team in any online shooter. Best one I did was in Call of Duty, when I shot my team's snipers in the head and attempted to motivate them to attack. My nick in the game? Lavrenti Beria.
That's funny but probably lost on them.
Yep. They understand Otto Skorenzy Tk'ing their asses though.
Quote from: MadBurgerMaker on June 27, 2011, 06:24:30 PM
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.
The fact that he was giving out loans with interest and repayment plans probably made a lot of gullible people feel safe.
Maybe they thought he became too big to fail.
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 30, 2011, 12:16:51 AM
Maybe they thought he became too big to fail.
:lol:
Ah memories. I was playing UO when Richard Garriot was "killed". It didn't happen on my server and I wasn't there. But it was big news back then.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 29, 2011, 11:53:26 PMThe fact that he was giving out loans with interest and repayment plans probably made a lot of gullible people feel safe.
People are retarded with their isk (and in general) in EVE. Jita local is constantly spammed with "Send me isk and I'll send you double back!!1! I promise!!1" type shit, along with the standard "Sell something for 100,000,000 instead of 100,000" trick, among other things. If that stuff didn't work, they would have stopped by now, I would think. The EVE Bank thing was just a bigger, more slick version of the former. "Invest your isk in us, we'll pay out interest." Let it run for a while, pull in as many retards as you can, then shut it down and buy a Fuck You dread or ten. Nice. Only thing I have to complain about is I didn't think of it first.
Most I've been involved in, aside from the occasional small time scam, was a "hostile takeover" of a small industrial corp. A few of us joined this corp, took all the shares, voted one of our guys in as CEO in the middle of the night so he could remove roles from all the sleeping directors (and give them to us heh), then stole and blew up everything we could ("Hey you mining? We've got a mining op going, join our fleet!" *warps everyone to zero, vaporizes "friendly" ship*) before kicking everyone else out. I just checked: He's still the CEO. :lol:
Edit: Interestingly, there used to be way to use the in game contract system for loans, but....uh....you had to give isk for collateral, so it was only good for ships and stuff.
Before UO was launched, people formed many different guilds in anticipation. One that caught my attention was a "Bank of Britannia". My first reaction was that it was really cool, because I genuinely wanted to run a bank. But I also realized that there were too many problems. Someone has to hold the treasury and there is just no way to prevent that person or persons from running away or simply quitting the game...I talked with the founders on how to solve these, but all I got was "things will work out". So I quickly quit.
Quote from: Monoriu on June 30, 2011, 01:54:44 AM
Before UO was launched, people formed many different guilds in anticipation. One that caught my attention was a "Bank of Britannia". My first reaction was that it was really cool, because I genuinely wanted to run a bank. But I also realized that there were too many problems. Someone has to hold the treasury and there is just no way to prevent that person or persons from running away or simply quitting the game...I talked with the founders on how to solve these, but all I got was "things will work out". So I quickly quit.
A real world contract?
I miss the ultimate freedom of UO. You could be a murderer, a thief, a mage, a shopkeeper, build your own castles, etc.
Quote from: JonasSalk on July 11, 2011, 11:37:45 AM
I miss the ultimate freedom of UO. You could be a murderer, a thief, a mage, a shopkeeper, build your own castles, etc.
http://inporylem.com/ (http://inporylem.com/) :thumbsup:
Yeah, I played on a few large free servers for a while after the real game. The last time I did that was about three years ago with some RL friends. We had a lot of fun and there were about 400 people on the server, which was nice, since you had people who had real personalities (such as a totally awesome dickbag Robin Hood-type mage PVPer who would fuck with people all the time.) One time my friends and I were able to sneak into somebody's house and rob him blind. He got so pissed he started posting about us on the server's forums complaining, blah blah blah. It was epic.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 29, 2011, 11:53:26 PM
Quote from: MadBurgerMaker on June 27, 2011, 06:24:30 PM
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.
The fact that he was giving out loans with interest and repayment plans probably made a lot of gullible people feel safe.
I still don't fully understand how he wasn't sued.
Quote from: JonasSalk on July 11, 2011, 11:37:45 AM
I miss the ultimate freedom of UO. You could be a murderer, a thief, a mage, a shopkeeper, build your own castles, etc.
I ran a pretty profitable shop before I quit.
Quote from: Ideologue on July 13, 2011, 10:42:34 PM
I still don't fully understand how he wasn't sued.
Does the game even have a court system (and if it does, isn't it clogged up with tens of thousands of cases of piracy and murder)?
Plus, the guy can escape jurisdiction just by cancelling his account.
Quote from: grumbler on July 22, 2011, 05:19:14 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on July 13, 2011, 10:42:34 PM
I still don't fully understand how he wasn't sued.
Does the game even have a court system (and if it does, isn't it clogged up with tens of thousands of cases of piracy and murder)?
Plus, the guy can escape jurisdiction just by cancelling his account.
Ha ha.
What the internet needs is a service where you can hire large men to beat the shit out of other users. In the real world, if you are an asshole, people will respond to you negatively. They may shun you, or call the police, or simply kick your face in. Sadly, these options really exist in cyberspace.
Quote from: Razgovory on July 26, 2011, 06:47:10 AM
What the internet needs is a service where you can hire large men to beat the shit out of other users. In the real world, if you are an asshole, people will respond to you negatively. They may shun you, or call the police, or simply kick your face in. Sadly, these options really exist in cyberspace.
You can shoot up a camp full of kids if people are mean to you in the internet. :contract:
Quote from: Martinus on July 26, 2011, 06:54:33 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 26, 2011, 06:47:10 AM
What the internet needs is a service where you can hire large men to beat the shit out of other users. In the real world, if you are an asshole, people will respond to you negatively. They may shun you, or call the police, or simply kick your face in. Sadly, these options really exist in cyberspace.
You can shoot up a camp full of kids if people are mean to you in the internet. :contract:
See, I don't hate Muslims. So shooting kids is really more your kind of thing.