Stories, Memories, and Fiascos

Phlis · 11/03/06, 2:46 PM

Gurg tells the story of Conquest: http://forums.elitistjerks.com/viewt...238148#p238148

Originally Posted by Praetorian

It's funny how things get distorted with the passage of time. "What Conquest did" is one of the most confused memories out there.

I like the stories that come out of MMOs, the accomplishments, the bannings, the videos. I've been around for some, BBz cascading and Leeroy Jenkins(Hi P4L) were both on my old server, Laughing Skull, and are both part of the reason it is my old server. I've heard of others, Korean's killing Phase 2 Ony, Funeral Crashing, the all Gnome Warrior Protest which brought down a server.

I'm a fan of these sorts of stories, and I want to hear more, rumors, memories and accurate re-tellings. Not just from WoW, but any MMO, or even old Bnet stories.

Nurru · 11/03/06, 2:49 PM

Thados and the "owned with easy" meme originated on Tichondrius. Some people may consider that noteworthy.

Malan · 11/03/06, 2:54 PM

Ahhh the Serenity Now funeral crashing. Illidan - where the "real" pvp is.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...94685876573666

Possibly one of the best uses of the Scatman song ever seen in our lifetimes.

Pyros · 11/03/06, 2:56 PM

You're forgetting Deus Vox cascading on LS, they took it to another level ^^
I remember AQ(not ahnqiraj, was like ayan bakhur or something) wars on AC darktide, where about 80% of the players were using various speedhacks, which made it look like a huge skating event with everyone sliding on the ground at full speed and casting bolts that would pretty much never hit.
Wasn't playing yet back then, but I remember the story of Lord British, Ultima's conceptor who got PKed like a newb during a speech in Ultima Online because he forgot his unvulnerability tag ^^

Nite_Moogle · 11/03/06, 2:56 PM

The Nurfed video of the warrior destroying over world mobs near the end of WoW beta with Slam and a 4.0 axe comes to mind as a game-changer. Hakkar's tainted blood infecting entire capitol cities was a big one. Also the Kazzak Reckoning bomb..
Anyone recall the guy posting under 2 accounts on Brell's server boards in the infamous Page 7 incident?

Kalman · 11/03/06, 3:03 PM

Hakkar plague was excellent. Gor, was the 2 accounts thing the one where after pages and pages of some entirely overwrought argument, a CM popped up and said "By the way, both of these characters are on the same account"?

Let's see... in Anarchy Online, there was a protest about the filthy state of the water in the rebel capital city, which led to the water being cleaned up ingame (they took out the filth and made it pretty).

Overcome · 11/03/06, 3:05 PM

Since I come from Medivh/Horde I had the <Ascent> and <Fury> do some fun things. First that comes to mind is when a Voidwalker Geddon bombed me while I was trying to buy my Krol Blade.

Deathwing · 11/03/06, 3:07 PM

Originally Posted by Nite_Moogle

The Nurfed video of the warrior destroying over world mobs near the end of WoW beta with Slam and a 4.0 axe comes to mind as a game-changer. Hakkar's tainted blood infecting entire capitol cities was a big one. Also the Kazzak Reckoning bomb..
Anyone recall the guy posting under 2 accounts on Brell's server boards in the infamous Page 7 incident?

He had the dreadforge retaliator, not the nicker.

mutagen · 11/03/06, 3:10 PM

The kiting videos: Stitches to Goldshire was the first I'm aware of and a classic, Kazzak to Stormwind, some kind of green dragon to Orgrimmar at Christmastime.

Nite_Moogle · 11/03/06, 3:11 PM

Gor, was the 2 accounts thing the one where after pages and pages of some entirely overwrought argument, a CM popped up and said "By the way, both of these characters are on the same account"?

Something like that. IIRC it was a guy logging in and out of two accounts posing as two completely separate people (I think one of whom was clearly supposed to be a woman in real life) who forgot to log out and posted under under the wrong account on a board that had no editing. The thread was promptly linked to every other EQ server and the guy was basically laughed out of the game.

Biny's Geddon bomb video was hilarious, I still laugh when I watch it.

Elendril · 11/03/06, 3:14 PM

Afflicted on Ner'zhul (then Vindictive on Malorne, and now Vind on Mannoroth) had one of the first successful Kazzak-to-Stormwind trains.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=stYUrIk8Iu0
http://files.filefront.com/Kazzak_vs.../fileinfo.html

Kalman · 11/03/06, 3:14 PM

Originally Posted by Nite_Moogle

Gor, was the 2 accounts thing the one where after pages and pages of some entirely overwrought argument, a CM popped up and said "By the way, both of these characters are on the same account"?

Something like that. IIRC it was a guy logging in and out of two accounts posing as two completely separate people (I think one of whom was clearly supposed to be a woman in real life) who forgot to log out and posted under under the wrong account on a board that had no editing. The thread was promptly linked to every other EQ server and the guy was basically laughed out of the game.

Biny's Geddon bomb video was hilarious, I still laugh when I watch it.

Ohhh, no, I was thinking of a WoW thread. Very similar, except that it was 2 chars on the same account fighting with each other and pretending to hate each other, then a CM came in and noted "Two characters, one account".

Revenj · 11/03/06, 3:19 PM

Off the top of my head,
anyone remember the "Lurikeen uprising" in DaOC?
I think it happened on Geunavire server...

Quasar · 11/03/06, 3:21 PM

I remember reading stories about MMOs, social interactions, etc. One of those included the Lord British thing. But what really stood out was a story about unplanned consequences in an MMO.

A while back in some game (apologize for the vagueness, I can't recall where I read the story despite searching everywhere for it, so some of the details may be incorrect), developers had put in some big world event where mobs would attack a certain city in waves to destroy some crystal, which would lead to story/etc developments in the game. It proceeded without a hitch on most servers, but on one server, top players had organized a massive defense of the city, and posted round-the-clock watches to protect it. It apparently lasted at least a day or two before the developers had to step into the server and kill the defending players so the event could proceed.

I remember reading that story and getting a "that... is so... freaking... COOL!" feeling. I really wish I remembered where I read it though. Struck me as a really cool story about unintended consequences when you put certain amounts of freedom and control into the hands of a large number of people. Can't always expect things to turn out like you wanted. =P

goss · 11/03/06, 3:23 PM

Originally Posted by mutagen

The kiting videos: Stitches to Goldshire was the first I'm aware of and a classic, Kazzak to Stormwind, some kind of green dragon to Orgrimmar at Christmastime.

The Christmas video (http://warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=12365) was priceless.

The same guild (Vis Maior) also made the first Patchwerk video (and world 3rd kill, as I recall), but the video (entitled "No Gimmicks, Just Skill" : http://files.filefront.com/nogimmick.../fileinfo.html ) made quite a stir because the rogue Frapsing it never used SnD...mockery on R&D and Realm forums quickly eclipsed what accolades they received for the swift kill and video.