Eve Online has a lot of crazy stories considering how fundamentally not fun the game is. My favorite is the one where a new player got shot down for no reason in his first ship. So he vows revenge on his soul and joins the group that player was a part of. He slowly makes his way up the ranks to being in charge of maintaining their entire fleet and then detonates absolutely everything they own. He leaves one message: "That was for shooting me down at level 1" and leaves the game forever. Immediately becomes legend.
I mean I know Eve online players are mostly psycopaths but how do you know he didn't make it up? Can't it be that it's a player that was playing normally, eventually got to a position of power in some guild while already intending to leave, thought up a backstory to why he wants to ruin the day for his guild members which he may have had some grudge against already - wrote that note and did the thing then left?
No Faldor Massacre RuneScape? Sleepers cute, mass casualties unable to be controlled by the moderators as they see person after person lose fortunes is a the thing of legends.
Ah, yes. 666. I was in middle school then. Got a frantic call from a friend telling me to log on and check my account. Had to wait for my sister to get off the landline. Good times.
@@cheeseburgerpaladin same. I was running laws I think on 66. Then the massacre started. Later that night I went and saw the omen in theaters. A great crazy day.
I was honestly surprised this didn't show up in the video because even the devs had a 10 anniversary event in 2016 for this, I remember being in middle school when this happened. And the hypercam 2 nightwish video being like on of the first viral runescape videos.
I wish I could find the article again, but there was an article about a slavery ring being busted in Eve Online. There was a company/guild/whatever they're called that was recruiting new or low level players, transporting them to a distant star system, and giving them lots of good equipment, but not engines that were good enough to get them away from those systems, and the "recruited" players were forced to be stuck in that area and work off their "debts" to the company. Another player got wind of this and infiltrated the company, and essentially triggered a slave revolt. I wish I could find the article again, because it was the wildest bloody story.
The biggest thing that ever happened to me on MMO was on WOW. In 2005 I created a new player for the first time and me and two other new players (an older guy and a young girl) formed a guild. I played with just the two of them for a couple of months before school and life dragged me away. At the time it was primarily just the three of us at around level 45. I returned 15 months later to see that the two players I was playing with had actually made that guild into the largest and most popular guild on a large server. I received quite a welcome when I returned, with hundreds of people messaging me that they thought I was a myth, the "guy who established the largest guild then disappeared". Had some of the best times of my life playing in that guild for a while until I moved out of the country and had to quit playing.
I love the concept of a bunch of PVP players getting together, and deciding that an NPC (even if it was all powerful) would not be allowed to run rampant through their world
@@Kittari13 PVE is repetitive, formulaic and safe. Draws those kinds of people. PVP is the opposit,e so the crowd is more fun too. If there's anybody that'll beat an "unkillable" NPC boss its PVPers, they're better at MMOs than PVEers. Its not like PVP servers don't have the same mobs, you just have players to deal with as well.
For me the biggest event was when I had just logged into everquest for the first time. Within the first few weeks, I just happened to be on during a GM event in Kelethin. Orcs would charge into kelethin and fight. It was like lord of the rings come to life and it really made the world feel dynamic. I remember wanting so badly to level up after that so I could be more useful during GM events. It really saddens me no game has brought back GM events.
I loved some of those old GM events. I got to experience one that had werewolves in Commonlands. I still remember it to this day. It was just so amazingly cool.
Over the past few years The City in 2k has become an MMO and when Kobe died everyone did the 8 second back court violation and the other team would do the 24 second shot clock violation in honor of him then the game would start. It was honestly touching that people were doing it.
As a non MMO player I came to this video expecting to hear about the PVP in safe zone RuneScape glitch, the Blood Plague in WoW, the funeral raid in WoW, & maybe the Matrix shutdown. I love MMO stories man. This is so cool.
I had friends in one of the raid guilds on Rallos Zek. I had stopped playing by the time they killed the sleeper but I sat at their apartment and watched them kill it. It was incredibly memorable.
Secondlife is not a game, it s a virtual world which allow to simulate real life :) still really strong with 50 000 onlin 24/7 - good video anyway - Secondlife is metaverse pioneer
The Sleeper event reminds me of a somewhat similar event in Asheron's Call. Where on all servers there was the last crystal guarding the awakening of Asheron's Nemesis, Bael'zharon. It happened to be BZ's power that turned players PVP-on, so lore-wise it made sense that the dungeon of the final crystal be PVP-only, even on PVE servers. On all servers, the crystal fell relatively quickly, including the PVP-only server, Darktide. But on one server, Thistledown, players rallied around the crystal 24/7 to protect it, killing entire player-raids to save the crystal. They even took turns letting the crystal kill them to feed it XP (mobs could level up in that game). The patch month was about to end, and the devs couldnt have the lore split between that server and the others, so a final event was created specifically for that server, when insanely high level shadow-monsters started spawning, taking out the defenders over time. One special shadow buffed a designed player, in the lore, to be the assassin of the shard. The whole story was amazing, I highly recommend watching "The Significance of Asheron's Call's Shard of the Herald Event (Part 1-2)" on RUclips, or even the 3 minutes official clip of the event made by the devs "Asheron's Call Turbine Shard of the Herald".
I played UO on the Atlantic server. My character was named Tradesman, One of the first grandmaster blacksmiths on the server (I also had a gm Alchemist). I had the closest house outside Minoc heading towards the Penninsula where I sold all of my armor and potions. I was so rich in that game, and I absolutely loved it.
I remember a friend and I played uo for about 4 yrs straight in 99 to 02, we found an uninhabited island that had just enough squares for 2 houses, it was amazing, both our long term girlfriends left us cause all we did was work and play uo.....we did not care! Good times!
@@CaelDormanI don't remember your name, but I think I remember the guild name. Some of the people I ran with back then were Peachy, Simon, Odin, Magic 8-Ball and there were many more. Those were the people I hung around with the most.
I love these old stories. The story I experienced was the end of beta in Vanguard. I had played the beta for about four months and the end of beta was a bittersweet event. All our progress was going to be wiped and the general riffraff was going to be let into the game. But it was finally launching and that was exciting. About an hour before beta shut down, the GMa were running around spawning mobs that no one had ever seen in the game. It was a chaotic lag fest but wow, it was memorable. RSVP Vanguard. Long live Vanguard EMU. 💪
Oh that's an awesome experience! The closest thing I think I remember to that was in Everquest when GMs were spawning werewolves in a zone that no longer exists, West Commonlands. I played Vanguard I think shortly after launch, a friend of mine from EQ convinced me to come over and play. I'm wondering now if he played during the beta, I'm going to have to ask. Thank you so much for sharing...I still need to figure out why the EMU won't load up for me.
Final Fantasy XI, Absolute Virtue. 18 hour plus raid boss, with people passing out from exhaustion. I played FFXI at the time. It caused a pretty big scandal. FFXI was insane back in the day.
That reminds me of a 12 hour camp for a raid boss I was part of in everquest. Ooof it was just brutal. I think I lasted 8 hours and called it quits. It was an open world boss, too.
People are always getting Absolute Virtue mixed up with Pandemonium Warden. AV didn't make much of a stir outside of the game's own community, while the _36-hour_ Pandemonium Warden Incident made such an impact in the media it forced Square Enix to put 2hr time limits on both it and AV.
@Redbeardflynn Back in the day, I camped Drelzna in Najena for the Journeyman's Boots. I was a Level 17 DE Shadowknight, I'd been up for 3 days straight non-stop grinding my way up the rotation list, and made it to the #1 spot for next loot...and the person in the #2 spot looted them instead. Then he and the rest of the group basically told me to screw myself, because I was too low to contribute any "real" DPS and so I wasn't going to be allowed to loot them no matter what. Keep in mind, these were the last 3 days before they became Quest-only and were removed from Drelzna's loot table forever. And it was mere hours from server reset, when the patch would go through. Well, I went running out and found a nice Level 45 Magician who KS'd her for me while the rest of the group were still there, trying to get their drops. One kill; and she had the Jboots. In his memory, until I quit the game in 2008, no matter which of my toons I played, I always went out of my way to help Magicians. 🥲
The WoW blood plague wasn’t intentionally spread outside the raid, it was accidental as the hunters would dismiss their pets as soon as they got infected to prevent them from dying and after the raid ended that condition wasn’t cleared like it was for players, which meant the next time the pet was summoned it restarted the plague. So the initial release of the plague was accidental, but people found out you could change your pvp flag to avoid getting infected and that’s when people intentionally also changed their pvp flag to purposefully spread the plague.
One of my crazier fun moments was actually on EVE Online. I was part of a corp who operated in Null sec sovereign space. There were us and 3 other guilds at the time... Now, we had a partial alliance with one corp, while the other two were kill on-sight. The one we were partial with, skirmishes against them if caught out solo/small groups in neutral space wasn't uncommon, but when something went down, we would group up to fight the other two off etc. At one point, we had a combined fleet of around 90-100 and were hunting an enemy fleet of approx. the same strength. Both fleets consisted of mostly tier 2 frigates and cruisers, with a couple of battlecruisers as well. We were hunting them down for around 2.5-3 hours when we finally had them cornered in a pincer attack jumping in from 2 different systems and so we pushed to engage. The second we engaged, a new corp we hadn't even 'known' were around (sov space, the chat/region contacts shows as empty unless you speak publicly, so you never know if others are around) dropped in on the fight with a warp, using tier 3 cruisers. Around 50 of them in total and completely wiped out both fleets. No one had any idea what the hell was going on and it was absolutely crazy, but at the same time, pretty much all 4 corps were just like "Damn... That was impressive..." lol
Fansy the Bard on Sullon Zek was a memorable character. When there was no PVP until level 6, he was a level 5 bard that ran around and trained everyone.
People way underestimate how anti social or anxious videogamers are. Even making a phone call for a pizza can be intimidating or terrifying. Ironically, much of society has become similarly anti social now app delivery and communication have been normalised, no talking to an actual human required.
In eq i managed to completely crash a server by using staff of the observers in North Freeport and casting it on many other players. Lets just saying many of transactions were ruined and GMs got involved. Winning the argument by following in game rules i managed to not get sent to the cat room. And then the staff got nerfed 😂
I played Ultima Online from day 1……Me and my sister named Deadlydesire on Napa valley found the first and only exploit 1 hitter heavy Xbow …..you had to get a bow that was magic “Indestructible” or however you spell it….anyways when u got a indestructible bow u had to use it tell it was close to braking and it would turn into a 1-hitter……we tested it at transic she shot me and the arrow was so slow you can out run it but it NEVER stoped chasing you.. then we used it to hunt n get rich but one day we was bored and went to decite that’s when GM’s discovered it lol we killed EVERYONE 7-9 minutes of killing we was teleported to a gm jail =/
I remember Hunters did the same thing during the Baron Geddon fight where the pets would get Living Bomb and they would dismiss them and bring them back out in cites and blow everyone up. Also hunters used to be able to Kite world bosses into cities.
Scammed out of 2m worth of items and gold in RuneScape. A low level player tricked me into entering level 1 wildy to buy an abby whip from him (he was much lower level I felt I had little to worry about). His friend who was my same level but a pure mage popped out of no where and merc’d me in seconds. I’d spent months after school farming to raise enough gold. I fully quit playing after that
I was popping molly pills back during classic Phase 1 and I got really high one night and stole all the Sulfuran Ingots from my guild. I gave them back eventually tho but I ended up ruining my relationships with the peoples in the guild.
Morroc's Resurection was pretty dope in Ragnarok. Laggy as shit but still fun. That's how you really know. Funner though is when either the Devs OR hackers summoned what was the second strongest boss at the time, Ifrit in the small town of Izlude. Almost every player- lvl 1 to 99 stopped what they were doing to go fight
The best part about EverQuest being ran originally on dial up is that it was designed that way. Nowadays, you can play eq fairly well off a cell phone hotspot. I travel for work and did this through the DoN expansion on progression servers with no issues.
In addition to everything you've mentioned in the video, the World of Warcraft AQ gate opening event is the only other memorable event I can recall. The build-up was intense and then... who knows, because the servers effectively died.
You missed one: The Lurikeen Uprising on Dark Age of Camelot. It happened in May 2002. Players were invited to create a Lurikeen on the Guinevere server. You were supposed to make a character with "KEEN" in the name. I was there, and we were LEGION. It was GLORIOUS. The Lurikeen Uprising altered the population balance on the server, including RvR, which was suddenly flooded with Lurikeen from Hibernia. The patch notes for November 25, 2002 included this: "THE LURIKEEN UPRISING HAS PREVAILED - As of this patch, Lurikeen can become Heroes. Thanks for the great roleplaying moments to everyone involved in the Uprising. Enjoy! " Here is a video: ruclips.net/video/HSO1gJvCQYo/видео.html
I was in falador during the falador massacre in runescape(also got to play some minigames with the Gower brothers and mod paul, i distinctly remember the pirate rum making minigame and seeing them on launch day.) I love hearing these old mmo lore stories.
I quit New World over all the bugs. For every patch they would create more bugs than they fixed. They had no quality control. I lost 15 hours worth of effort due to their bugs and their customer service is non-existent.
The one incredible MMO story I always awe at is the fountain war of Eve online. In essence it was a was over a resource rich territory called the fountain, hold by the biggest corporation in Eve at the time, Test Alliance Please Ignore, and the Goonswarm Federation, the second largest corp at that time. There is a very good summary of the fountain war by Scott Manley here on yt. Worth a look. And a second one. And a third. I’m starting my sixth now.
@@Redbeardflynn I actually play the game now and then. At the moment I’m in a break again lasting for over 10 months by now, but I will continue at some point. And thanks for answering. You’ve made this video over a year ago!
Redbeardflynn Please read this you should look up the CO2 heist in Eve Online I was playing in an allied group at the time and we lost everything too when I counted up my self by how much they lost in in-game cash it was close to $50k USD a PLEX at the time was $20 USD the Goons were the Corp the guy sold all the stuff to it was trillions of in-game cash
I'm trying to track down some of the breakdown videos from the major participants in how everything went down. Player driven content in an open world makes for some unique experiences and complex stories. Certainly a few days of gaming I'll never forget. @@Redbeardflynn
I know this is video is a year old but I was playing RuneScape and I was part of the massacre that happened in the one of the cities not really part but a victim
@@Redbeardflynn it was an event randomly getting killed in a city while exploring as it was my first time there and I only got a membership the eather a day before or a week I don’t remember I learned what happened few years later and remember it recently well looking at interesting games bugs that change the games there In forever if memory serves on the anniversary of the event the city is filled with flowers
I remember reading Massively (now MassivelyOP) since being in college in 2010 and quitting WoW Cataclysm, so was always on the lookout for the new great MMO contender. I'm so glad the website is still around with all it's old articles, they've documented a heck of a lot of MMO history.
1. The ashes of alar mount in WoW to a player without the flying skill I would lead "pug raids" in WoW. I had the server second (alliance first) ashes of alar drop. It didn't go as expected. So I was leading pug raids into "old content" during Wrath of the lich king. One of the bosses had a mount (ashes of alar) in tempest keep at the end. Now normally to get to tempest keep you have to have a flying mount. However you could technically have a warlock summon you up there. Honestly by WoTLK it was kind of weird seeing people without the flying skill but 5000g to unlock it was still a lot of gold back then. So in one of the raids I was leading we killed the final boss and low and behold the mount dropped. Keep in mind this was an insanely rare mount at the time. Only one player on the server (horde side) had gotten it previously. Now I never expected the mount to drop and as a result I never actually made any raid loot rules reguarding it. Now when it dropped everyone freaked out. This was the second time on the server it dropped and first for alliance. Half the raid actually (and suprisingly) encouraged me to just take the mount myself because I had been forming these pug raids every weekend for well over a year. While it was VERY tempting I didn't want to ruin my reputation as it would likely prevent me from ever being able to lead a pug raid again (and maybe prevent me from getting into a raid again). So I did the only respectful thing. I told everyone to roll 100 for it. Highest roll got it. The guy who won it was pretty happy. But then came the second part of this crazy story. He didn't have flying. He just won one of the rarest mounts in the game at the time and didn't have the skill to actually learn it. Nor the gold to buy the skill even if he wanted to. Because EVERYONE wanted to see the mount so badly essentially the entire alliance side of the server chipped in to donate 5000 gold to him. So he not only got ashes of alar but also got 5000 gold for free! I did warn him that he better not quit the game any time soon. And I am happy to report that at least a few xpacs later he was still in the game. (Not sure anymore as I swapped servers a number of years ago). As a side note my "pug raids" actually lead to WoW devs actually putting in premade group finder into the game which has been a fairly useful thing for many players over the years. 2. Xshipwars space station destruction. So there was a little known online game in Linux called "Xshipwars". It was a pretty fun game you flew around and could fight other npc or player ships on a 2D RTS styled view (mostly star trek ones). Normally space stations can't be destroyed by your ship. However one day I was flying around and found a random space station that was attackable. So I did. Now there was a quirk in this game where weapons and shield were tied to the same power. So if you could bring down someones shields they couldn't fire weapons at your anymore until they got enough power back. So I spent hours dwindling this space stations shields down and at that point kept firing my weapons to keep thier shields down which prevented the station from firing its own weapons. I did this for hours more dwindling its armor down. Then the dev logged in and appearently (I learned later) had been testing this new station and stuff. No one was supposed to have found it let alone attacked it. So with like 10% hp left he gave it full power again and it just blew me up lol as my own weapons had been draining my shields down. Had he not come along I would have destroyed the station which would have been an awesome feet for a single player.
Funny enough, i won a mount under the same circumstances, the Black Drake from Obsidian Sanctum 10 man. You only get it by killing the boss Sartharion WITHOUT killing any of his 3 dragon adds. I won it, but i actually didn't have flight just yet. I was very close to getting it, i did it the same day, but it was quite crazy that i managed to win a mount that required so much setup when i couldn't even use it yet.
In a game this kind of events are hella cool 😂 But when assholes in the real life tires to infect other on purpose... Well then, the cure is called lead, a 38 milliliter dosis applied in an special R-volver syringe 😅
My first mmo was actually a small indie mmo called Era Online, back in around 1997. It was a sandbox mmo similar to Ultima Online. I was 12 and i played a thief. I would exploit the games trading system and steal from other players. I became infamous and remember seeing numerous messages on the town message board with bounties on my head. At one point the designer entered the game as the Emperor and told me he had his eye on me. It was an amazing experience as a 12 year old 😂😂
More sad and sweet than anything really 'crazy' per se but- back when the creator of Berserk died, a WHOLE BUNCH of people in FFXIV in EVERY SINGLE DAMN WORLD AND SERVER had a line of people in Dark Knight jobs and a campfire (iykyk) minion in front of every person. All. Lined up. In Ul'Dah. And I think a few other areas. In more populated servers, it was lined up PAST THE LOADING ZONE. All in vigil and respect to Miura's unfortunate passing. God, it made me cry so much when it happened.
I was too young to have participated in ultima, but my older brother witnessed the death of lord british and recounted it as “it was like someone had killed jesus and god sent down an army to kill you”
Um actually... Life was the first MMO, it started development 13.7 billion years ago and stayed in development for around 10 billion years. Development was slower back in the day, cut them some slack.
Island of Kesmai was the first MUD that was a forerunner for future MMORPG's. Also, from what I have looked up Neverwinter Nights was the first MMO. It was released in 1991. Meridian 59 was in 1996. Lolol sorry
You know what would be a cool scenario? An Ultimate Boss that encroaches upon the game trying to eat up the multiverse (server), if it reaches the then the server gets destroyed and your character gets put into server transfer screen. It does this for every server one by one. Badass event for an update on new servers.
I was bored one day in Everquest on the Stormhammer server and went to Kaladim ( Dwarven home city ) and killed King Kazon Stormhammer the King . A dev showed up and asked "What have you done that was our King ! " I said " I am the king now I command you to give everyone one item they desire! They actually did it a few days after, we were told to send a tell to Deodan with what we wanted and all lined up on a chosen date to collect our items. My characters got Guktan pastwatch eye, Tharkis's Platinum Stud( pretty sure only Tharkis and I have one ) one per server type drops. The server shut down shortly after. I am sure it was a mere coincidence. I hope!
Nothing huge but when I first started playing wow I was grinding for days to get enough gold to get my first flying mount. Long story short I misremembered the price, I was a mil short. I became a bigger. Either some kind soul gives me a mil or I'm gonna put wow down and walk away. I went to the capital and began begging. People would either make fun of me or just insult me. Then this nice lady found me and told me she had no problem giving me a mil. She handed it over and didn't even ask for it back. Now I know a mil is nothing but back then I felt like I owed her a life debt. Bought the mount then sold EVERYTHING else at auction till I earned a mil. Tracked down the lady and paid her off naked and on my new mount. We became good friends after that.
Great video! I watched it and posted a long story on the wrong account accidentally doxxing myself, copied the story with ctrl+c and when I switched accounts and pasted a new comment all I had left in my clipboard - and this is direct from my clipboard, still - was "with repeat casts". >.< Basically a Vanguard blood mage scarab boosted damage of a sorc's (me) already multiplicatively boosted spell and ended up doing hundreds of millions of damage. Maybe even billions. A blood mage and a sorc One-shot a same-level 4-dot. Such a great game.
You forgot the story in WOW when some players (one a hunter) Agro'ed a world boss and kited it to a major city. The thing is with the world boss would aeo auto target anything in range and throw darkness balls through walls anything... killing everyone in the city for 3 hrs until the Dev's got word and banished it... then patched it so the boss couldn't be kited anymore.
The Monkey Nuts stock manipulation storyin Old School Runescape was a thing of wonder to be hold. I didn't even play the game at the time, just watched it unfold with all the content creators getting involved.
I was there. And it was an accident at first, not on purpose. If a tank or ot went down while fighting Hakkar, a hunter would switch out their damage pet for a tanking pet - then generally dismiss the tank pet if say, the tank got a battlerez. When we dismissed the tanking pet and then brought it out later, normally when hanging out in town- it still had the plague debuff. It originally happened due to basic, normal mechanics. Only later did some players troll by doing it on purpose.
I dunno if Xenoverse counts as a MMO but I remember during like first year of it players found a super soul that if you transform during a fight you’ll gain a health regen but someone forgot to add a time limit or something so essentially you could go Super Sayian and as long as you stayed transformed you’d regain health I’ll be honest I used this a couple fights but was nice and took all my moves and armor away…. It didn’t help
I remember the Sleeper dying on RZ. Hell of a thing. We were slowly crawling through PoP progression when all of a sudden we started getting weird tells and people were talking about weird stuff in guild chat. We had to go scour some forums for the screen grabs back then. Ahhh, a more innocent time.
There's always another one, as long as you play with the term massively, or player bases. Just reference what you want as the start. UO had a base, but it never ramped up and decimated things like EQ did. EQ spread like a fire no one expected...until WoW came along....which set fire to everything and everyone. And, FUCK Sony for the Kerafyrm bullshit in OG. It caused chaos in every level and they had NFC how to handle it. They created a game where everything was a target...then wouldn't let something be the target. I remember this from both sides, having acted as one those Guides they had at the time. Reading on that side, they were all paranoid about the what ifs. Reading on the players, the amount of sheer violence and threats (not discounting the rational people's rage), was quite mindboggling. Their reaction, in combination with a few other tech problems at the time, led me to take my first ever break from the game. I was in the blood plague chaos...and I'll admit it...I used it to kill a few people I couldn't stand while standing around in Ironforge, with...more unintended side effects. I kept that pet for months just saved for the chaos. LOL. Also /pizza.
You could've mentioned the time 500 players tried to take on Odin on the original launch of ff14 and failed ending in Odin killing everyone on the server, not just the people around trying to kill him.
honestly the GMS for ultima online were no joke. there ws a dungeon where a wall of players would attack bone knihgts and skeletal knights to cap their weapon skill. one night it was spawning slow and people were complaining. about 20 min later we noticed the spawn increased. then increased again. and again. before we knew it this normally safe wall of players were getting killed by these damn things. then the demon spawned, just one but at that point it was enough lol
Asteroidea Iskar necro i played on Mithaniel Marr , was online when Afterlife wokethe sleeper. Years later same character i was in the new Bazaar on my character setting up shit on my merchant when we got the cross channel raid chat spam from RZ guys fighting Kerferym. They had despawned it like a week before when they were close to winning. Anyhow it was the most epic and insane thing in my life watching those chats we knew what was happening and couldn't belive someone was finally going to do it and that it would be the PVP guys that got it done.
Shard of the Herald event on Asheron's Call "Thistledown Server." Players on that server realized that destroying the shard would release and ancient evil, Bael'Zharon, and set up a 24/7 watch rotation to defend it. It took developer intervention to finally kill it so the story could continue as planned by the devs.
Lord British, Lets make a story and pretend it was all luck and the noobs will cheer it as truth, give it a break, he would not forget to set anything, it would have been already set
when wreckful died (wow rogue player) and all the alliance held a vigil in stormwind, even on pvp servers there was horde there and no one was pvping or making it a crappy time. we all genuinely were sad
so i guess maybe this is just apart of that golden age of how information had to spread via word of mouth back with old mmos. but my dad always told me of the lord british death but his recollection of the events was that there was a ring lord british used to stay invulnerable and the player that killed him first pickpocketed the ring or whatever it was that gave said invulnerability and then cast the spell to kill him.
Can you make a video where you start a brand new character, and as you adjust the UI do a deep dive on the different functions of each "window"? I remember some stuff, like chat channels, but before I quit back in 2015, I wasn't even using the aggro meter haha. New and returning players are sure to be overwhelmed with the EQ1 UI. A *deep* dive would be awesomeness.
I got my UI pretty well set up, or at least I think I do. I tried to have every type of window open, (bandolier/extended target/pet/ Yada yada) even if it's minimized like map/options. I could really just use some help, and finding it all in one place would kick butt haha. Everything like autoloot, and aggro meter, (and the options on windows when you right click them) to socials and their rules. Like using pause and commas?
One I always loved not mentioned in the video(I think others below mentioned): Asherons Call, the Shard of the Herald defense on the Thistledown server. It's a very cool story. For me, the Sleeper getting killed will always be the most memorable MMO event. I did not know about the 26% reset however.
My best moment I think would be when Kithicor changed from a nice little fuzzy zone, to a death zone at night. I think maybe when the Plane of Hate was opened. Been a long time.
No Absolute Virtue? A FFXI boss that was so ridiculously overtuned that a group that fought it for 30 literal hours FAILED because they were so tired that they weren't able to seal the Benediction ability from it, which fully healed it. So overtuned that Square Enix had to make a video guide showing he could be defeated [along with specific ways to weaken him that had ZERO hints at even existing], but the very strategy they showed was nerfed and many were suspicious about why it took so long for the guide to be made and the odd way the boss died heavily implied they used GM commands to kill it. Every time people managed to beat it, either via exploiting powerful synergies or actual bug exploits, they'd fix/nerf what players did, ban them and removed their items. This boss was undefeated "officially" for YEARS and, after the 30 hour run and a similar event with another extremely hard boss named Pandemonium Warden, they finally heavily nerfed him and added a time limit where he'd de-spawn around 2 hours after you spawn the boss whose death spawns him. Many people theorize that Square Enix wanted their own Kerafyrm, a big unbeatable boss that no one would handle, which is why it was so overtuned, the ways to weaken him had 0 clues and the official video guide's strategy was nerfed shortly after releasing the video.
From Falador's Massacre to New World's Sausages, Part 2 is here!: ruclips.net/video/Vx3FhLpJf0E/видео.html
Eve Online has a lot of crazy stories considering how fundamentally not fun the game is.
My favorite is the one where a new player got shot down for no reason in his first ship. So he vows revenge on his soul and joins the group that player was a part of. He slowly makes his way up the ranks to being in charge of maintaining their entire fleet and then detonates absolutely everything they own. He leaves one message: "That was for shooting me down at level 1" and leaves the game forever. Immediately becomes legend.
bro HELD that grudge. what a sick story
I mean I know Eve online players are mostly psycopaths but how do you know he didn't make it up?
Can't it be that it's a player that was playing normally, eventually got to a position of power in some guild while already intending to leave, thought up a backstory to why he wants to ruin the day for his guild members which he may have had some grudge against already - wrote that note and did the thing then left?
@@blueplayer6197Are you confessing something here, son? :)
@@blueplayer6197 Plot = twisted
No Faldor Massacre RuneScape? Sleepers cute, mass casualties unable to be controlled by the moderators as they see person after person lose fortunes is a the thing of legends.
I'm definitely going to have to do a part 2 with comments on events like this.
Ah, yes. 666. I was in middle school then. Got a frantic call from a friend telling me to log on and check my account. Had to wait for my sister to get off the landline. Good times.
@@cheeseburgerpaladin same. I was running laws I think on 66. Then the massacre started. Later that night I went and saw the omen in theaters. A great crazy day.
I was honestly surprised this didn't show up in the video because even the devs had a 10 anniversary event in 2016 for this, I remember being in middle school when this happened. And the hypercam 2 nightwish video being like on of the first viral runescape videos.
I immediately thought of that and how this was a bunk list if it wasn't gonna be on it.
I wish I could find the article again, but there was an article about a slavery ring being busted in Eve Online. There was a company/guild/whatever they're called that was recruiting new or low level players, transporting them to a distant star system, and giving them lots of good equipment, but not engines that were good enough to get them away from those systems, and the "recruited" players were forced to be stuck in that area and work off their "debts" to the company. Another player got wind of this and infiltrated the company, and essentially triggered a slave revolt. I wish I could find the article again, because it was the wildest bloody story.
thats from elite dangerus and not from eve , in eve you dont need fuel to travel - in elite yes you do with out fuel you wont get home
The biggest thing that ever happened to me on MMO was on WOW. In 2005 I created a new player for the first time and me and two other new players (an older guy and a young girl) formed a guild. I played with just the two of them for a couple of months before school and life dragged me away. At the time it was primarily just the three of us at around level 45. I returned 15 months later to see that the two players I was playing with had actually made that guild into the largest and most popular guild on a large server.
I received quite a welcome when I returned, with hundreds of people messaging me that they thought I was a myth, the "guy who established the largest guild then disappeared".
Had some of the best times of my life playing in that guild for a while until I moved out of the country and had to quit playing.
Oh wow that's awesome. Thank you so much for sharing that story with us.
Aw, thats so nice.
what was rhe guilds name?
What was the guild?
I love the concept of a bunch of PVP players getting together, and deciding that an NPC (even if it was all powerful) would not be allowed to run rampant through their world
Kind of amazing honestly.
PvP players are much more fun to be around in general than PvE players across most of the MMOs I've played, not sure why it's so consistent though
@@Kittari13 PVE is repetitive, formulaic and safe. Draws those kinds of people. PVP is the opposit,e so the crowd is more fun too. If there's anybody that'll beat an "unkillable" NPC boss its PVPers, they're better at MMOs than PVEers. Its not like PVP servers don't have the same mobs, you just have players to deal with as well.
For me the biggest event was when I had just logged into everquest for the first time. Within the first few weeks, I just happened to be on during a GM event in Kelethin. Orcs would charge into kelethin and fight. It was like lord of the rings come to life and it really made the world feel dynamic. I remember wanting so badly to level up after that so I could be more useful during GM events. It really saddens me no game has brought back GM events.
I loved some of those old GM events. I got to experience one that had werewolves in Commonlands. I still remember it to this day. It was just so amazingly cool.
I remember Halloween evens in eq. Giant skeletons with pumpkin heads attacking the elf home town. Good times.
Over the past few years The City in 2k has become an MMO and when Kobe died everyone did the 8 second back court violation and the other team would do the 24 second shot clock violation in honor of him then the game would start. It was honestly touching that people were doing it.
As a non MMO player I came to this video expecting to hear about the PVP in safe zone RuneScape glitch, the Blood Plague in WoW, the funeral raid in WoW, & maybe the Matrix shutdown. I love MMO stories man. This is so cool.
I tried to find some more obscure ones but the Runescape Falador Massacre headlines part 2 that I'm working on.
I had friends in one of the raid guilds on Rallos Zek. I had stopped playing by the time they killed the sleeper but I sat at their apartment and watched them kill it. It was incredibly memorable.
Thats awesome! I'll never forget how chats lit up when sleeper was awoken on Brell Serilis. It was a legendary event. Let alone killed.
Secondlife is not a game, it s a virtual world which allow to simulate real life :) still really strong with 50 000 onlin 24/7 - good video anyway - Secondlife is metaverse pioneer
Honestly EVE heists, skullduggery & wars alone could be a whole series of books. It's incredible at encouraging player generated events.
The Sleeper event reminds me of a somewhat similar event in Asheron's Call. Where on all servers there was the last crystal guarding the awakening of Asheron's Nemesis, Bael'zharon. It happened to be BZ's power that turned players PVP-on, so lore-wise it made sense that the dungeon of the final crystal be PVP-only, even on PVE servers. On all servers, the crystal fell relatively quickly, including the PVP-only server, Darktide. But on one server, Thistledown, players rallied around the crystal 24/7 to protect it, killing entire player-raids to save the crystal. They even took turns letting the crystal kill them to feed it XP (mobs could level up in that game). The patch month was about to end, and the devs couldnt have the lore split between that server and the others, so a final event was created specifically for that server, when insanely high level shadow-monsters started spawning, taking out the defenders over time. One special shadow buffed a designed player, in the lore, to be the assassin of the shard. The whole story was amazing, I highly recommend watching "The Significance of Asheron's Call's Shard of the Herald Event (Part 1-2)" on RUclips, or even the 3 minutes official clip of the event made by the devs "Asheron's Call Turbine Shard of the Herald".
I played UO on the Atlantic server. My character was named Tradesman, One of the first grandmaster blacksmiths on the server (I also had a gm Alchemist). I had the closest house outside Minoc heading towards the Penninsula where I sold all of my armor and potions. I was so rich in that game, and I absolutely loved it.
I remember a friend and I played uo for about 4 yrs straight in 99 to 02, we found an uninhabited island that had just enough squares for 2 houses, it was amazing, both our long term girlfriends left us cause all we did was work and play uo.....we did not care! Good times!
😁 I think I bought stuff from you. I was Melcore, Legendary Mage. Ran the guild Storm Haven in Fel.
@@CaelDormanI don't remember your name, but I think I remember the guild name. Some of the people I ran with back then were Peachy, Simon, Odin, Magic 8-Ball and there were many more. Those were the people I hung around with the most.
In 2014, Dark Horse Comics published a series of comic books titled EVE: True Stories.
It was about the dismantling of the Band of Brothers.
I love these old stories. The story I experienced was the end of beta in Vanguard. I had played the beta for about four months and the end of beta was a bittersweet event. All our progress was going to be wiped and the general riffraff was going to be let into the game. But it was finally launching and that was exciting. About an hour before beta shut down, the GMa were running around spawning mobs that no one had ever seen in the game. It was a chaotic lag fest but wow, it was memorable. RSVP Vanguard. Long live Vanguard EMU. 💪
Oh that's an awesome experience! The closest thing I think I remember to that was in Everquest when GMs were spawning werewolves in a zone that no longer exists, West Commonlands.
I played Vanguard I think shortly after launch, a friend of mine from EQ convinced me to come over and play. I'm wondering now if he played during the beta, I'm going to have to ask.
Thank you so much for sharing...I still need to figure out why the EMU won't load up for me.
Final Fantasy XI, Absolute Virtue. 18 hour plus raid boss, with people passing out from exhaustion. I played FFXI at the time. It caused a pretty big scandal. FFXI was insane back in the day.
That reminds me of a 12 hour camp for a raid boss I was part of in everquest. Ooof it was just brutal. I think I lasted 8 hours and called it quits. It was an open world boss, too.
People are always getting Absolute Virtue mixed up with Pandemonium Warden. AV didn't make much of a stir outside of the game's own community, while the _36-hour_ Pandemonium Warden Incident made such an impact in the media it forced Square Enix to put 2hr time limits on both it and AV.
@Redbeardflynn Back in the day, I camped Drelzna in Najena for the Journeyman's Boots. I was a Level 17 DE Shadowknight, I'd been up for 3 days straight non-stop grinding my way up the rotation list, and made it to the #1 spot for next loot...and the person in the #2 spot looted them instead. Then he and the rest of the group basically told me to screw myself, because I was too low to contribute any "real" DPS and so I wasn't going to be allowed to loot them no matter what.
Keep in mind, these were the last 3 days before they became Quest-only and were removed from Drelzna's loot table forever. And it was mere hours from server reset, when the patch would go through.
Well, I went running out and found a nice Level 45 Magician who KS'd her for me while the rest of the group were still there, trying to get their drops. One kill; and she had the Jboots. In his memory, until I quit the game in 2008, no matter which of my toons I played, I always went out of my way to help Magicians. 🥲
The WoW blood plague wasn’t intentionally spread outside the raid, it was accidental as the hunters would dismiss their pets as soon as they got infected to prevent them from dying and after the raid ended that condition wasn’t cleared like it was for players, which meant the next time the pet was summoned it restarted the plague. So the initial release of the plague was accidental, but people found out you could change your pvp flag to avoid getting infected and that’s when people intentionally also changed their pvp flag to purposefully spread the plague.
One of my crazier fun moments was actually on EVE Online.
I was part of a corp who operated in Null sec sovereign space. There were us and 3 other guilds at the time... Now, we had a partial alliance with one corp, while the other two were kill on-sight. The one we were partial with, skirmishes against them if caught out solo/small groups in neutral space wasn't uncommon, but when something went down, we would group up to fight the other two off etc.
At one point, we had a combined fleet of around 90-100 and were hunting an enemy fleet of approx. the same strength. Both fleets consisted of mostly tier 2 frigates and cruisers, with a couple of battlecruisers as well. We were hunting them down for around 2.5-3 hours when we finally had them cornered in a pincer attack jumping in from 2 different systems and so we pushed to engage.
The second we engaged, a new corp we hadn't even 'known' were around (sov space, the chat/region contacts shows as empty unless you speak publicly, so you never know if others are around) dropped in on the fight with a warp, using tier 3 cruisers. Around 50 of them in total and completely wiped out both fleets.
No one had any idea what the hell was going on and it was absolutely crazy, but at the same time, pretty much all 4 corps were just like "Damn... That was impressive..." lol
Fansy the Bard on Sullon Zek was a memorable character. When there was no PVP until level 6, he was a level 5 bard that ran around and trained everyone.
One of my favorite trolls.
At the end of the Asherons Call beta the devs spawned an army of epic level mobs that marched across the world killing pcs and npcs.
Everquest Project M and playing as a rat in freeport is one of my coolest memories.
Also, /pizza worked in EverQuest 1 as well.
People way underestimate how anti social or anxious videogamers are. Even making a phone call for a pizza can be intimidating or terrifying. Ironically, much of society has become similarly anti social now app delivery and communication have been normalised, no talking to an actual human required.
In eq i managed to completely crash a server by using staff of the observers in North Freeport and casting it on many other players. Lets just saying many of transactions were ruined and GMs got involved. Winning the argument by following in game rules i managed to not get sent to the cat room. And then the staff got nerfed 😂
I played Ultima Online from day 1……Me and my sister named Deadlydesire on Napa valley found the first and only exploit 1 hitter heavy Xbow …..you had to get a bow that was magic “Indestructible” or however you spell it….anyways when u got a indestructible bow u had to use it tell it was close to braking and it would turn into a 1-hitter……we tested it at transic she shot me and the arrow was so slow you can out run it but it NEVER stoped chasing you.. then we used it to hunt n get rich but one day we was bored and went to decite that’s when GM’s discovered it lol we killed EVERYONE 7-9 minutes of killing we was teleported to a gm jail =/
Fansy the bard, EverQuest Sullon Zek server. My necro kept avoiding him but man was it annoying, and funny lol.
I remember Hunters did the same thing during the Baron Geddon fight where the pets would get Living Bomb and they would dismiss them and bring them back out in cites and blow everyone up.
Also hunters used to be able to Kite world bosses into cities.
Scammed out of 2m worth of items and gold in RuneScape. A low level player tricked me into entering level 1 wildy to buy an abby whip from him (he was much lower level I felt I had little to worry about). His friend who was my same level but a pure mage popped out of no where and merc’d me in seconds. I’d spent months after school farming to raise enough gold. I fully quit playing after that
Oof, stuff like that happened to me in UO and Everquest, too. I've heard of some pretty bad player to player scams in Diablo II as well.
I was popping molly pills back during classic Phase 1 and I got really high one night and stole all the Sulfuran Ingots from my guild. I gave them back eventually tho but I ended up ruining my relationships with the peoples in the guild.
Morroc's Resurection was pretty dope in Ragnarok. Laggy as shit but still fun. That's how you really know. Funner though is when either the Devs OR hackers summoned what was the second strongest boss at the time, Ifrit in the small town of Izlude. Almost every player- lvl 1 to 99 stopped what they were doing to go fight
The best part about EverQuest being ran originally on dial up is that it was designed that way. Nowadays, you can play eq fairly well off a cell phone hotspot. I travel for work and did this through the DoN expansion on progression servers with no issues.
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From my understanding, while the Sleeper didn't drop loot, the devs did award the players involved with various items for it
Oh I hope that's the case, I hadn't seen that in any of the sources but that'd make the story even better.
Sleeper is still my fav event. Next would be the AQ 40 war effort
In addition to everything you've mentioned in the video, the World of Warcraft AQ gate opening event is the only other memorable event I can recall. The build-up was intense and then... who knows, because the servers effectively died.
You missed one: The Lurikeen Uprising on Dark Age of Camelot. It happened in May 2002. Players were invited to create a Lurikeen on the Guinevere server. You were supposed to make a character with "KEEN" in the name.
I was there, and we were LEGION. It was GLORIOUS. The Lurikeen Uprising altered the population balance on the server, including RvR, which was suddenly flooded with Lurikeen from Hibernia.
The patch notes for November 25, 2002 included this:
"THE LURIKEEN UPRISING HAS PREVAILED
- As of this patch, Lurikeen can become Heroes. Thanks for the great roleplaying moments to everyone involved in the Uprising. Enjoy! "
Here is a video:
ruclips.net/video/HSO1gJvCQYo/видео.html
I should add I have no idea who started it. Just a spontaneous player event/protest
@@crowsinger23 DAoC in its primetime, back in the early 2000's ... Was such a good time!
I remember being killed by GM (Nosfentor) at the last day of beta in UO. I still have the journal.
Oh that's amazing.
I was in falador during the falador massacre in runescape(also got to play some minigames with the Gower brothers and mod paul, i distinctly remember the pirate rum making minigame and seeing them on launch day.) I love hearing these old mmo lore stories.
I thought you were going to mention the war in Eve Online where people lost the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars in that ISK currency.
I want to do a part 2 of this. I'll have to look that up.
I quit New World over all the bugs. For every patch they would create more bugs than they fixed. They had no quality control.
I lost 15 hours worth of effort due to their bugs and their customer service is non-existent.
I knew EVE had to be on this list. Awful game but has the best stories!
The stories sound like sci fi movies
What about the legendary cows level in diablo 2 lol everybody talked about it but nobody could actually show it to you 🤣💀
Hah that's a good one!
The one incredible MMO story I always awe at is the fountain war of Eve online. In essence it was a was over a resource rich territory called the fountain, hold by the biggest corporation in Eve at the time, Test Alliance Please Ignore, and the Goonswarm Federation, the second largest corp at that time. There is a very good summary of the fountain war by Scott Manley here on yt. Worth a look. And a second one. And a third. I’m starting my sixth now.
Eve Online is so interesting to me. It's a game I have no interest in playing but always produces these incredible stories that I love hearing about.
@@Redbeardflynn I actually play the game now and then. At the moment I’m in a break again lasting for over 10 months by now, but I will continue at some point.
And thanks for answering. You’ve made this video over a year ago!
Redbeardflynn Please read this you should look up the CO2 heist in Eve Online I was playing in an allied group at the time and we lost everything too when I counted up my self by how much they lost in in-game cash it was close to $50k USD a PLEX at the time was $20 USD the Goons were the Corp the guy sold all the stuff to it was trillions of in-game cash
I'll check it out! I want to do a part 2.
@@Redbeardflynn if you need some details i got you also got a pretty crazy story of a guy that spent 10k on a titan and lost it within an hour or 2
when my server awakened the Sleeper ... I was in the Great Divide ... zone wipe.
Ah the memories! It was so cool.
Mortal Online 2 and the acquisition of the Sausage Lake Keep by Bad Company. Should be a novel.
I am...SO intrigued.
I'm trying to track down some of the breakdown videos from the major participants in how everything went down. Player driven content in an open world makes for some unique experiences and complex stories. Certainly a few days of gaming I'll never forget. @@Redbeardflynn
I know this is video is a year old but I was playing RuneScape and I was part of the massacre that happened in the one of the cities not really part but a victim
I want to do a part 2 of this and that's going to top the list. Just need to find some other really interesting stories.
@@Redbeardflynn it was an event randomly getting killed in a city while exploring as it was my first time there and I only got a membership the eather a day before or a week I don’t remember I learned what happened few years later and remember it recently well looking at interesting games bugs that change the games there In forever if memory serves on the anniversary of the event the city is filled with flowers
Falador massacre for me.
I remember reading Massively (now MassivelyOP) since being in college in 2010 and quitting WoW Cataclysm, so was always on the lookout for the new great MMO contender. I'm so glad the website is still around with all it's old articles, they've documented a heck of a lot of MMO history.
1. The ashes of alar mount in WoW to a player without the flying skill
I would lead "pug raids" in WoW. I had the server second (alliance first) ashes of alar drop. It didn't go as expected.
So I was leading pug raids into "old content" during Wrath of the lich king. One of the bosses had a mount (ashes of alar) in tempest keep at the end. Now normally to get to tempest keep you have to have a flying mount. However you could technically have a warlock summon you up there. Honestly by WoTLK it was kind of weird seeing people without the flying skill but 5000g to unlock it was still a lot of gold back then.
So in one of the raids I was leading we killed the final boss and low and behold the mount dropped. Keep in mind this was an insanely rare mount at the time. Only one player on the server (horde side) had gotten it previously. Now I never expected the mount to drop and as a result I never actually made any raid loot rules reguarding it.
Now when it dropped everyone freaked out. This was the second time on the server it dropped and first for alliance. Half the raid actually (and suprisingly) encouraged me to just take the mount myself because I had been forming these pug raids every weekend for well over a year. While it was VERY tempting I didn't want to ruin my reputation as it would likely prevent me from ever being able to lead a pug raid again (and maybe prevent me from getting into a raid again).
So I did the only respectful thing. I told everyone to roll 100 for it. Highest roll got it.
The guy who won it was pretty happy. But then came the second part of this crazy story.
He didn't have flying. He just won one of the rarest mounts in the game at the time and didn't have the skill to actually learn it. Nor the gold to buy the skill even if he wanted to. Because EVERYONE wanted to see the mount so badly essentially the entire alliance side of the server chipped in to donate 5000 gold to him. So he not only got ashes of alar but also got 5000 gold for free!
I did warn him that he better not quit the game any time soon. And I am happy to report that at least a few xpacs later he was still in the game. (Not sure anymore as I swapped servers a number of years ago).
As a side note my "pug raids" actually lead to WoW devs actually putting in premade group finder into the game which has been a fairly useful thing for many players over the years.
2. Xshipwars space station destruction.
So there was a little known online game in Linux called "Xshipwars". It was a pretty fun game you flew around and could fight other npc or player ships on a 2D RTS styled view (mostly star trek ones).
Normally space stations can't be destroyed by your ship. However one day I was flying around and found a random space station that was attackable. So I did.
Now there was a quirk in this game where weapons and shield were tied to the same power. So if you could bring down someones shields they couldn't fire weapons at your anymore until they got enough power back. So I spent hours dwindling this space stations shields down and at that point kept firing my weapons to keep thier shields down which prevented the station from firing its own weapons. I did this for hours more dwindling its armor down.
Then the dev logged in and appearently (I learned later) had been testing this new station and stuff. No one was supposed to have found it let alone attacked it. So with like 10% hp left he gave it full power again and it just blew me up lol as my own weapons had been draining my shields down.
Had he not come along I would have destroyed the station which would have been an awesome feet for a single player.
Funny enough, i won a mount under the same circumstances, the Black Drake from Obsidian Sanctum 10 man. You only get it by killing the boss Sartharion WITHOUT killing any of his 3 dragon adds.
I won it, but i actually didn't have flight just yet. I was very close to getting it, i did it the same day, but it was quite crazy that i managed to win a mount that required so much setup when i couldn't even use it yet.
In a game this kind of events are hella cool 😂
But when assholes in the real life tires to infect other on purpose... Well then, the cure is called lead, a 38 milliliter dosis applied in an special R-volver syringe 😅
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My first mmo was actually a small indie mmo called Era Online, back in around 1997. It was a sandbox mmo similar to Ultima Online. I was 12 and i played a thief. I would exploit the games trading system and steal from other players. I became infamous and remember seeing numerous messages on the town message board with bounties on my head. At one point the designer entered the game as the Emperor and told me he had his eye on me. It was an amazing experience as a 12 year old 😂😂
No Shard of the Herald? That makes me sad.
It and falador are currently on deck for part 2.
More sad and sweet than anything really 'crazy' per se but- back when the creator of Berserk died, a WHOLE BUNCH of people in FFXIV in EVERY SINGLE DAMN WORLD AND SERVER had a line of people in Dark Knight jobs and a campfire (iykyk) minion in front of every person. All. Lined up. In Ul'Dah. And I think a few other areas.
In more populated servers, it was lined up PAST THE LOADING ZONE. All in vigil and respect to Miura's unfortunate passing. God, it made me cry so much when it happened.
I was too young to have participated in ultima, but my older brother witnessed the death of lord british and recounted it as “it was like someone had killed jesus and god sent down an army to kill you”
Um actually... Life was the first MMO, it started development 13.7 billion years ago and stayed in development for around 10 billion years. Development was slower back in the day, cut them some slack.
Island of Kesmai was the first MUD that was a forerunner for future MMORPG's. Also, from what I have looked up Neverwinter Nights was the first MMO. It was released in 1991. Meridian 59 was in 1996. Lolol sorry
You know what would be a cool scenario? An Ultimate Boss that encroaches upon the game trying to eat up the multiverse (server), if it reaches the then the server gets destroyed and your character gets put into server transfer screen. It does this for every server one by one.
Badass event for an update on new servers.
I was bored one day in Everquest on the Stormhammer server and went to Kaladim ( Dwarven home city ) and killed King Kazon Stormhammer the King . A dev showed up and asked "What have you done that was our King ! " I said " I am the king now I command you to give everyone one item they desire! They actually did it a few days after, we were told to send a tell to Deodan with what we wanted and all lined up on a chosen date to collect our items. My characters got Guktan pastwatch eye, Tharkis's Platinum Stud( pretty sure only Tharkis and I have one ) one per server type drops. The server shut down shortly after. I am sure it was a mere coincidence. I hope!
Nothing huge but when I first started playing wow I was grinding for days to get enough gold to get my first flying mount. Long story short I misremembered the price, I was a mil short. I became a bigger. Either some kind soul gives me a mil or I'm gonna put wow down and walk away. I went to the capital and began begging. People would either make fun of me or just insult me. Then this nice lady found me and told me she had no problem giving me a mil. She handed it over and didn't even ask for it back. Now I know a mil is nothing but back then I felt like I owed her a life debt. Bought the mount then sold EVERYTHING else at auction till I earned a mil. Tracked down the lady and paid her off naked and on my new mount. We became good friends after that.
Great video! I watched it and posted a long story on the wrong account accidentally doxxing myself, copied the story with ctrl+c and when I switched accounts and pasted a new comment all I had left in my clipboard - and this is direct from my clipboard, still - was "with repeat casts". >.<
Basically a Vanguard blood mage scarab boosted damage of a sorc's (me) already multiplicatively boosted spell and ended up doing hundreds of millions of damage. Maybe even billions. A blood mage and a sorc One-shot a same-level 4-dot. Such a great game.
You forgot the story in WOW when some players (one a hunter) Agro'ed a world boss and kited it to a major city. The thing is with the world boss would aeo auto target anything in range and throw darkness balls through walls anything... killing everyone in the city for 3 hrs until the Dev's got word and banished it... then patched it so the boss couldn't be kited anymore.
The Monkey Nuts stock manipulation storyin Old School Runescape was a thing of wonder to be hold. I didn't even play the game at the time, just watched it unfold with all the content creators getting involved.
I was there. And it was an accident at first, not on purpose. If a tank or ot went down while fighting Hakkar, a hunter would switch out their damage pet for a tanking pet - then generally dismiss the tank pet if say, the tank got a battlerez. When we dismissed the tanking pet and then brought it out later, normally when hanging out in town- it still had the plague debuff. It originally happened due to basic, normal mechanics.
Only later did some players troll by doing it on purpose.
I dunno if Xenoverse counts as a MMO but I remember during like first year of it players found a super soul that if you transform during a fight you’ll gain a health regen but someone forgot to add a time limit or something so essentially you could go Super Sayian and as long as you stayed transformed you’d regain health I’ll be honest I used this a couple fights but was nice and took all my moves and armor away…. It didn’t help
I remember the Sleeper dying on RZ. Hell of a thing. We were slowly crawling through PoP progression when all of a sudden we started getting weird tells and people were talking about weird stuff in guild chat. We had to go scour some forums for the screen grabs back then. Ahhh, a more innocent time.
There's always another one, as long as you play with the term massively, or player bases. Just reference what you want as the start. UO had a base, but it never ramped up and decimated things like EQ did. EQ spread like a fire no one expected...until WoW came along....which set fire to everything and everyone.
And, FUCK Sony for the Kerafyrm bullshit in OG. It caused chaos in every level and they had NFC how to handle it. They created a game where everything was a target...then wouldn't let something be the target. I remember this from both sides, having acted as one those Guides they had at the time. Reading on that side, they were all paranoid about the what ifs. Reading on the players, the amount of sheer violence and threats (not discounting the rational people's rage), was quite mindboggling. Their reaction, in combination with a few other tech problems at the time, led me to take my first ever break from the game.
I was in the blood plague chaos...and I'll admit it...I used it to kill a few people I couldn't stand while standing around in Ironforge, with...more unintended side effects. I kept that pet for months just saved for the chaos. LOL.
Also /pizza.
I was in Varrok for the Valentines Day murder in Rune Scape and I was also privy for many a Stormwind wipe from ppl kiting Lord Kazzak
You could've mentioned the time 500 players tried to take on Odin on the original launch of ff14 and failed ending in Odin killing everyone on the server, not just the people around trying to kill him.
I actually did /pizza. So awesome!
Hahaha! Of course! Would you want it brought back?
@@Redbeardflynn only if the pizza box has Pantheon art on it.
honestly the GMS for ultima online were no joke. there ws a dungeon where a wall of players would attack bone knihgts and skeletal knights to cap their weapon skill. one night it was spawning slow and people were complaining. about 20 min later we noticed the spawn increased. then increased again. and again. before we knew it this normally safe wall of players were getting killed by these damn things. then the demon spawned, just one but at that point it was enough lol
If im not mistaken june 6th 2006 the day a player in Runescape was able to Pvp in a safe zone and went on a rampage. Truly a spooky sight
Asteroidea Iskar necro i played on Mithaniel Marr , was online when Afterlife wokethe sleeper.
Years later same character i was in the new Bazaar on my character setting up shit on my merchant when we got the cross channel raid chat spam from RZ guys fighting Kerferym. They had despawned it like a week before when they were close to winning. Anyhow it was the most epic and insane thing in my life watching those chats we knew what was happening and couldn't belive someone was finally going to do it and that it would be the PVP guys that got it done.
Shard of the Herald event on Asheron's Call "Thistledown Server."
Players on that server realized that destroying the shard would release and ancient evil, Bael'Zharon, and set up a 24/7 watch rotation to defend it.
It took developer intervention to finally kill it so the story could continue as planned by the devs.
agreed about EVE online... sounds interesting.. then you play it and its awful torture sim for degenerates.
Great unique idea for a video!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it!
In Linage 2, Epic Raid boss Antharas got somehow teleported to the town Giran. Oh, the chaos that followed )).
The fuck's happaned with second life? If you can't tell it, don't talk about it. I can't find info about it anywhere
Lord British, Lets make a story and pretend it was all luck and the noobs will cheer it as truth, give it a break, he would not forget to set anything, it would have been already set
when wreckful died (wow rogue player) and all the alliance held a vigil in stormwind, even on pvp servers there was horde there and no one was pvping or making it a crappy time. we all genuinely were sad
I survived the blood plague on my 60 Tauren Warrior 😊 one of my deepest memories as a kid seeing hundreds of skeletons and the lag lol
so i guess maybe this is just apart of that golden age of how information had to spread via word of mouth back with old mmos. but my dad always told me of the lord british death but his recollection of the events was that there was a ring lord british used to stay invulnerable and the player that killed him first pickpocketed the ring or whatever it was that gave said invulnerability and then cast the spell to kill him.
8:30 Players were handed out unique and rare items personally from GM's shortly after the killing of the Sleeper.
Can you make a video where you start a brand new character, and as you adjust the UI do a deep dive on the different functions of each "window"? I remember some stuff, like chat channels, but before I quit back in 2015, I wasn't even using the aggro meter haha. New and returning players are sure to be overwhelmed with the EQ1 UI. A *deep* dive would be awesomeness.
I got my UI pretty well set up, or at least I think I do. I tried to have every type of window open, (bandolier/extended target/pet/ Yada yada) even if it's minimized like map/options. I could really just use some help, and finding it all in one place would kick butt haha. Everything like autoloot, and aggro meter, (and the options on windows when you right click them) to socials and their rules. Like using pause and commas?
Im brand new and plan on playing the new TLP and this would help alot
everyone forgets about Neverwinter Knights 91 to 97 it was quite the Experience
the first mmorpgs were MUDs;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD
Jump town in star citizen before it was monetized as an event and players took to a criminal planet and tried to hold it against the whole server
Good video! Thanks for the fun stories 🥳
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed! Currently scripting a part 2
nice @@Redbeardflynn
I'm surprised too that you didn't mention The Serenity Now Funeral Raid
Lol, I love the fact that you showed BOTN battle near end of The Sleeper part.
2004 Easter event egg item in runespape had some interesting interaction
I liked this video!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it.
SoE being hacked and EQ and EQ2, DC Online, etc. being down for almost a month LOL
No Pandemonium Warden, the boss that KOed players IRL?
LMAO Second Life to a T yup . used to play EVE with Jet Burns from Second Life who is the Space pope in Eve.
One I always loved not mentioned in the video(I think others below mentioned): Asherons Call, the Shard of the Herald defense on the Thistledown server. It's a very cool story. For me, the Sleeper getting killed will always be the most memorable MMO event. I did not know about the 26% reset however.
I literally can't thank you enough I was remembering the story for asherons call but I couldn't remember the name of the mmo
I would consider Eve's "“Judgement Day”" to be the top 1
My best moment I think would be when Kithicor changed from a nice little fuzzy zone, to a death zone at night. I think maybe when the Plane of Hate was opened. Been a long time.
That's a good one! That day night cycle change was something new coming from Ultima online for me.
No Absolute Virtue?
A FFXI boss that was so ridiculously overtuned that a group that fought it for 30 literal hours FAILED because they were so tired that they weren't able to seal the Benediction ability from it, which fully healed it. So overtuned that Square Enix had to make a video guide showing he could be defeated [along with specific ways to weaken him that had ZERO hints at even existing], but the very strategy they showed was nerfed and many were suspicious about why it took so long for the guide to be made and the odd way the boss died heavily implied they used GM commands to kill it. Every time people managed to beat it, either via exploiting powerful synergies or actual bug exploits, they'd fix/nerf what players did, ban them and removed their items.
This boss was undefeated "officially" for YEARS and, after the 30 hour run and a similar event with another extremely hard boss named Pandemonium Warden, they finally heavily nerfed him and added a time limit where he'd de-spawn around 2 hours after you spawn the boss whose death spawns him.
Many people theorize that Square Enix wanted their own Kerafyrm, a big unbeatable boss that no one would handle, which is why it was so overtuned, the ways to weaken him had 0 clues and the official video guide's strategy was nerfed shortly after releasing the video.
Yeah the hint video was bogus, the gear they were wearing clearly showed they were using GM commands to just survive.
I'm kinda surprised there's no Runescape Falador Massacre.